Canvas

Canvas lets you build dashboards by describing what you want to see. Instead of configuring widgets and data sources, type “show champions who recently departed” or “graph support ticket volume by severity” and the block appears with live data.

Creating a canvas

Start with a blank canvas or a template. Add blocks by describing what you want in plain language:

• “Show at-risk customers renewing in Q2”
• “List top feature requests from enterprise accounts”
• “Graph product usage trends over last 90 days”

Sonora creates the block, pulls the data, and renders the results. Edit the query or ask follow-up questions to refine.

Block types

Lists — Customer lists, feature requests, support tickets. Filterable, sortable, and clickable for full details.

Tables — Structured data with columns you specify. Exportable to CSV.

Charts — Time series, bar charts, pie charts for visualizing trends in usage, sentiment, or support volume.

Metrics — Single numbers: total ARR at risk, average health score, open critical tickets.

Text summaries — Natural language takeaways. “3 champions departed this month. Engagement dropped at 5 accounts.”

There’s also a library of pre-built blocks — at-risk renewals, champion changes, support escalations, feature request trends — that you can drop in and customize.

Canvas vs. Chat

Chat is for investigation. You have a question, you want an answer. “Why did this customer churn?” “Which accounts mentioned this feature?”

Canvas is for monitoring. Build a view once and check it daily. Renewal pipelines, health score dashboards, executive summaries. Blocks refresh automatically as data updates.

Sharing and export

Share canvases with teammates via link. Viewers see live data scoped to their permissions. Export lists and tables to CSV, or export charts as images for decks.

Filtering

Edit any block’s query after creation to narrow results. Canvas-level filters apply across all blocks — set “enterprise accounts only” and every block respects it.