What’s new

Studio has a new Playbook tab. It holds how your firm decides, checks and writes its bids, in three sections: your go/no-go criteria, what to look for in every RFP, and your writing rules for proposals. Owners and members can edit it, and guests can read it.

Rules suggested from your Firm profile. What you told the Firm tab is offered as go/no-go criteria: what you turn down, your project size, and the sectors, clients, accounts and markets you want. Your firm's name is offered as a writing rule. When you set up from your website, Foveate also notes the offices your site lists and whether it uses British or American spelling, and suggests rules to match. Add them one at a time, or all at once. Nothing is used until you add it.

Switch any line off without deleting it. Every line in your Playbook has a check mark: green while it's in use, grey when it's switched off. A line that's off stays on the page for later, and nothing uses it until you switch it back on. Each go/no-go criterion is a must have, important or nice to have, shown by how full its dot is, and one click moves it between them.

The compliance matrix checks for what you always check. List what your firm looks for in every RFP, such as insurance minimums, page limits, required licences or forms. When the compliance matrix is built, each one the RFP states becomes a normal row. Each one it doesn't mention is listed under "Your playbook — not in this RFP", so you can confirm it with the client before you submit, and add it to the matrix if it applies.

Proposal drafts follow your writing rules. Set the rules your firm writes by, such as how to refer to the firm, British or American spelling, words to avoid, or claims never to make. Every proposal draft and revision follows them, including when you rewrite or add a single section, though anything the RFP itself requires still comes first.

Every go/no-go shows what it was judged against. A go/no-go recommendation in an RFP chat now says how many of your criteria it checked and links to your Playbook to change them. An RFP chat's Next steps list links there too, so the rules every step follows are one click away.

Type a page's name to go straight there. Search now finds the pages inside the main ones, not just the main ones. Type "firm" for your firm profile, "proposals" for past proposals, "templates" or "brand" for those parts of the Library, "billing", "storage" or "api keys" for settings, and "support" for help. A page inside another says where it lives, such as Firm in Studio. The page you name comes first, so "billing" opens Billing rather than Settings. Typing "studio" lists Studio, then each of its tabs. Search jumps to the right tab even when you're already on that page.

An update no longer breaks the page you have open. If Foveate is updated while you have it open, a window like Plans or Invite members now asks you to reload instead of showing an error page.

Comments link to the widget you have selected. Select a drawing, picture, text box or any other widget on a deck slide, write a comment, and the comment is linked to it. The comment box shows what it will be linked to before you send, and one click removes the link when your comment is about the slide in general. Select several widgets and the comment links to all of them.

Find what a comment means. In the Comments panel, a linked comment names the widget it's about. Hover it and that widget is outlined on the slide; click it and the deck goes to that widget and selects it, even if it has since moved to another slide. If the widget has been deleted, the comment stays and says so.

Comment on words in a text box. While you're editing a text box, select a phrase and an Add comment button appears beneath it. Your comment quotes the phrase and links to that text box. People with view-only access could already comment on highlighted slide text; their comments now link to the text box too. Click a comment like this in the Comments panel and the deck goes to those exact words and highlights them, rather than the whole text box. The highlight stays until you click somewhere else. Hovering the comment previews it when the words are on the slide you're looking at. If the words have moved into a linked text box further on, the comment follows them there.

Viewers can point at words too. On a shared deck, while the Feedback panel is open, viewers can select text on the slide and choose Add feedback. Their feedback quotes those words and links to the text box they came from. Clicking that feedback in your Comments panel goes to the exact words and highlights them, the same way your team's own comments do.

Reframe a video to a new shape. Generate Media's Video tab has a new model, Hailuo 3 Max Reframe. Attach a clip, choose the shape you want (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 21:9 or 9:21), and it fits your footage into the new frame and fills in the space around it. The original footage, timing and sound stay as they were. You can describe what should fill the new edges, or leave that blank.

You pay for the length of your clip. The new video is as long as the one you started with, so the price follows it: 40 credits a second at 768p, or 25 at 480p. A 5-second clip costs 200 credits at 768p. Reframe takes clips up to 15 seconds.

See what you're starting from. When a generation starts from your own media, such as a clip to reframe or restyle, a picture to edit, or a first frame to animate, Generate Media now shows it large in the output area until the result arrives, labelled as the source. Reference images you add for style aren't shown there, since the result doesn't start from them. While a generation from a clip is running, the clip's frame now sits behind the progress message instead of the plain gradient.

A prompt only when the model needs one. Aleph 2.0 now runs from your clip alone, like Reframe and LTX Extend, so Generate is no longer greyed out until you type something. The character counter also matches what each model accepts: LTX Extend takes up to 5,000 characters, Kling 3 and Grok up to 2,500, and Aleph up to 1,000. Before, the counter could approve a Kling or Grok prompt that the model then turned down.

Contained videos sit on the slide. A video set to Contain no longer fills the empty space around it with black. The slide shows through instead, the same as a contained image, in the editor, when presenting, on share links, in slide thumbnails and in PDF exports. Full screen still plays on black.

