Release notes

SmartVisuals AI included: ask questions without bringing your own API key.

• New: SmartVisuals AI, an included AI provider routed through the SmartVisuals relay, so a report works without an API key of your own.
• Improved: clearer messages when an AI provider returns an error.

Platform update.

• Improved: built on Power BI visuals API 5.10.
• Fixed: monthly message limits on the Starter and Enterprise plans now match the published pricing (750 and 15,000).

A cleaner format pane and a steadier first render.

• Changed: the developer-only Geek Mode card is no longer in the format pane.
• Fixed: the licence check no longer flashes on screen while the visual loads.

Compatibility with the newest Claude models.

• Fixed: requests to Claude Sonnet 5 and later Anthropic models no longer fail on the temperature setting.

Settings that stay put.

• Fixed: a custom chatbot name no longer resets to the default after switching report pages.

Instant Insights: findings about your data without AI and without internet.

• New: Instant Insights computes on-device insights from the report data with no AI key and no network call. Off by default; switch it on in the format pane.

Microsoft Marketplace release.

• New: right-click context menu.
• Fixed: API keys pasted with leading or trailing spaces now work.

Critical-path fix.

• Fixed: the critical path is now computed when the plan contains summary (parent) rows; before, it was skipped.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Parent-child task hierarchy with roll-up summary bars, milestones and progress.
• Dependency arrows, critical path and baseline comparison (premium).
• Progress stored as 0–1 or 0–100 is detected automatically; rows with unreadable dates are reported, not dropped silently.
• Keyboard navigation and cross-highlighting.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Up to three series and unlimited axes free, with honest scale controls.
• Normalization for mixed units, inverted axes, targets and small multiples (premium).
• Single tab stop keyboard access and cross-highlighting.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Retention triangle, survival curves and an active-entity layer cake from raw events: no DAX and no period table.
• Four denominators and three retention definitions; unobserved cells are hatched and incomplete periods marked, never drawn as zero.
• Value retention, LTV, payback and segment comparison (premium).

Certified by Microsoft: the same visual, now with the Power BI certified badge.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Broadcast strip or news-flash stack, with badges, values and deltas.
• A flash when numbers move, and a static mode for clean PDF and PowerPoint exports.
• Play button so viewers who ask for reduced motion can still opt into the scroll.
• Full keyboard access and high-contrast support.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Ranked bars, cumulative line, threshold and vital-few colouring; Top N with Others.
• ABC classification, Smart Insights+, QM mode, before/after comparison and small multiples (premium).
• Right-click context menu on empty space.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Banner tables with tracker mode and the finding written out under the table.
• Significance letters, weighted cells, net and mean rows (premium).
• Right-click context menu on empty space.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Diverging Likert battery with neutral and N/A handling, nets and means; tracker mode.
• Segment comparison with significance letters and weighted results (premium).
• Right-click context menu on empty space.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• NPS headline with promoter, passive and detractor split, histogram and wave trend.
• Significance of wave-over-wave change, segments and weighted NPS (premium).
• Right-click context menu on empty space.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Likert, Crosstab and NPS views in one visual, reading the same fields.
• Weighted results, significance letters, nets and means with tests (premium).
• Right-click context menu on empty space.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Countdown, days since with streak records, progress, deadline board, milestone track and pace.
• Ticks live between dataset refreshes, in a named time zone.
• Working days, holidays, business hours and recurring deadlines.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• A match page for any comparison; two measures can play each other.
• Four layouts, a boardroom style and logos without web calls.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Area-proportional Venn/Euler diagrams and an UpSet matrix for up to 30 sets.
• % of base with "None of these", from four data shapes without reshaping.
• Survey weights, significance, duplication matrix and TURF reach (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Slope and dumbbell views with labels that never overlap and change annotations.
• Three or more periods, bump view, Top / Bottom N movers and small multiples (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Sensitivity tornado, butterfly chart, population pyramid and diverging stacked bars.
• More than five drivers, reference overlay and share-of-variance columns (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Actual against target for unlimited rows, with status, variance and lower-is-better KPIs.
• Forecast, prior year, pace to target, trend sparklines and IBCS variance pins (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• KPI status as weather for unlimited KPIs, with your own bands and direction.
• Outlook, chance of meeting target, storm warnings and pace (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Year, month and matrix heatmap views with business calendars and offline holidays for 21 countries.
• Target colouring, like-for-like year over year, 4-4-5 calendars and unusual-day detection (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• A ranked board with real rank numbers, four named tie rules, podium and medals, row images, top N with Others and conditional colours.
• Movement and history, race analytics, the viewer's own row, wall mode, grouped standings and cut-off lines (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Six distribution views over the same fields, switched with tabs: box plot, violin, raincloud, ridgeline, beeswarm and histogram, with ten quartile definitions (Excel / DAX PERCENTILE.INC by default), named bandwidth and bin rules and custom bin edges.
• Significance between groups, confidence intervals and notches, weights, spec limits with Cp to Ppk, advanced density and small multiples (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Box plots with ten quartile definitions (Excel / DAX PERCENTILE.INC by default), four whisker rules, outliers by shape and every observation behind the box.
• Significance between groups, notches and confidence intervals, weights, spec limits with Cp to Ppk and small multiples (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Violin, half violin, split violin, raincloud and ridgeline plots with Scott, Silverman or rule-of-thumb bandwidths and a box, quartile lines or the points inside.
• Significance between groups or split halves, advanced density with six kernels, confidence intervals, weights, spec limits with Cp to Ppk and small multiples (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Beeswarm, jitter and strip layouts with a median bar, mean marker or slim box on top, and cross-highlighting that keeps the rest as a ghost.
• Significance between groups, mean confidence intervals, weights, spec limits with capability indices and small multiples (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Histograms binned inside the visual, so the bins follow slicers in the Service: seven named bin rules with round edges, a fixed count or width, custom edges, and cumulative, density and normal curves.
• Spec limits typed or from measures with Cp, Cpk, Cpl, Cpu, Cpm, Pp and Ppk, ppm out of spec, control limits, significance, weights and small multiples (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Waterfall with subtotals, variance bridges, IBCS notation, lower is better, axis break and a data table, in 20 languages.
• Price-volume-mix bridge with four methods, chained multi-period bridges, item breakdowns and small multiples (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Calendar, timeline, compact bar and presets list with presets that keep rolling after publishing, fiscal years, ISO weeks and holidays for 21 countries.
• Period intelligence: comparison periods, working-days-only filters, Last N working days and retail 4-4-5 years (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Twelve story cards written from a date and a measure, in English, Czech and German, with story paging and a static grid.
• Comparison with last year, Target, For each with peer rank and team awards, card builder and art packs (premium).

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• A split-flap departure board, message board and KPI tiles where only the characters that changed flip on refresh.
• Status lamps from words or a DAX status measure, auto-paging and a live clock for wall screens. Free.

First release on Microsoft Marketplace.

• Last refresh time, status and data coverage in each reader's own time zone, with a reason when the data is not fresh.
• Business time, refresh schedules and one verdict per source in a load log. Free.