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New features, integrations and platform updates from Normain.

  1. Integrations

    Bolagsverket and Skatteverket as official sources in Notebooks

    A Notebook step can now look facts up in official Swedish sources. Turn one on from the step’s + menu, the same way you turn on web access.

    Bolagsverket looks up Swedish companies, including their status, legal form, industry and address. Skatteverket searches the tax agency’s open data, such as tax tables, municipal tax rates, standard amounts and per diem rates. Each lookup is saved as a source file on the run, so the answer cites it like any other document.

    Also this week: control checklists in a published run can be filtered by status, and you can select several rows and approve them in one go.

  2. New features

    Excel previews with frozen panes and a formula bar

    Excel files now preview more like they do in Excel. A workbook opens with its own frozen rows and columns, and you can freeze or unfreeze them yourself by right-clicking a row or column header. A formula bar above the grid shows the selected cell’s formula, or its value when it has none. Columns fit their content and the sheet opens zoomed out.

    When an answer cites a row or a range in a spreadsheet, opening the citation scrolls to it and outlines it. The arrow keys move you from one citation to the next.

    Also this week: PDF previews in Notebooks have a page number you can type into, and Outlook emails in a Notebook’s files preview inline.

  3. New features

    Restrict who can open a Notebook tab

    You can now limit a single tab in a Notebook to named people. Open the tab’s menu, choose Restrict access, and add the people who should see it, each with Can view or Can edit.

    A restriction only narrows access. People on the list can do no more than their role already allows, and anyone not on the list cannot open the tab, including organisation admins. You keep edit access to a tab you restrict, and changes to who can open it are recorded in the audit log.

  4. New features

    Members, teams and roles in one place, with an audit log

    Members settings now hold everything about who has access to your organisation. Under Settings > Members there are tabs for Users, Teams and Roles. You can search and filter people by team and role, open a person to change their organisation role and their role in each team, and compare what each role can do. When you invite someone, you choose their organisation role and a role for each team you add them to.

    The new Audit log tab shows who changed whose access and when, including people added to or removed from the organisation or a team. It is visible to people whose role includes the audit log permission.

  5. New features

    Repeat steps in Notebooks

    Notebooks have a new step type, Repeat, that asks the same questions of every file or folder and shows the answers as a table. Each file or folder is a row and each question is a column. Rows can come from the step’s own files, from an Inputs group, or from the files another step produced.

    Every cell has its own answer with a confidence score and citations to the file it came from, and later steps in the Notebook can use the finished table. To add one, choose Add another kind of step and then Repeat.

  6. Infrastructure

    Faster processing for large spreadsheets and long PDFs

    Very large spreadsheets now open and process in seconds, including workbooks with hundreds of thousands of rows. Long PDFs added to a Notebook process in full as well. When a sheet is too large to show in full in the viewer, Normain tells you how many of its rows and columns are on screen.

    Large batches of uploads also make it through processing more reliably. If a PDF is password protected, Normain says so on the file.

  7. New features

    Screenshots inside Excel files are now read

    Normain now reads the images inside an Excel file, such as evidence screenshots pasted into a control testing workbook. When you upload a workbook that contains images to an Extraction, it opens as a folder named after the workbook, holding the workbook and each image as its own source, so the screenshots can be analysed and cited like any other document.

  8. New features

    Reuse files from other Notebooks and save them to the library

    You can now add files from another Notebook to a step. In Add files, choose Other Notebooks to see your team’s Notebooks step by step, then pick a step’s input files or the files its latest run produced, either all at once or one by one.

    You can also save a Notebook’s files to your library with Add to library, on a step’s files, an Inputs group or a run’s outputs. Folder structure is kept, and files from SharePoint, Box and Google Drive are saved as links to the original.

    Also this week: a folder in a step has its own Add files option, so files land straight in that folder.

  9. New features

    A new Trust Panel for Notebooks

    Notebooks have a new Trust Panel. Open a step’s result and it has four tabs: Answer shows the answer with its citations and Normain’s confidence in it, Input files lists every file the step read, Sources shows what the answer cites, and Thinking shows how Normain reached the answer.

    The Sources tab opens with a coverage summary of which files were cited and which were not. Each cited file shows where in it the citations fall, and Full analysis shows the same across the whole folder tree. Open a source to step through its citations one at a time, with the cited passages highlighted.

