Building research briefs

A research brief is where an investigation becomes a deliverable, and what the app calls a report. Each project can hold several, and every one autosaves as you write. For how a brief fits into the wider arc from an open question to a grounded position, see the Decision Intelligence Terminal.

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Creating a report

From the project workspace, open the Reports tab and create a new report. Reports open in a full-page editor with the document on a clean stage and formatting controls at hand.

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The editor

The report editor is a complete rich-text environment:

• Structure: headings, paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, task lists with checkboxes.
• Tables: full table support with header rows, and per-cell editing.
• Media: images and links inline in the document.
• Emphasis: bold, italic, underline, highlight, and text alignment.
• Character count: visible as you write, useful for length-constrained deliverables.

Everything autosaves; there is no save button to remember.

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Chart blocks

Reports can embed live charts rendered from your data, not screenshots. Charts are interactive in the editor and render crisply in the exported PDF.

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Bringing in artifacts

Artifacts saved from results (tables, charts, entity summaries) can be placed into a report, keeping the link back to the query that produced them. This is the fastest way to assemble a report: run queries, save artifacts, arrange them into a narrative.

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Exporting to PDF

When the report is ready, export it to PDF. Antlect renders the document server-side, including charts and tables, into a print-quality PDF, stored with the project so past versions remain retrievable.