Needs You & Triage: work only what needs you
The two layers that surface what needs a human — chips on the home screen, groups inside a production.
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BALA surfaces work in two layers: Needs You chips on the Productions home screen tell you which productions want a human, and inside each production the roster's Triage view groups people by what needs a decision.
Needs You, on the home screen
Every production card rolls up its open needs as chips — to review (counsel), redlines, to approve, producer waiting (a paused concierge conversation), guardian (a minor missing one), to generate, to remind, and kickoff. Legal needs sort first, and each chip deep-links to the exact place you act — the specific deal, the kickoff modal — not a generic page. Unroutable intake counts too, in its own lane.
Triage, inside a production
- Action required
- A decision is due — an open escalation, a returned redline, or a missing supporting document (a location's proof of authority, a minor's birth certificate).
- Out for signature
- Sent and awaiting a signature — nudge from here.
- Cleared / Routine
- Executed, and the extras-and-crew that sign standard paper — collapsed to a count.
Each item is a card with a plain reason and the right action — Review, Nudge, Redline, Upload. Above-the-line people are tagged so they surface first. Switch to Browse all for the full sortable table.
Readiness rolls it up
The clear-to-shoot meter at the top of each production counts the same blockers — with counsel, awaiting producer sign-off, awaiting signature, missing documents — against the shoot date. When it's clear, you're ready to roll.