Analysis Recommendations with Intake Conversations

Orion now suggests analyses worth running directly in your conversations, surfacing opportunities at the moment you're already discussing the relevant topic.

When you click through on a recommendation, a short intake conversation opens to clarify exactly what you want—whether that's a slide deck, dashboard, metrics report, or something else—before any analysis work begins. This ensures the final result matches what you asked for rather than a generic guess.

Improvements

• Gemini Enterprise users can now ask Orion about their workflows and receive accurate answers about which workflows exist, when they last ran, and what each run produced.

Editable dbt Configuration

You can now edit a data source's dbt configuration after it is created. Update dbt Cloud, GitHub, or uploaded-manifest settings and rotate dbt credentials directly from the data source's Connection tab, without deleting and recreating the connection.

Per-Datasource Schema Auto-Enable Control

Data source admins can now control, per data source, whether newly discovered tables and explores are enabled or disabled by default. This gives you fine-grained control over which new schema elements appear in your workspace without requiring manual review of every discovery.

Improvements

• Resolved bug that affected dashboard dropdown rendering
• Fixed dashboard data pipeline to improve reliability

Workspace Panel: See the Sources Behind Every Answer

Open the Workspace panel (or click "Sources for this reply" under any answer) to see exactly which knowledge base pages, memory, metrics, and project settings Orion used to reach that result.

Each source is linked directly so you can open a Knowledge Base page to verify or edit it. This makes it much easier to understand and trust how Orion reached a conclusion.

Improvements

• Dashboards no longer display partial query results as complete data; when a result exceeds the calculation limit, you are prompted to narrow the data with a filter instead.

Improvements

• Interactive dashboard conversations now remain responsive as dashboards are created and edited, with dashboard thumbnails using substantially less browser memory.
• The "Remember this" memory prompt now displays a clean memory icon and shows "Saved" status more clearly.
• Memory suggestions now display the full instruction Orion will remember, making it easier to understand exactly what will be retained for future conversations.

Rename Conversations for Better Organization

You can now rename your chats from the history sidebar to keep past conversations organized and easy to find. Give your conversations meaningful names that reflect their purpose, making it simple to locate and revisit important analyses.

Improvements

• Bug fixes for network interruptions during chat conversations

Connect Amazon Athena as a Data Source

You can now connect Amazon Athena as a data source. Orion introspects your AWS Glue catalog, learns which tables and columns your team queries most, and runs analyses directly against Athena.

Per-User BigQuery OAuth Access

You can now connect your own Google account to a BigQuery data source that uses per-user access, so Orion runs your queries under your own BigQuery permissions.

Connect or disconnect any time from the data source's Connection tab. Admins can configure the OAuth credentials directly in the datasource settings instead of coordinating separately.

Smarter Memory and Knowledge-Base Suggestions

When you state a durable company fact or a personal preference, Orion now offers to save it to the right place: facts to the knowledge-base wiki, preferences to your personal memory.

It only offers to save things you actually said, won't re-add what's already in your knowledge base, and no longer files company definitions away as personal memories.

Improvements

• Context toggle settings (Memory, Knowledge base, Previous chats) now persist for the entire conversation when you turn them off before starting a chat
• Dashboard creation is faster and more reliable
• Long-running chats that generate reports, dashboards, or slides now complete reliably without getting stuck during extended sessions

Improvements

• The datasource schema pages now load almost instantly, even for very large Looker or warehouse connections
• Resolved project owners access bug
• Uploading multiple documents to a project now reliably indexes every file for search

Improvements

• Chat initialization is noticeably faster thanks to optimized schema fetching during startup.

Choose What Orion Uses for Each Conversation

You can now control what Orion draws on for any conversation by toggling memory, knowledge base, and past chats on or off. Use the new Context control in the chat box to customize which information sources are active before you send your first message. This lets you have focused conversations that ignore your history, or leverage your full context when you need it.

Redesigned Weekly Digest Email

The weekly digest email now features a cleaner, more scannable design with a clear headline, key metrics at a glance, and concise per-project findings, each linking directly to its source for quick exploration.

