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Displayr

ANALYTICS
Velocity5.0

Data analysis and visualization platform for survey data, dashboards, and automated reporting.

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Chat is being made legible while the survey-analysis core picks up the fundamentals it lacked.

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◆Current state
Displayr is shipping on two fronts at a steady, unhurried cadence. The AI assistant is being made auditable rather than more capable — a context pill showing exactly what a prompt will send, a change summary listing every item Chat added, edited or deleted, and an Explain This button that routes errors and warnings into Chat with context attached. Separately the document core is filling in fundamentals: controls that stay synced across pages and page masters, rolling averages computed on date-keyed tables, browser-style back and forward navigation, and templates that can be saved as folder-scoped defaults.
◆Where it's heading
The Chat work reads as a deliberate answer to the trust problem with AI in analyst tools — every release makes what the assistant touched inspectable rather than expanding what it can do unprompted. The other track is closing gaps a long-standing survey analysis platform accumulates, with the default-template mechanic notable for scoping defaults by Cloud Drive folder, which turns a personal preference into an organizational standard. Neither track has produced a directional move in this window.
◆Prediction
Expect the transparency pattern to extend to Chat actions that modify data rather than layout, since the change summary establishes the mechanism. Folder-scoped defaults look like the start of broader template governance.

◆Recent moves

  1. 6d ago

    Use the Same Control Across Multiple Pages and Page Masters

    Controls can now be shared and kept in sync across multiple pages and page masters via a Main control field, resolving a long-standing gap where identical filters on different masters drifted apart. A structural fix to document authoring rather than a cosmetic one.

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  2. 6d ago

    Rolling Averages Computed Automatically on Tables

    Tables with a Date/Time variable in columns can now compute rolling averages from the Properties panel. A standard analysis primitive arriving as built-in configuration instead of manual calculation.

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  3. 22d ago

    Explain This — AI help for errors & warnings

    An Explain This button passes error and warning messages into Chat with the relevant context attached. It fits the pattern of using the assistant to interpret the product rather than to generate in it.

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  4. 22d ago

    Back and Forward Buttons for Navigation

    Back and forward buttons with history dropdowns and keyboard shortcuts for navigating selection history. Small, but it addresses the orientation problem in documents with many pages and selections.

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  5. 22d ago

    Save Templates as Default Visualizations

    Any visualization saved as a template can now be set as the default for its type, with the Cloud Drive folder determining scope — Home makes it company-wide, a subfolder narrows it. Turns individual formatting preferences into enforceable house style.

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  6. 2mo ago

    More transparency when working with Chat

    A context pill shows exactly which selection will be sent with the next prompt, and Chat now ends its responses with a clickable summary of everything it added, edited or deleted. The clearest statement of the auditability-first approach to the assistant.

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