Studio

Studio is the room where your scan becomes something you can hand to someone else. A scan, on its own, is a structured snapshot inside the app — heatmap, timeline, executive narrative, the underlying source list. That is useful at your desk. But the head of compliance wants a one-page tearsheet by 4pm. Operations wants slides for the Monday call. You want to listen to the highlights on the train home. Studio is where each of those becomes a real file you can download.

You will find Studio in the dashboard’s top navigation, anchored to whichever scan you currently have open. Every artefact you generate is stamped with that scan’s eight-character identifier so two months from now you can match a PDF in your downloads folder back to the scan that produced it.

Why this matters

A briefing that lives inside the app helps you. A briefing that lives in a one-page PDF, or a five-minute audio file, or a slide in someone else’s deck, helps your whole team. Studio is the difference between “I read about it on the dashboard” and “I forwarded the head of compliance a tearsheet at 3pm and she opened it on her phone.”

The mental model: gallery, not menu

If you have used a print-on-demand site you already have the model. Studio is a gallery: rows of thumbnails, each one a complete preview of what you will get. Click the thumbnail you like, hit the generate button, and a card appears with a status pill (QUEUED → GENERATING → READY). When it is ready, you click Download — or, for media types, Play / Watch / View inline without leaving the page.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  [Slides]  [Tearsheets]  [Infographics]  [Audio]  [Video]   │
├──────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────┤
│  Configure                           │  Previously          │
│                                      │  generated           │
│  Style:                              │                      │
│  ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐    │  ┌─────────────────┐ │
│  │     │ │     │ │     │ │     │    │  │ Q3 EU AML scan  │ │
│  │     │ │     │ │     │ │     │ …  │  │ READY  Download │ │
│  └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘    │  └─────────────────┘ │
│                                      │  ┌─────────────────┐ │
│  [Generate]                          │  │ … (queued job)  │ │
└──────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘

The left side of Studio is the configure panel — pick the format, pick a style (where relevant), pick a voice (for audio), pick a few other knobs. The right side is the Previously Generated list — every artefact you have produced for this scan, with status pills and action buttons.

The five categories

Studio collects every output type into five categories along a pill bar at the top:

A category opens a configure panel on the left and a list of Previously Generated artefacts on the right, so you can compare a new render to whatever you produced earlier in the session.

Tearsheets

A tearsheet is a single-page executive summary — the right artefact for “I need to send the head of compliance one page on what’s on the horizon.” Studio offers two flavours:

• Clean Overview — fast, text-based, no visual style. Reaches READY in a few seconds. The right pick when you want the content fast and aesthetics are not the point.
• Detailed Tearsheet — runs through a visual rendering pipeline that lets you pick from a portfolio of editorial styles (Bloomberg Editorial is the default and is the safest pick for external sharing). Slightly slower, dramatically prettier.

[!NOTE] If you are sharing the tearsheet externally — to clients, counsel, or anyone outside your team — Bloomberg Editorial is the right default. It reads as serious, current, and neutral. The more stylised choices (Cassandre, Riso, Lichtenstein) are great for internal briefings but can feel theatrical to an external audience.

A typical tearsheet captures:

• The executive narrative’s bottom line, in pull-quote form at the top.
• The top three to five priorities, each one or two sentences.
• The next several key deadlines, with dates.
• A “watch list” of items not yet at high confidence.

The output is a PDF or image file you can attach to an email, drop into a Teams channel, or print.

Infographics

An infographic is a single dense image — poster-sized, editorial-style. Use it when the audience needs more visual impact than a tearsheet: a Monday all-hands deck, a townhall slide, a printed handout for a committee meeting.

Studio includes a portfolio of fifteen editorial styles, grouped into families:

• Editorial defaults — Bloomberg Editorial.
• Riso family — Riso Classic, Riso Tritone, Riso Hero.
• Period and decorative — Cassandre Deco light/dark, Ornamental Deco, Steampunk, Constructivist.
• Modernist — Bauhaus, Swiss International, Saul Bass.
• Pop and illustrative — Lichtenstein Pop, Japanese Editorial.
• Typographic — Penguin / Fitzcarraldo.

Pick by audience and density:

[!NOTE] Studio’s visual pipeline is optimised for text fidelity. Words in your scan — priorities, deadlines, jurisdictions, regulator names — are rendered accurately and laid out in editorial style. Generic image generators that produce prettier illustrations tend to render text as gibberish; for a regulatory artefact, that is disqualifying. The trade-off is that Studio’s infographics look more “editorial poster” than “magazine cover” — deliberately.

Audio briefings

The most underrated thing Studio does is turn a scan into something you can listen to. A regulatory snapshot read by a clear voice takes about as long to consume on a commute as a podcast episode — and unlike a tearsheet, you do not need to be at your desk.

Studio offers four audio formats:

Picking a voice

The default voice is Alice — clear, engaging, English. She is the one we recommend if you do not have a strong preference: she renders complex regulatory copy without making it sound robotic.

Other voices worth knowing about:

• Alice — clear, engaging, English. Default for briefings.
• Mark Instant — a richer, more measured voice, often used as the analyst-side voice in dialogue.
• Mathieu — French.
• Daniel — German.
• Xavier — Spanish.
• Isabella — Italian.

The voice picker is populated from your account — every voice available to you shows up in the dropdown.

Multi-language audio

Audio briefings support seven languages out of the box: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin, and Japanese. A glossary protects regulatory acronyms (FCA, MiFID, AML/CTF, ESMA, and the rest) so they survive translation intact.

