What’s new

Switching to a template keeps the pictures. In Generate Deck, picking a template made on an A4 or other document-sized page no longer turns the deck into text-only slides. The template's own picture pages are used. Your uploaded images go into its frames, and any frames left over show placeholder photos you can replace.

Templates bring their typefaces. A template made from one of your decks now uses that deck's fonts, both in the Generate Deck preview and in the finished deck, instead of falling back to a default typeface.

Add a walkthrough to a deck from a chat. Ask Claude to add one of your 3D walkthroughs to a deck, whether a model, a splat scan or a 360° tour, and it appears as a live viewer your audience can orbit and explore while you present. It's the same as inserting it yourself from the deck editor.

You choose where it goes. By default the walkthrough gets its own full-screen slide at the end of the deck. You can ask for that slide somewhere else, or for the walkthrough to sit on an existing slide at a size and position you choose, either as a live viewer or as a preview card that opens it.

Ready for the people you share with. Claude makes the walkthrough viewable to anyone with its link, so people you share the deck with can see it rather than an access message. Ask Claude to keep it private if you'd rather it be visible only to your team. Developers can do the same through the Foveate API.

Generate a deck in the style of one you already have. The Generate Deck screen now has a Template field next to Project. Leave it on Foveate default and the deck is built with Foveate's own layouts, as before — or open it and pick a saved template or any deck you've made. The new deck then takes that source's look wholesale: its colors, its typefaces, its page size, and its slide designs, with your new content poured into them. The source deck's first and last slides dress the new deck's cover and closing, so the result opens and ends the way your work does. Slides the source has no fitting design for fall back to Foveate's layouts in the source's colors and type, so nothing you wrote is ever dropped to force a fit.

Deck templates are now organized by slide type. Making a deck a template now pulls out every slide and sorts it by what it's for: cover, section, statement, content, metrics, timeline, features, image or closing. In the Templates tab on Home or in the Library, choose Organize slides from a template's ⋯ menu to see its slides grouped by type, change a slide's type, remove slides, or add slides from any of your other decks. Build from slides makes a new template from slides across several decks. When you generate a deck with a template, each new slide is laid out on your template slide of the same type. That includes its background, its header and footer, and its page numbers. If the template has no slide of a given type, the closest type it does have is used, so the whole deck stays in your design. The outline is also planned around the types your template has.

Templates keep their text where the text was, and their pictures where the pictures were. When a deck becomes a template, its page numbers, repeated footers and small diagram labels are left out, and each text box remembers how much copy it was designed for. New headings go into the heading boxes, and paragraphs flow into the text columns. Your images go only into the template's picture frames, and never into a logo or an icon. Each image is used once: every slide gets a picture before any slide gets a second, and tall pictures go into tall frames so less gets cropped. A page of pictures in your template is used for picture slides. A slide with paragraphs only goes on a design with room for its copy, so the heading and the copy are never crammed into one box. When a design's extra picture frames go unused, their outlines and backing panels go with them. Templates you made earlier are refreshed the next time you use them, and any slide types you changed by hand are kept.

Decks are sized to what you give them. When the length is set to Auto, a one-line brief with a few images makes a short deck. A longer brief or attached documents make a longer one. The number of slides in your template no longer matters.

Your attachments as a row of previews. In Generate Deck, attached images, video and drawings now show as a row of thumbnails you can page through with arrow buttons, instead of a long list of file names. Documents show as labelled file tiles, and there's a tile at the end for adding more.

See a template before you commit to it. Hovering a template or a deck in the Template menu opens a live preview beside it — a template shows its first layouts, a deck shows its actual first slide in its own fonts — with its name, page size and layout count underneath. Choosing is by look, not by name, and the menu also closes with Escape.

Your template choice now holds through outline edits. On the outline review screen, the Template control is always there and now lists your decks alongside your saved templates. Choices made there actually stick: asking the outline chat for changes or changing the slide count no longer quietly resets the deck to the default layouts, and a template's typefaces now travel into the finished deck.

Clients you tag in the brief light up as you type. Choosing someone from the @ suggestions in Generate Deck's describe box now shows their name as the same blue tag the suggestion list uses, right inside your text — so you can see at a glance who the deck will be personalized for. A plain @ in an email address stays ordinary text.

Templates are now decks only. Make Template appears only on decks. The Templates tabs in Home and the Library list only deck templates. Forms, previs and 3D walkthroughs are no longer offered as templates, and any you saved as templates before are ordinary files again. To reuse one, choose Duplicate from its ⋯ menu.

Each template is listed once. Templates appear once, as the deck they came from, with real thumbnails. That holds in the Library's Templates tab, Home's Templates tab, and both Template menus in Generate Deck. The separate "Deck templates" view is gone. Choose Organize slides from a template's ⋯ menu in either Templates tab to set which of its slides is used for what when you generate. Templates you built from slides across several decks are listed under Built from slides, and the Build from slides button makes a new one. When you remove a template, it leaves every list. Home's Templates tab no longer has a file-type filter, since every template is a deck.

