How the queue works

The situation

You approved seven things. In Plan › What comes next you see them in working order, each with its date, and "Later" at the end. You want to understand why this order and not another — and whether you can change it.

Short answer: the order is computed, explainable and, within clear limits, yours.

The ordering rule

The queue sorts in four steps, in this order:

1. Critical first. Any recommendation marked Critical goes ahead of everything. It costs you money or data every day — it waits for nothing.
2. Your order. If you moved something with "Do this first", your order wins over the score. Never over a critical item or a dependency.
3. The score. The rest settle by priority score, descending.
4. Age. At equal score, what was approved earlier goes first.

At the end, a dependency pass: an item cannot sit ahead of another item it depends on. In the list, this reads as 'after "Conversion tracking"'.

The score, in words

Valhalla does not show you bars and digits — it shows you a priority word and a sentence. Behind it, the score (0–100) is made of six things, each with its weight:

• Impact — 30%. High, medium or low, for the business.
• Urgency — 20%. How fast things get worse if you wait.
• Confidence — 15%. How sure the finding is (the percentage on the card).
• Fit with your goals — 15%. You chose 1–3 goals at onboarding; a recommendation that serves them directly climbs.
• Risk if ignored — 10%.
• Effort — lowers the score: part of a session lowers nothing, a project lowers the most.

In short: impact · urgency · confidence · fit · risk − effort. On every recommendation, under Details › Why it sits here, you see the same reckoning in words.

How to change the order

You can bring any approved item forward:

1. Open the Plan.
2. On the session you want sooner, press Do this first.
3. A small sheet tells you the consequence before you confirm: ""X" goes first in the Plan. What was ahead moves one session later and the dates are recalculated." You can add a reason (optional).
4. Press Move it first. The plan redraws on the spot and tells you what moved, for example ""AI assistants recognise the clinic" moves to 12 Oct. 2 more sessions change their date."

Two things you cannot move: the session in progress (the "Now" row) and Critical items. And if your move breaks a dependency, you get an honest warning before it happens.