Praetorium · your Mac and your iPhone, not a browser

Everything your workforce did,
on one screen.

Praetorium is the window and the switchboard for your Agentic Workforce. It shows what ran, what it claimed, what it actually verified, and the handful of questions only you can answer. Every number on it says whether it was measured or guessed. It runs on your own Mac, and its iPhone app puts the questions that need you in your pocket.

The panel, rendered.

This is the app, drawn on the page. Click through the views. The data belongs to Sagebrush Heating & Air, a Las Vegas HVAC company we invented for this page — three trucks, eleven people, and an office manager who is also the dispatcher.

The window is wider than your screen — drag it sideways.

Praetorium — Sagebrush Heating & Air
on your Mac
Able to work confirmed 12 seconds ago Live
Right now
working
Last finished
2h 13m ago
Stopped
not once today
Interruptions
6 · all cleared themselves
Ask Athena anything about the business… ⌘↩
Escalations
2 open · answered here, and written down Live
The clients director has needed calendar write access four times this week — every time a customer asked to move a Saturday install. Want me to grant it? juno · 2h ago · #14
Aug 12, 14, 17 and 19. Each one ended with a draft you approved by hand an average of five hours later. Write access would be scoped to the install calendar only, and every change would appear in Runs.
Yes No — warmly Not now Need more info or type a few words…
Two of your maintenance-plan renewals quote $189 and the rest quote $219. Which is the real price? vesta · 5h ago · #13
The $189 figure is in the plan PDF from March. The $219 figure is on the pricing sheet in the office. Forty-one plans renew in the next three weeks. Nothing has gone to a customer — I stopped.
Yes No — warmly Not now Need more info or type a few words…
The Rancho Drive job ran forty minutes over on Tuesday and the tech logged it as warranty. Bill it or absorb it? vesta · yesterday · #12
Absorb it. Kyle's call, and he was right. — answered 4:12 PM, recorded, then carried out.
What Athena did
since you opened thisLive
Recorded your answer on #12 and told the operations director to leave the invoice alone. Nothing went to anyone outside the business.

Sagebrush Heating & Air does not exist. We built the demo data rather than screenshot a live panel, because a real one renders a real company's calls, invoices and open questions.

Seven views, one window.

Each one exists because a specific thing goes wrong when nobody is watching it. They are in the order the app puts them in.
AegisAble to work
Whether the workforce can do its job right now. It sits above every other view, because it is the one condition under which nothing else on screen is worth reading — if the workforce has stopped, the run history is a history of something that ended.
Green means it is working
EscalationsYour decisions
The questions the workforce could not answer for itself, each with the context behind it and a reply you can give in one tap. Usually empty. That is the normal state, not a broken one.
A triage page, not a summary
RunsWhat fired
What ran, what it claimed, and what it verified — with duration sitting next to output size. A pass that ran twenty-six minutes and returned one sentence exits green like every other one.
Green is not a result
WorkWhat got done
How much the workforce got through this week, how much of it never needed you, and what kind of work it went to. Most of a quiet week goes to watching things that turn out to be fine.
Where the week went
DiscordDisagreements
Where two directors diverged, both positions intact, and the ruling that settled it. If the panel only ever showed agreement, the system would be converging and nobody would notice.
Both sides kept whole
LiveRight now
What is running at this second, and what is waiting behind it. This is the view that answers "is it working" without anyone going to look for it.
Now, not a report
RosterThe bench
Which agents ran this week and which never trigger at all. An agent that never fires is either a routing bug or a job that should never have been an agent, and both are worth knowing.
Idle agents, named

The panel, in your pocket.

Praetorium comes with an iPhone app — iOS 17 or later. It carries the part of the panel that cannot wait until you are back at your desk, and it reads your own Mac to do it.
4:12Paired
Praetorium
Read from your Mac · 40 seconds ago
Escalations
2 open Live
The clients director has needed calendar write access four times this week. Want me to grant it? juno · 2h ago · #14
Scoped to the install calendar only, and every change would show up in Runs.
Yes No — warmly Not now or type a few words…

Answer the questions waiting on you.

The same queue the panel shows, with the same chips and the same free-text line. Your answer is written down on the Mac before anything acts on it — and until it has been, the phone says so plainly rather than showing it as sent.

Talk to your chief of staff.

Ask her something from the phone and she answers from what she can actually see. A real question is real work, so a reply is not instant — the screen tells you where yours is in the line instead of leaving you to wonder whether it arrived.

See what is running right now.

Pull down and the phone reads your Mac. What comes back is a moment that has already passed, and the screen says how old it is. Nothing on it quietly refreshes itself, because a number that ages without telling you is worse than an empty one.

Your phone talks to your Mac.

You pair it once, in person, from the Mac itself. After that the phone talks to that one machine and nothing else: there is no service in the middle, and nothing of yours is kept anywhere but your own two devices. Lose the phone and you pair a new one — the old one stops working the moment you do.

