Team Pulse

Team Pulse is a multi-tenant team leave and availability platform that helps organizations plan capacity, streamline approvals, and improve workforce visibility.

Team Pulse solves fragmented leave management across chat, email, and spreadsheets by providing a single workspace where employees apply for leave, managers review approvals with team-capacity context, and admins govern teams, users, and policy settings.

Primary Users

• Employees who apply for leave and manage daily status/workload.
• Managers who approve requests and monitor planning risk.
• Workspace admins who manage teams, users, settings, and governance logs.

Core Features

• Role-based authentication and access control for user, manager, and admin workflows.
• Multi-workspace backend query scoping for tenant isolation.
• Leave lifecycle management with half-day sessions and overlap prevention.
• Approval workflow with projected capacity warning thresholds.
• Team planning calendar with public holiday and heatmap context.
• Daily availability and workload updates for standup visibility.
• Analytics and reports by date range, team, and leave type.
• Audit trails for auth, leave, users, teams, and settings operations.

Architecture Summary

• Next.js App Router frontend with provider-based state and React Query data flows.
• Express 5 backend using layered route, controller, service, and middleware architecture.
• Prisma ORM with PostgreSQL for domain models: Workspace, User, Team, LeaveRequest, AvailabilityStatus, WorkloadStatus, PublicHoliday, WorkspaceLeaveType, and AuditLog.

Performance and Engineering Practices

• React Query cache and stale-time tuning to reduce redundant requests.
• Stable query-key strategy and placeholder data for smoother transitions.
• Calendar UI render-cost reduction for dense planning screens.
• Backend reporting aggregation and parallel validation optimizations to lower latency.

Deployment Readiness

• Frontend deployment on Vercel and backend deployment on Render.
• Neon/PostgreSQL database support with migration-ready flow.
• Production env-driven CORS allowlist and secure cookie auth settings.
• Security middleware with centralized error handling and health endpoint support.