Who buys this
Small agency leads managing five to fifteen people across overlapping client projects who spend Monday mornings manually rebalancing who does what.
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Build a project management app where tasks have an estimated effort, a due date and required skill tags, and team members have a weekly capacity and their own skill tags. When a manager adds a new task, the app suggests who should take it based on current load and matching skills, shows a workload bar per person for the week, and flags anyone over capacity in red. Include a simple kanban board per project alongside the workload view.
What you will need to wire up
- Lovable AI Gateway
- Lovable Cloud (Postgres)
- Autenticação multiusuário com permissões
- Notificações por email
Build order
- Model capacity and skill data before any suggestion logic. The smart allocation is only as good as the underlying weekly capacity and skill tag data. Build the forms to set and edit these first, with sensible defaults, so the suggestion feature has something real to compute against.
- Ship the kanban board as the reliable fallback. Managers must be able to drag a task to a person manually at any point, ignoring the AI suggestion entirely. If the smart allocation ever feels wrong, the plain board has to still work without friction.
- Compute workload as a deterministic sum, not a model call. Workload bars are just summed task hours against weekly capacity, plain arithmetic in your database layer. Reserve the AI call for the harder judgment of matching skills to a new task, where it actually adds value.
- Add a weekly digest before real-time notifications. A Monday morning email summarising overloaded people and unassigned tasks solves the actual habit you are replacing, and is far simpler to build reliably than live push alerts.
Where this usually breaks
- The suggestion engine keeps proposing the same top performer because their skill tags match everything. Add a load penalty into the suggestion score so someone already near capacity ranks lower even with a perfect skill match.
- Multiple people editing the same task at once causes overwritten data on slow connections. Use optimistic concurrency with a last-updated timestamp check before any save, and warn the user if someone else changed it first.
- Capacity numbers get stale because nobody updates them after vacations or part-time weeks. Prompt for a quick capacity check-in every Monday instead of assuming last week's numbers still hold.
How it makes money
- Per-seat monthly pricing. Standard for team tools, aligns revenue with team growth and is what agency owners already budget for.
- Flat fee per active project. Works better for agencies with a small core team but many short client projects, where per-seat pricing undercharges for actual usage.
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