Tasklane: transcript

This is Tasklane: a task system for field crews that lives inside WhatsApp.

A crew lead just says it in the chat or a voice note. Tasklane turns it into a task with an owner and a deadline, and asks one question: yes or no.

Every morning at seven, each person gets their list, and finished work comes back with a photo for approval.

It has been in daily use with a field installation team since October. Here's what's underneath.

Messages come straight from the WhatsApp Business API. A burst reader waits for three seconds of silence, so a thought split over several messages is read as one.

A fast model extracts the task in about three seconds, for under three dollars per thousand messages. Replayed on sixty real messages, it got fifty-five right and made no wrong writes.

Meeting transcripts go to a larger model and come back as drafted tasks, new people and new projects, all in one review queue.

A job runner ticks every minute. Quiet hours hold messages from nine at night until seven, and numbers that aren't on the roster are dropped unread.

Every change is audited with its before and after, the logs carry no message text, and the roster isn't sent to the model by default.

Behind it are about twenty-seven hundred test cases, twenty-five end-to-end specs, and uptime checks every five minutes.

Tasklane. Say it once, and it gets done.