Understanding the Dashboard
Navigate the Sovran dashboard and understand the key areas of the platform.
Dashboard Overview
The dashboard opens on Your next move. It shows the recommended task, with the creative it applies to, and up to one more suggestion. Select Hide for 2 weeks to skip a suggestion that does not apply. Start something new opens a workflow in your most recent project.
Recent renders lists running, failed, and finished renders from every project. It also shows your render credit balance and the last 30 days of output. Select a failed render to open the page where you can try again. Workspace totals and storage are on the Account page.
Open a project to manage its brief, source footage, video variations, and finished videos.
Onboarding rewards
Eligible new paid workspaces see Earn render credits on Dashboard. The checklist shows each action, its credit amount, and the workspace's progress. Select Start to open the action. Team members share each reward, once per workspace.
Actions before payment do not count. Confirming means a credit grant is not yet confirmed. In review means the grant needs a manual check. Use Check rewards again if a status check fails. See onboarding rewards for the rules.
Navigation
The sidebar shows four tool groups throughout the dashboard. Groups start open. Select a group name to hide or show its tools. Indented links and a vertical line show which tools belong to each group. Scroll to see all available tools.
| Group | Tools |
|---|---|
| Plan and research | Brief, Messaging, Ad Spy |
| Prepare media | All Assets, Cut Clips, AI footage, Voiceover |
| Build ads | Modular Builder, Creative Copilot, Remixes |
| Review | Finished Videos, Ad Insights |
Some tools require an available integration or workspace access. Dashboard and Projects stay above the tool groups.
When the sidebar shows icons only, tools stay visible. Hover over or focus a tool to read its name and task. Starting a tour opens the tool groups again.
Inside a project, select a tool to use that project. Outside a project, select a tool, then choose a project. Sovran does not choose one for you. If there are no projects, select Create a project. After you create it, the selected task opens.
Brief stores approved product facts, proof, and brand rules. Messaging stores personas, angles, hooks, and scripts. All Assets stores original and derived media. Modular Builder opens your sequences in Arrange clips and generated drafts in Auto-arrange. Finished Videos shows completed renders and publishing status.
Modular Builder replaces the Variation Builder name. Remixes combines With voiceover and No voiceover. Each project remembers the last mode used in either tool. Voiceover opens Add a voiceover in Remixes. Cut Clips replaces the separate Detect Scenes page.
Ad Spy replaces the Competitors name. Use Discover to find ads and Saved ads to adapt saved examples. In Messaging, use Create, Saved copy, and Strategy. AI footage uses Render clip and shows work under Recent clips.
The separate TikTok Research and Content Performance pages are no longer available. TikTok publishing remains under Finished Videos.
Agents & API
Agents & API in the left sidebar has three tabs:
| Tab | Use |
|---|---|
| Agents | Connect Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, or another AI agent and manage its approved workspace connections. |
| CLI + Skill | Copy terminal setup commands and install the included Sovran agent skill. |
| API | Manage API keys and webhooks and try a first request. |
These tools use your workspace access. API setup, CLI setup, and MCP setup explain the permissions and plan requirements.
Open Account settings from the account menu to find the workspace transcription dictionary.
Activity and notifications
Open Activity in the sidebar to see recent work in your current workspace. The list groups renders, Creative Copilot drafts, reviews, and cloud transfers under Needs you, Running, and Finished. Select a row to open its work. The count shows new results since you last opened Activity in this workspace.
To get a browser notification for a render or draft result, turn on Notify me in this browser when work finishes in Activity. Allow notifications for Sovran when your browser asks. Sovran must be open in a background tab.
In Account settings, go to Notifications and use Draft and review emails. This setting controls email about new review comments and first drafts that finish or need attention while you are away. Review request and decision emails have separate rules.
Product tours
Open Help, then Product tours and All guides. Guides use the same groups as the sidebar. Choose a guide such as Ad Spy, Finished Videos, or Ad Insights. If a guide is unavailable, the menu shows what you need first. Select Tour this page when it is available to start the guide for the open page.
Quick Actions
Use Start something new on Dashboard or an action in Search to start a workflow. You can also open the required tool from the sidebar.
Search actions use the open project. Outside a project, choose a project after you select the action.
On Projects, filter by Needs attention, Rendering, Open drafts, or Pinned. Each project shows recent render and draft status. Use Continue draft when a saved draft is available. See project setup.
Select a finished video to open its available actions, such as downloading it. In All Assets, select a video to open its page. Choose Edit video for manual edits. Auto-edit this video shows available templates. Cut clips appears for eligible source videos. To organize assets, select them in All Assets and choose Organize from the selection bar's more actions menu.
Use Send feedback beside your account menu to open the feedback form. The button has a bug icon. It remains available when the sidebar shows icons only.
Transfers and task progress
Use Minimize during an upload to continue on other dashboard pages. The transfer stays linked to its original project. Use View details to return to it. Keep the browser open for local uploads. Accepted Google Drive and Dropbox imports continue on the server. See upload and import progress.
Dashboard preferences, including Hide for 2 weeks and dismissed setup banners, are saved for your account across browsers and devices.
Search
Use Search, Command K on Mac, or Control K on Windows to find pages, projects, and actions. Search is unavailable inside the video editor.
Enter a name to filter the results. Use the arrow keys to select a result. Press Enter to open it. Press Esc to close Search. If a task needs a project and none is open, select the project when prompted.