What to look for in a reality reporting tool
Reality reporting — checking what's claimed against what actually happened — is an emerging category, so the criteria for evaluating a tool aren't yet obvious. Here's what actually matters.
The goal isn't another dashboard or another place to enter status. It's a system that reconciles claims against evidence and hands you the gaps, with as little new work for your team as possible.
The criteria that matter
It should sit above the tools you already use, with nothing to migrate. It should check claims against real evidence — deploys, payments, logins — not just aggregate metrics. It should surface only the gaps, ranked by cost, rather than adding more to read. And it should require no new reporting ritual from the team.
What to be wary of
Anything that's really a dashboard or a notetaker rebadged — measuring or recording without verifying. And anything that demands your team adopt a new logging habit, because the habit is exactly what reality reporting is meant to remove.
Frequently asked
Is reality reporting just a buzzword?
It names a real, specific job no existing category owns: reconciling claims against evidence. Whether you call it that or not, it's the gap a dashboard, notetaker, or project tool leaves open.
Stop being the reality check.
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