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What it does

An artifact is a self-contained interactive page that the Assistant builds for you. Where a report is a document you read, an artifact is something you click through: drill into a table, switch a selector, filter a view, hover for detail. It is one file, with everything it needs baked in, so you can download it and open it anywhere, even offline.

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Artifacts or Reports?

Both are things the Assistant produces, and they suit different jobs. If you are not sure which you want, say so, and the Assistant will ask.

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Creating an artifact

Artifacts are built in the Assistant, and asking for one explicitly is what triggers it. A normal question gets you a normal answer, so be direct: ask for an interactive dashboard, or a page you can click through.
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Ask for one in the Assistant

Describe what you want, for example “Build an interactive dashboard of Q1 spend by department.”
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It gets built and saved

The Assistant queries the data it needs, builds the page, and saves it. The artifact opens in a panel beside your chat, and you get a link to it in the conversation.
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Open it full page

Use Full page from the panel to see it on its own, or find it later under Artifacts.
An artifact is a snapshot. The figures in it are the figures from the moment it was built, and reopening it does not refresh them. Ask the Assistant to rebuild it when you need current numbers.

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Checking the numbers

Artifacts carry their provenance with them, so you can interrogate any figure without leaving the page. Figures that have been traced back to a query appear with a dotted underline. Click one and you see its value, what it measures, the source it came from, the period, how it was calculated, and when the data was last synced. You can expand View query to see the exact query that produced it. Tables and charts get their own button underneath, along the lines of SQL query behind this table, which opens the same detail with the query shown.
Not every number carries a dotted underline. Pluvo marks what it can trace and leaves the rest plain, so an unmarked figure means it was not traced, rather than that it is wrong.

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Editing an artifact

You edit an artifact by asking, and you can point at exactly the part you mean.
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Choose Edit a section

In the artifact panel beside your chat, choose Edit a section.
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Click the part you want to change

Hover the artifact and each section highlights as you go over it. Click the one you want.
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Say what to change

A small box appears on that section. Describe the change and send it. The Assistant rewrites that section and the panel refreshes.
You can also just ask in the conversation, for example “change the Q3 column to show margin instead.” The Assistant knows which artifact the chat is working on and edits it rather than building a second one.
Very large artifacts cannot be edited in place. If you hit that, the Assistant will tell you and rebuild it as a smaller one instead.

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Finding and managing artifacts

The Artifacts list shows each artifact with its owner and when it was created and last updated, sorted with the most recently updated first. The search box finds artifacts by title. From an artifact you can:
  • Download HTML to save it as a single file you can open outside Pluvo or send to someone
  • Delete it, from either the list or the artifact itself
Deleting is permanent, so rebuild it from the Assistant if you need it back.

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Tips

Artifacts are the right choice when someone else will want to poke at the numbers themselves rather than read your conclusion. Build a report when you want to make a point, and an artifact when you want to hand over the exploration.
Artifacts may not be switched on for every organization yet. If you do not see it in your sidebar, contact your account team.