What’s new

A short balance no longer blocks Deep research. If you have enough credits for the first search and the brief but not for the second look at what it missed, Deep research now runs the first search, writes the brief from it, and says it skipped the second search. When the brief is ready, it asks you to add credits and tells you what a full run needs, so the next one can include the second look. With less than that, it still asks you to add credits before it starts.

The review step fits a laptop, a tablet and a phone. After Generate Deck writes your outline, the review window now adapts to the screen. On a phone it fills the screen, with the slide first, a row of thumbnails under it, and the deck settings below, while Back and Create deck stay at the bottom. On narrower screens the chat and the outline take turns behind an Outline and Chat switch. On a wide screen nothing changes.

Click a connector's logo to open that app. On Settings → Connectors, the logos for Google Drive, Miro, HubSpot, Salesforce and Claude now open the app in a new tab, where you're usually already signed in.

Choose what comes in from a Miro board. When a Miro board is attached to Generate Deck, its tile now has Pick assets. It opens the board's pictures and PDFs, frame by frame, so you can tick the ones you want. Pictures you pick are placed on the deck's slides, and PDFs come in as files you can read as the brief or place as drawings. The board's text still grounds the deck's copy.

Low-resolution pictures are marked. If Miro only has a small preview of a picture, the picker says so, because it may look soft on a slide.

Templates shared by Foveate are now in the Generate Deck template menu. The menu lists them under Shared templates, beside Foveate's built-in layouts and your own templates. Pick one and the new deck takes its look, colours, type and layouts from it, the same way it does for one of your own decks.

The sidebar no longer goes darker than the page. When a dialog such as the Miro board picker is open, the sidebar now dims by the same amount as the page behind it. Before, it was dimmed twice and looked heavier than the content beside it.

The badge sits at the top right of a shared deck. On a deck shared from a plan that shows the Made with Foveate badge, it now sits in the top right corner of the page header, level with the other controls, instead of over the slide. It stays there while you present, when the header slides away, so the slide is never covered.

The badge follows light and dark mode. It takes the header's own quiet tint, with the matching Foveate wordmark, in both themes.

Overlays can fade in from a side or darken the edges. In the Slide panel, on a slide with a photo or video background, the overlay is now Off, Solid, Linear, Vignette or Center. Linear is dark at one side or corner and clear at the other, so text over a photo has a darker side to sit on. Pick from eight directions or set any angle. Vignette keeps the middle clear and darkens the edges, and Center darkens the middle. Each shape has its own colour and opacity, and Vignette and Center have a size.

Off turns the overlay off. Choosing Off removes the overlay from the slide instead of leaving a faint one behind. A slide you already made keeps its overlay exactly as it was, and the panel shows which shape it matches.

The PDF and PowerPoint exports draw these overlays. A vignette or a fade from the bottom comes out as a gradient, not as one averaged tint.

New slides start with no transition. Slides you add, and decks you generate or import, begin with no transition instead of Fade. Pick one in the Slide panel when you want it. Slides already in your decks keep the transition they have.

Apply one transition to every slide. Under Transition, Apply to all slides gives every slide in the deck the transition you have picked, including its duration, in one step. Undo puts every slide back at once.

Deep research checks its own work. After its first round of searching, Deep research now reads what it found against each part of your question. When a part came back empty, say the census figures, the list of venues or the county budget, it searches again for that part before it writes, and it aims to answer every part of a multi-part question.

Answers follow your question. When you ask for numbered items, the brief answers each one in order under its own heading and puts the figures in tables. Where it could not find something, it says exactly what is missing instead of guessing. It marks what it concludes rather than reads as "inferred", and puts a source beside each figure. Questions about where to win work still get the full pursuit brief.

A run costs about 105 credits. The second look adds up to four more searches, so a Deep research run now costs about 105 credits, shown next to Deep research before you start. When the first round already covers every part of your question, the run costs less.

Switching on a Pro setting without Pro opens the upgrade window. Password protection, asking viewers for their name or email, your company logo, the client conversation and letting viewers ask the deck are part of Pro. On a plan without it, turning one of them on in Sharing Settings now opens the upgrade window for that setting and saves nothing. A form's own settings panel does the same for "Use company logo".

The client conversation switch shows what your viewers can do. A deck that never had this setting still lets viewers leave feedback, and the switch now shows it on instead of off. On any plan you can switch it off; switching it back on needs Pro.

Switching a setting off is never blocked. On any plan you can switch off a password, a name or email request, your logo, the client conversation or viewer questions. A link that already has a password or a name or email request keeps it when an account moves to a plan without Pro, until you switch it off.

Passwords through the API need Pro too. Creating or changing a share with a password through the public API or a connected tool now answers that a Pro plan is required, as the app does. Clearing a password is always allowed.