Pin to Watch
Save important answers and surface them with refreshed data on a single screen.
Watch is a top-level destination in Arcus where pinned answers live. Pin a thread answer; Watch refreshes it and shows you what changed.
It's where exec memos go to live a long life — "every Monday, I want to know if anything material moved" — without any scheduling logic on your end.
How it works
- You ask a question in chat.
- The answer is good — you want to keep an eye on it.
- You click Pin to Watch in the answer card's toolbar.
- The answer appears on
/app/watchwith a refresh schedule.
That's it. No setup, no automation builder, no separate dashboard.
What gets pinned
The thread turn — narrative, chart, sources, trace. The full answer card. The semantic layer version is locked to whatever the answer was generated against, so the metric definition doesn't drift.
When the answer refreshes (next morning by default), the original SQL re-runs against today's data. If the result has changed materially — say, revenue is up 15% — Watch surfaces a delta narrative explaining the change.
Refresh cadence
By default, Watch refreshes every weekday at 7am in your tenant's timezone. You can change the cadence per-pin:
- Hourly — for fast-moving operational metrics (e.g. live spend pacing).
- Daily — the default. Good for most exec questions.
- Weekly — for trend questions that don't move day-to-day.
- Manual — refresh only when you click the refresh button.
Fast cadences cost more (the answer re-generates). The trace strip shows you the projected monthly cost per pin.
Unpin
From /app/watch, click the ⋯ on any card and select Unpin. The card disappears; the original thread turn is preserved.
You can also unpin from the original thread by toggling the pin icon off.
Comparing over time
When Watch refreshes a pin, the previous answer is archived. Click History on a card to see the trail. You'll see how the narrative and numbers changed week by week — useful for board prep and reporting.
What Watch is not
Watch is not a dashboard builder. If you need a multi-chart layout with parameter controls, see Dashboards. Watch is intentionally narrative-first: each card is a pinned story, not a chart.
Watch is also not an alerts engine. If you want a notification when a metric crosses a threshold, see Automations.
Suggested patterns
- The Monday brief. Pin three or four questions a CMO would ask: revenue WoW, paid pulse, top-changing campaigns, top customer cohort. Set them all to weekly Monday refresh. Now Monday morning is one URL.
- Operational metrics. Pin one or two real-time numbers: today's spend, current ad pacing, conversion rate. Set them to hourly. Keep the tab open during a campaign launch.
- The investor update. Pin five or six questions whose answers go in the monthly investor email. Manual refresh — pull them up the day before the email goes out, paste into the doc.