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Build a kanban project management board
Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe the board your work needs — columns, cards, WIP limits, blocked reasons, approvals, and crew views — and it builds it.
Just enter your idea into the text box and AI will build it for you
What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t a project management product with fixed fields — it’s an AI that builds software for you.
You describe the app you need in your own words, and Kliv builds it: the database, the rules, the screens, and the views for each role. What you get is a real web app that’s yours, on your own domain, and you can change it later by asking. It isn’t a template board.
On this page, that app is a kanban project management board. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this one is for teams whose workflow does not fit a generic task board.
Why a generic kanban tool may not fit
Kanban software often assumes software-team language: sprints, story points, and generic tasks. A sign shop needs different data. A card may be a three-meter set of channel letters with a substrate, artwork, permit state, site address, landlord approval, and install crew.
Kliv builds the board around the shop. Columns are your stations, cards carry your fields, and the rules you already enforce by reminders — limits, blocks, reviews, approvals — become rules the board enforces.
Cards and columns
The board works because each visual piece is data underneath.
The card is the job
Dimensions, substrate, approved artwork, site address, and permit state live on the card. When the crew has a question, the answer is there.
Columns are stations
Design, approval, print, router, finishing, and install can be your actual stations. A card sits at one station at a time, so the board matches the shop floor.
WIP limits
The router column can hold four cards. A fifth waits in ready-to-cut because the board enforces the limit.
Blocked reasons
“Awaiting landlord approval” sits on the card with a date. After five quiet days, it can surface for review instead of being forgotten.
Install runs
Install cards can double as the crew’s day plan: address, mounting list, artwork on a phone, and a closing photo when the job is finished.
An example: Kwame’s sign shop
Here’s how one shop might use a kanban board built with Kliv. It’s only an example — you would describe your own stations, card fields, limits, approvals, and crew views.
A sign order becomes a card
The Okafor job starts as three-meter channel letters for a mall entrance. The artwork attaches, the permit state says pending, and the card enters design.
The client approval is recorded
The client opens a proof page and approves it. The approval lands on the card with a name and timestamp, so the router knows which version is approved.
The router limit controls the queue
Four cards are already cutting, so Okafor waits in ready-to-cut. The delay is visible while there is still time to adjust the schedule.
A blocked reason stays visible
Landlord sign-off is missing. The card shows the reason and date, so the team does not rediscover the same problem in a meeting.
Installers get the right view
On install day, the crew sees the address, anchor list, and approved artwork from their phones. The closing photo archives with the job.
Describe the workflow you want to build
Kliv builds from your description, so the more detail you give, the closer the first version. Say what the columns are, what a card must hold, what limits apply, and who sees which view. Here are three to build on:
Sign shop board
Stations, limits, proofs, and install runs.
“Build a kanban board for a sign shop. Use columns for design, client approval, print, router, finishing, and install. Set a WIP limit of four on the router column, record proof approvals on each card with name and timestamp, require blocked cards to show a reason and date, and give installers a phone view with address, anchor list, artwork, and closing photo upload.”
Cabinet shop flow
Drawings through delivery, with materials on each card.
“Build a kanban board for a cabinet shop with columns for drawings, client approval, cutting, assembly, finishing, and delivery. Cards should carry room, materials list, hardware, site measurements, due date, and delivery address. Enforce a WIP limit of three in finishing and show late-risk cards when delivery is less than five days away.”
Event-decor workroom
Hard dates and load lists per event.
“Build a kanban board for an event-decor studio. Every card should carry event name, venue, hard event date, inventory list, van load list, and client approval state. Surface late-risk cards automatically, and give the driver a mobile view of the load list for each event.”
What makes the board honest
The client sees a proof, not the shop. Each customer can get a page with their job, proof, status, and approve button. Approvals land on the card as data while the internal board stays internal.
The router cuts the approved version. Artwork lives in the file store with revisions, and the card points to the version the client approved. That prevents cutting the wrong file after an approval.
Each role gets its own view. Installers can see the install column and their run details without seeing pricing or the design queue. The same data can show different views by role.
Kanban is useful only when it fits the work. Internal tools that fit the business are the wider reason to build rather than subscribe.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI that builds custom web apps from a description. For a kanban board, it builds your columns, card fields, movement rules, role views, and approval flows.
Do I get a real app, or a template?
A real app. The board is built around your workflow and data, not a prebuilt project-management layout.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. You can add columns, change WIP limits, add fields to cards, or create new views by asking.
Do WIP limits actually stop work from moving?
Yes. If you set a router limit of four, the fifth card can be held in ready-to-cut until a slot opens.
How do rush jobs work?
You can define an expedite lane with its own narrow limit. The exception is recorded so rush work does not quietly become the normal process.
Can clients approve proofs?
Yes. A client can approve from a scoped proof page, and the approval writes back to the card with who approved and when.
Do clients see the whole board?
No. Clients can see only their own proof page and status. The internal board stays inside the shop.
Can installers use it from phones?
Yes. You can give installers a mobile view with only the install cards, addresses, artwork, and closeout photo upload they need.
Can we see where jobs spend time?
Yes. Card movements are timestamped, so time per column can be charted instead of guessed.
Do I need a separate CMS?
No. The app is its own admin. You edit cards, columns, limits, and page text inside the system.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. The board can run on your own domain.
Can I move off Kliv later?
Yes. The code syncs to your own Git repository, so leaving is a git pull.
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Build a board that matches the shop
Name the stations, fields, limits, blocked reasons, and role views. Kliv builds the kanban board around the way the work actually moves.