What Daniel Trackman can do
Just talk to Daniel Trackman the way you'd talk to a trusted site coordinator. Here are the core things he helps you track from day one — rooms, trades, budgets, and everything in between.
Introduce yourself and set up Daniel Trackman
Tell Daniel Trackman about your project
Hey Daniel! I'm renovating a 3-bedroom apartment at 14 Oak Street. My GC is Mark, electrician is Sam. Total budget is $40,000. We're finishing the kitchen first, then bathrooms. Timezone is EST.
Share your renovation details — the property address, which rooms are in scope, your general contractor and key trades, your budget ceiling, and the current phase. Daniel Trackman saves all of it automatically so every future conversation starts with full context. You don't need to repeat yourself — he picks up new facts naturally as you mention them.
Set your preferences
Keep answers short. Always tag tasks with the room and trade. When I log an expense, confirm the running total for that room.
Tell Daniel Trackman how you'd like him to respond — brief updates or detailed breakdowns, always tie tasks to a room and trade, alert you when spending approaches a threshold. These become standing rules for every future reply. Change them anytime by just telling him.
Store specs, contacts, and site notes
Save specs and site notes
Save this: kitchen backsplash tile is Marazzi Zellige 10x10, color Blanc, SKU MZL01. Ordered from TileDepot, lead time 3 weeks. Electrician Sam's number is 555-0182.
Daniel Trackman remembers anything you want to keep for later — tile SKUs, paint codes, warranty start dates, where shutoff valves are hidden, material lead times, or subcontractor contact details. Each note gets a topic so you can find it in seconds. Think of it as a site notebook that never gets lost.
Ask Daniel Trackman to recall
What tile SKU did we pick for the kitchen backsplash?
Ask Daniel Trackman to find anything he's saved or that you mentioned before — a spec, a conversation about a trade dispute, a budget figure. He searches your saved notes, past messages, and files at once and brings back the best match. No need to remember exactly when you said it.
Working with tasks
Plan a task
Add a task to the Kitchen project: pick up tiles from TileDepot this Friday. Also add: schedule electrical inspection for next week, tag it Electrical.
Ask Daniel Trackman to track anything on your punch list — inspections, material pickups, permit submissions, contractor sign-offs. He sets due dates, organizes tasks by room or trade, and reminds you at the right time. It's your renovation to-do list living right in the chat.
Updating tasks
Mark the tile pickup as done. Move the electrical inspection to Thursday and add a note: inspector needs 48h notice.
Tasks change as the site does. Ask Daniel Trackman to mark something done, shift a deadline, move a task to a different room's project, or delete it entirely. Just say what changed — he adjusts the list.
Scheduled automations
Create an automation
Every Monday at 8am, send me a summary of open tasks by room and this week's scheduled trades.
Automations are recurring jobs Daniel Trackman runs on his own — a morning digest of open tasks, a weekly budget summary, or monitoring a supplier page for stock. You say what and when; he delivers the result on schedule or stays quiet if nothing changed.
Schedules and managing automations
Change the weekly task digest to run on Fridays at 5pm instead. And stop the one monitoring the tile supplier page — the order already arrived.
Automations can run on any schedule — daily, weekly, every few hours, or once at a specific date. Change the timing, update what the automation checks, or delete it whenever you want. Just tell Daniel Trackman and he adjusts.