Automated Insights

Automated insights detect patterns across your entire portfolio and surface them as actionable cards on your dashboard. They complement signals by looking at cross-cutting trends rather than individual initiatives.

What insights look like

Insights appear as cards with a severity indicator (Info, Warning, or Critical) and a clear recommendation. Each insight explains what was detected, why it matters, and what to do next.

Types of insights

StartConsole generates six types of insights:

• Concentration risk — too many critical initiatives are owned by the same person, creating a single point of failure
• Budget trend — budget variance has been increasing across consecutive quarters
• OKR velocity — current quarter OKR progress is significantly behind the previous quarter's pace
• Orphaned work — deliverables exist that are not linked to any active initiative
• Inactive owners — initiative owners have had no activity for an extended period
• Cross-initiative pattern — multiple at-risk initiatives share the same squad, suggesting a systemic bottleneck

When insights are generated

Insights are generated weekly. New insight cards appear at the start of each week. Each insight belongs to a specific week — dismissing it prevents it from showing again for that week, but a new instance may appear the following week if the condition persists.

Dismissing insights

Click the dismiss button on any insight card to remove it from your view. Dismissing does not fix the underlying issue — it simply acknowledges you have seen it.

Weekly email digest

Organisation admins receive a weekly email summarising all new insights. You can opt out of insight emails from your notification preferences in Profile settings.