diff --git a/app/models/project.rb b/app/models/project.rb
index 9479bd2..cb74ba4 100644
--- a/app/models/project.rb
+++ b/app/models/project.rb
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
   def self.status_keys
     {upcoming: 0, active: 1, backlog: 2, completed: 3}
   end
+
   enum status: self.status_keys
 
-
+# HTML
   def requirements
     check_date_overdue_output requirements_completed?, requirements_due
   end
@@ -22,17 +23,41 @@ class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
     check_date_overdue_output qalaunch_completed?, qalaunch_due
   end
 
+  # JSON
+  def requirements_json
+    check_date_overdue_output requirements_completed?, requirements_due, json: true
+  end
+
+  def design_json
+    check_date_overdue_output design_completed?, design_due, json:true
+  end
+
+  def devops_json
+    check_date_overdue_output devops_completed?, devops_due, json:true
+  end
+
+  def qalaunch_json
+    check_date_overdue_output qalaunch_completed?, qalaunch_due, json:true
+  end
 
   private
 
-    def check_date_overdue_output completed, due
-      if completed
-        "<span class='checkmark'>&check;</span>".html_safe
-      elsif Date.today > due
-        "<span class='overdue'>Overdue</span>".html_safe
+  def check_date_overdue_output completed, due, options = {}
+    if completed
+      if options[:json]
+        "completed"
       else
-        due
+        "<span class='checkmark'>&check;</span>".html_safe
       end
+    elsif Date.today > due
+      if options[:json]
+        "overdue"
+      else
+        "<span class='overdue'>Overdue</span>".html_safe
+      end
+    else
+      due
     end
+  end
 
 end
diff --git a/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb b/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
index e4dd4c2..cdfdd3a 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
   <div class="container">
     <div class="row">
       <div class="col-md-7">
-        <h1>Roadmap
+        <h1><%= link_to "Roadmap", root_path %>
           <p class="lead"></p>
         </h1>
       </div>
diff --git a/app/views/projects/index.json.jbuilder b/app/views/projects/index.json.jbuilder
index 33c4403..a789842 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/index.json.jbuilder
+++ b/app/views/projects/index.json.jbuilder
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 json.array!(@projects) do |project|
-  json.extract! project, :id, :title, :status, :requirements, :design, :devops, :qalaunch
+  json.extract! project, :id, :title, :status, :requirements_json, :design_json, :devops_json, :qalaunch_json
   json.url project_url(project, format: :json)
 end