Fit is now a menu, with Native. For images and videos, Cover, Contain and Fill have moved into one Fit menu on the toolbar. Its last option, Native, reshapes the frame to the picture's or clip's own proportions, within the space the frame already takes up. Once a frame matches its media, the menu reads Native.

The Fit menu on drawings, comparison sliders and carousels. Drawings get Stretch, Keep proportions and Native in the same menu; the first two used to sit in the Settings panel. A comparison slider's Native fits the frame to your before and after images, so neither loses its edges. A carousel can now be set to Contain, which shows every picture whole instead of cropping it to the frame.

Footers that come through on every slide. When you import a PDF, a footer that repeats on every page now goes into the deck's header and footer, even when one page in the document stores it slightly differently, for example split into two pieces of text. Before, one page like that could leave the footer as a separate text box on every slide.

No doubled footers. If a page has the same footer printed twice in the same spot, the extra copy is removed along with the original, so the slide shows the footer once.

"View the live version" stays in the PDF. A PDF exported from Foveate with the "View the live version" link no longer brings that link, or the dark pill behind it, into the deck when you import it again. The link is added fresh each time you export.

Pipeline is now Pursuits, and simpler. The first tab in Insights is renamed Pursuits, and it now leads with four figures: your open pipeline, the weighted forecast, your win rate and what you've won. Under them is one list of your pursuits, showing each one's stage, value, decision date and the last time the client looked at anything you sent. Switch between open, won, lost and all, search by pursuit or client, show only your own, and sort by decision date, value or latest client activity.

See what needs you this week. Beside the list, most urgent first, are the pursuits that are overdue, due within two weeks, at proposal or finalist stage with no client activity for two weeks, or missing a decision date. Value by stage sits below, and choosing a stage filters the list to it. Once you've lost pursuits, the reasons are summed up underneath.

Insights opens faster. The pipeline appears without waiting for client activity to be recalculated, and fills it in a moment later. Filtering and sorting the list happen instantly. The Content tab and the assistant load only when you open them.

Tell Foveate the lines you decide a bid on. Studio's Playbook has a Go / No-Go section. Add the rules your firm actually uses, such as a minimum fee, how far you'll travel, no lowest-price selections, or contract terms you won't sign. Mark each one Must have, Important or Nice to have. Common ones are there to start from, worded so you can make them your own.

Every go/no-go recommendation now checks them. When you ask for a go/no-go on an RFP, Foveate judges the opportunity against each of your criteria. A must-have that clearly isn't met makes it a no-go. One the documents don't answer makes it a conditional go at most, naming what to find out. Important criteria weigh heavily and nice-to-haves lightly. The recommendation ends with a table of your criteria, each marked met, not met or unclear, with the evidence cited. The submission deadline is always checked, whether or not you set anything.

The Content tab now shows how clients engage with what you sent. Insights → Content opens on four figures for the period you pick: views, the people who opened your work, the time they spent in it, and how many of the emails you sent from Foveate were opened afterwards. One date selector at the top sets the period, map included.

See who's looking. Everyone who opened something you shared gets one row, newest first. You see their name and email when they gave them, or where they viewed from when they didn't. Each row also shows what they opened and the pursuit it belongs to, how many visits and how much time, and when they last looked. People who came back on a different day are marked, and clicking a row opens the thing they viewed most recently.

Know who to follow up with. Anything you emailed from Foveate in the last 60 days that nobody has opened since is listed with who it went to, once it's been out for a day. Follow up starts an email to them.

See what holds attention. Your shared decks, walkthroughs, previsualizations and forms are ranked by the time viewers spent in them, with the pursuit each one belongs to and a mark when that pursuit was won.

The all-time totals, the list of signal sources and the separate most-viewed and won-content lists are gone from this tab. Wins now show on the content itself, and the Pursuits tab still lists every pursuit by stage and value.

Make a deck a template from inside it. In a deck, open the ⋯ menu in the bottom bar and choose Make template. The deck itself becomes the template, the same as Make Template on its card, so there's no separate copy to keep track of. Remove template in the same menu turns it back into an ordinary deck.

A Template label shows when you're working in one. While a deck is a template, a Template label sits beside its name. Click it to organize the template's slide types, or to remove the template.

Edits to a template carry over. Changes you make to a template deck reach the new decks built from it. Slide types you set by hand stay as you set them, slides you took out of the template stay out, and slides you add to the deck are picked up.

One slide is a layout. Right-click a slide and choose Save slide as layout to reuse that one slide from Layouts. It used to be called a template, which made it easy to confuse with a whole-deck template.

Importing your template from the setup step now saves it as a template. When you choose Import from the "Import your template" step, in Next steps or the reminder at the top of Home, the PDF or PowerPoint you bring in becomes an editable deck and is saved as one of your templates, so new decks can be built from its layouts, colors and type straight away. The import window says so before you pick a file. Importing a deck any other way still makes an ordinary deck.