  10. Integrations

    Sync connected folders on demand in Notebooks

    Folders you connect from SharePoint, Box and Google Drive now stay up to date inside Notebooks, and you can refresh a single file whenever you need to. New files, edits, renames and deletions carry over. If a connection expires, the affected files are flagged and the right people get an email so they can reconnect.

  11. New features

    Richer citations and web access in Notebooks

    Citations in Notebooks now point to the exact place an answer came from, down to a single cell in a spreadsheet, a line in a text file, or the result of an earlier step.

    You can also let a step use the web. Web access is off by default and turned on one step at a time. When a step is set to Review, Normain pauses and asks someone to approve each search or page before it continues, and keeps a record of who approved it. When a step is set to Always allow, it goes to the web on its own without stopping to ask. Web pages are cited the same way as your documents.

  12. Infrastructure

    Support for very large documents

    Normain now reads very large documents in full, including files that run to several thousand pages. Large projects also open faster.

  13. Integrations

    Build Notebooks with Claude or Codex

    You can now connect an AI assistant such as Claude or Codex to Normain through MCP, and build Notebooks by asking it. You will find the connection details under Settings > Connected apps. Once you approve, the assistant can create Notebooks, edit steps and add files, all within your own team access. It can see how a Notebook is put together, but not your document content or your results, and you can disconnect it at any time.

  14. New features

    Inputs and Note steps in Notebooks

    Two new kinds of steps in Notebooks.

    An Inputs step is where you gather the files and details a Notebook needs before it starts. You add it once, rather than to every step. Files can be organised in named groups, and each group can be marked as required and limited to certain types of files. When set to required, Normain will ask for those files before a run begins.

    A Note step is a place to leave written context, such as guidance for whoever works on the Notebook next. It holds text only and doesn’t run or produce results of its own.

  15. New features

    Version history in Notebooks

    Notebooks now keep a full version history. You can see who saved each version and a summary of what changed, open any version to view the differences step by step, and restore an earlier one when you need to. Before confirming, Normain will show you which changes the restore will make.

  16. New features

    See the source documents behind a Publication

    A Publication now shows the documents behind its results. Open the side panel to see everything it read, and open or download any file. Click the source count on a finding to go straight to the documents it cites.

    Authors can also add a button to a Publication that applies the same analysis to a new set of documents, which creates a fresh set of results and leaves the original untouched.

  17. New features

    Introducing Notebooks

    Notebooks are a new type of project in Normain, and now the default option when you create a project.

    A Notebook is an analysis in a series of steps, written in plain language, that Normain works through from top to bottom. Each step has an instruction, its own source documents, and results with citations. A step can build on the result of an earlier step, by referring to it with @.

    You can carry out one step on its own or the whole Notebook in order. The final step can produce a finished deliverable, such as a Word memo, built on the results of the previous steps. Any step can be marked for review, which pauses the steps after it until someone approves the result.

    Extractions and Workflows are still available alongside Notebooks.

  18. New features

    Start several projects from templates at once

    You can now start several projects from templates in one go. In the projects view, choose From templates, pick the templates you want and a folder, and Normain creates a project from each one in that folder. If a template does not go through, it stays selected so you can try it again.

    Creating a project from a single template now also asks you to choose a folder.

  19. New features

    Upload a zip file and keep your folder structure

    Upload a zip file and Normain unpacks it into a folder with its original structure intact. Folders you drop into a step keep their structure too, both when you start a run and in Publication inputs.

  20. New features

    Copy a source as an image

    You can now copy a citation straight from the Trust Panel as an image. Press Copy screenshot on a PDF, an image or a spreadsheet and you get what the preview shows, highlights included. The image comes captioned with its source filename.

  21. Infrastructure

    Extractions now run on Opus 5.5

    Extractions now run on Opus 5.5, so reasoning on long and complicated documents is better. An organisation that pinned an earlier model stays on it.

  22. Integrations

    Define the shape of an answer over the API

    The API returned an answer as text, and anything structured had to be picked out of it at the other end.

    You can now send a schema with your question and get the answer back in that shape, with its citations, rationale and confidence alongside. Two further calls report the credits a data room or a single question has used.

  23. New features

    Attach a file to a comment

    A comment said what a reviewer had checked, and the file they checked it against sat in somebody’s inbox.