Improvements

• Looker explores now surface the fields people actually use more reliably, leading to faster and more relevant query construction

• Workflow run deletion is now available throughout the product for easier history management

In-line Review for Knowledge Base Changes

Knowledge Base reviewers now see proposed changes rendered directly in the markdown, similar to suggestion mode in Google Docs. This makes it dramatically easier to understand exactly what's changing and why. A visual minimap helps you navigate longer documents, while clear indicators show you which edits you've already reviewed.

Submitters can preview their pending changes in the same beautiful rendered format before submission, ensuring their contributions look exactly as intended.

Improvements

• Backend infrastructure improvements enabling enhanced workflow context tracking across artifact pages

Behavioral Usage Understanding Without LookML

Orion now understands how your Looker fields are actually used—query frequency, common filters, co-queried fields, and importance—even when you don't have a connected LookML repo or have AI descriptions disabled. This means your analysis reflects real usage patterns in more cases, and the system's understanding stays fresh after each nightly refresh.

Persona-Based Explore Intelligence

Orion now understands who uses each Looker explore and what business questions their query patterns answer. This lets the system frame analysis around the people and decisions an explore actually serves and proactively suggest the next useful question based on real usage behavior.

Improvements

• Bug fix to resolve project document search issues

Workflows 2.0

Workflows 2.0 introduces a new form factor and suite of capabilities which completely reshape how you build and manage automated analysis in Orion. Moving from opaque, single-artifact automations to a fully visible, flexible system.

Visual Workflow Builder Canvas

When you ask Orion to create or edit a workflow, a visual canvas now appears directly in the chat. See the full workflow structure as it's built, provide feedback in real time, and manage schedules, inputs, and outputs from the canvas at any time.

A button in the bottom-right corner opens any workflow back into chat so you can modify or troubleshoot it with Orion directly.

Decision Steps: LLM-Powered Branching Logic

Decision steps are the biggest new capability in Workflows 2.0. An LLM evaluates your analysis results and decides — per output — whether that step should run. For example: a workflow tracks revenue, and a decision step determines whether the movement warrants escalation.

If it does, a detailed report is generated and emailed to your team. If not, the workflow ends quietly — no report, no notification, no noise. Decisions can run before reports are generated (gating what gets produced) or after (reading a completed report before deciding whether to fire a Slack alert).

More Flexible Workflow Composition

Workflows no longer require a notebook. Build workflows that run entirely on metrics, combine multiple input types (metrics, notebooks, documents) across multiple analysis steps, and use decision gating to control which outputs run based on what the data shows.

New Output Types

• Podcast: Generate an audio overview as a workflow output. Customize the structure and tone through prompting. Podcasts must be played in the app — they are linked but not playable inline in email.
• Data Exports: Export analysis results as CSV, multi-sheet XLSX, or a ZIP bundle. Export steps support the same notification and decision gating as reports.

Composable, Multi-Channel Notifications

Notifications are now a dedicated step, giving you control over who gets what and when. Deliver any combination of reports and exports to Slack channels, emails, or user groups — configured independently per output, and conditionally gated by decision steps.

Improved Observability and Run History

The run history now shows execution times, any issues encountered, and latest results. See who last modified the workflow, review the full revision history, and trigger manual runs with real-time step-by-step progress in the canvas.

Workflow Notification Emails with Inline Previews

Workflow notification emails now include inline previews of generated artifacts, so you can see your analysis and reports directly in your inbox without opening the app.

Improvements

• Search filter pills now prioritize the most-used content types (Projects, Artifacts, Conversations) at the top for faster filtering

• Artifact results in search now display color-coded type badges (Report, Slides, Dashboard) for quicker visual scanning

• Backend stability improvements

Downloadable Charts and Faster Exports

Orion can now produce downloadable PNG charts on request—just ask "show me that as a bar chart" and the chart appears inline ready to download. Report and slide PDF exports also complete faster thanks to a dedicated rendering service handling the heavy lifting.

Email Domain-Based SSO Group Mapping

You can now use email domains to automatically map users to groups during single sign-on. When users log in with their company email, they're instantly assigned to the appropriate groups based on their domain—streamlining onboarding and eliminating manual group assignment for large teams.

