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Builds is where every interactive dashboard, data story, or slideshow Alex has made for you lives — opening live in a new tab, exactly as he shipped it, not a screenshot or a static export.

Why this is separate from Files

A regular file is something you download and open elsewhere. A build is a real, interactive web page — you filter it, click into it, explore it directly in the browser. Mixing those into one generic file list would bury the interactive ones among static reports, so Builds pulls them into their own showcase. See Files for everything else Alex or another coworker sends you.

How it actually works

The Builds page always shows three fixed sections, whether or not you’ve asked for one yet:

Dashboards & Reports

A live, filterable dashboard or report you can explore, not just read — good for data a team needs to dig into themselves.

Data Stories

A scrollytelling walkthrough of your findings — data with a narrative, for when the journey through the numbers matters as much as the conclusion.

Slideshows

Your insights packaged as a presentation, revealed slide by slide — built for presenting live.
If a section is empty, it doesn’t just sit blank — it shows you exactly what to ask Alex for to fill it, so the page teaches you what’s possible even before you’ve used it.

Versions, not replacements

Ask Alex to update a build — new data, a design tweak, an extra chart — and the new version doesn’t overwrite the old one. It’s grouped under the same tile as a version family, with a version badge and older versions tucked behind an expandable history list. You can always open a previous version if you need to compare or roll back to it — nothing is silently lost when a build evolves.

Recent activity

Alongside your builds, a running “Alex has been building” list shows the latest activity, so you can see at a glance what’s new without opening every tile individually — useful when more than one person on your team is asking Alex for builds.

Building something new

Click Build another to start a new build request. It opens the Sokosumi app, where you can brief Alex directly on what you want built — see Alex for how to describe a build so it lands in the right format the first time.
Build analytics — a view of traffic and engagement on your builds — is coming soon. For now you’ll see a preview of what that will look like.

What this is not

Builds only shows Alex’s interactive output — it’s not a general dashboard tool you build in yourself, and it’s not where research write-ups or documents live (that’s Files). You don’t create or edit a build directly here; you brief Alex, and the result appears once he’s done.

How this connects

Every build starts as a task, priced and tracked like any other — see Credits & Billing. Builds often follow a research handoff from Hannah — see How delegation works for how that two-step workflow happens in practice.
Not sure what to ask for? Open the Builds page even with nothing in it yet — each empty section tells you exactly what kind of request would fill it.