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GARDUS

A task garden where neglected work can't hide

GARDUS is task visualization that shows every task as a plant, every project as an island, and every team inbox as a flower bed. You see workload and forgotten work at a glance, without reports or filters.

What it does

  • Tasks grow through real stages

    Six kinds of plants, matched to the type of work. Each one grows from seed to fruit as the task moves forward, and growth rings mark the stages it has passed.

  • Neglected tasks dry out

    A quiet week brings drought, an overdue task gets a red halo. Abandoned work turns into a crooked dead tree that pushes its neighbors aside. Only the person whose move it is sees it wilt.

  • Watering means a new date

    You can postpone a task, but water is limited to three times a day. On the third try, the garden asks: "What do you want to do with this?"

  • Five honest choices

    A dead tree opens a quick review: do it, hand it off, postpone, freeze, or drop it. It's a control panel, not a reprimand.

  • Replanting is handing off

    Drag a plant onto a colleague's bed and the task is handed off with a "what's done" note and a due date, just like in the regular task view.

  • My garden, the team's, the project's

    Switch between your garden, a colleague's, a team's, or a project's. The review bed collects the fruit that's waiting on your sign-off.

  • See the company at work

    Colleagues' actions spark in real time and critical tasks visibly burn. You can tell where work is happening and where things have gone quiet.

700 open tasks, and none of them feel urgent

Your tracker holds 700 open tasks. Half of them stopped mattering months ago. A dozen critical ones are buried among the rest. A few quietly died when the assignee left and the requester forgot. A manager opens the list, sees an endless scroll of rows, and closes it again. No report will tell you which tasks were abandoned until someone asks about one in a meeting.

GARDUS shows the same tasks in a different way: as a garden. Healthy work grows and bears fruit. Neglected work dries out, twists, and crowds its neighbors, so it’s impossible to miss. Ten seconds looking at a team’s garden tells you what would take an hour of filtering in a list.

How the garden works

Every task is a plant. The species depends on the kind of work, and growth follows the task’s real stages, from seed to fruit. A project is an island, a team inbox is a flower bed, and the review bed collects the fruit waiting for your decision.

The garden runs on a few simple rules:

  • Drying out. A week with no movement brings drought, and an overdue task glows with a red halo. A task only dries out for whoever holds the ball right now. If you handed the work to a colleague and you’re waiting on them, your garden stays green.
  • Watering. Watering a plant means postponing the task and setting a new date. But you only get three waterings a day. On the third, the garden asks you directly what you want to do with it.
  • Review. A dead tree opens five options: do it, hand it off, postpone, freeze, or drop it. Any of them is a fine answer. The point isn’t to squeeze work out of people. It’s to make a decision on every task.
  • Replanting. Drag a plant onto a colleague’s bed and the task moves to them with a “what’s done” note and a due date.

How GARDUS connects to the rest of PRANUS

GARDUS keeps no data of its own. It’s a way of looking at the work your company already tracks.

  • Tasks. Everything comes from TASKUS: due dates, whose move it is, assignees, stages. An action in the garden is an action on the task, and it shows up in the regular view right away.
  • Org chart. Team and personal gardens are built from the org chart in TEAMUS. When someone moves to another department, their plants move with them.
  • Team chat. Questions about a task get discussed in CHATUS, and the garden shows when the task finally moves.
  • Sales. The follow-up tasks CRMUS creates after calls grow in the sales team’s bed. A forgotten customer shows up as a dry branch, not a line buried in a report.

What the AI does

The garden runs on rules, not on a model’s guesses. Drying, watering, and growth are calculated from each task’s real dates and events. So the garden shows what’s actually happening, not an AI’s opinion about who’s slacking.

AI steps in where you need to act. Assistentus, your personal AI assistant, sees the same tasks and can hand off, postpone, or close them when you ask, and TASKUS suggests realistic due dates based on similar past work.

Getting started

There’s nothing separate to set up. As soon as your company has an org chart and tasks, GARDUS shows them. The onboarding agent sets up departments, people, and task lists in a conversation with you. Learn how the first working setup comes together in 14 days on the PRANUS implementation page.

Who it’s for

  • Managers who want to see team workload and forgotten tasks without long reports.
  • Teams with a heavy flow of tasks, where important work gets lost among the small stuff.
  • Anyone tired of endless lists who wants to clear the backlog calmly, one dry branch at a time.

We’ll show you what your team’s garden looks like on real tasks. Book a demo.

FAQ

Is GARDUS a separate task manager?

No. GARDUS is another face of TASKUS. It stores no data of its own: same tasks, same deadlines, same people, shown as a garden. Anything you do in the garden shows up in TASKUS right away, and the other way around.

Can I work with tasks directly in the garden?

Yes. Anything you can do with a task in the regular view works on a plant too: hand it off, postpone it, accept the result, or close it.

Won't a garden that dries out pressure employees?

The garden pushes people to make a decision about each task, not to finish it at any cost. Freezing or dropping a task is a perfectly valid answer. And a task only wilts for the person whose move it is, not for everyone involved.

Why visualize tasks if we already have Kanban and lists?

Kanban is great at showing stages, but bad at showing what's been forgotten. In the garden, abandoned work stands out on its own: a dead tree is hard to miss, a line in a long list is easy to skip.

How are team gardens built?

From your org chart in TEAMUS. Add a department or move someone to another team, and the gardens rearrange themselves.

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