Know what to do the moment you log in.
The half of Orbit that is not the conversation. It exists so that your work is laid out for you rather than assembled from memory, three chats and a spreadsheet — and so that what you finish is visible without anybody having to ask you for an update.
A task with one clear owner
Never “the team”. Any message becomes a task in a click, and the task keeps a link back to the chat it came from — so nobody has to ask where it was decided.
You agree before it is yours
Work handed to you is a proposal until you take it, and you can suggest a better date instead of accepting one you cannot meet. A task is something agreed, not something dropped on you.
Dates everyone trusts
A date that moves carries the reason with it. Not to catch anybody out — so that a date in Orbit means something, and nobody has to chase three people to find out whether it still holds.
Recurring work that reminds you
The tasks that come round every week or every month are set per role and tick off in a tap, with cover for holidays and leave built in rather than bolted on.
Your role’s checklist on day one
The recurring work, the checklists and the targets belong to the position, so somebody starting a job inherits what it involves instead of guessing what is expected of them.
Gentle reminders, so nothing slips
Work waiting on somebody else is followed up by the system rather than by you. Being chased on chat for an update is the thing this replaces.
A morning card that does its own arithmetic.
What today needs is not a number somebody typed at you. It is what the month still needs, divided by the working days that are left — and the card shows the sum, because a number with no derivation gets argued with instead of met.
Month goal, done so far, days left
Therefore today. The working is on the card, and it already knows about your leave and the holidays, so a short month is not something you have to explain afterwards.
Your day’s summary, already filled in
The evening report is the morning card with the answers in it. Nothing is typed twice, and a figure that came from another system arrives filled in rather than asked for.
“Am I on track?” in one tap
Per goal: what was asked, what has happened, where the month lands at this rate and what it would take to catch up — on track, at risk or behind. Open the calculation on any number.
Numbers are filled in from the systems you already use where that is possible, so your progress updates itself instead of being retyped into a report. The one-tap scorecard is in early access.
We measure what you finish.
Not your keystrokes, not your screen time, not your location. Orbit collects none of those. What it holds is the work you agreed to and what happened to it — and you can see all of your own, whenever you want, without asking anybody.
Orbit also pays nobody. It produces numbers a person decides with, and sends nothing to any payroll system.
And the view the person running it needs.
Owners still have to see what is waiting on whom and what is slipping. It is the same data the person doing the work already sees about themselves — which is why it is further down this page than it used to be.
Waiting on others, by person
One screen of what you have handed out, grouped by who has it and sorted by how long they have had it.
What is slipping, company-wide
Work that has moved more than once or is running late, in one list, so a problem is noticed in the week it happens.
Asking for a decision, not pushing work up
Work going upwards becomes a decision request with context, options and a recommendation, and the answer goes back into the thread it came from.
Start with Comsky Orbit.
Grow into the ecosystem.
One Comsky account, being rolled out across the products — and one invoice covers them, however many you run.