How to use the Defect Pareto template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Defect Pareto template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Defect Pareto”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Count a full month from the reject log, sort from most to least and add the running total. Work on the rows above 80% first.”
Fill in each part
- Table Columns: Defect type · Count · % of total · Running total · Next step
- Before you count Make sure everyone logs defects the same way.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Defect Pareto board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Failure modes review
Go step by step through a process and ask how each step could fail, how bad it would be, how likely, and how you’d catch it.
Plan, do, check, act
Run one improvement as a cycle: plan the change, try it small, check the result against the prediction, then adopt, adapt or drop it.
Corrective action report
Work a quality problem through to closure: describe it, contain it, find the root cause, fix it and prove the fix holds.
Inventory ABC classification
Sort stock items by the value they move each year, so the few that matter most get the closest control and counting.
Cause and effect map
Put one problem in the middle and look for causes in six directions, so the team explores widely before settling on a fix.
Five whys
Ask "why?" until you reach a cause you can actually fix, writing down the evidence for each answer on the way.