To produce a non-English briefing, switch the dashboard language before you generate. The audio job picks up the language from the scan, translates the briefing copy, and sends it to the voice with the right language code so pronunciation is correct. For French, switch the voice to Mathieu (or another French-native voice) — a native voice sounds dramatically better than English voices speaking French.

Discussion mode

Discussion mode generates a dialogue script with a host and a guest, then renders it as a multi-voice conversation. The output sounds like a five-minute analyst briefing for a podcast feed. The script is capped at roughly 4,500 characters (about 5 minutes of audio).

[!NOTE] Discussion mode is the most ambitious output Studio produces and can occasionally exceed the request budget during generation. If it fails, the server falls back automatically to a single-voice Briefing render so you do not go home empty-handed.

Inline playback

Audio briefings play inline in a persistent bottom dock without leaving Studio — you can queue several, they auto-advance, and playback survives navigating between tabs. Click the dock to scrub, pause, or close.

Slide decks

Studio produces two flavours of PowerPoint deck:

• Standard slide deck — a built-in template, 11+ slides, dark theme by default. Fast to generate. Use this when you want to drop a section of your existing deck onto Snapshot’s output.
• Detailed deck — a longer, narrative-rich deck. Slower to generate but tells more of the story.

Both arrive as .pptx files you can open in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides and edit freely.

Video

Studio’s video formats — cinematic and explainer — are the longest-running outputs. They run as background jobs and typically take 30+ minutes. Generate one when you have time to come back later; the job continues whether you stay on the page or not, and the artefact will be waiting under Previously Generated when you return.

The ident chip — what it’s for

Every artefact card carries a small monospaced chip with eight uppercase characters. That is the scan ident: the identifier stamped on the scan when it runs and embedded into every artefact filename produced from it.

Why you care: two months from now, you will find an infographic in someone’s email called something like infographic-7K2Q9XB4.jpg and you will be able to look up the scan that produced it. Inside the app, the ident is searchable — you can drop into My Snapshots, find the scan with that ident, and walk through the underlying sources.

[!NOTE] The ident is not a content hash — two different scans of the same configuration get different idents. If you re-run a scan and want to compare, the second scan gets its own ident and its own artefacts.

Watching a job

While a job is running, the card shows GENERATING with a subtle pulse and the configure panel’s generate button is disabled until it lands. If you flip to a different category (say, you click Audio while the infographic is rendering), the job continues — Studio does not lose state. When you come back, the card will be there with whatever status it has reached.

If a job fails, you will see a FAILED pill, a short error line, and two buttons: Retry and Dismiss. Retry resubmits the same job with the same options — usually enough to recover from a transient hiccup. Dismiss removes it from the list.

Inline viewers

In addition to the Download button, completed artefacts on the Previously Generated list expose inline affordances so you can preview without leaving the page:

• Audio — Play in a persistent bottom dock with auto-advance.
• Video — Watch in a centred modal that you can minimise to a draggable picture-in-picture.
• PDF — View in a fullscreen reader.
• Image (infographic / tearsheet) — View in a zoom-and-pan viewer.

Slides are download-only by design — .pptx is best opened in your slide editor of choice.

A walked-through scenario

You have just finished a scan tracking AML / KYC changes across the UK and EU. The executive narrative reads well. You want three things by 5pm:

1. A tearsheet for the head of compliance. Open Studio, click Tearsheets, pick Bloomberg Editorial (the default), and hit Generate. About 30 seconds later a card appears in Previously Generated with a download button.
2. A poster-style infographic for the all-hands deck on Monday. Click Infographics. This time pick Cassandre Deco light because the slide is going up on a screen and you want it to feel less corporate. Generate, wait, download.
3. A 5-minute audio briefing for the train. Click Audio, pick Briefing (solo read), leave the voice on Alice. Generate. The job runs in the background; the card stays in GENERATING for a couple of minutes while the voice renders, then flips to READY. Click Play to listen in the dock, or download the MP3 and AirDrop it to your phone.

By 5pm you have three files, all stamped with the same scan ident. If the head of compliance asks two weeks from now where these came from, you can match the ident on either file back to the scan in My Snapshots and walk through the sources.

Common pitfalls

[!WARNING] A few things worth flagging:

• Don’t over-rotate styles inside one document set. If you generate a tearsheet in Cassandre Deco light, an infographic in Lichtenstein Pop, and a slide deck with the default theme, the artefacts won’t feel like they’re from the same scan. Pick one visual register per package.
• Sparse scans produce sparse infographics. If your scan returned only a handful of items, an infographic will look thin. Tearsheets handle thin scans more gracefully — they’re built around an executive summary so a shorter scan still has somewhere to go.
• Studio operates on whichever scan you currently have open. If you switched snapshots since opening Studio, refresh — the gallery anchors to the snapshot in view.

Beyond the basics

• Hover an artefact card to see a thumbnail preview before downloading.
• Queue several audio briefings — they will auto-advance in the dock with FIFO order.
• Match exports across colleagues by ident. If two people generated tearsheets from the same scan, the ident on both files will be identical, so you can deduplicate at a glance.

For developers

Studio renders artefacts that the API can also produce headlessly. The same export types — tearsheets, infographics, audio, slide decks, video, PDF — are available via POST /v1/exports, and finished artefacts are listed alongside the snapshot they belong to. Useful if you want to drive Studio output from a scheduled workflow or pipe artefacts straight into another system without a human in the loop.

Where to go next

• Reading the dashboard — what each Studio export draws from.
• What’s changed since last scan — change tracking on recurring scans.
• FAQ — common questions about exports.