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Fathom.

Dashboard for an ops team — An operations dashboard that replaces a wall of spreadsheets with one screen an ops lead can trust at 6am.

Product Design
Year
2026
Timeline
7 weeks
Services
Product design · Design system
Platform
Web app
01

Overview

Fathom’s ops team ran the business out of a dozen spreadsheets. We designed a single source of truth they could act on, not just admire.

02

The challenge

Ops dashboards are where good intentions go to die — too dense, too slow to change. This one had to stay useful as the business shifted under it.

  • Dense information that stays scannable
  • Alerts that mean something
  • A layout that adapts to new metrics
  • Trust — numbers that always reconcile
03

Our approach

We shadowed the team for a week, learned which numbers actually drove decisions, and designed around those.

  • A priority-led information hierarchy
  • Thresholds and alerts co-designed with ops
  • A flexible grid for metrics yet to exist
  • A component kit their engineers could ship
04

The outcome

Fathom collapsed a spreadsheet sprawl into one screen the team opens first each day. Decisions that took a morning of reconciling now take a glance.

12→1
Spreadsheets to one screen
7wk
Design delivered
AM
The first tab they open
“It’s the only screen we trust before coffee.”
Ops lead · Fathom
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