    Attach a file to a comment and it is kept with it, where it opens in the file viewer like any other source. This works on an extraction’s Trust Panel and on a published run. Where a comment is what settles a control, an attached file counts towards it.

  24. New features

    Share a Publication across your organisation

    A Publication was visible to the team that built it, which is the wrong boundary for something meant to put your firm’s expertise in everyone’s hands.

    Switch a Publication to organisation-wide and anyone in your organisation can find it and run it. Editing stays with the team that owns it. A run belongs to the team that started it, which the publishing team cannot see either.

  25. New features

    Download the evidence behind every answer

    Handing over a finished extraction meant handing over the answers. The pages they rest on stayed in Normain, and a reviewer who wanted to check a number needed an account to do it.

    An extraction now downloads as a bundle: the results as a spreadsheet, and beside them the cited pages of every source, highlighted, in a folder per answer. A column in the sheet points at the folder each row belongs to. Normain builds it in the background and sends you the link when it is ready.

  26. New features

    Check a question before you run it

    A question that turns out to be ambiguous has usually already run across 400 rows by the time anyone notices.

    Press Improve on any instruction and Normain scores it and lists what it leaves open, with a rewrite you can take or ignore. A question pointing at something that is no longer in the extraction gets caught before the run instead of after it.

    Instructions take headings, bold and lists now, and open in a full modal when the prompt runs longer than a line.

  27. New features

    A step that builds a sheet per document

    A spreadsheet extraction ran on the sheets it was built with, however many documents a step was later pointed at.

    A workflow step can now add, copy and remove the sheets of a spreadsheet extraction as it works. A run across thirty documents can put each one on its own tab, and a copied sheet brings its columns and its questions with it, repointed at that tab’s own document.

    Also this week: a spreadsheet cell opens in the Trust Panel while its run is still going, rather than only once the whole run has finished.

  28. New features

    A deliverable written in one pass

    A Word deliverable arrives as suggestions you accept one at a time, which is more review than some reports need.

    A deliverable step can now be set to Finished draft. Normain writes the whole report against your template and hands back the file, with the template’s tables, numbering and headers as they were. It is in beta, and steps left on the suggestions flow behave as before.

  29. Infrastructure

    Small images, and longer reports

    An icon, a stamp or a signature block can sit inside a document at a few dozen pixels across, which used to be enough to hold up the whole file.

    Normain now scales those up before reading them, so a small image is read like anything else in the document and the file it belongs to comes through whole. Longer reports write to the end as well, filling every section the template asks for rather than stopping at a budget. And when a step does stop, it names the reason with a retry next to it.

  30. New features

    Filter your data sources

    Finding the files that failed to index, in a library of a few thousand documents, meant scrolling.

    The library and the data sources panel inside an extraction can now be filtered by name, by file type, or by whether a file finished indexing. Folders stay in place while a filter is on, so paths and drag and drop keep working, and a file a filter has hidden cannot be caught by a bulk selection.

    Also this week: adding a file whose name is already taken offers to keep both, rather than only to replace what is there.

  31. New features

    Edit what a workflow step produced

    Results produced by a workflow step were read-only. Fixing one answer meant running the step again, which cost you every other answer as well.

    A step now splits into a Setup side and a Result side, and the results can be edited where they sit. Correct a value, or reword the question behind it, without touching the rest of the run. Running the step again still asks first, since that discards the results outright.

  32. New features

    Decide what settles a control

    Approving or rejecting was the only way to settle a control on a published run. Plenty of reviews do not work that way, and the record a reviewer leaves is a note rather than a verdict.

    When you build a Publication you now choose what settles a control. Leave it on sign-off, or set it so a reviewer’s comment is enough, and the run reports itself as reviewed rather than approved. A control the analysis failed still cannot be turned green by a person.

  33. New features

    Attach files you already have, a folder at a time

    A document sitting in your library or in SharePoint had to be downloaded and uploaded again before you could use it somewhere else in Normain.

    The paperclip in chat and the file fields on a manual input step now open Normain’s own picker, so you can attach from the shared library or from SharePoint, Google Drive and Box, mixed with local uploads in one submit.

    Folders can be selected there as well as files. Importing one brings in every supported file inside it and keeps the structure, and a confirmation tells you how many files that is before anything starts.

    Also this month: file trees of several hundred rows stay responsive.

