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Assets / equipment

Owned/wished items.

Rows and columns, sortable and filterable.

One overdue for service and one out on loan. Both are things a count would miss.
AssetSerialWhereLast serviced
Espresso machineLM-88412OberkampfJun 2026
Roaster, 5kgPR-2201Atelier NordFeb 2026 — due
Market gazeboVann/a
Grinder, spareMZ-0930Lent to BellevueAug 2026

What it does

Behaviours, not fields. Choosing between two modules is choosing between these.

Individual items with serials, not a count — this is what you keep rather than what you sell.

Where each one is, including out on loan, which is how equipment goes missing.

Service intervals, so an overdue machine is a row rather than a surprise.

How it works

  1. 1

    Each item is tracked individually rather than counted, which is the difference from Inventory.

  2. 2

    Location includes lent-out, so an asset at a customer site is not simply absent.

  3. 3

    Service intervals make an overdue machine a row rather than a surprise.

  4. 4

    The agent answers where is the spare grinder from the location column.

Best for

Comparing many records across many fields.

Not the right choice for

A phone. A table is the first thing that stops working narrow.

What a row holds

Every field, and what the agent listens for to fill it — which is the difference between a page you type into and one that fills itself.

FieldTypeFilled from
AssetrequiredtextWhat it is, as the team refers to it.
SerialtextThe identifier, because these are individual items rather than a count.
WhererequiredtextIts location, including out on loan. This is how equipment goes missing.
Last servicedrequiredtextWhen, or n/a. Due and overdue are computed from it.

What it does not do

A module chosen for something it cannot do costs more than one that was never offered.

  • No depreciation or book value; that is Portfolio holdings.
  • No maintenance history, only the last service date.
  • Nothing enforces a return date on a loan.
  • One location per asset, so an item in transit is wherever it was last said to be.

Before it works

What you have to provide, if anything.

  • Record the serial. Without it two identical machines are indistinguishable in the record.
  • Pair with Suppliers for the service contracts behind the intervals.

In practice

A roaster with a machine at each site and one on loan to a café.

The spare grinder is at Bellevue.
What was said to the agent

What the agent built

An asset record with the serial, the location and the last service date.

What changed

The roaster was overdue for service and the spare was on loan. Both were invisible in a stock count and obvious here.

Questions

What data does the Assets / equipment page use?

It reads asset records the agent has collected. Owned/wished items. Nothing has to be imported first — the page appears once there is something to show.

Do I have to build or configure it?

No. You describe what you need in a sentence and the agent chooses the view and fills it. Custom pages exist for the cases no built-in view covers, and those are reviewed before they go live.

When is a table the wrong choice?

A phone. A table is the first thing that stops working narrow. It is best for: comparing many records across many fields.

Does it stay up to date?

Yes. The page is a view over the data rather than a copy of it, so anything the agent learns afterwards shows up without a rebuild or a re-import.

Ask for it in a sentence

You do not configure this page. You tell your agent what you need and it builds it from what it has already collected.

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