Library & analysis (for hosts)
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The library is dembrane reading across all the conversations in a project at once and laying out what it found: the topics that came up, the aspects within each, and the quotes that ground them. Where Chat & Ask answers a question you bring, the library answers the one you haven’t thought to ask - “what’s actually in here?”.
Reach for it on large datasets - dozens of conversations from a multi-table town hall, a long run of interviews, anything past what you’d sit and read. For a handful, reading the transcripts or asking a few chat questions is quicker.
The full mechanics live in the canonical Library & analysis reference.
Generate it#
Open your project and go to Library. If it hasn’t been built, generate it - dembrane reads the conversations and extracts the structure. This takes a little time, proportional to how much you’ve collected; you’ll see its status while it runs. Two things:
- Collect first, then generate. The library reflects what’s in the project the moment you build it - run it once you’ve got a meaningful body of conversations, not after the first.
- You can regenerate. As more conversations arrive, or after you sharpen the project’s context, regenerate to pick up the new material.
Tip
Give the project a clear, honest context before generating. The model uses it as background, so good context produces a sharper library.
Read it: views, aspects, quotes#
The library is laid out broad to specific:
- Views - a lens onto the conversations. dembrane builds a default view; create custom views to look at the same material through a different frame (say, organised around one question you care about). Handy when you want the analysis to line up with a report’s shape.
- Aspects - within a view, the distinct topics that came up.
- Quotes - within an aspect, participants’ own words. These are the point: they keep the analysis honest and traceable.
Drill from a view into an aspect into its quotes. From any quote you can jump back to the conversation it came from to read the surrounding context.
From library to report#
The library and reports work hand in hand: use the library to find the themes and quotes, a report to present them. Generate the library, pick the aspects worth surfacing, note their best quotes, then build a report around those. You can cross-check anything with a targeted chat question - “show me everyone who raised this” - before you commit it.
What your plan gives you#
The library is built-in analysis, so it follows the analysis tier.
| You’re on | The library |
|---|---|
| Free | Not included - gated, with an upgrade route. |
| Innovator | Not included (no built-in analysis). |
| Changemaker | Included - built-in analysis on EU-hosted Gemini. |
| Guardian | Included, on an EU-sovereign stack (coming soon). |
If the library is gated, that’s a plan limit, not an error - see tiers, billing & usage to upgrade. If it isn’t available to your workspace at all, you’ll see a contact sales prompt rather than a self-serve upgrade.
Related#
- Library & analysis - feature reference - the canonical how-it-works page.
- Chat & Ask - ask targeted questions of the same conversations.
- Reports - present the themes and quotes the library surfaces.
- Conversations & transcripts - where every quote leads back to.
- Tiers, billing & usage - what each plan unlocks, and how to upgrade.
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