Every project tool gives you columns. Bosun gives you the columns and then does the part nobody does: it notices what has gone quiet, works out who owes you something, and asks them.
The question it answers
What did I delegate that is quietly not happening?
Not “what is everyone working on” — you can already see that. The expensive gap is the task you handed off three weeks ago that nobody has touched and nobody has mentioned.
Four steps. Only the first one needs you.
A rough objective is enough. “Ship the Q4 pricing page.” No structure required.
Bosun asks what a good chief of staff would ask before planning — scope, constraints, who signs off. Your answers become the context it plans against.
Five columns, drag between them. Each card carries one assignee, a deadline and an estimate — so a card going quiet is a person going quiet, not a ticket.
On each person's cadence, in the tone you set. Replies come back as status updates attached to the task, not buried in a thread.
Bosun acts on your behalf, so every action it takes is written down where you can see it. This is what a week looks like.
Found three unstated assumptions. Asked about them.
Held the plan back until it had an answer.
Each one small enough to finish in a day.
Deadline Thursday · est. 3h
“Still on track for Thursday, or has something landed on top of it?”
Waiting on legal to clear the guarantee wording.
She was carrying 19h against a 12h week.
Being clear about this is most of the product.
Columns are only as true as the last person who remembered to drag something. Bosun asks them, so the board stays honest without you chasing it.
You do not prompt it. It works from a goal and a schedule, and it starts the conversations.
It tracks commitments, not people. Nothing here measures keystrokes, hours, or activity.
It drafts, assigns, and asks. Every action is logged, and every one of them is yours to reverse.