  34. Infrastructure

    Steadier long runs and document processing

    A month of work went into the parts of Normain you should not have to think about.

    Long extractions see themselves through more reliably, and an answer that cannot be tied to real sources no longer reaches you as a finished result. Large document batches and unusually shaped spreadsheets move through processing that used to slow them down.

  35. New features

    Three more file types, and line-level citations for text

    Swedish SIE accounting exports, Word templates and macro-enabled Excel workbooks can now be uploaded and analysed like any other document.

    Text, Markdown and JSON files now cite by line rather than by page. Open a citation and it takes you to the line or the range it came from, which is the reference someone checking your work actually needs. Files added before this change keep their page references until they are reindexed.

  36. New features

    Point a workflow step at what came before it

    Telling a step to work from an earlier step’s output meant describing that output in prose and hoping the wording matched.

    Type @ in a step’s instructions and Normain offers the steps that run before it, along with the fields of an upstream manual input step. Pick one and it goes in as a labelled reference that survives a rename and follows the project when you duplicate it.

    Steps can also be dragged into a new order rather than deleted and rebuilt.

  37. New features

    Every source behind an answer, and a copy to take with you

    Opening the Sources tab dropped you into the first citation. An answer resting on five documents looked much like one resting on a single page.

    The tab now lists every file an answer cites, grouped by file, with the pages and the cited passage under each, matched to the numbered marker in the answer.

    You can also download the source PDF from the Trust Panel with the highlights drawn into the file, either the cited pages or the whole document. That is the version that goes into a working paper file, or to somebody who does not use Normain.

  38. New features

    Label an answer, then filter by it

    Approved and rejected covered whether an answer had been checked, and nothing else a team wanted to record about it.

    Your organisation can now define its own colour-coded labels and apply them to individual answers from the Trust Panel. Each label carries who applied it, and a whole extraction can be filtered down to the results wearing a given one. Owners manage the set under Labels in organisation settings.

  39. New features

    Sign off a published run, control by control

    A published run told a reviewer the extraction had finished. Whether a person had checked it was a separate question.

    A run now lists every control by name as it works. Approve, reject or flag each one, or send it back with feedback, which answers it again and clears the earlier sign-off. The run list keeps a finished extraction and a reviewed one apart, with a tally of control outcomes.

    A Publication can also be exported as a PDF report built from one run’s data. The same run always renders the same document, which is what a fixed audit report needs.

  40. New features

    Rerun one cell, one row, or just what went stale

    Rerunning a question meant rerunning it everywhere, and paying for all of it.

    A single row can now be rerun from its row number, and a single cell rerun as it is, without writing feedback first. Change the wording of a question and the answers that came from the old wording are marked on the column header, with the run menu offering to redo just those.

  41. New features

    Filled-in forms, and attachments inside emails

    Normain now reads the values in a PDF form. Typed entries and ticked boxes come through as extractable, citable content, which covers the questionnaires and signed forms that arrive already completed by another tool. Files already in Normain need reindexing to pick them up.

    An Outlook email uploaded as .msg also unpacks now, so the body and each attachment become their own indexed source and a contract sent as an attachment is analysed rather than skipped.

  42. New features

    Run a workflow again without touching the last run

    Running a workflow a second time meant running it over the results of the first, or duplicating the project by hand before you started.

    The caret next to Run workflow now copies the whole project, its steps, prompts and reference files, and starts a run in the copy. The original keeps its results as they were. Files uploaded to an input step are left out, so a run that needs this month’s documents asks for them.

    A project made from a template also remembers where it came from, and the template icon shows what has changed since.

  43. New features

    Export the review trail with your results

    The discussion around an answer lived in Normain, and the file you handed to a client carried none of it.

    Extraction exports now take an Include comments option, arriving as their own sheet in Excel or a section at the end in Word, grouped by question and marked open or resolved. Deliverable exports leave comments out, since that is the file that goes to the client.

  44. New features

    An organisation-wide dashboard

    Usage was visible one team at a time, which is not the view an owner needs.

    The new dashboard covers the whole organisation: what is being run, by which teams, and what it is consuming. Each widget states the period it is reporting on, so a number on the page is never ambiguous about the window it covers. Extraction results roll up into aggregate statistics as well, rather than having to be counted by hand.

