Events, courses, funding and jobs were all there, just not on one screen

One set of tabs, and the filters I got wrong more than once.

By late June the site had a page for events, one for education, one for funding, one for careers. Useful, but islands. You had to know what you needed before any of it helped you.

That is backwards. Most people do not arrive knowing whether they need a workshop, a grant or a job. They arrive knowing something is changing and wanting to see the shape of it.

So I built the Radar. One page, one set of tabs, everything we track: 9 events, 31 education programmes, 88 tutorials, 29 funding programmes, plus the open jobs. All verified, all in NRW or reachable from here.

The argument underneath it is one I have been making in talks for a while. The handover is broken. Strategy hands to creative, creative hands to production, production hands to marketing, agencies hand over files. Every handover loses something, and AI has removed the reason for most of them. People can work together earlier now, on the same tools, in the same room. The Radar is that argument at the scale of a region.

This is also where the project stopped being about content. The problem here is not a lack of information, it is execution, and nothing gets executed between people who cannot find each other. The page itself was easy. The filters were not. Events have cities and months, tutorials have tools and difficulty, funding has deadlines and scope. Different dimensions, and they still had to feel like one system instead of five products bolted together.

I got that wrong more than once. For a while every filter looked slightly different from the last, which is worse than having no system at all. The fix was rebuilding all of them from the same parts, which is basic best practice and I should have done it first. It is the page I use most myself, which is usually a good sign.