We have a new DPD project on the bench: ChaosLedger.
The idea came from a very ordinary problem: something goes wrong at work, everybody knows it cost money, and a week later nobody can say exactly how much.
A customer changes a specification after material has already been cut. A vendor shipment arrives late. A rush decision creates overtime, rework, extra freight, machine downtime, or scrap. Those costs are real, but they tend to get scattered across emails, notes, invoices, and somebody’s memory.
ChaosLedger is meant to put that story in one place.
Something went wrong. What did it actually cost?
ChaosLedger lets you record what happened, who or what caused it, the job or order involved, and the direct impact. You can add labor hours, material loss, freight or rush charges, outside services, machine downtime, production delays, and other costs, then attach photos or supporting documents to the same record.
Over time, that turns individual headaches into a searchable history instead of a pile of anecdotes.
Stop guessing what chaos costs.
Where it is now
The current build is already working as a local-first application, and we have been beating on it pretty hard before putting its name on the website. It has been tested with a simulated year of incidents, attachments, bad inputs, restarts, database integrity checks, mixed read/write loads, and a 1,000-record concurrency test.
That first Android preview is now ready to download. ChaosLedger runs entirely on the phone or tablet, keeps its incident database and evidence locally, and does not need a Linux server or cloud account behind it.
Why the name ChaosLedger?
We started the project under a much more generic working name, but it never really said what the tool was for. ChaosLedger does. The whole point is to keep a ledger of the expensive little bits of chaos that normally disappear into the day-to-day operation of a business.
This is still an early preview, so we expect to keep polishing it as people actually use it. But it is no longer just something on our bench: the signed Android build is available now, along with its checksum and install note. The project page has the current feature list and details.