How to use the First article inspection template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the First article inspection template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “First article inspection”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“One row per numbered drawing feature. Measure, don’t eyeball; one fail means no batch until it is fixed and re-checked.”
Fill in each part
- Table Columns: Feature · Requirement · Measured · Gauge · Result
- Sign-off Who checked, and the decision.
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 First article inspection 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.

Metric definitions
One agreed definition per product metric: what it counts, how it’s calculated, its target, owner and where the data comes from.
Month-end close
Track every task needed to close the books each month, who owns it and what is waiting on someone else.
Expense claim process
Lay out how an expense goes from receipt to repayment, who checks what, and where claims get stuck or bounced back.
Cost saving ideas
Collect ideas to cut costs from everyone who spends money, then sort them by how much they save against how hard they are.
Software spend audit
List every paid tool, who owns it, what it costs and how many seats are used, then decide what to keep, merge or cancel.
Invoice chasing board
Track unpaid customer invoices by how late they are, so the right reminder goes out at the right time and nothing is forgotten.