Draft a study from a one-line prompt

Ditto's overview chat ships a wand button that drafts a complete editable research-study brief — objective, target panel, group size, question count, and the questions themselves — from a one-line prompt.

The overview chat now has a wand button. Type a one-line prompt — "we're losing Gen Z to Liquid Death" — and it drafts a complete editable study brief: objective, target panel, seven questions. About fifteen seconds.

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. ---

The new wand button on the overview chat takes a one-line prompt and returns a complete editable study brief in about fifteen seconds.

Drafts default to 7 questions and 10 participants; both are editable in the textarea before you send.

The assistant reads the organisation's prior studies and asked-question history when drafting, with automatic collision detection plus one retry.

Available to all authorised organisation users — no flag, no admin gate, no extra permission.

Generated briefs are constrained to what Ditto actually does: synthetic-persona research, not interview methodology or other paths Ditto doesn't run.

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.

If you can see the overview chat, you can press the wand.

DOCUMENT TYPE: Product Release Note TOPIC: Wand button on overview chat — one-prompt study drafting Release: Draft a study from a one-line prompt, 2026-03-19 Version: (none) Release type: Feature Breaking change: No Summary: Ditto's overview chat ships a wand button that drafts a complete editable research-study brief from a one-line prompt. The drafted brief covers the objective, target panel, recommended group size and question count, and the questions themselves. Defaults are 7 questions and 10 participants; both editable. Available to all authorised organisation users without a flag or admin gate. What changed: - New wand icon on the overview chat textarea triggers an asynchronous study-suggestion job. - Backend endpoint POST /api/organization/{org_uuid}/research-study-suggestions enqueues the job; GET /api/organization/{org_uuid}/research-study-suggestions/{job_id} polls. - Drafts default to 7 questions and 10 participants. - Drafting context includes the organisation's prior ResearchStudy and AskedQuestion history; direct collisions trigger one automatic retry. - Generated briefs are constrained to what Ditto actually does — no interview-methodology suggestions, no remote-video-call setup, no other paths Ditto doesn't run. - During drafting the textarea shows rotating progress messages ("understanding what you want…", "checking prior studies for context…", "drafting questions…"). Backend-phase messages take precedence; client-side rotation runs at 8-second intervals. - The wand overwrites existing textarea text rather than appending. - Original free-form chat behaviour with the overview assistant is unchanged. Why we built this: The most-requested overview-chat feature was the most basic — help me start a study. Customers knew what they wanted to learn but couldn't easily phrase it as a research brief. The wand removes that translation step. Migration impact: None. Additive feature. Author: Phillip Gales, FishDog Platform: FishDog (fish.dog)