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What's new in iDeck – July 2026

July 2026

The June 2026 update brings a significant set of improvements to iDeck — covering how you navigate and export your presentation, how the deck is structured, and how AI-generated content is produced. Here's what's changed.

A smarter export experience

The slide selector has been redesigned from the ground up. Individual slides are now grouped under their parent section, so you can see exactly what's in each part of your deck before you export. Toggle an entire section on or off with a single click, or expand it to select individual slides within it.

You can also save your selection as a named preset. If you generate the same iDeck regularly - for the same team, or in the same format - you can save your configuration and reload it next time, rather than starting from scratch each time.


A cleaner cover and a new Context slide

Applied filters, comparators, and survey metadata no longer appear on the cover slide. Instead, this information is collected in a dedicated iDeck Context slide, placed at the front of the deck before the contents page. The cover stays clean; the context is still there when you need it.


Heatmaps in the Appendix

Heatmaps have moved. Rather than appearing in the main body of the deck, they now sit in the Appendix by default and are deselected when you open the export panel.

They are also now scoped to the organisational level immediately below your current filter - so if you're viewing at organisation level, you'll see division-level heatmaps; if you're viewing at division level, you'll see team-level heatmaps. This keeps the deck focused and manageable, particularly for larger organisations.


Smarter Prism-generated content

Three changes to how Prism content is generated in iDeck:

  • Strengths heading. The "Celebrate good results" heading on the strengths slide is now generated dynamically. The language adapts to reflect what the data actually shows.

  • Summaries from question-level data. Prism summaries are now built from individual question scores rather than rolled-up theme scores. This produces more accurate, more specific output - and avoids broad statements that don't reflect the nuance of the underlying data.

  • Reasoning shown alongside recommendations. Each Prism-suggested action now includes an explanation of why that action has been recommended, giving you and your leaders greater confidence in the output.


Sentiment in iDeck now matches your dashboard

If sentiment has been switched off for a question on your dashboard, it will no longer appear in iDeck for that question. The iDeck now reads your existing question-level sentiment settings rather than applying its own defaults.


More control over comment questions

Administrators can now exclude individual comment questions from iDeck generation. If a particular question isn't meaningful for reporting purposes - for example, a demographic or open-text field that isn't a survey question in the traditional sense - it can be suppressed so it doesn't generate a theme slide or appear in the automated analysis.


Dashboard settings now carry through to iDeck

The iDeck now fully respects your dashboard report settings more fully. If a report type - such as Responses, Comparisons, or Prism Suggestions - is switched off for a user or user group, the corresponding slides will no longer appear in their iDeck. Settings configured at dashboard user or user group level are now applied correctly.


Bug fixes and improvements

Several issues have been resolved in this release, including a download timeout affecting large decks, a slide ordering issue introduced in an earlier deployment, a formatting problem on certain comment slides in PDF export, and corrections to how the most-declined and weakest-benchmark slides handle comparator data.

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