Library & analysis (for hosts)

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.

Living canvas (Experimental Beta)#

The living canvas (and the Project Library analysis that drives it) is currently in Beta and gated behind a project-level toggle. Because it is experimental, this setting is currently available only in the next-release (echo-next) environment, and is not visible in production.

To enable the living canvas for your project on echo-next:

1. Open your project and click the settings gear next to your project name.
2. In the settings panel, scroll to the Experimental section.
3. Turn on the Living canvas (Beta) toggle.

Once enabled, the Library tab in your project sidebar will become available, and your workspace can begin using board primitives, interactive brief-driven extractions, and chat-to-canvas edits.

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.

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.

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.