18. Home

Your flight deck: an AI daily briefing, live tiles, and the Assistant that follows you everywhere.

At a glance

Home is the first thing you see after login and the page you return to between tasks. Its job is to answer one question before you have to ask it: what changed, and what wants my attention? Everything else on the page is a shortcut into the work that answer implies.

The shared chrome

Two pieces of UI wrap every page in the app, not just Home.

Top bar

• Daalu logo (top-left) — returns you here.
• Tenant name — if you belong to more than one tenant, click to switch.
• Search — a unified search across alerts, devices, change proposals, integrations, and event history. Press / to focus it from anywhere.
• Notifications bell — your personal feed, with a badge when something is unread.
• Profile menu (top-right) — Profile, Settings, Help & Feedback, Log out.

Left sidebar

The navigation is the same on every page, top to bottom:

Home · Operations · Agents · Automations · Reports · Alerts · Integrations · Workspace · AI Factory · Managed infra · Usage & Pricing

and pinned to the bottom: Settings · Help & Feedback.

Hovering an icon reveals its label; on narrow screens the labels collapse to icons.

Tip — Press G then the first letter of most destinations (G A for Alerts, G O for Operations) to jump without reaching for the mouse. Press ? anywhere for the full cheat sheet.

The hero and daily briefing

The top of the page is a cinematic hero with a time-aware greeting and the headline status of your tenant — calm when things are calm, pointed when they’re not.

Directly beneath it sits the AI daily briefing: two-to-four paragraphs that summarize everything that happened since you last looked. The briefing is written once per period by an agent (Chapter 20) and draws on every signal in the window — alerts that fired or resolved, new resources discovered, open change proposals, spend anomalies, and agent highlights. On a quiet day it says so honestly; on a busy day it leads with what needs you.

Two controls accompany it:

• Regenerate — rewrite the briefing now, against current data, instead of waiting for the next scheduled run.
• What’s in here? — list the exact records that fed the briefing, each a link you can drill into.

Why it matters — A briefing is the answer to “what happened since I last looked?”, written before you ask. That’s the difference between starting your day reading dashboards and starting it already knowing where to go.

The summary tiles

A row of live tiles gives you the numbers behind the briefing. Each is a single figure with a sparkline, and each is a link:

• Active agents — how many autonomous helpers are enabled and running. Opens Agents.
• Open incidents — incidents currently in flight. Opens Alerts filtered to incidents.
• 24-hour activity — significant events in your tenant in the last day. Opens the activity timeline.
• Workflows running — automations executing or scheduled to run soon. Opens Automations.
• Briefings on file — how many briefings have been generated and kept. Opens Reports → Briefings.

The tiles are deliberately glanceable. The detail lives one click away, on the page each tile points to.

The Assistant panel

The Assistant is not a page — it’s a panel anchored to the right side of every page, including this one. Open it with Cmd-K / Ctrl-K.

• Header — “AI Assistant” plus a status dot that tells you whether inference is running on your own GPU or on the Daalu-hosted tier (Chapters 16–17).
• Conversation thread — your messages and the Assistant’s replies. Tool calls render as expandable cards (“queried Prometheus: 4 results”); proposals render as inline cards with an Open proposal link.
• Input — multiline, Enter to send, Shift+Enter for a newline. Markdown renders as you type.
• Footer — toggle which tools the Assistant may use for this conversation, clear the thread, or send feedback on a reply.

What makes the panel useful is context: ask a question on Alerts and it already knows which alert you’re looking at; ask on Operations and it picks up the current device. You never copy IDs around. The concept chapter for the Assistant is Chapter 13.

A brand-new tenant

Before anything is connected, Home is mostly friendly empty states:

• The briefing reads “Welcome to Daalu. There isn’t anything to report yet…”
• The tiles show zeros.
• The activity timeline is empty.

Each empty state carries a call to action — Connect an integration, Invite a teammate, Connect a GPU — that drops you into the relevant setup flow. Click through to get the first signal flowing; the page fills in as soon as data starts arriving.

Next: Chapter 19 — Operations