The old dashboard was a report. Numbers, charts, summaries — useful for understanding yesterday, useless for acting on today. The Command Center replaced it with an action surface.
Quick action buttons at the top: new order, new customer, my orders. An address search bar that drops you into Quick Measure with one keystroke. A Quick Order Calculator with tiered pricing. A real-time notification feed powered by Pusher — new orders and help requests appear the moment they're created, without a page refresh. A recent leads list, and when there are no recent leads, an unclaimed leads fallback so the first thing you see is always something you can act on.
Geolocation joined the address search. A crosshairs button triggers the browser's Geolocation API, reverse geocodes through Google Maps, and navigates to Quick Measure with the address pre-filled. From the parking lot of your current job, one tap gets you measuring the lawn across the street.
Nearby Orders gives that geolocation context. New latitude and longitude columns on the orders table. An OrderObserver that auto-geocodes on create or address update. A Haversine SQL query at POST /api/order/nearby that returns orders within a fifteen-mile radius sorted by distance. A backfill command for existing orders. Now the app knows not just what your jobs are but where they are relative to where you're standing.
The old dashboard is preserved at /old-dashboard as the Analytics view. Reports still have a home. But the first thing you see when you open the app is no longer a summary of the past — it's a launchpad for what's next.