What’s new

See your credits at a glance. The account menu under your profile picture now shows how many AI credits you have left, right under your email, with your plan or trial badge on the same line. Click the balance to open AI usage and see where your credits went.

Decks are half the price. Generating a deck from a brief, from a template or one of your own decks, or from your website now starts at 20 credits instead of 40. Your 200 signup credits now cover ten decks. Setting up from your website after the free first run costs the same 20, since it ends in a deck. Revising an outline in the review chat is unchanged.

Set up from your website for the price of a deck. Your first run through setup is free. Running it again used to bill three separate steps that added up to 60 credits. It is now one action at 40 credits, the same as generating a deck, and it shows up as a single "Onboarding" line in your AI usage.

Only real photography makes the cut. When Foveate builds your first deck from your website, the cover and the slides about your practice now use only pictures that are genuinely photographs of your work: buildings, interiors, aerials, people in the studio. Posters, scanned drawings, diagrams, logos and page captures from your site are left out, and so is anything too small or oddly shaped to fill a slide. Your biggest photographs lead.

A slide with no fitting picture goes without. If nothing on your site qualifies, the slides about your practice simply carry no site picture rather than the next-best file. Your project slides are unchanged: they keep the photographs from each project's own page.

Reading your site's pictures uses the same image-recognition step as the Library, charged at its usual rate (typically one or two credits).

Invite your team as you set up. Getting started now has a step for your people: right after you name your workspace, add your colleagues' email addresses and they join the workspace with you. Anyone who already has a Foveate account is added straight away; anyone who doesn't is held a seat until they sign up with that address. Everyone you invite gets an email with a link to join, whether you add them here or later from Workspace members. Inviting people needs a verified email address. If every seat on your plan is already taken, the step tells you so instead of asking for addresses.

A guided first share. When your first deck finishes generating, a short tour shows you how to send it: the Share button, switching the deck from Private to Public so your client can open the link, copying the link, and Insights, where you'll see who opened the deck, how long they spent on each slide, and any feedback they left. You also get a notification and an email the moment someone opens your link. The last step points to Learn Interface in your account menu, where a tour for every page is waiting whenever you want one.

Nothing is greyed out while the tour runs. The part of the screen each step is about gets a blue outline with a soft glow, and everything stays clickable: you can switch the link on, type an address, or change a setting as you go. Clicking Share, choosing Public, or copying the link moves the tour along by itself, and Next is always there if you'd rather read.

New accounts start with setup. Your first visit opens straight into setting up your workspace, and naming it comes first: it's the one step you can't skip. If you signed up with an email and password, you'll be asked to verify your email right after, before inviting your team or making your first deck. When your dashboard is empty, Get started takes you through the same setup any time.

Your workspace is named after your practice. Setting up no longer leaves the default "Your Name's Workspace" beside a second one. The workspace you're in, the one shown in the sidebar, is renamed to the company you enter. Running Start Onboarding again renames it too, and so does going back to change your website and editing the company name on the way.

Start Onboarding does the real thing. Running it from your account menu now works exactly like the first time: it renames your workspace, replaces the logo and brand kit in Studio, adds the projects you pick (without duplicating ones already there), invites the people you list, and makes the deck. It no longer just previews the screens.

Deck links load lighter. Opening a shared deck now downloads only what a viewer needs to watch it. The editor's own code, the dashboard, and the parts of the viewer that most decks never use (the identity gate, Ask the Deck, the presenter's notes window, the icon library) only load when a deck actually calls for them. The slides themselves look exactly as before.

The next slide is already loading. While you are on a slide, the pictures on the next one are fetched in the background, so advancing paints the full image straight away instead of filling in as it downloads.

Swipe through a deck on your phone. On a phone or tablet you can swipe left and right to move between slides, the same way you page through photos. The arrows in the bottom bar still work too.

3D walkthroughs are desktop-only on mobile. A deck that contains a 3D walkthrough or a 3D scan shows "Please view this on Desktop" in its place on a phone, over the walkthrough's thumbnail, instead of trying to load a 3D scene the device can't handle. Forms, previs and video keep working on mobile as before.

DXF drawings. The Drawing widget now takes AutoCAD DXF files, as well as PDF, SVG and Illustrator. Floor plans and site plans keep their linework, layer colours, blocks and text, and the line weight, ink and paper controls work on them like any other drawing. CAD fonts aren't available in a browser, so labels are set in a clean sans-serif. If you upload a DWG, Foveate tells you how to save it as DXF or PDF from AutoCAD.

Every deck file type in Workshop. The Workshop prompt now takes every kind of file the deck editor does. That includes DXF drawings and HTML pages, which become their own live slide in the deck you create.

Attach anything to the deck assistant. In a deck, you can now attach drawings (PDF plan sets, SVG, Illustrator, DXF), 3D models and scans, and HTML pages to the assistant, then ask it to put them on a slide. A drawing lands as a real drawing you can restyle, a model as a 3D viewer, and a page as a live widget. Drawings you pick from your Library for the assistant now land as drawings too, not flat pictures.

Reset a drawing's style. A new Reset button in the drawing toolbar puts a drawing back to how the file came in: original colours, line weights, ink and fills, and the paper the file was imported with. Its size and position stay as they are, and one undo brings your styling back.

3D files in the Workshop prompt. You can now attach a 3D model (.glb or .gltf), a Gaussian splat scan (.ply, .splat, .spz) or 360° panoramas to the prompt on Workshop home. Each one shows what it will become before you send.

A walkthrough from a single drop. Send a model or a scan on its own and Foveate makes the 3D walkthrough and opens it. GLB models are optimized first, the same way as when you create a walkthrough by hand. Panoramas become one 360° tour, in the order you attached them, when your prompt asks for a tour, a 360 or a walkthrough.

A deck with your walkthrough inside. Ask for a deck in the same prompt, or attach photos, drawings or a brief alongside the model, and Foveate makes the walkthrough first, then opens the deck builder with the walkthrough already added as a live, explorable slide. Your other files go into the deck as usual.

Foveate knows a drawing set from an RFP. When you attach a PDF on the home page, Foveate looks at its pages — sheet sizes, title blocks, scale notes, and the language of a request for proposals — and tells you what it found: "Drawing set · 40 sheets" or "RFP · 10 pages". It goes by what's on the pages, so a plan set called "scan_0042.pdf" is still treated as drawings, and an RFP is never placed on a slide as a picture.

Drawing sets become slides, sheet by sheet. Ask for a deck with a drawing set attached and each sheet becomes its own drawing in the deck — up to six — instead of only the first page.

Foveate reads your drawings before it writes. Plans, sections and elevations are looked at the way photos are, so the deck knows which sheet is the site plan and which is an elevation, and puts each on the slide that talks about it.

Generated and imported decks show a thumbnail straight away. A deck you create with the assistant, or import from a PDF, PowerPoint, Word or InDesign file, now gets a picture of its first slide on its card as soon as it's made, instead of a blank placeholder until you open it.

Missing thumbnails fill themselves in. Any deck in your files that still has no thumbnail gets one automatically while you're looking at the list, and the card updates in place without a reload.