Your answers, your next version

Turn your answers into the next version.

When you answer a reader's question, Decktrace suggests where that answer belongs in the deck and drafts the addition. You edit, approve and publish it as a new version. When a similar question comes, your earlier answer is offered as a starting point.

A feed of suggestions for the Brightlane proposal for Harrow Retail. Next version: Add a rollout timeline to page 4, because your answer to Olivia Bennett says when the rollout starts and the page gives no dates. Next version: Add what training includes to page 3, because you answered a question about team training. Earlier answer: Start from your earlier answer, because Reader 5 asked about rollout timing, like Olivia did. Drafts only; nothing is sent or published until you choose.

Two kinds of card

One for your deck, one for your reply.

Next version cards point at a page to change, based on an answer you gave. Earlier answer cards bring back a reply you already wrote when a similar question comes in.

Two lanes of suggestion cards. Next version, what to change in the deck: Add a rollout timeline to page 4 of the Brightlane proposal, from your answer to Olivia Bennett, the dates come from you, review the draft. Add your market size to page 3 of Aurora Robotics, from your answer to Sarah Chen's question, the figures come from you, review the draft. Earlier answers, a starting point for a reply: Reader 5 asked about rollout timing like Olivia, Reader 6 asked about market size like Sarah, and Reader 7 asked about training like Reader 2: each can start from your earlier reply.

Card anatomy

Every card shows its working.

A suggestion is only useful if you can check it. Each card says what you answered, where that answer belongs, what Decktrace drafted and how far the evidence goes. Then the decision is yours.

  • Built from the answers you gave
  • The limits are written on the card
  • Nothing happens until you choose
One suggestion card, Add a rollout timeline, in five parts. Observation: you answered Olivia Bennett's question on page 4, Rollout: week 1 map one workflow, week 2 train one store team. Where it belongs: Rollout, page 4, which says what happens but not when. Suggested action: add a short timeline with week 1, week 2 and a review; a draft is ready. Evidence and limits: your answer, page 4 and version 1; the dates come from you and Decktrace adds none. You decide: edit the draft or set it aside.

Preview the change

See the edit before anyone else does.

A Next version card opens as a change you can read: the page as it is, the page as it could be and what was added. Edit it, approve it, then publish when you are ready. Readers keep the current version until then.

A change preview for page 4, Rollout, of the Brightlane proposal. Steps: edited, approved, publish next. On the left, version 1, live now, without dates. On the right, version 2, a draft, with a rollout timeline: week 1, map one workflow; week 2, train one team; then review together. What changes: a rollout timeline is added, the title and introduction are kept, and the Turkish version is marked out of date. Facts from you: the three timeline steps. Readers keep version 1 until you publish; questions asked on version 1 stay with it. Buttons: keep editing, publish version 2.

Limits

What Decktrace will not guess.

Suggestions stay inside what you answered and what the page says. Where the evidence is thin, the card says so, or there is no card at all.

  • No invented facts

    If a page needs dates, prices or names, the card asks you for them.

  • No intent scores

    You see what readers did: pages, time, visits. Never a score for what they want.

  • No answer, no card

    A Next version card starts from an answer you gave. Without one, you see a plain summary.

The Atlas Freight partnership proposal, sent Monday, has two readers. The summary lists facts only: Reader 1, approximately Istanbul, Turkish, laptop, read to the end. Reader 2, approximately Berlin, English, phone, stopped at page 3. No suggestion yet: no question has been answered, so there is nothing to build a card from.

Coming soon

Two more kinds of suggestion.

Next reply cards will say who to contact and what to send, based on how each person read. Cards drawn from reading patterns will point at pages where readers slow down or stop. Both are coming soon.

A preview of two kinds of card that are coming soon. Next reply, who to contact and what to send: Call Sarah today, she read twice, 6m 12s, Traction 2:05, draft a follow-up. Send David the ask, he stopped at page 4 after 1m 40s, share page 6. From reading patterns: Tighten the Market page of Aurora Robotics, readers slow down there, preview a rewrite.

Also in every card

From the card to the next step.

A card is a starting point you can act on: a reply to edit, the page an answer belongs on, a translation to review, or a card you set aside.

  • Earlier answers

    Reuse what you wrote.

    A similar question brings up your earlier answer to edit and send.

  • Placement

    Find the right page.

    Decktrace points at the page your answer belongs on.

  • Languages

    Translations stay in step.

    When a page changes, its approved translation is marked out of date.

  • Your call

    Set a card aside.

    Not useful today? Put it away. Your answer stays in its thread.

  • Evidence

    Every card shows its source.

    Each card names the answer and the page it came from.

  • Overview

    One feed for every deck.

    Suggestions from all your decks, newest first, in one place.

Questions

Smart suggestions, answered.

From your own answers. When you answer a reader's question, Decktrace suggests where that answer belongs in the deck and drafts the addition. When a similar question comes later, your earlier answer is offered as a starting point. Suggestions drawn from reading patterns are coming soon.

No. A Next version card can prepare a change and an earlier answer can be offered as a starting point for a reply, but nothing is sent or published until you choose to.

Every card shows what it is built from: the answer you gave, the page it belongs on and the deck version. The limits are written on the card, so you can judge it yourself.

Then there is nothing to build a card from, and you see a plain summary of the reading instead. A card appears when you answer a question.

We are choosing the models and the rules for your data together, and we want both to be clear before anyone relies on them. We will publish the details before launch.

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