  45. New features

    Publish your Workflows

    Publications is our biggest step yet toward putting your firm’s expertise in everyone’s hands. Take a workflow you have built, turn it into a simple branded page, and share it across your firm.

    You build the page by describing it in a chat, telling Normain how the analysis should run and what it should ask for, with no code at any point. Publish it and share the link with your team. From there, a colleague just opens the page, uploads their documents, and gets back the finished, sourced report an expert would have handed them.

  46. New features

    Video files as sources

    Normain now supports video. Add a recording to a data source panel the way you would add a PDF, and ask questions of it.

    A recorded management interview or a board meeting can sit alongside the documents in the same extraction, and answers drawn from it come back cited with the passage they came from, open to check in the Trust Panel. That evidence trail is what makes a recording usable in work you have to defend later.

  47. Infrastructure

    A newer model, and sharper citations

    Extractions now run on a newer, more capable model. Reasoning on long and complicated documents is better, and so is reading what is inside a chart, which was the weakest part of the old setup.

    Citation highlighting improved with it. Click a citation and the highlight sits on the words it refers to, including in scanned documents where it used to land slightly off.

  48. New features

    An Org manager role

    Owner was doing too much work as a concept. Someone who runs the day-to-day of an organisation needed a way to manage teams and members without holding the keys to everything.

    Org manager does that. They can administer teams, members and invitations, while the actions that should stay with an owner stay with an owner. Permissions across the rest of the roles were tightened at the same time, so what each role can reach is narrower than it was.

  49. New features

    Project templates

    Templates used to stop at a single extraction. Workflows are several steps, and those were being rebuilt by hand each time.

    Save a whole project as a template and the steps come with it: the extractions, the order they run in, the deliverable at the end. Start the next engagement from it, swap in the new documents, run. An existing extraction can also be reused as a step inside another workflow rather than copied into it.

  50. New features

    Conditional logic in your Extractions

    You can now make a question in Normain depend on the answer to another one, so Normain only asks it when it is relevant. A question that does not apply gets no answer, not a vague one manufactured to fill the gap. Set the rule once, and apply it across your whole set of documents. Precision, at scale.

  51. New features

    Create a Spreadsheet project from an Excel file

    You can now set up a Spreadsheet project directly from an existing Excel file. Simply import the file, and Normain builds the grid for you. From there it works just like usual: add what you want Normain to extract in each column, point it at your documents, and let it do the rest.

  52. New features

    Edit a result, and get the old one back

    Reviewers have always known things the documents do not say. Until now, fixing an answer meant rerunning the question and hoping for better wording.

    Click into a result and edit it. The value you write is the one that appears in the export. Every version is kept, so you can open the history on a result, see what Normain originally produced alongside every edit since, and restore any of them without touching the rest of the extraction.

  53. New features

    Cmd+K, and a home for comments

    Press Cmd+K anywhere in Normain and search for the project, team or action you want instead of navigating to it.

    Comments have their own panel now. Open it to see every comment in the extraction in one list, filter by who wrote it or whether it is resolved, and jump to the result it belongs to. Chasing a colleague’s question used to mean remembering which cell they left it on.

  54. New features

    Save the prompts you keep retyping

    Most teams have five or six phrasings they trust, and they retype them into every extraction.

    Save those as snippets. Type / in an instruction field and pick one from the list. The wording your team has agreed on stays consistent across extractions, which matters when the difference between two phrasings is the difference between two answers.

  55. New features

    Pause a workflow for a human decision

    A workflow that runs from documents to finished deliverable without stopping is the right shape for some work and the wrong shape for regulated work.

    You can now mark a step so the workflow stops there and waits. Whoever owns that review looks at what the previous steps produced, confirms it or fixes it, and the workflow carries on from that point. Nothing downstream runs on an unreviewed result.

    Also this week: rows and columns can be hidden the way they are in Excel rather than deleted.

  56. New features

    Export to Word

    Alongside spreadsheet export, you can now export a project’s results to an editable Word document, with each question as a heading and its answer below. An optional “with sources” version turns every citation into a real Word footnote.

  57. New features

    CSV files, a confidence filter and a sidebar you can arrange

    This week is mostly small edges that were catching people.

    CSV files are supported as data sources. Extraction filters now include confidence, so you can pull up every answer Normain was less sure about and review those first instead of scrolling for them. Cmd+Enter runs the insight you are editing.

