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Resource Guru

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Resource scheduling and team capacity planning software.

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Resource Guru is opening the schedule up — first to AI tools, now to bookings that fit themselves.

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◆Current state
Resource Guru publishes real product notes and SEO articles through the same feed, so the signal has to be separated from capacity-planning guides and review round-ups. The product entries are short — 200 to 320 characters — but they are genuine launches, not excerpts of something larger. Recent releases cluster around two things: making the schedule readable on the user's own terms (custom field colors, configurable Projects columns, placeholder digests) and making it reachable by machines, via an MCP server and integrations with Trello and ClickUp.
◆Where it's heading
Custom fields have become the organizing spine of the product — they now drive color coding and column layout rather than sitting as inert metadata. Alongside that, the scheduling engine is taking on decisions the user used to make manually: placeholder digests surface unassigned work, and Total Hours bookings hand the system a quantity and a window instead of fixed slots. The MCP server points the same schedule data at AI assistants. The through-line is a resource scheduler that increasingly arranges work rather than just recording it.
◆Prediction
Total Hours bookings put allocation logic inside the scheduler for the first time, and the MCP server exposes account data to assistants that could drive it; the next step these entries point toward is more scheduling decisions being automated rather than displayed. What is not visible yet is whether the MCP server will gain write access or stay read-only.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7d ago

    Total Hours bookings: Create bookings that adapt to schedule changes

    Bookings stop being fixed blocks: you specify a total number of hours across a date range and the scheduler fits them around everything already committed. It is the first entry where Resource Guru decides when work happens rather than recording a decision the user already made.

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  2. 11d ago

    Project team roles and responsibilities explained (with examples)

    An explainer on project team roles published through the same feed as the release notes. Content marketing, no product change.

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  3. 19d ago

    Connect Resource Guru to AI tools: Introducing our MCP server

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    The move that reframed the rest of the roadmap: schedule data became addressable by AI assistants rather than only by people in the Resource Guru interface. Everything since — richer custom field handling, adaptive bookings — reads as making that data worth querying.

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  4. 20d ago

    Capacity planning guide: Definitions, strategies, and formulas

    A capacity planning guide covering definitions and formulas. SEO content sharing the feed with genuine release notes.

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  5. 26d ago

    Get a daily summary of placeholder bookings

    An opt-in daily digest of bookings tied to placeholders you manage, so unassigned work surfaces without anyone going looking for it. Small, but part of the same shift toward the system raising scheduling gaps rather than waiting to be asked.

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  6. 27d ago

    Customize the Projects view

    The Projects view gains selectable and reorderable columns, custom fields included. Another step in custom fields becoming the axis the interface organizes around rather than extra metadata hanging off a booking.

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