Clear-By — a live projected finish time

A finish time you can defend

"When will we be done?" used to be a gut call. Clear-By answers it with measurement: each pass card on the ops board shows a live projected finish time, computed from the pace your fleet is actually clearing stops right now.

How it's measured

Snowmass watches completions over the last half hour and turns them into a drain rate, then projects how long the remaining stops will take at that pace. Until a handful of stops have actually been completed there's no rate worth trusting, so early in a pass the card says it's still measuring rather than showing a number it can't stand behind.

The trend arrow

Next to the time, an arrow compares the last few minutes against the last half hour:

• ↑ improving — the fleet is clearing noticeably faster than its recent average; expect the finish time to pull earlier.
• ↓ slipping — the pace has dropped; expect the finish to drift later unless something changes.
• No arrow means the pace is holding steady.

The stragglers line

Below the projection, Clear-By can list stragglers — pending stops that are far from every active machine, not just far from one. These are the properties most likely to drag out the endgame. Seeing them early, you can reserve one to a machine already heading that way, or plan the tail of the pass deliberately instead of discovering it at 5 a.m.

Advisory, honestly

Clear-By is advisory — a projection from measured pace, not a promise. A breakdown or a heavy lot moves it, and it keeps updating as the storm actually unfolds. Its job is to replace "I think we're fine" with a number grounded in what the fleet is really doing.