LidoDAO Grant Progress Tracker: Automated Monitoring Dashboard

[Emmanuel]

Automated Grant and Treasury Monitoring for LidoDAO

Track spending, grant impact, and deliverables — all in one place, with full transparency and real-time insights.

TL’DR

This proposal outlines the development of a Grant Progress Tracking Dashboard for the LidoDAO-funded projects, designed to provide the community with a transparent, user-friendly platform for monitoring the progress of funded projects. The tracker will offer detailed milestone tracking, real-time updates, and automated alerts for deviations or delays. The goal is to provide unified access to all past and active grants, along with their statuses, with a total cost of $12,000

Motivation

Currently, tracking the progress of LidoDAO’s grant proposals is fragmented, with updates scattered across various update posts and channels. This lack of cohesion hinders the community’s ability to effectively oversee projects, evaluate progress, and address potential issues promptly.

Rationale

To overcome these challenges, we propose the development of a Grant Progress Tracker equipped with the following features:

• Milestone Tracking: Dedicated pages for each grant, displaying key milestones, progress indicators (e.g., progress bars, percentages), and completion status.
• Real-time Updates: Timely updates on milestone completion and overall project progress.
• Automated Alerts: Notifications for overdue milestones or significant deviations from the grant scope, delivered via in-app notifications and email.
• Visualizations: Charts and graphs to provide a visual representation of project progress and trends.
• Risk Detection: Using machine learning to detect early signs of risk (delays, stalled projects, deviations, and misuse)

These are illustrative only—the solution will be customized for LidoDAO’s structure and needs.

Grant Overview

Project list, completion percentages, risk scores, last update

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Risk Assessments

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Treasury View

Project Details Page

Includes milestones, deliverables, funding status, and comments

Organization Details Page

Admin and Delegate Controls

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Filter projects, view status, set alerts, or take action

Treasury Control Dashboard

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Admin and Delegate Controls

Filter projects, view status, set alerts, or take action

Project Scope & Cost Breakdown

The MVP is fully scoped at 1000 per month, totaling $12,000, covering

• Front-end dashboard
• Risk detection engine
• Admin tools and integrations
• Public user view
• Independent oversight

Benefits to the LidoDAO Community

• Enhanced Transparency: Clear visibility into grants & bounty progress and milestones.
• Improved Accountability: Encourages grant recipients to stay on track and meet deadlines.
• Increased Community Engagement: A unified platform fosters community involvement and participation.
• Efficient Issue Resolution: Early detection of delays enables timely intervention and resolution.

By providing a user-friendly platform for tracking grant progress, this proposal will strengthen accountability within the LidoDAO community and ensure the successful execution of grant-funded projects. The Dashboard can be integrated into the forum website tool for easy access. We’d love your thoughts on this initiative.

[cp0x]

Could you explain what the advantage of your system would be, given that LEGO reports already exist and are available here?

LEGO Q1 2025 - Report

[Emmanuel]

Thank you for the question! I’m glad you brought up the existing LEGO reports, because they’re incredibly valuable, and the main purpose of this tool is to help the LEGO committee itself.

The Grant Tracker as LEGO’s Operational Backbone

The LEGO reports are strategic narratives, while the Grant Tracker combines both operational infrastructure and strategic narratives to make those narratives more powerful and timely. It will simplify, automate, and enhance the quarterly report, meaning the dashboard will allow you to generate reports whenever, so you don’t have to always wait for the Quarterly reports.

The Complementary Relationship

The quarterly reports focus on strategic narrative - the “why” and “what it means.” The Grant Tracker will help enhance it and also provide operational data - the “what” and “how it’s progressing.”

Instead of manually collecting status updates, LEGO committee members get real-time dashboards showing exactly what’s happening, allowing them to focus on strategic analysis and community leadership. Automated data means reduce lag between when a milestone is achieved and when it’s visible. Status indicators (e.g., % completion, risk scores) so it transforms static updates into a living, breathing monitoring system

What This Means for the LEGO Committee

Current Challenge: Information is fragmented across Notion, forum posts, spreadsheets,e.t.c. It’s hard to see progress across grants quickly, and there’s no single place to sort by “at risk,” “overdue,” or “fully delivered.”

The Dashbaord System Offers:

Real-Time Operations Management

• No more hunting across tools for project status
• Instant visibility into what’s on track, what’s stuck, and why
• Automated data feeds

Proactive Risk Management

• ML-powered risk scoring and automated follow-ups to grantees for earlier interventions.
• Admin notifications for overdue milestones and under performing grantees.

Enhanced Decision-Making

• Strategic decisions based on current data
• Filterable views by risk, completion, and grant category
• Historical patterns to see what works (and what doesn’t)

What This Means for the Community

Continuous Transparency

• Real-time access to project milestones and deliverables
• Interactive accountability tools for oversight

Unified Information Access

• One searchable, filterable dashboard
• Complete project histories in a single place
• Easy comparison across grants and time periods

Better Visuals & Usability

Current reports aren’t very interactive due to platform constraints. The dashboard upgrades how information is consumed and acted upon, with:

• Visual Progress Indicators: Completion percentages and risk scores at a glance
• Interactive Filtering: Faster access to what matters
• Mobile-Responsive Design: Check status anywhere, anytime

Key Benefits for LidoDAO

• Prevents Grant Waste: Early detection of issues increase ROI in funding impact.
• Improves Execution Quality: Continuous accountability for grantees
• Enables Strategic Agility: Faster decisions based on real-time data
• Modernizes Operations: Transforms manual workflows into scalable systems

The Bottom Line

For $1,000/month, the improved UI makes reports easier to digest while transforming grant management from a reactive, manual process into a proactive, data-driven operation. Ultimately, the DAO is investing in infrastructure to prevent grant waste, improve execution quality, and build lasting community trust.

The combination of real-time monitoring, automated reporting, and risk detection is the natural evolution of any serious grants program. The LEGO reports don’t go away they become even more valuable, because they can focus on insights rather than manual status collection. So it’s about making what’s already working simpler, faster, and better for both admins and the community.

[Emmanuel]

Here is a better image doc of the platform: Link

[Emmanuel]

After some feedback and internal discussions, we’ve decided to reduce the grant ask to $3,000 for a one-year pilot program.

We hope this makes it easier to consider testing the value of the tool in a low-risk way, and we’re happy to be flexible around scope or structure if helpful.