Delta Lake Connector Support

You can now connect to Delta Lake as a data source alongside your existing connectors. This expands your data integration options and lets you work with Delta Lake tables in your analyses and reports.

Click-to-Comment on Artifact Elements

When previewing slide decks and dashboard deliverables in fullscreen view, you can now click directly on specific regions to refine them. Simply click the area you want to change and describe what you'd like adjusted.

Improvements

• SSO provider configuration updates

Admin Sudo and Support Access Management

Tenant admins can now use Settings → Users to "Sudo as" any user in their tenant for support and debugging purposes. A new Settings → Support Access page lets admins grant time-bounded access to Gravity support engineers when they need it—with a required note and TTL—and revoke that access at any time. This gives you full control over when external support can investigate issues on your behalf.

Edit and Update Previously Published Artifacts

Orion can now edit and update reports and dashboards that were published in prior sessions or from recurring workflows.

Direct and Via Group Access Visibility

The project share panel now shows whether each member has direct access or access through a group. Group-based members can no longer be removed from the share panel—instead a tooltip explains they need to be removed from the group itself, preventing accidental access revocation.

Improvements

• Bug Fix: MySQL data source configuration updates
• Improved PDF downloads for slide decks and markdown reports
• Knowledge base pages enabled on a project are now automatically accessible to all users who have access to that project, including users who reach the project through a group

Speech-to-Text Dictation in Chat

You can now dictate your messages using voice by clicking the microphone button next to the chat submit button. Simply click to start recording, speak your message, and click again to stop—your words are transcribed directly into the chat input. Voice dictation is supported on Chrome, Edge, and Safari.

Improvements

• Admins can now configure SSO claim-to-group mappings directly in the provider settings UI without needing to use the API.
• User group membership and role are automatically kept in sync with their identity token when logging in via SSO, eliminating the need for manual re-assignment when your organization structure changes.
• Workflows with similar names now appear independently on the project carousel and can be opened individually, even when naming conventions create collisions.

Output Analysis Results as CSV

You can now download dataframes from the analysis directly as CSV files from your chat conversations and notebooks. This makes it easy to export analysis results for use in spreadsheets, other tools, or sharing with teammates who need the raw data.

Simply ask Orion to "create a downloadable CSV of the results".

In-line Mention Autocomplete

Reference prior chat conversations, Knowledge Base pages, Workflows, Templates & Metrics directly in your chat conversations using the @-mention system. Type `@` to see the categories and continue typing (or click) to filter results and reference them in-line.

Improvements

• Rename metrics on the fly by clicking the metric name in the detail sheet
• Tables are now far more responsive and stable, even with large datasets
• Metric updates and visualization changes save more reliably

Manage Members on Duplicated Projects

When you duplicate a project, you are now automatically recorded as its owner. This means you can immediately add and remove members on the new project using the Share dialog, giving you full control over access without needing an admin to set up permissions for you.

Improvements

• The "Last refreshed" timestamp on a datasource's Refresh tab now stays consistent across page reloads and accurately reflects when the schema was last refreshed

• After a Full Resync on a Looker datasource, the "Last refreshed" timestamp updates as soon as LookML files finish syncing, providing earlier visibility into sync progress

• Datasource schema refresh no longer times out on Looker instances with large LookML installations

Group Management

You can now create and manage groups directly from the Settings page. Add members to your groups and link projects, data sources, knowledge base pages, and integrations all in one place. Group data sources and integrations are displayed grouped by type for easier scanning, and viewer-role users now correctly see all projects shared with them via group membership.

Read the documentation here.

Improvements

• Group analysts can now create knowledge base pages and control which KB pages are shared with their groups
• The Add Member modal no longer displays users that cannot be added, eliminating confusing failed requests
• Fireflies meeting transcript lists now load reliably even when your most recent meetings include in-progress or aborted recordings

Instant Schema Updates on Datasource Refresh

Refresh Data on a datasource now immediately picks up newly-added tables and schema changes on the first click. Previously, if a schema cache already existed, the refresh would skip the update and you'd need to wait for the nightly job or manually clear the cache to see new tables. Now the refresh always fetches fresh data from your source.

Improvements

• Model routing for automations and chat now uses the latest Claude models for improved performance and reliability.