Local Pulse.

On The Map shows you the whole network from above. Local Pulse is the other end of the same telescope: one city, close up, with the people working in it named and the writing they have published under their own names sitting beside them.

Every place with members in it has a page. The one you are nearest is offered outright and any other is a word in a search field away, because a city is somewhere you look at rather than a group you apply to join. Each page carries what has actually moved there this week and where that puts it against everywhere else — and where nothing has moved, it says nothing has moved, which is the only useful way to be told a place is quiet.

The community band is the part most people came for: the members near you, what each of them does, where they are, and whether they are open to being hired. It turns a vague sense that there must be somebody local into a name you can read and a business you can look at.

Beside it sits the writing, and that is where local knowledge actually lives. Somebody who counted the people walking a riverside path for three weekends before signing a lease has learned something no listing could hold, and on the city page it is a piece anybody a mile away can read. Nothing here asks you to publish in order to be included — being on your city page follows from working on the platform in a place, the same way being on the map does. What publishing gets you is that somebody nearby reads it.

A review sits in one place, a stamp card in another, a referral in a third and an offer in a fourth. Each of them is doing something useful, and each of them reports on itself. What none of them can tell you is the thing you actually want to know at the end of a month, which is whether more people are coming back than were coming back before.

This screen is where the four of them land. The counters across the top are the same figures the tools underneath are keeping — campaigns running, businesses listed, leads arriving, bookings taken, offer claims and responses collected — read live from the workspace rather than copied into a spreadsheet on a Friday. Nothing here is a projection and nothing here is entered by hand.

Under them the funnel puts the four stages on one scale: leads captured, bookings taken, bookings still ahead of you, and the customers you have. Reading down it is how you find the narrow end. A busy top and a thin bottom is a different problem from a thin top and a full bottom, and they want opposite things done about them.

Beside that, a checklist works out for itself what you have and have not set up — your business listed, campaigns running, services people can book, somewhere for leads to arrive, and a reputation collecting responses. It ticks from the real counts, so it cannot flatter you. And the two panels at the foot carry the story out of this workspace altogether: what the bookings are worth goes to Money Flow, and what the leads are doing goes on to marketing.