The most-requested feature on the overview chat was the most basic: help me start a study. Customers knew what they wanted to learn but not how to phrase it as a research brief — what to ask, how many people to ask, where to start.
The wand button does that step for you.
What's new
The wand. Type a sentence describing what you want to learn into the overview chat's textarea, hit the wand icon, and the assistant drafts a complete study brief — objective, target panel, recommended group size and question count, and the questions themselves. Drafts default to 7 questions and 10 participants. Lands as editable text in the same textarea, ready for you to tweak before sending.
Live progress. While the assistant is working, the textarea shows rotating progress messages ("understanding what you want…", "checking your prior studies for context…", "drafting questions…"). Eight-second rotation; backend phases take precedence when they update.
Context-aware drafting. The assistant reads your organisation's prior studies and asked-question history when drafting, so it doesn't suggest something you've just done. Direct collisions are caught and rejected automatically with one retry.
Stays in scope. The brief is constrained to what Ditto can actually do — synthetic-persona research with the Ditto question shapes. The assistant won't draft "30-minute remote video interviews" or other methodology that isn't on offer.
Who can use it
All authorised organisation users. There's no separate flag, no admin gate, and no extra permission — if you can see the overview chat, you can press the wand.
The original chat behaviour (free-form conversation with the assistant) is unchanged.
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