    The sidebar is yours to arrange: drag teams into the order you use them, drag the divider to make it wider, and drag a file onto the top-level band to pull it out of a folder.

  58. New features

    Autogenerated insight titles

    Normain now names your insights automatically based on what’s in them. One less thing to think about.

  59. Integrations

    Normain Launches API

    The Normain API is here. You can now run Normain’s analysis directly from your own software. Set up a secure space for your documents, push them in, run your complex analyses across them to get back a structured, sourced result your systems can use.

    We are rolling it out to select customers now. Reach out to the sales team to get access, or see the API docs.

  60. New features

    A shared library of data sources

    The same policy pack, the same annual report, the same set of contracts, uploaded again for every new extraction.

    Each team now has a library. Upload a document once and use it in any extraction in that team, with no second copy and no second wait. The library takes whole folders, previews files in place, and handles moves and deletions in bulk rather than one row at a time.

  61. New features

    PowerPoint, Outlook emails and web pages as sources

    Three more things you can drop into a data source panel.

    PowerPoint decks are supported, and a number on slide 14 is citable the way a number in a report is. Outlook .msg files can be uploaded directly, which covers the correspondence that usually arrives as a folder of exported emails. Paste a URL and Normain captures the page, so what you see in the Trust Panel is the page as it looked when you added it rather than a wall of stripped text.

  62. New features

    Folders for projects

    Projects arrived last week and immediately started piling up.

    You can now put them in folders, by client, by engagement, by year, however your team already thinks about the work. Duplicate a project to start the next one from a version that worked, and archive the ones that are finished so they leave the list without being deleted.

  63. New features

    End-to-end workflows are now live on Normain

    This is the biggest leap Extractional AI has taken since we built the engine itself.

    A project is now the top-level home for your work in Normain. It can hold a single extraction, or a workflow: a sequence of multiple steps that runs end to end. Steps can be multiple extractions building on each other, file-input steps or deliverables generated directly from the results of earlier steps. Your existing extractions already live inside projects — nothing needs to be migrated.

    Read more about why this is our biggest leap, or see Notebooks in the docs.

  64. New features

    Chat is now live on Normain

    This is the biggest update we’ve shipped since our February launch.

    Setting up an extraction used to take a few clicks. Now you can build it just by chatting. Tell the chat what you need in plain English, and it sets up the whole extraction for you.

    Conversational on the surface. Deterministic underneath.

    Read more on why we built it this way, or see Using the chat in the docs.

  65. New features

    Validate in bulk

    Approving 300 answers one at a time was never going to hold.

    Select a range and approve, reject or assign the whole selection from the bar that appears. Each result carries its verification status where you can see it, and the counter in the footer tells you how much of the extraction is still waiting on a human. Column filters now work in repeat and single-table modes as well as the spreadsheet, so you can narrow to the questions under review before you start.

    Instruction fields also got Cmd+Z, which matters more than it sounds like when you have just rewritten a prompt you preferred.

  66. New features

    See what a run will cost before you start it

    Two questions came up every time someone pressed Extract on a few hundred rows. How long is this going to take, and what is it going to cost.

    Both are answered now. Repeat and spreadsheet runs show an estimate of the credits before you confirm, and once the run is going there is a progress bar with a time remaining next to it. Afterwards, open the credit usage dialog on any extraction to see where the credits went, including the average per insight, which is usually the number that explains a surprise.

  67. Infrastructure

    GPT-5.5 is now powering Normain

    GPT-5.5, OpenAI’s most capable model, is now available on Normain. Expect faster extractions and sharper reasoning on complex documents, with the same source-grounded outputs and Trust Panel verification.

  68. New features

    Create one-off data sources

    You can now create data sources directly in Normain, no upload needed.

    Right-click the data source panel inside any extraction, write or dictate your text, and save. The entry is instantly ready to reference across your extraction, like any uploaded file.

    Useful for capturing context that doesn’t come as a document: internal definitions, methodology notes, clarifications from clients, or anything else that usually lives in someone’s head.

  69. New features

    Ask a follow-up about any answer

    The Trust Panel used to end the conversation. You opened an answer, read the sources, and that was the extent of it.

    Now there is a chat attached to the result itself. Ask why Normain concluded what it did, push back on it, or ask it to look again at a specific document. If the answer was not what you wanted, Normain can suggest a sharper version of your question and you decide whether to use it.

