TUI ERP

Purpose

Reimagines the platform-dashboard ERP as a terminal user interface — monospace type, box-drawing borders, ANSI colors, ASCII data viz, and keyboard shortcuts everywhere. A brutal rejection of modern UI polish in favor of density and muscle memory.

Prompt

Let's build a new experiment. Let's build an interface reminscent of a TUI, but with slightly more polish.

Specifically re-imaging the erp from the platform-dashboard series of experiments, but now inside a TUI experiment. This means many of the patterns we used need to be completely rethought.

This should be a no holds bar attack on modern design and eschew modern niceties. It needs to be brutally focused on muscle memory and keyboard commands (although they can be non-operational since we will not use js). Go hard.

Versions

v2 Tab switching & help overlay v1 Initial TUI ERP

NOVACORP ERP v2.4.1 ◉ FINANCE Load ███▓░░ 68% Mem ██████▓░ 82%

casey@novacorp Session 4h 23m 22:34:18 [Ctrl+?]

F1 FINANCE

F2 SUPPLY

F3 HR

F4 SALES

F5 INSIGHTS

:q quit │ :w save │ / search

Finance Overview [1]

Metrics LIVE

Revenue $12.8M ▲ 8.2%

Accts Recv $3.1M ▲18.4%

Cash Flow $1.4M ▲12.1%

Budget Var -4.2% → OK

Burn Rate $890K →

Runway 14.3mo ▲ 2.1

Alerts 3

✗ 12 invoices >90d ($800K)

⚠ 38 overdue invoices total

⚠ $2.4M cash at risk

✓ January books closed

✓ Tax filing on track

Actions

[r] Review accounts receivable

[c] Cash flow forecast

[b] Budget variance report

[t] Open todo list

[g] General ledger

[i] Invoice manager

Revenue 12mo

Feb → Jan

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$9.2M$12.8M

/ search │ Tab cycle │ ? help

Finance Detail [2]

Revenue Breakdown MRR

Month MRR Change Trend

Jan 2026 $12.8M +8.2% ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ████████

Dec 2025 $11.8M +6.1% ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇░ █████▓░░

Nov 2025 $11.1M +4.8% ▁▂▃▄▅▆░░ ████▓░░░

Oct 2025 $10.6M +3.2% ▁▂▃▄▅░░░ ████░░░░

Sep 2025 $10.3M +2.8% ▁▂▃▄░░░░ ███▓░░░░

Aug 2025 $10.0M +1.4% ▁▂▃░░░░░ ███░░░░░

Accounts Receivable Aging ATTN

Age Count Amount Collection % Status

0–30 days 124 $1.2M ████████████████░░░░ 82% OK

31–60 days 38 $680K ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░ 42% WATCH

61–90 days 18 $420K ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 18% WARN

90+ days ✗ 12 $800K ██████████░░░░░░░░░░ 52% CRITICAL

Total Outstanding $3.1M

Budget Utilization by Dept

Engineering ████████████████████████████████████░░░░ 92%

Marketing ██████████████████████████████░░░░░░░░░░ 76%

Sales ████████████████████████████████████████ 100%

Operations ██████████████████████████████████░░░░░░ 85%

Support ████████████████████████████████████████████░ 108%

j/k scroll │ / filter │ Enter drill-down │ o open │ x export

Activity [3]

Recent Log TAIL

22:31>Approved inv #4421

22:18>Budget report gen'd

21:45>Payment recv $180K

21:12>AR reminder sent (38)

20:54>Month-end close init

20:32>Cash forecast updated

20:01>Vendor payment batch

19:44>GL reconciliation OK

Todo 1/5

[✓]Close January books

[ ]Approve 12 invoices ($420K)

[ ]Review Q1 budget

[ ]Submit tax docs

[ ]Follow up 90+ day AR

System

Sessions today24

Avg response1.2s

Uptime99.98%

DB connections48/100

Cache hit rate94.2%

Last sync● 2s ago

AI Insight NEW

[FIN] [SUP]

$2.4M cash at risk tied to 3 suppliers with delayed shipments. 12 invoices >90d correlate with fulfillment drops.

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Ctrl+L clear │ Space toggle

NORMAL :█

F1-F5 modules │ 1-3 panels │ Tab cycle │ : command │ / search │ ? help