Marvin can now be made a proactive member of the company. In Settings → Marvin → Proactive you choose who Marvin leads, who the management team is, and Marvin starts each working day by asking those people what they are working on.
If someone does not know what to work on, Marvin sends them their own prioritised list — overdue work first, then priority, then deadline — and waits for them to pick one.
Once a job is picked, Marvin estimates how long it should take and checks back at that time to ask whether it is finished. If it is a task, Marvin makes sure it is actually marked as done.
If a person answers that they already know what they are doing, Marvin reminds them to clock in or start a timer so management can see the activity.
When somebody has literally nothing to do, Marvin tells the management team instead of leaving it unnoticed.
Marvin keeps office hours. You set the window in his settings — nothing goes out before or after it, and a night shift can set an evening start with a morning end. He also stops writing to anyone who has clocked out for the day. Replies to something you asked him still arrive at any hour.
Marvin paces himself: at most one message a minute. A team of ten is greeted over ten minutes rather than all at once, and a newly switched-on watch reports its findings gradually — while still telling you up front how many there are. Replies to something you asked him are never delayed.
Marvin's background checks set themselves up. Switch proactive mode on and the workspace arranges its own schedule — there is nothing to install, no commands to run, and the settings screen simply tells you whether automatic checks are enabled. If the server does not allow it, Marvin quietly falls back to the workspace's regular schedule so nothing is missed.
Marvin oversees the support queue: tickets nobody has answered (new, or the client wrote back and is still waiting) and tickets left open long after the conversation went quiet. He asks the agent a ticket is assigned to what is happening with it; an unassigned one goes to the team you name, because nobody owning it is the problem.
Marvin chases invoices left in draft past their own due date — the ones that were never sent, so nobody is following them up and they appear in no report. Rather than warning a manager, he asks the person who raised the invoice what is going on with it, records the answer, and passes it on to whoever the watch is addressed to.
Marvin now watches the workspace and chases the things a manager would: overdue tasks and projects, overdue invoices, expired proposals and estimates, orders stuck in the same status, and payments as they come in. Each watch can be switched on separately and given its own list of people to warn.
Marvin also watches your installed Apps when they are present: unconfirmed Appointments, expiring domains in Domain Manager, dormant shops in OrderLemon, unfinished Peppol onboardings, overdue Podcast episodes, unfinished bank statement imports, and test runs left running in LiveTesting.
Settings → Appearance → Users dashboard: an admin can now design the dashboard team members open NIZU on, per role. Pick a role, arrange its widgets, and everyone with that role who has not built a dashboard of their own gets it — each person still only sees the widgets their own permissions allow. “Everyone else” covers administrators and members who have not been given a role.
Updates
The Marvin settings screen now shows which team members have accepted Telegram messages from Marvin, so it is clear who Marvin can actually reach before putting them under his leadership.
A team member who opens “Edit dashboard” on the dashboard designed for their role now starts from that layout, instead of from the one NIZU builds by itself.
“Reset everyone's dashboard” in Settings → Appearance → Interface also clears the dashboards designed per role.
Fix
Marvin only tells you about work that is yours. An overdue task goes to the person it is assigned to, a late project to its leader or its team, and a ticket to the agent handling it — and to nobody else. Previously a whole team's overdue work could land on one person. Anything nobody has picked up yet still goes to the people you name for that watch, because that is exactly what needs attention.
Marvin no longer chases finished work. Tasks belonging to a completed or paused project are left alone, and so is anything already marked done — including tasks whose status was changed on the board but whose older status field had not caught up. The same rule now applies to the list of suggestions Marvin offers when somebody does not know what to work on.
