Four Lenses On One Register
A lens is a view, never a door. Legal, operations, finance, and simple change what Today puts first—its section order, its greeting and lead, the ranking of what needs you, the role strip, and about ten vocabulary labels. The rail and the context panel are the same for everyone, and so is the register underneath. Nothing is hidden, nothing is unlocked, and nobody's permissions move.
The lens everything falls back to
Legal is where a lens resolves when nothing else answers—after the URL, the browser, a person's stored preference, and the workspace default for their department. Today leads with the queue and the chains waiting on a decision, and the labels are the ones a legal desk already uses.
- The fallback lens: URL, then browser, then preference, then the workspace default, then legal
- Review queue with confidence-based prioritization
- Accept/edit/reject workflow with audit trail
- Approval chains bound to a draft version, its body hash, and every clause fingerprint
- Exception queue with severity ranking
- Acme Corp MSA
Renewal Notice
medium high - TechCo License Agreement
Termination Period
high - DataInc SaaS Terms
Payment Term
medium
Renewals arrive as a decision, not as a date that passed
Procurement and operations run the same lens—one lens, two desks. It moves the dated work up Today and ranks what needs you by what is closest to closing. A renewal is a five-way decision—renew, extend, amend, renegotiate, exit—organised around the last usable notice date, because that is the day a choice stops being available.
- The same lens as operations, ranked by what closes first
- Five renewal outcomes, each producing the paper it implies
- Built around the last usable notice date, not the renewal date
- Calendar feed for Google/Apple/Outlook
- Governing truth across amendments, and full-text search across contracts
- Acme Corp renewal notice dueApr 15, 2025
- TechCo termination window opensApr 22, 2025
- PartnerCo NDA renewal decisionMay 1, 2025
Commitments by date, and what the uplifts actually cost
The finance lens puts money first. Commitments by date are a forward view of dated monetary obligations derived from clauses—never from invoices, because this application holds none. The escalator register carries every uplift, its cap, and its annualised effect. Nothing on either screen is stored or typed; every figure is computed from the clause in front of you.
- Commitments by date: dated monetary obligations read from the paper, not from invoices
- Escalator register with every uplift, its cap, and its annualised effect
- Exit cost gross—termination fee, notice-period fees, data-return duties
- Payment terms extracted with source links
- Export to CSV/Excel for board reporting
- Page 8
Acme Corp
Net 30
- Page 12
TechCo
Net 45
- Page 5
DataInc
Net 60
The work that has an owner and a date on it
Operations shares procurement's lens. Today leads with what is owned and dated, and what needs you is ranked by what is overdue rather than by what arrived last. For the people who only visit when something lands on them, the simple lens folds six sections one tap away—folded, not removed, and not a different set of permissions.
- Action center with ownership and SLA states (on_track, due_soon, overdue, blocked)
- Dashboard widgets for overdue and blocked actions
- Slack and email deadline reminders
- Calendar feed for obligation deadlines
- The simple lens: six sections one tap away for occasional visitors
Send renewal notice to Acme Corp
Sarah Chenon trackTermination notice - TechCo license
Mike Torresdue soonPayment follow-up - DataInc
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One register, four ways to read it
Legal, operations, finance, simple. A lens is picked up from the URL, then the browser, then a person's saved preference, then the workspace default for their department—and falls back to legal. Switch it whenever you like: it moves what you see first, never what you can do.