How it works

How DISTLR gets a job done.

Alembic is where your jobs live, and DISTLR, the AI inside Alembic, does the work. You describe a job in a sentence, and DISTLR sets it up, works every case on its own card, and brings you only the decisions that are yours. Here is a job, start to finish.

The job

One job, start to finish.

The example is rental applications for one address, the same week the home page plays. The steps are the same for invoices, vendors or anything else with a start, a few loose ends, and a decision at the end.

  1. Step 1

    Say it in a sentence.

    Tell DISTLR what the job is: “New applicants for 14 Elm St. Collect the usual and tell me who's ready.” DISTLR sets the job up and asks you only what matters: what counts as done, what to check, and who decides.

    • No forms to fill in first. The job starts from what you said.
    • You see the job before it starts. Nothing runs until you have looked.
    • Change it the same way. A new rule is another sentence.
    1. “who's ready” becomes the job's Ready stage
    2. “the usual” becomes the checklist every card is held to
    3. DISTLR's face: the lattice, working

  2. Step 2

    A card for every case.

    Every applicant, invoice, vendor or request gets its own card. DISTLR reads what arrives, files it on the right card, and checks it against the rules you set.

    • Rules are sentences, not settings. “Pay stubs from the last 60 days.”
    • Nothing is smoothed over. Missing, conflicting or uncertain stays visible on the card until someone settles it.
    1. Your rule, kept as the sentence you wrote
    2. Papers in: two of three, on each card
    3. Violet means DISTLR is at work
    4. All papers in: Sam is ready

  3. Step 3

    Only the calls that are yours.

    DISTLR brings you the decisions that need a person, with the evidence beside each, and one answer can settle a question for every card it touches. Everything else, DISTLR just does.

    • Grouped, not scattered. One place for what needs you across every job.
    • Consequential calls stay with people. Who gets the lease, whether to pay, what a clause means.
    1. One answer, two cards: Dana and Mei
    2. What DISTLR did about it, on each card

  4. Step 4

    What is missing, collected.

    DISTLR asks the people involved for what is missing, by link or email, follows up until it arrives, and files it on the right card.

    1. A wait warms as its due date nears
    2. In two days early, and filed
    3. Every step DISTLR took, on the card

  5. Step 5

    Forms and certificates, filled in.

    DISTLR fills in the forms and certificates from what the job collected, and leaves the signature line for you. DISTLR never signs, certifies or submits a form for you.

    1. Each value says where it came from
    2. The signature line stays yours
    3. The deposit receipt, filled beside it

  6. Step 6

    Sent where your work lives.

    When a card is ready, DISTLR sends the result to the systems you already use, and holds the send if a connection is not set up yet.

    1. Out for signature, and back
    2. Added to your tenant sheet
    3. Sam crossed the whole board

  7. Step 7

    See every step DISTLR took.

    Log in any time to see what DISTLR did on each card, change what you want, and undo what can be undone.

    • DISTLR's updates list every step. On the card, in order.
    • Undo where it can be undone. A message that was sent stays sent, and the card says so.
    1. The one call that was yours, made
    2. What DISTLR handled alone
    3. Can be undone, said on the line itself
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You stay in charge

DISTLR works inside your rules.

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What reaches your phone when Dana's newer pay stub arrives, at each setting.

You set how far DISTLR goes.Each job has a setting: ask first, act then tell you, or act quietly. Change it any time, job by job.
What DISTLR never does.Each connection lists what DISTLR may do there and what DISTLR will never do, before you connect it. DISTLR never signs a form for you.
Decisions stay with people.Legal effect, payment approval, who gets the lease: the consequential calls stay with the people who own them, however much else DISTLR does.
Light work costs less.DISTLR gives each piece of work the depth it needs, so simple work stays cheap and knotty work gets a closer look. You pay for the work, not the seat.

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