Clarity: the assistant that shows its working
Clarity is the assistant built into Rove. You can ask it about your own products, reports and account, and about the competitors you track - and it answers from your actual Rove data rather than from general knowledge. It sits in the same panel across Rove Market Reports and Competitor Intelligence, so it is the same assistant wherever you are working.
Why Clarity is not a general chatbot
Three things separate Clarity from a chatbot you could paste your data into.
It only answers from your data. Clarity reads your products, your Trackers, your Reports, your Secure publications, your team and billing, and the competitor sets you track. It will only ever name products that exist in your own account. If it has no coverage for what you asked about, it says so plainly and does not estimate.
It shows its working. While it answers you can watch each step run, and when it finishes it cites every claim with a link into the source. This is a deliberate trade — a more visually complex answer in exchange for one you can check.
It never acts on its own. Clarity can stage nine actions that change something or spend credits — running a report, publishing to Secure, adding a product, and so on. It proposes; you confirm. Nothing is executed, and no credits are spent, without you clicking Confirm.
Opening Clarity
Clarity lives in a tile in the bottom-right corner of the page, or opens from anywhere with the keyboard shortcut. The panel opens over the page you are on, so you keep your place.
On opening, you get a greeting with the date, a START WITH block of suggested questions grouped by theme - pricing, positioning, expansion - and a RECENT list of your last few conversations with View all beside it. The header carries three controls: new chat, search, and close.
Asking a question
Type into the composer at the bottom. Two things shape the answer beyond your words:
Context chips — + Product, + Territory and + Report attach specific things to the question, so you do not have to describe them in prose.
Page context — Clarity knows which page you are standing on. Ask "what is the fat content?" on a product's report page and it answers about that product.
You can also paste a product URL straight into the composer or attach a file to give outside context.
Attaching a spec sheet, label photo or product spreadsheet does the same thing. Clarity currently accepts PDF.
The working state
While Clarity answers, the panel shows a byline (for example Clarity · Deep research) and a working card headed WORKING · STEP _ OF _. Each step is listed with its own state as it resolves the category, loads the tracked set, reads reviews, compares price movement and drafts the answer. A Stop control sits on the card.
Closing the panel is not the same as pressing Stop. If you close the panel or navigate away, generation carries on server-side and the launcher tells you when the answer is ready — the aperture in the mark fills with the gradient while work runs, and the tile expands to state the result when it lands. It will not reopen the panel by itself. Pressing Stop genuinely ends the answer; the partial is kept and marked interrupted.
Reading the answer
A finished answer collapses the trace into a single summary row — steps run, evidence read, sources used, time taken — which you can expand if you want to see the detail. Below it:
Thumbs up and thumbs down sit beneath every answer. Your selection is recorded and survives a reload — it is the fastest way to tell us an answer was wrong.
Action cards: how Clarity spends credits
When you ask for something that changes state, Clarity returns a proposal card rather than doing it. The card shows the parameters it intends to use — each row editable — the exact credit cost, your remaining balance, and an expiry countdown, with Confirm and Dismiss.
The card then settles into one of six states, and stays in the thread so the decision is still legible when you reload:
Proposed — awaiting your decision.
Executed — confirmed and run, showing what was charged, your resulting balance, and a link to what it produced.
Dismissed — you rejected it.
Expired — the proposal went stale. Ask again for a fresh one.
Blocked on credits — your balance no longer covers it. The card shows the shortfall and a top-up route; after topping up, ask Clarity again rather than retrying the old card.
Compute only — duty and tax calculates rather than changes anything, so it returns a result directly with no confirm step.
Confirming twice in quick succession executes once and charges once.
How-to answers
Ask Clarity how to do something in Rove and you get an ordered step list rather than a wall of prose. Beneath the steps, a callout combines the instructions with your account state — whether your balance actually covers what is being described — and carries a primary action that hands off to the proposal flow. In other words, you can read the steps, or you can have Clarity do it.
When Clarity cannot help
Clarity is built never to leave a question sitting in the transcript with nothing beneath it.
If you ask about a territory or product it does not cover, it says so, does not guess, and offers a way forward — start tracking that market, run a one-off scan — plus a short list of things it can do for you right now. If you hit the hourly limit, it names the time the limit resets. If a generation is already running in that conversation, the composer disables rather than letting you collide with it. If you leave mid-answer and come back, it reattaches to the stream; if it cannot, the partial answer is preserved with an option to continue.
Finding an old conversation
Search from the panel header or the All Chats view. Results come from your whole history, matching on both conversation titles and what was said inside them, with a snippet of the matching text so you can tell which one you want. Results stay grouped by recency — Today, This week, Earlier. Search covers conversations; it is not a search across your account.
Watch-outs
Clarity answers from Rove data only — it is not a general research tool, and it does not write or edit your report content. It does not produce charts in this version. And one naming trap worth knowing: Competitor Discovery is a report inside Rove Scan, while Competitor Intelligence is the separate tracker platform. They are different products, and Clarity treats them as such.