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What is a Cycle Mission?

A Cycle Mission is a sequential mission flow where each person sees whether the work is waiting, active, completed, returned, or fully done. It establishes absolute clarity on who owns the next move.

Eliminating Handoff Confusion

When multiple people collaborate on a single piece of work—like a designer passing a prototype to a developer, or a writer sending a draft to an editor—the handoff is the most fragile point. The traditional way to handle this is to drop a link in a chat channel and say "Your turn!" This relies entirely on human memory and manual tracking.

A Cycle Mission formalizes this sequence. It treats the entire process as a single, trackable entity that moves smoothly from one team member to the next.

The Five Mission States

Co Pulse uses a strictly defined set of color-coded states. These states are not customizable tags; they are foundational rules that ensure everyone in the company instantly understands the status of any mission, just by looking at it.

Cycle Mission states

Five states. One team cycle.

A Cycle Mission connects everyone involved to the same flow. Each person sees where the work stands, when it reaches them, and how it continues through the team.

Until every person finishes, the cycle stays visible to all. That is what makes it a cycle, not a task.

Waiting

You are part of the cycle, but it has not reached you yet. The work is still moving toward your phase.

Active

The cycle is with you now. Your part is live, and the next movement depends on you.

Completed Part

Your part is complete. The cycle continues through the team, while your connection to it remains visible.

Returned

The cycle has come back to you. A later phase needs something resolved before the work can continue cleanly.

Fully Done

The full cycle is complete. Every part has been finished, and the work leaves the active flow.

Why Color State Matters

By standardizing states (Waiting = Yellow, Active = Purple, Completed = Green, Returned = Red), teams develop an intuitive, at-a-glance understanding of their workload. You do not need to read complex task descriptions to know what needs your immediate attention. If it is purple, it is in your court. If it is red, it requires immediate revision.

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