Reports
A Report is automatic synthesis. Click Report and dembrane analyses all your conversations at once - a few minutes - then gives you a document you can share by link or download as a PDF. It’s the quickest way to capture the atmosphere of a session and the main questions that came up, and to put that in front of people who weren’t in the room.
Where Ask is for exploring and the library is for seeing the whole landscape, a report is for communicating a conclusion - to a steering group, a client, a council, or the participants themselves.
Making one#
- Click Report. dembrane reads across the conversations and drafts the synthesis (a few minutes - longer the first time on a large batch, since it prepares the per-conversation summaries it builds on; later runs reuse them).
- Review what came back. The draft is a starting point; the editorial judgement is yours.
- Share the link or download the PDF to email, print, or attach.
Tip
Get your conversations tidy and their summaries accurate before you generate (see reading a conversation). A report reads from your material, so the cleaner the inputs, the less editing the output needs.
Sending it to participants#
If you switched on participant updates in the portal editor, the report is auto-sent to everyone who left an email at the end of their recording - including people who couldn’t attend. Great for post-event follow-up: collect, synthesise, and close the loop without chasing addresses.
What you need#
Reports run on built-in analysis, so generating one needs a Changemaker (€75/seat) or Guardian (€150/seat) workspace. If the report option is greyed out, that’s why. On Free and Innovator the built-in analysis isn’t included; Innovator teams bring their own model via MCP (coming soon). Where it isn’t on your plan, dembrane points you to contact sales. See tiers & billing.
By role: owner, admin, member, external and observer can view reports; everyone but observer can generate; external and observer can’t publish. See roles & permissions.
When to use a report#
- Reach for a report when you’re ready to communicate - you want a shareable document that captures what was found.
- Reach for Ask when you’re still exploring - asking questions, pulling quotes, testing a hunch.
- Reach for the library when you want to see the whole landscape before you commit to a narrative.
In practice these flow together: explore with Ask, map it with the library, then publish a report.
Important
A report is a draft written by a language model from your conversations. Read it against the source before you share - dembrane surfaces what people said, but what you put your name to is yours.
Related#
- Library & analysis - the standing structure a report draws on.
- Chat & Ask - explore and pull quotes before you write.
- Conversations & transcripts - the source material and its summaries.
- The portal editor - switch on participant updates so reports auto-send.
- Export & data portability - get the underlying data out, as opposed to a polished report.
- Tiers & billing - reports need Changemaker or above.
- For a host’s walkthrough, see reports for hosts.
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