The surfaces work; the data is starved. PULSE is the honesty check underneath ROAD, DAY, and BOARD — how much of the superset actually has what a surface needs to show it.
Percent of tasks with an owner, a deadline, a dependency link; count of blank titles; count of orphaned project links. The founding finding: 13 of 266 tasks carry a deadline, 13 of 266 carry a dependency — and the two sets are disjoint. Every populated deadline predates 28 Jul 2026.
The same Tasks DB, unfiltered — every row, checked for the presence or absence of a handful of fields. No timeline, no board, just counts.
Cheapest of all five forks: counts and percentages straight off the API, no layout problem to solve. Could ship before any of the others.