THE FOUNDER LOG
Building Ordo7, in public.
Real milestones, real setbacks, no highlight reel — the day-to-day of building this alone.
ALL ENTRIES
FOUNDER LOG
I Shipped a Version of Ordo7 That Needs Zero Signup
A new, completely free way to check a schedule's health — no account, no card, nothing stored. Here's why I built it and exactly where the free line sits.
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A Lead Is a Lie Your Schedule's Logic Is Telling You
The second of DCMA's 14 checks flags something schedulers use without naming: an activity starting before its predecessor is done. Why DCMA wants leads at zero.
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Manufacturing's Capital Boom, Seen From the Inside
Data centers and manufacturing plants are surging — the project controls function meant to run them hasn't scaled to match. A firsthand look.
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Improving Baseline Accuracy 17%, One Portfolio at a Time
On a $1M–$25M energy project portfolio, disciplined schedule logic and milestone placement improved baseline accuracy by 17%. Here's what that actually took.
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Why Ordo7 Will Never Fabricate a Metric It Can't Compute
Self-reported and objectively measured schedule quality are different things. Why Ordo7 only shows numbers it can back up, marking the rest unavailable.
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An Activity With No Predecessor Isn't a Schedule, It's a Guess
The first of DCMA's 14 checks is the simplest: every activity needs something driving it and something depending on it. Why that rule catches so much.
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In Utility Work, a Missed Schedule Isn't Just Late. It's a Safety Problem.
Compliance-driven maintenance schedules don't get extensions. A water utility program where enforcing schedule discipline cut safety incidents by 9%.
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Eight Years in Project Controls Taught Me One Thing Keeps Breaking
PMP-certified, deep in P6 and EVM, across $100M+ in portfolios and five industries. Powerful tools, never built for the person running the schedule.
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No Big Team. No Funding Round. Just the Work, in Public.
Building in public isn't a growth tactic here — it's the only way I know how to build something honest. Why the Founder Log exists and what it means.
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There Aren't Enough Project Controls Analysts. Everyone Feels It.
A capital-projects boom is outpacing the supply of trained project controls talent — the gap gets absorbed by whoever's already on the project. Usually the PM.