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Your creative business, on one screen.
BlueDash is a dashboard for creative entrepreneurs of every kind: the few numbers that show how your business is doing, in one place, set up the way you work. It isn't built yet. Join the waitlist and tell me what you'd want on yours.
Pace to this year's goal
72%
Money in
$18,400
Quotes out
6
$41,000 total
Projects in progress
An illustration. BlueDash isn't built yet.
Why I'm building it
I tracked my numbers by hand for 18 years
I'm Ammon Ehrisman, and I run a creative business. I own BlueForest Studios, a video production company in the Raleigh, North Carolina area, and I've worked in video since 2002.
I've known for a long time that tracking my key numbers is how I stay in business. So for 18 years I tracked them by hand. It was not the most fun or creative part of the job (by a long shot).
This year I used Claude to build a dashboard for BlueForest. It pulls our sales, project and accounting numbers into one place, so I can see how the business is doing without opening five tools. BlueDash is the version I want to make for other creative entrepreneurs, so you get the same clear picture without building it yourself.
The plan
What BlueDash is meant to do
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The few numbers that matter
Not forty charts. The handful that tell you whether this month is on track.
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Easy to set up and read
Made for people who would rather be making things than building spreadsheets.
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Sales, work and money, side by side
So one part of the business can't quietly run ahead of the others.
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Yours to arrange
Pick the tiles that fit your kind of creative work, and change them as the business changes.
BlueDash isn't built yet, so this is the plan, not a feature list. What people on the waitlist tell me will shape it.
Your kind of work
Every creative business counts something different
A photographer watches bookings. A designer watches revisions. Here's what a first screen might look like for a few kinds of work. Example tiles and numbers.
Shoots booked, next 30 days
9
Galleries waiting to deliver
3
Money owed to you
$2,450
Quotes out
5
$38,000 total
Projects in the edit
4
Hours logged this week
31
Active projects
6
Revisions waiting on you
2
Retainers renewing this month
2
Shows booked
7
Merch sold this month
$860
Lessons on the calendar
12
Follow the build
Part of Creative System Builders
Creative System Builders is the series and community I'm starting for creative entrepreneurs who pair AI with time-tested business principles. BlueDash grows out of it. Follow the channel and the site to see what I'm building and how.
Waitlist
Get on the list, shape what it shows
Send one email with the kind of creative work you do and the numbers you'd want to see. I'll write back when there's something to try. No newsletter, and the price isn't set yet.
- The kind of creative work you do
- The numbers you check now, and where they live
- The one number you wish you could see every morning