Every month, the same cycle gets rebuilt. The headcount plan gets re-pasted into a fresh tab, the variance chart gets remade because a late actual moved, and the board deck gets assembled slide by slide the night before. None of that is analysis. It's assembly. This webinar is a live tour of what Cube shipped this summer, all of it pointed at the same outcome: a monthly cycle you refresh instead of rebuild. Shayan Ashtiani, Cube's Head of Product, will spend the session in the product, with real clicks on real data. Whether you own the monthly cycle or you present what comes out of it, you'll leave with things you can use on your next cycle. We'll cover:
Boards and Cube Decks: build the visual once, present it anywhere
Boards came out of beta this summer, and this is where the session starts. We'll build a visual in Boards with the Visualization Agent, add calculated columns, and drill from the chart down to the transactions behind it. Then we'll drop that same visual into PowerPoint or Google Slides and refresh it in one click when the numbers move. Everyone in this audience has rebuilt a board deck by hand. This is the version where you don't.
Tables in the Web: plans that live in the browser
Headcount, pipeline, and capex plans, built and managed directly in Cube. We'll show how a plan gets structured, edited, and shared without a spreadsheet passing through six inboxes first, and how the numbers stay tied to the same governed layer as everything else. The plan and the reporting finally live in one place, so an update in one shows up in the other.
MCP write-back: an agent that publishes, not just reads
Most AI connections in this category read your numbers. Cube's writes them. Through the Cube MCP Server, an agent in Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini can now publish a forecast back into Cube, with your approvals, permissions, and audit trail applied on the way in. We'll do it live: ask for a change, watch it land in the model, and open the log that records who published what and when. This is the piece that turns an AI conversation into finished work.
Also shipped this summer
A quick pass through the rest, including Multi-range Publish, Undo Publish, Rename Dimension, and task reminders. Each one takes a step out of work you do every cycle, which is how the time actually adds up. We'll close with 10 minutes of live Q&A.