The rest stays on the desk.

The phone carries the half that cannot wait. The run history, where the week's work went, and the places two directors disagreed stay on the Mac, where there is room to read them properly. A small screen is for deciding, not for auditing.

The phone above is drawn on this page, not photographed — same invented company as the panel.

A number that admits what it is.

A panel that mixes measurements, inferences and guesses without saying which is which is worse than no panel at all.

So every number in Praetorium carries a badge — on the figure itself, or on the heading it sits under. You never have to ask whether what you are looking at was read off the machine or worked out from prose. Each badge spells the word out, so it still reads if the color is gone.
Live

It was measured.

Read from the machine or the record at the moment you looked at it. This is the default, and it deliberately borrows the healthy color rather than an alert color — a fact should not read as a warning.

Derived

The panel worked it out.

Its own reading of something written in prose. Defensible, and still an inference. Where work went this week is derived; the fact that a pass ran is not.

Estimate

An agent guessed.

Hours displaced, effort saved, time back. Worth seeing and never worth confusing with a measurement, so it is shown and labeled instead of quietly rounded into a headline.

Sample

There is not enough yet.

A placeholder standing in for data that does not exist in useful quantity. It switches to a real reading the moment there is one. A dashed border, on purpose — it should not look finished.

Why this matters more than it sounds.

The easiest way for an automation dashboard to lie is to render a guess in the same typeface as a fact. "Fourteen hours saved" and "thirty-eight files written" are not the same kind of claim, and a panel that presents them identically has taught you to trust both, or neither.

Color is never the only cue.

Green and amber are the pair color-blind readers confuse most reliably, and access status is the one indicator that must never be misread. So every status mark is a distinct shape before it is a color, and it is never shown without the word beside it. Every provenance badge spells itself out too. The palette was re-stepped until a color-blindness check passed in both light and dark.

Answer in one tap.

Your workforce escalates rarely, and only when the answer is genuinely yours — a capability question or a risk question. When it does, the reading and the writing have already been done. You supply the intent.
1

An agent hits a wall and stops.

It cannot spend your money, change your prices or send anything to a customer. When it reaches one of those, it does not guess and it does not proceed. It writes the question down in plain English with the reasons behind it.

2

Praetorium puts it in front of you whole.

Not a notification that something needs attention — the question, the four times it came up, what happened each time, and what would change if you said yes. Enough to decide from the screen.

3

You tap a chip, or type five words.

"No — warmly" is a real answer, not a softener. The agent turns it into a message that keeps the relationship intact, which is the part you would otherwise have spent twenty minutes on.

4

The decision is written down before anything acts on it.

Your answer is recorded first. Only then does the chief of staff go and carry it out. If it cannot be recorded, she does not go — she would be acting on a decision that exists nowhere, and next week nobody could say why it happened.

The alarm is not the thing it watches.

The thing that tells you the system is broken cannot itself be the system.

A workforce that has quietly stopped looks exactly like a workforce with nothing to do. So the alarm that tells you is independent of the workforce it watches — it still reaches you when the workforce cannot run at all, when Praetorium is closed, and when your internet is down.

A hiccup is not an alarm.

Short interruptions are normal and nearly all of them clear on their own within minutes. You are told when one doesn't. Sounding the alarm on every blip would have cried wolf six times on the panel above, and an alarm you have learned to ignore is not an alarm.

It comes to you.

The alert lands on your desk whether or not the panel is open. Nobody has to remember to check a screen to find out the workforce is still running, which is the only way you hear about a quiet Sunday failure before Monday.

What it never sees.

A control panel that watches everything is also a control panel that holds everything. This one is deliberately narrow about what it touches.

It never reads your passwords. The panel can tell you whether the workforce is working or has stopped. It cannot see what it signs in with, and it never asks.

It runs on your machines. A Mac app on your own computer, and an iPhone app that talks to that Mac and nothing else. Your business's data stays on the two of them. There is no cloud service behind it, no account to create, and nothing of yours held anywhere else. If your internet drops, it is still the app on your desk.

It reads, and it does not send. Exactly one thing reaches you — the chief of staff. Nothing behind her can publish, post, send, spend, transact or delete, and anything meant for a customer, a supplier or anyone else outside your business passes you first.

It has no opinion it hides from you. Where two directors disagreed, both positions stay on the screen. Where a number was inferred, it says so. Where there is not enough data yet, it says that instead of drawing a trend line through four points.

Nothing on this page is a real panel. Every figure in the demo above belongs to a company we invented. We would rather show you an honest mock-up than a screenshot of somebody's real invoices.

See it working for your business.

We build the workforce, hand you the panel, and stay on it. Bring us the job that eats your week and we will show you the loop that covers it — free, before you commit to anything.