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Report turns your analysis into a document you can hand to a funder, a board, or your own team.

What goes into a report

A voi report pulls in indicator scores and charts from your Analyse results, automatically clustered themes from open-ended answers, and supporting quotes pulled directly from respondent answers. Every element traces back to the original response it came from.

Starting a report

You can start from a blank canvas, or use Start from analyse layout to mirror your study’s current Analyse tab, summary, indicators, and questions, into an editable starting point in one click. You also choose how the report is laid out: one continuous page that grows as you write, or proper A4 pages with page breaks, which is worth choosing if you plan to print or export the report as a polished PDF. You can turn page breaks on later from the report’s settings if you start pageless and change your mind.

Building the report: blocks

A report is built from blocks, added by typing ”/” for a menu, using the plus button on any block, or the insert button in the toolbar. Drag any block by its handle to move it anywhere in the report, including into or out of a column layout. Every block has its own settings panel, on the left, for the options specific to it; selecting a different block swaps the panel to that block’s own settings.

Choosing indicators, questions, and quotes

A Question or Indicator block has a dropdown in its settings to pick exactly which one it shows, along with which chart type to use for it. A Quote or Quotes block opens the quote wall, where you tick the ones you want; a running count shows how many you’ve selected, and confirming saves your choice. Quotes appear in the order you selected them.

Using the AI writer

Select a text block to bring up its writing options: one-click actions to refine, correct, shorten, or expand it, plus a tone control you can nudge between casual and scientific, and between concise and expanded. voi shows you a suggested rewrite rather than changing your text outright; you then choose to replace your text with it, ask for another attempt, or discard it and keep what you had. If you’d already changed the block yourself while a suggestion was being written, you’re asked whether to replace anyway or keep your own edit.

Voice and video in a report

A short clip from a respondent’s voice or video recording can play back inline wherever a quote from them appears, but only if that respondent specifically agreed to that use during consent. If they only agreed to their transcript being used, the quote draws from the text, not the recording. Respondents are told upfront, before they answer, which kinds of audiences might eventually see the results; see Will a respondent’s voice or video appear in a report? Separately, you can also add your own short video (up to 50MB) directly into a report as its own block, for example an introduction from your team, distinct from any respondent recording.

Sharing your report

Sharing offers two routes. A share link creates a public webpage for the report; you can protect it with a password of at least 8 characters, set it to expire on a chosen date, and decide exactly what it includes: the full quote wall, recorded audio and video, whether readers can filter the results themselves, and whether they can react to it. Turning recordings off here keeps every clip out of what’s shared, not just hidden from view.
Your organisation, as the data controller, decides who can see a study’s results, including whether more than one organisation sees them, for example a fund comparing portfolio companies. This can be set up or changed at any time, even after collection starts. voi encourages you to let respondents know who will see their results, but the exact wording of that disclosure is yours to write into the consent message; see Data privacy & roles.
A share link is a snapshot, not a live view: it doesn’t update on its own after you edit the report. Use Refresh data next to that link whenever you want the people you shared it with to see your current version.

Downloading a PDF

The other route from Sharing is Download PDF, which opens your browser’s own print dialog rather than generating a file directly; choose “Save as PDF” as the destination when it opens, and leave the margins on their default setting for the best result. If your report isn’t using page breaks yet, you’re offered the chance to turn them on first, since that’s what makes a PDF paginate properly. This option is available to you as the report’s editor; anyone you’ve only shared a link with doesn’t see it.

Building more than one version

Since a report is built from your choices, not a fixed template, you can put together a shorter, funder-facing version and a more detailed internal one from the same underlying study. Start each as its own report from the study’s Report home screen; there’s no duplicate action, so build the second one the same way you built the first, choosing what goes into it. Each report is independent, so changing one never affects another.