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Cheat Sheet Admin Enhancement: Move from Black Box feature to Admin Context Engineering

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  • December 16, 2025
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brlayman2583

The Problem: Right now, Cheat Sheet operates as a "Black Box." We feed it data (Timeline entries, emails, meetings), 360 data, etc and it gives us an assumed summary. While the concept is great, the execution lacks the steerability required for enterprise CS Ops.

Currently, we have limited visibility into why the model highlights certain things and ignores others. We see internal emails between colleagues being flagged as “insights” but are just noise which is creating a poor signal-to-noise ratio. 

We’ve been provided workarounds for excluding internal comms using custom field in timeline to flag as “Internal communication”, but we may want some of those signals when risks are identified or discussed.

We’re lacking documentation or confirmation that the Cheat Sheet model actually respects these custom fields if we were to implement them and at the same time we’re essentially building shadow configurations with no guarantee they will influence the output. Without explicit alignment controls, these workarounds are just guesses.

 

Feature Function Request:

True Admin Configurability to make Cheat Sheet a viable tool for Ops teams, we need to move from a passive "consumer" model to an active "orchestrator" model. We need a dedicated Cheat Sheet Administration page that allows for:

1. Data Source "Steerability" & Filtering

  • Ability to include Success Plans, custom objects, signals from custom product areas.

  • Object/Field Exclusion: The ability to explicitly exclude specific Activity Types or entries based on logic (e.g., we have a custom field to collect internal vs external attendees. IF "External Attendees" = Null AND XYZ Field = ABC THEN Exclude from Cheat Sheet

  • Do not opt any objects besides timeline in/out by default - customers who have not configured steerable data sources should have the OOTB default as-is. Notifications should be sent if this is going to change with ample notice.

2. Signal Weighting

  • Contextual Importance: The ability to assign higher weight to specific touchpoints. (e.g., A "QBR" or "Executive Business Review" timeline entry should carry 5x the weight of a standard "Check-in" email).

  • Persona Weighting: The ability to weight signals from key stakeholders (Decision Makers) higher than day-to-day users.

  • This could be a great opportunity to implement something the way AI-"suggestions" for scorecards is built. Like if standard/system objects that are heavily used could be recommended to include or included objects as part of a config.

3. Custom Signals & Sections

  • Define New Signals: Allow Admins to define what constitutes a "Risk" or "Opportunity" signal based on our own data, rather than relying solely on the pre-trained generic model.

  • Custom Sections: Capability to configure a section within Cheat Sheet that looks at specific, Admin-defined datasets or objects and summarizes them alongside the standard text analysis.

  • Signals using Co-Pilot-like Config Elements:

    • There’s also opportunity here to also have signals act like key definitions for Copilot - so having capability to fine-tune vs the standard OOTB. Allowing for signal recommendations, category recommendations

    • And by proxy: potential for some kind of "power user" type capabilities, or like end user "suggestion" capabilities like exist in Copilot config

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dayn.johnson
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I’d love to see this happen. Context is king where AI agents are concerned, and it’d be great to see something similar to what we can do in Gemini (and other) models where we build custom agents that are given instructions and context to work with.


jenlpro
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I agree with everything here --- I’ve seen tons of apprehension from users adopting these features because they’re heavily missing context, specifically from custom objects and critical metrics. It would be amazing if we could have more configurability at an admin-level. 

One thing to add, it would be really cool to be able to set up some kind of persona for users. My executives might need different context in cheat sheet vs. my CSMs, for example. This could be a C/R360-specific Cheat Sheet config OR a user setting to be effective. C/R360-level is likely more scalable. 


dayn.johnson
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It would be really cool to be able to set up some kind of persona for users. My executives might need different context in cheat sheet vs. my CSMs, for example. This could be a C/R360-specific Cheat Sheet config OR a user setting to be effective. C/R360-level is likely more scalable. 

Love this – it’d be fantastic to have a sticky, user-selected, picklist-determined persona we could design on the admin side that would allow our different users to use to customize what they see in Cheat Sheet.


mobrien14
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  • December 16, 2025

100% agree with both ​@brlayman2583 & ​@jenlpro. In general, the AI offerings (incl. Staircase) are all unfortunately siloed and lack the flexibility required to allow for more robust activities by established Ops teams. They’re incredibly one-size-fits-all which, while nice for quick OOB set and release, just means we’re seeing more frustration than anything when it comes to our users.

  • “Why can’t it...”
  • "Why is Cheat Sheet saying x but Copilot says y?”
  • “How can we use the Cheat Sheet summary in...”

Giving more flexibility from the admin side to better define how the tools pull/generate/analyze data & present it would go a long way in improving the perception.