Source: qdash /teams — c67 swarm pass, 2026-08-15 · grammar: data-swarm-ideas
Course correction from overdrive: no metaphors, the data-swarm discipline instead — every mark maps to one person (one session, in the shift plot), granularity high enough that the aggregate reads as a swarm, axes chosen so the swarm's shape IS the answer. The world: 26 teams · 214 people · $18.4k/30d, hash-generated fixtures with the named cast intact; the qdash version reads userRollups() and real session records.
The attribution swarm
x = team · y = spend per person /30d (log) · one dot = one person · color = state. The strip's chips, un-aggregated: each team becomes a distribution, and the Unassigned column is an amber cloud you can weigh against the named teams — the $4.1k stops being a number and becomes 61 people-shaped reasons.
214 dots — every person in the fleet · columns hash-jittered, stable across reloads · hover any dot · the tail's 72 people share one column
Spend × presence — the audit field
x = spend /30d (log) · y = time since last active (log, now at the top) · one dot = one person · color = state. The quadrants ask the audit questions: top-right is burning & present (fine — watch it), bottom-right is spent & gone — money attributed to people the telemetry hasn't seen in weeks.
214 dots · the amber mass drifting toward "spent & gone" is unattributed money going stale — the mapping queue, sorted by urgency, for free
The shift swarm
x = hour of day · y = team · one dot = one session · size = tokens · color = model. Team rhythms drawn from session records (the descent floor — real data). The payoff is the Unassigned row: that tight overnight band is the ci-pool running pipeline hours — the mapping suggestion's evidence, visible instead of asserted.
186 sessions (30d sample) · Support-Ops holds business hours · Payments-EU trails into the evening · the qdash version reads real session timestamps
The leverage field
x = sessions /30d (log) · y = tokens per session (log) · one dot = one person · color = team. The dashed diagonals are total-consumption isoquants — left of a guide costs less per month than right of it. Upper-left are sprinters (few heavy sessions), lower-right are grinders (constant light touch). Same monthly bill, opposite working styles — invisible in every aggregate the strip has shown so far.
214 dots · Core-Banking + the 21 tail teams fold to grey per the fixed-order rule · hover for name, team, sessions, tokens/session
The swarm chip — feeding it back to the strip
The strip chip with its bar slot replaced by a one-row micro-swarm of its own people — x = spend (log), color = state. The chip inherits the swarm grammar: every pixel a person, every dot a portal, the distribution visible where the share bar showed one number. Plot 1, miniaturized into the component we already ship.