Brand styles are called Brand styles. In Generate Deck, the colors and typefaces you've saved are now labelled Brand styles, the name the Library uses, so they aren't confused with templates.

Search when adding templates. The Add a template picker has a search box, so you can find a deck by its name instead of scrolling. Decks you pick are marked with the same checkbox used for selecting items elsewhere in Foveate.

The Library opens on All Assets. Your images, videos, 3D models and documents are the first thing you see. The tabs now run All Assets, Shared, Templates, Fonts, Brand, then Stock.

The chat beside your outline now makes the change you asked for, and only that change. On Generate Deck's review screen, ask the chat to rewrite a slide and only that slide changes. Ask for a new slide, for two slides to go, or for a slide to move, and it does exactly that. It still rebuilds the whole outline when you ask for a new structure or a different length. Ask it a question, like which slide is weakest or what the client will care about, and it answers instead of rewriting. The slides on screen update as it works.

It can research while it writes. With web search on, the chat looks up facts a slide needs, such as a figure, a date or a place, and works them into the copy. It then tells you what it used. It can also read the documents you attached and pull material from your other decks.

Ask it to redesign a slide. Tell the chat to lay a slide out differently, make it more visual, or turn three points into a set of cards. It picks a layout that fits what the slide says. When a template is applied, it uses the template's own slide designs first. It can also change the deck's style or page format when you ask.

Undo any reply. A reply that changed your outline has an Undo button under it. Undo puts the slides, their layouts, the deck name, the style and the page back to how they were before you sent that message.

Hand Claude a file and it lands in your library. Claude can now upload files straight into your Foveate library: a 3D model it just made, a panorama you gave it, a PDF or an image. The file shows up in your library like any other upload, and Claude can use it right away. For example, it can export a model as a GLB and turn it into a 3D walkthrough in the same conversation.

Works best with smaller files. Files up to 10 MB can be sent this way, though smaller is faster because the whole file goes through the conversation. When Claude is working somewhere that can make its own web requests, it can also upload larger files, including video.

A clear message for split 3D models. Some 3D exports come as a .gltf file plus separate data and texture files. Foveate can't open the .gltf on its own, so when Claude sends one through the conversation, Foveate now says so and asks for a single .glb, or a .gltf with everything built in, instead of accepting a model that won't load.

Library search looks past file names. Searching in the Library, in the deck editor's Library panel, or in the picker you attach files from on Home now also checks:

• the prompt an image or video was generated from;
• the project a file came from;
• a stock photo's credit;
• the kind of file.

So "atrium" finds an atrium render even when its file name is a string of letters and numbers, and "clip" finds your videos. Once you've typed three letters, a word also matches the start of longer words. Common building terms find each other, so "housing" also finds "residential".

Search your notifications. The Feed page and the expanded notifications window from the bell have a search box. It matches what each notification says on screen, including a deck's current name after it has been renamed. Searching the old name still finds the notifications from before the rename.

Studio belongs to the whole firm. Owners and members of a workspace can edit its Studio. Guests can see it but can't change it, and Studio tells them so at the top of the page.

Insights opens faster. Insights now loads only what it shows, so it opens faster, most of all in workspaces with a lot of content.

Claude can find and open your walkthroughs. With the new 3D walkthrough permissions, Claude can list your splat scans, 3D models and 360° tours, filter them by project or kind, and look inside one: its files, its saved views and a link to open it in Foveate.

Build a walkthrough from your library. Ask Claude to turn a model, a scan or a set of panoramas already in your library into a walkthrough. One GLB or GLTF file makes a 3D model walkthrough, one splat file makes a scan walkthrough, and several images make a 360° tour in the order you give them. Claude can also rename a walkthrough, file it in a project, or make it public.

Share walkthroughs and read their feedback. Claude can get a walkthrough's share link or email it to people, just like a deck. Sharing a walkthrough makes it viewable to anyone with the link. Claude can also read the comments left on a walkthrough, including which saved view each one is about and whether it has been resolved.

For developers. The same features are in the Foveate API, which can also delete a walkthrough and post comments on one. An existing Claude connection needs to be reconnected to approve the new permissions.

Ask Claude what's new. With the new notifications permission, Claude can read the same notifications as the bell in Foveate: who opened your share links, new comments and mentions, access requests, and projects you were added to. Ask "what did I miss today?" or "has anyone opened the Harbor deck?" and Claude answers from your feed, with a link to what each one is about. Access requests have no link; you still approve them in Foveate. Claude can show only what's unread, one kind of notification, or everything since a given time. Reading notifications in Claude doesn't mark them as read in Foveate.

Approve it when you reconnect. Notifications are a new permission, so a connection you made earlier can't read them yet. Settings lists it as not granted; reconnect Claude and approve it to turn it on.