Deadlines and Portfolio
A multi-school timeline of rounds and deadlines with at-risk flagging across your entire application portfolio.
Deadlines and Portfolio is a unified timeline of every school, round, and component in your application, with at-risk flagging tied to how much work is actually left on each one.
Instead of juggling six or eight school calendars by hand, you get one view of every deadline, every component, and what the engine thinks you should be working on right now.
Multi-school calendar
When you add an application, the engine loads that school's current-cycle deadlines for each round. You see the full list in calendar order: application deadline, recommendation deadline, decision release, interview window, and any supplementary events the school publishes.
You can switch rounds per school at any time. The engine will not pressure you into a round that no longer fits your readiness.
At-risk flagging
Each application has a completion state the engine derives from your actual submissions: how many essays are done, how many are in draft, whether your recommenders are in motion, whether the dean brief is fresh. If that state falls behind your chosen round's deadline, the engine flags the application as at risk on the dashboard and in the timeline view.
At-risk is not a judgment. It is a signal. You can decide the engine is wrong about an application and snooze the flag. The point is to surface it so you can decide.
Timeline context
Your overall timeline is also a first-class field. You can tell the engine whether you are in a calm month, a busy quarter, or a deadline crunch. Archer uses that context to decide how aggressive its next-action suggestions should be. In a calm week it might suggest running a second pass on a spine answer. In a crunch week it will stay focused on unblocking the nearest deadline.
How it fits in the engine
Deadlines and Portfolio are the clock for the Orchestrate stage. Archer reads it constantly: to prioritize next actions on the dashboard, to decide when to chase Recommenders, to warn you when Essay Workbench work is slipping. If you ever feel like the engine is nagging you about the wrong thing, check your round choices and your timeline context here first.