    Alongside that: images and charts now show in the Trust Panel and the file viewer, data source files preview in place rather than needing a download, and arrow keys move between sources. Extractions can be moved to another team, which until now meant rebuilding them in the right place.

  70. New features

    Export with sources references

    Choose exactly how source references are formatted when you export an Extraction, so the output matches how you and your team work. Sources can also appear as footnotes directly alongside each insight.

  71. New features

    Excel previews in the Trust Panel

    You can now preview Excel files directly inside the Trust Panel, alongside PDFs. Verify the source behind any insight without leaving the platform — no downloading, no switching tabs.

  72. New features

    Turn results into a Word document

    The answers were always the middle of the job. The end of it was a document someone could send.

    Normain now writes one. Add a deliverable step, give it your own Word file as the base so the headings, fonts and cover page are the ones your firm uses, and Normain drafts into it from the results of the extraction. You review the suggestions it makes, edit the tables it fills, and download the finished file as Word or PDF.

  73. Integrations

    Keep a SharePoint folder in sync

    Point Normain at a folder in SharePoint and it stays connected.

    New files that land there are picked up, files removed there are removed here, and the folder structure comes across as it stands. A team’s access can be limited to named sites, so people browse only what they are allowed to see.

  74. New features

    Dictate your questions

    Press the microphone in any instruction field and talk.

    Normain transcribes as you go, which is faster than typing for the long, qualified questions people actually ask of a document set. Useful when you are describing what “material” means for this particular review and it runs to four sentences.

  75. New features

    Extractions can search the web

    Some questions cannot be answered from the documents in front of you. Who owns this counterparty now. What did the regulator publish last month. Whether the address on the invoice is a real registered office.

    Turn on web search for an extraction and Normain can look those up while it works, then fetch and read the pages it finds. You can restrict it to specific sites, so a question about guidance reads the regulator’s own domain rather than whatever ranks well that week. Anything Normain takes from the web is cited like any other source, and opens in the Trust Panel next to the document evidence.

  76. New features

    Collaborate on Extractions

    Teams can now work through Extractions together.

    Assign insights to the right team member, validate against the Trust Panel, and approve or reject reviewed insights directly in the platform. Leave comments, track progress, and follow the full Extraction in real time.

  77. New features

    Spreadsheet mode

    Normain now has a grid, and it behaves the way you expect a grid to behave.

    A spreadsheet is built from two kinds of column. Input columns hold what you already know: a company name, a contract number, a site, anything you would have typed into Excel. Insight columns hold a question, and Normain answers it once per row against your documents. Fill a column of 400 rows in one run, or extract a range you choose.

    The rest is the part people ask for first. Arrow keys and Tab move the way they do in Excel, Cmd+Z undoes, you can paste a block straight out of Excel or a chat window, resize several columns at once, drag columns into a new order, filter and hide what you are not looking at. Every answer still opens in the Trust Panel with its sources, same as everywhere else in Normain.

  78. New features

    Presence, folder uploads and an email when a run finishes

    A few smaller things from the past two weeks.

    Long extractions no longer need watching. Normain emails you when the run finishes, with a link straight to it. While a run is going, you can see who else is in the extraction with you and watch their changes arrive live rather than after a refresh, and cards can be dragged into the order you want to work through them.

    Uploads take whole folders now, structure intact, instead of one file at a time. The verification filter collapses everything already approved so only the rows still needing a decision stay on screen.

  79. New features

    Audit log

    Every action inside your organisation is now recorded and readable.

    Owners find it under Organisation in settings: who ran an extraction, who invited whom, who changed a role, who removed a data source, each with the person and the timestamp attached. Search it, narrow it to a time range, or export the whole thing as CSV when someone in security or compliance asks for the trail.

  80. New features

    Save an Extraction as a template

    The same review comes back every quarter, and until now you rebuilt it every time.

    Turn any Extraction into a template and it keeps its questions, its formats and its structure. Pick the template when you create the next Extraction, point it at new documents, and run. Templates can be shared with the rest of your organisation, so the version your team agreed on is the one everyone starts from.

  81. Launch

    Normain launches Extractional AI on Product Hunt

    Normain is now publicly available following our Product Hunt launch. For the first time, anyone can explore and try Extractional AI for free.

    Read more about the launch and join the conversation on our Product Hunt page.