The room does a lot, and every capability is on the surface at once. The fix is not more features. It is one principle applied everywhere: show the one thing that matters, let the rest arrive on demand. Same theme, same data, less noise. Below is one screen calibrated to that bar.
James · Anas's AI — ✓ connected · Simo's AI — set up
↓ Connector ⧉ Copy config ⧉ Copy passphrase
Backed 3 days ago. Tick your side, or open the memo.
A row earns a name, a line of context, and a single plain-language status. Everything else — edit, drag, delete, confirm ticks — appears on hover or inside the item.
Fixes: the biggest clutter source. Nine competing elements per row become three.
Right now blue/green owner, amber/grey stage, green confirm, purple playbook and the accent all fight. Pick one job for color — ownership — and demote stage to quiet text.
Fixes: colour that means everything means nothing. One language reads instantly.
Welcome leads with "waiting on you," not the connection card. The connection card collapses to one line and only shouts (turns red) when the room actually loses James.
Fixes: the daily surface finally answers "what do I do now" in the first glance.
Every list carries a sentence of James explaining the room to itself. A good UI is self-evident. Cut them; let a one-line header and the content carry it.
Fixes: your own rule — no useless verbiage in a deliverable. Removes ~40% of the vertical noise.
Seven sort options across a screen is decision fatigue. Ship the right default (priority), tuck the rest behind a single menu. Dragging to reorder should just work — never a mode you first have to select.
Fixes: reorder is a hidden mode today; sorting is louder than the list it sorts.
Strategy is two thin things (docs + a map); To-do's overlaps Welcome's blocks. Collapse to Room (welcome + the playbook), Pipeline (deals + people as two views of one CRM), Library (docs + map). The map is a feature looking for a home — give it one inside Pipeline.
Fixes: five destinations for a two-person room is one more than the content needs.
The deal memo shows every field — verdict, traction, thesis, price, four analysis quadrants, three lenses — as placeholder boxes even when empty. Show only what's filled; an empty field becomes a single "＋ add", not a wall of prompts.
Fixes: a half-filled memo currently reads as mostly-empty. Now it reads as done-so-far.
green-room-v3.html, re-run the 87-check selftest, and ship it live.