Dashboard Overview

Your Home Base

The BrainRoad dashboard at app.brainroad.com is where you manage your Business Brain, review your helper’s drafts, and control your helpers. The sidebar on the left holds every section. A runtime switcher in the sidebar picks which helper (OpenClaw or Hermes) the pages refer to.

Main Navigation

Helper

Your landing page. Shows the selected helper’s status, Start and Stop controls, its name (with rename), its managed email address, the “Brain completeness” bar, a review summary of items waiting in your Inbox, and per-helper tabs for Profile, API Keys, Costs, and Briefing. Opening this page wakes a sleeping helper automatically.

Buttons here open the helper’s own interface in a new tab: Open OpenClaw chat or Open Hermes chat. Chat, channels, sessions, and runtime configuration live in the helper’s native interface, not in the BrainRoad dashboard.

Inbox

The review queue. Everything your helper wants to send or change lands here as a card you can edit, approve, decline, or snooze. Three tabs: Pending, Recent (history of executed, failed, and declined items), and Settings (business defaults, auto-approval policies, trusted threads, connectors). The Inbox keeps working even while your helper is stopped. Items left pending for 7 days expire. Details in the approvals overview.

Business Brain

Your business context: uploads, emails, notes, and compiled knowledge. Tabs: Overview, Upload (including connected read-only Google Drive and Google Calendar sources), Library, Knowledge, and Ask. Details in the Business Brain overview.

Team

Your account’s shared team room, built on the open-source Buzz project, where the people on your account and your BrainRoad agent work in the same place over the same Business Brain. Every account has one team room, and it is not tied to which helper you have selected.

Anything the agent wants to send or change from the team room still becomes a card in your Inbox — the team room is not a second approval queue.

The team room is hosted and managed by BrainRoad, but joining it currently requires the Buzz desktop app from the upstream project, which BrainRoad does not distribute. Until the upstream project ships a browser version, the Team page tells you exactly that instead of offering a link that would not work.

Settings

Account-level settings, including your profile and Team Access, where you can invite one teammate as a delegated reviewer for your shared Inbox.

Advanced Navigation

• Runs: live view of what your helper is doing during a run (requires a running helper).
• Billing: your plan, upgrades, and the Stripe customer portal for invoices and payment methods. See Plans & Pricing.
• Usage: token usage for your helper, with a deep link to the runtime’s own detailed usage view.
• API: developer access for connecting external tools to your Brain and Inbox (propose-only; approval always stays a human action in the dashboard).
• Work Ledger: the owner-facing record of what your helper proposed, what you decided, and what happened, plus a technical activity tab. Works while the helper is stopped.
• Console: a terminal session inside your helper’s workspace (requires a running helper).
• Browser: a live view of your OpenClaw helper’s browser, so you can watch what it sees on the web (OpenClaw only, requires a running helper).
• Proof & Diagnostics: health and verification details for your workspace.

Helper Status

The Helper page shows plain status text. The ones you will see most:

• Running: the helper is up and working.
• Sleeping: idle housekeeping; opening the Helper page wakes it automatically.
• “Queued — waiting for capacity. We’ll start your agent automatically.”
• “Waking — usually 10–40 seconds.”

A stopped helper preserves all data and configuration; it just is not processing anything.