LivingBrief · Visual Meeting Intelligence by DataBlick

Your meetings are full of data.
Too bad nobody's using it.

Coming soon: LivingBrief

Somewhere between a dashboard nobody opens and a slide deck stale before you hit slide three, there's a smarter way to run a meeting. A shared visual surface that synthesizes what's being discussed, what the data says, what's decided, and what's still unresolved — in real time, for everyone in the room. That's Living Brief.

LIVINGBRIEF DECIDED Pricing → Plus tier CONTESTED Root cause? DATA NRR: 104% ✓ group alignment · 70% CEO CFO VP Tableau · live
🚫 Dashboard you open after the meeting · 🚫 Slide deck stale by slide 3 · 🚫 Note-taker scrambling in the back · ✓ Living Brief — thinks with you
1Layer One · Pre-Meeting

The meeting starts before you walk in the door

By the time most meetings begin, it's already too late. The HiPPO has drafted their thesis. The CFO has a model in their head. The VP of Sales has feelings she can't quite quantify. Everyone is operating from different data and different definitions of the same words.

Living Brief flips that. Before the invite even lands on your calendar, Tableau has assembled a context brief — pulling from connected data sources, previous meeting outcomes, and the agenda. Not a deck. Pre-loaded visual hypotheses, staged and verified.

Think of it as mise en place for your brain — except instead of prepping vegetables, you're prepping the questions most likely to derail the meeting, with the data already there to answer them.
Pre-Meeting Canvas · Auto-assembled
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T-24 Hours
Tableau pulls agenda + connected data sources. Semantic layer maps "revenue" to your company's actual definition — not a guess.
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T-2 Hours
3 visual hypotheses staged. Contested claims pre-loaded. Competitor benchmarks verified. Data gaps flagged before they become arguments.
Meeting Start
Everyone sees the same shared surface. No ambiguity about definitions. The meeting begins in agreement, not confusion.
2Layer Two · In-Meeting

When someone says "I think," data should answer

Real conversations don't follow a script. Someone says the West region is underperforming. Someone else says it's a CS problem. The CFO says it's pricing. Everyone's working from different mental models, and there's no referee.

Living Brief is the referee — without the ego. When a claim lands in the conversation, it's verified against live data automatically. A breakdown appears. A scenario model runs. A confidence score shows up before anyone builds a strategy on top of a hunch.

The game-changer: it doesn't just display data. It listens for claims, maps every position to a structured argument diagram, and makes the whole conversation visible to everyone — not just whoever's taking notes.
IBIS Dialogue Map · Live During Meeting
ISSUE Why is churn rising? POS. A Product gaps POS. B CS execution POS. C ✓ Comp. pricing Evidence strength WEAK MED HIGH DECIDED Competitive response Tableau · confidence 91%
3Layer Three · Flow Guide

The meeting that guides itself

You know that moment when you realize 20 minutes went to the item that deserved 5? And the thing that needed an actual decision got 30 seconds? That's conversation debt. It compounds every quarter.

Living Brief tracks a quiet sidebar — not a buzzer, not an awkward timer. A proportional visualization that makes the imbalance visible to the whole room. The group self-corrects. No facilitator required.

It also surfaces dissent before false consensus sets in. If someone's data tells a different story than the room's conclusion, Living Brief flags it — gently, visually, undeniably.

The research backs this: simply displaying alignment data during a meeting triggers behavioral change. People steer themselves when they can see where they are.
Conversation Debt Tracker · Live
AGENDA ITEM TIME Scope review 12m ✓ Root cause 24m ↑↑ ⚠ 2× over allotted — converging? Response plan 2m Resources 0m GROUP ALIGNMENT
4Layer Four · Decision Record

Not a summary.
A visual decision artifact.

Every other AI meeting tool gives you a text summary. Which is great, if what you needed was a longer email to not read.

Living Brief produces something genuinely different: a shareable, interactive visual record showing exactly what was decided, what data supported it, what gaps were acknowledged, and what was deferred — and why.

The next meeting loads the previous meeting's Living Brief artifact as its context brief. Each conversation builds on the last instead of reinventing the wheel in a new calendar invite.

This is the accountability layer. The one that makes it impossible to ask "why did we decide that?" six months later — visual, traceable, and honest about what you didn't know at the time.
Visual Decision Record · Q3 West Meeting
D DECIDED $2.4M ARR at risk · competitive pricing primary 09:14 · Tableau verified · confidence 91% D DECIDED Value QBR for top 8 accounts + CS SLA fix 09:31 · Product build deferred · resources concentrated ? OPEN 2 unexplained churns — individual review needed Action: EOW · Owner: Priya K. DEFERRED Resource reallocation — pending win/loss data
5Layer Five · Pattern Intelligence

Your meetings have been telling you something.
You just weren't listening.

Here's what genuinely excites us — and we don't get excited easily: longitudinal meeting intelligence.

When every meeting produces a structured Living Brief artifact, you can start asking questions nobody has been able to answer before. What's the recurring unresolved issue in every Q3 review? Where does your team consistently avoid the hard question? Which decisions aged well — and which blew up three months later?

This is where Living Brief doesn't just support the meeting. It learns from the conversation data over time and surfaces patterns invisible when you're buried in individual sessions.

The rarest kind of intelligence: not what happened in today's meeting, but what your meetings — as a body of work — are telling you about how your organization actually makes decisions.
Pattern Intelligence · 12-Month View
High Med Low Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Decision quality Recurring open issues ⚡ PATTERN DETECTED Q3 always defers pricing

Your data works hard.
Your meetings should too.
Let's build your Living Brief.

Living Brief is Visual Meeting Intelligence by DataBlick — bringing the same rigour we bring to your data, to the conversations that drive your decisions.