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The Overview tab: summary and widgets

The client Overview tab — the narrative summary, the default widgets and what each shows, how they're calculated, and when they update.

Written by Jack Allington

Every client's Overview tab gives you a quick read on who they are — a written summary at the top, followed by a set of visual widgets you can now customise to suit how you work.

The summary

The summary is written as a narrative sentence (not bullet points) and gives you the essentials at a glance: who the client is, their advice areas, their goals, and the like.

  • Don't need it on screen? Fold it away.

  • The folded/unfolded state is persistent — set it once and it stays that way as you move between clients.

The widgets

Below the summary you'll find a set of widgets. They're designed to draw out the insights about a client (or group) that are worth acting on — surfacing the key things at a glance, so you don't have to dig through the record to find them.

Every client starts with a set of default widgets, including:

  • Net Worth & Liabilities — an interactive pie chart of the client's assets, alongside their liabilities, so you can see what they own and what they owe in one place.

  • Risk Profile — the client's attitude to risk at a glance.

  • Opportunities — areas where there may be an opportunity to advise or add value.

  • Key Dates Ahead — upcoming dates worth knowing about, such as reviews, renewals and milestones.

  • Potential Gaps — gaps in the client's planning or cover that may be worth a closer look.

  • Products Advised On — the products you've advised the client on.

  • Life Stage — where the client is in their financial life.

  • Advice Provided — a record of the advice given to the client.

You're no longer stuck with the defaults — you can now remove, reorder, and add to them from the Widget Library.

Customising your Overview

  • Open any client and click Customise above the widgets.

  • Click the remove on any widget to remove it.

  • Drag a widget to a new position to reorder it — put the ones that matter most to you at the top.

  • Click Done when you're happy with the layout.

The Widget Library

Want to add a widget rather than just remove one? Click Customise, then + New to open the Widget Library.

  • Widgets are organised into three categories: Wealth, Mortgage, and Insurance — browse the category relevant to the client in front of you.

  • Tick any widget to add it, or untick to remove it.

  • Click Apply to preview how your Overview will look with the changes.

  • Reorder further if needed, then click Done.

Applying your changes

Once you click Done, you'll be asked where to apply the new layout:

  • This client only — the layout applies just to the client you're currently viewing.

  • All clients — the layout applies across your entire client list in one go.

How widgets are calculated

  • Widgets are calculated at an individual level, against that specific client's context.

  • At the group level, the widgets are simply re-calculated individually for each member.

  • We've recently made improvements to how widget calculations are performed under the hood, so you may notice figures reflecting more accurately than before.

Checking where the information came from

  • Click any widget to reveal its source of truth - the underlying context Marloo pulled the information from.

  • This lets you verify what's shown and understand where it came from, whether that's a meeting, a file, an email or another part of the record.

  • Handy when you want to sense-check a figure or insight before acting on it.

When widgets update

Widgets stay current on their own. They appear once a client profile has at least one piece of context - a meeting, a file, a note, or an email - and update automatically whenever new context is added. On a brand-new profile with no content yet, widgets will not show until the first piece of context is added. Once added, widgets generate within about 30 seconds.

Good to know

  • Coming later: building your own custom widgets by telling Marloo what you want in a chat, with Marloo producing the visuals and text to match.

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