Release Notes

What We've Shipped

Every month, what's new in The Analyst for advisors and the businesses they work with. For what's coming next, see our roadmap.

October 2026

Presentations, Messages & Your Brand

  • Turn a customised report into a presentation, reviewed slide by slide, in your firm's colours with white labelling
  • The Analyst Presents: invite an investor, and The Analyst presents the final deck to them by voice
  • Messages between advisors and clients, plus team-only threads about each client
  • Teams, firm-wide two-factor sign-in, session length and out of office
  • Connect QuickBooks, and read stock from NetSuite or QuickBooks as well as Cin7 Core
  • Help tips and articles inside the portal, and a client portal that matches the advisor's
September 2026

Customised Reports & Questionnaires

  • Customised reports: the report a client needs, from a brief, with every assumed figure marked
  • A 15-minute questionnaire for small businesses, and all thirteen questionnaires rewritten shorter and plainer
  • Clients can answer their questionnaires by voice
  • Meeting notes drafted from the recording, with the actions you confirm becoming action items
  • Group financials: each company's figures and the group they make
  • Two-factor sign-in, and a practical week-by-week cash flow
August 2026

NetSuite & Forecasts

  • Connect NetSuite as well as Xero
  • Forecasts built from the client's own accounts and balance sheet
  • Gross profit per head and per dollar of employment cost
  • Inventory ordering report and order lists, with your own reorder levels
July 2026

Financials & Inventory

  • Forward-looking forecasts with a confidence band, for a single business or a group
  • Management financials, with commentary you can publish to your client
  • Financials, forecast and metrics in the client portal
  • Inventory: upload stock or connect Cin7 Core, and see slow, dead and reorder stock
  • A standalone indicative valuation report
June 2026

Strategic Plan & Ask The Analyst

  • One-page strategic plan generated from the analysis, shareable to clients
  • Ask The Analyst: an AI assistant across your whole book, in chat and voice
June 2026

Meetings

  • Schedule client meetings and recurring series
  • Auto-generated minutes and board reports, aligned to the strategy
  • Instant answers in-meeting from The Analyst
May 2026

Dashboards & Action Tracker

  • Interactive dashboards: a live view of client performance and progress
  • Action tracker: turn a report into a live plan and measure what's working
May 2026

Accounting Integration

  • Connect Xero for automatic financial-data import and sync
April 2026

Deal Room

  • Secure fundraising and M&A data room: investor access, NDAs, document Q&A
11 March 2026

Mid-Length Report

A new report of about 50 pages that distils the full strategy report into a concise version, more detailed than the executive brief but far more digestible than the full report.

9 March 2026

AI-Powered Report Review

  • AI can now review and fix issues across all sections in one go
  • Improved executive brief formatting and conciseness
  • Significant improvements to report generation reliability
3 March 2026

Stability & Polish

  • Fixed client invite login redirect loop
  • Fixed report generation stalling during validation
  • Correct page numbering across section dividers
February 2026

Documents & Charts

  • Document upload and automatic structured data extraction
  • 24 interactive charts: Monte Carlo, valuation, risk, strategy
  • Improved formatting consistency across all report sections
January 2026

Client Portal & Presentations

  • Client portal for completing questionnaires and viewing reports
  • Presentation export in PPTX format from strategy reports
  • Enhanced system administration capabilities

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