Every resource in Maverick is one of three types: human, machine, or material. The type determines which fields are available, how the resource appears in the allocation chart, and how Maverick calculates its cost. Choosing the right type from the start prevents reporting problems later.
1. Human Resources — Your People
Human resources represent individual team members or roles — developers, project managers, analysts, consultants. They have names, billing rates, skills, availability schedules, and AI provider assignments. When you assign a human resource to a task, Maverick tracks their time commitment and flags over-allocation in the bar chart with a red bar. Use human resources for any work that a person performs, including contractors and part-time staff. Human resources are also the only type that can log their own hours and interact with AI chat directly.
2. Machine Resources — Your Equipment
Machine resources represent equipment or software with a fixed cost per hour — a CNC machine, a cloud server, a rendering farm, a licensed software seat. Like human resources, machines have availability limits (shift hours, maintenance windows) and billing rates that Maverick uses to calculate task costs. Use machine resources when equipment bottlenecks can delay tasks just as surely as understaffing does. If a piece of equipment is shared across multiple tasks and can only run one job at a time, modeling it as a machine resource lets Maverick detect booking conflicts automatically.
3. Material Resources — Your Consumables
Material resources represent supplies, components, or any cost that scales with quantity rather than time — lumber, concrete, printed reports, travel expenses, software licenses billed per unit. Materials are assigned to tasks with a quantity and a unit cost; Maverick multiplies them to produce the material cost for that task. They appear in cost reports but not in the time-based allocation bar chart, because materials are consumed, not scheduled. Use material resources to track consumable costs alongside labor and equipment in the same project budget.