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# Reporting that impresses boards
> Generate a board-ready executive report from live data in under a minute — then share it with stakeholders in one click.
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## Why this matters
Every consultant knows the Sunday night before a board meeting — the hours spent stitching a
progress deck together from emails, spreadsheets, and half-remembered updates. Ciclo gives those
hours back. A professional, board-ready report — drawn from **live data**, not manual inputs —
generated in under a minute and shareable in one click.
## Generate and share a board report
On the **Reports** page, select **Create New Report**. (Full mechanics in
[Reports](/features/reports).)
Pick the questions the report should answer — *What is progressing well? Where are the trouble
spots? Are our KPIs tracking to target?* — add your own custom question, set the reporting
period (e.g. the previous quarter), and select the teams to include. For a board report,
that's usually all teams. You can also attach supporting documents — financial
spreadsheets, KPI trackers, meeting transcripts — to sharpen the analysis.
Select **Generate**. The AI pulls from live strategy data — initiatives, KPI results, actions
completed — and synthesises it into a structured executive summary. Not a blank template, not
a copy-paste job, and not the hallucinated filler a general-purpose AI would produce — a real
report written from real data.
Select **Share**, choose the stakeholders to give access to, and set their role to
**Viewer** (read-only). They receive an email with a link to the live report, with an
optional personal message from you.
Reports are shared with members of the organisation, so a board member needs a Ciclo login
to read one. Add them as a user first (a **Member** role on no teams is enough — see
[Inviting your team](/getting-started/inviting-your-team)), then share the report with
**Viewer** access. The shared report stays live and current.
## The value you're delivering
* **Give back your Sundays** — board-grade reports in under a minute, from live data.
* **Raise the floor on every deliverable** — consistent, professional quality for every client,
every period.
* **Frictionless for stakeholders** — share with Viewer access and the report stays live and
up to date; no decks to re-send.
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