How it works

From a plain question to a figure you can cite.

Claude does the asking, reading and writing. Community Pulse gives it one approved data source to query — and checks every question before a number reaches you.

Read-only, always
Every figure sourced
No free-text queries
Claude · Community Pulse
Which industries employ the most people in the Waikato region? Show me a chart.
You
C
Manufacturing is the largest, with 24,800 filled jobs across the Waikato Region.
Filled jobs by industryWaikato Region · top 5
Manufacturing
24,800
Health care
22,300
Retail trade
18,900
Construction
17,600
Education
14,200
Matched to Waikato Region, not Waikato District — say so if you meant the district instead.
Source: Employment by IndustryUnit: filled jobsPeriod: year to Feb 2025
Illustrative example — the figures shown are for demonstration.
The four steps

Watch a question become
a checkable answer.

Click through each step. This is the careful part that happens before you ever see a number.

STEP 1 · YOU ASK
How many people work in manufacturing in the Waikato region?
a regiona districtan industrya year

Ask the way you’d ask a colleague. You don’t need dataset names, codes or field names — Community Pulse does the translating.

STEP 2 · ILLUSTRATIVE MATCHING
YOUR WORDSMATCHED TOCHECK
“Waikato”Waikato RegionAlso matches Waikato District — flagged
“manufacturing”Manufacturing (industry)Exact match
“how many people work”Filled jobsMeasure resolved
“Waikato” could mean the Waikato Region or the Waikato District. The answer says which one it used — and asks you to say so if you meant the other.

Every word that matters is resolved against values that really exist in the data. If two values fit, it’s flagged — never silently picked.

STEP 3 · THE SAME VALIDATED REQUEST
structured request
datasetEmployment by Industry
placeWaikato Region
measurefilled jobs
breakdownindustry · top 5
periodyear to Feb 2025
Validated before it runs
Checked again after
No free-text path

There is no free-text query path. The same kind of question always becomes the same kind of request — so nothing can quietly drift.

STEP 4 · ILLUSTRATIVE ANSWER
Manufacturing is the largest industry, with 24,800 filled jobs across the Waikato Region.
Source: Employment by IndustryUnit: filled jobsPeriod: year to Feb 2025
Matched to Waikato Region, not Waikato District — say so if you meant the district instead.

Every figure arrives with its receipt: the dataset, the unit, the period and any caveat you’d need before it goes in a report. Figures shown are for demonstration.

Step 1 of 4
Anatomy of an answer

Every answer comes
with its receipt.

Four things travel with every figure, so a number you quote in public can be checked by anyone.

1
The source

Which dataset answered — named, not paraphrased.

2
The period

Which year or month the figure is for, including a partial year.

3
The unit

Filled jobs or dollars, crashes or victimisations — whatever changes how you’d read it.

4
The caveat

A matched place name, a hidden total, a filter that didn’t apply — said out loud.

ILLUSTRATIVE RECEIPT
Recorded crime in [District] was [X] victimisations.
Source
Victimisations Time and Place
Period
[Period]
Unit
victimisations (count)
Place
[District], matched
Counts only — the dataset doesn’t support a per-person rate, so none is given.
1234
When it can’t answer

“I don’t know” beats a guess.

A stated refusal with the reason — never a real-looking number that happens to be wrong. Exchanges below are illustrative.

A period outside the data’s coverage
“What was recorded crime in our district in 1990?”
C
That period is outside what this dataset covers, so there’s no figure to give. Here’s the earliest period it does cover.
A rate the data can’t support
“What’s the crime rate per 1,000 people?”
C
This dataset reports counts, not rates. I won’t calculate a rate it doesn’t publish — here’s the count, with its period.
A place it can’t resolve uniquely
“Show me jobs in Waikato.”
C
“Waikato” matches both a region and a district. Which did you mean? I’ve used the region below — tell me if you meant the district.
Presentation-ready

From a question to a deck,
without the copy-paste.

Ask Claude to turn the same sourced figures into the format your audience needs. The receipt comes with them. Previews are illustrative.

Word report

The same sourced figures, laid out as a report you can edit and send.

[X]
PowerPoint deck

Slides for an elected-member briefing or a funding pitch — no copy-pasting from a dashboard.

[X]
[X]
[X]
[X]
[X]
[X]
Shareable infographic

One page built from real numbers, for a newsletter or a decision-maker’s inbox.

Trust & security

It never guesses.
It says so instead.

Every question is checked against values that exist in your data and validated before it runs — then checked again, so a hidden regional total or a filter that didn’t apply is caught before you see it.

Read-only, always

There is no write path back to Tableau — not behind a flag, not for an administrator.

Signed in as you

Everyone on your team signs up with their own account — never a shared password.

“I don’t know” beats a guess

A result that can’t be confirmed against your data is withheld, not handed over with small print.

Every figure is traceable

The query that ran, the unit, the place and the period — so a number you quote in public can be checked.

Minimal by design

Sign-up asks only for what an account needs. No tracking or advertising cookies on this connector.

Your questions stay yours

We log which tool ran and which dataset it touched — never the words of your question or Claude’s answer.

For your IT team
Seven purpose-built tools. All read-only.
Only one of them ever returns a number, and there is no free-text query tool at all. See the documentation.
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The data behind every answer is published New Zealand regional statistics — aggregate figures, not personal information about identifiable people. Account information is handled the way the Privacy Act 2020 expects. Full detail in the privacy policy.
Where it fits

A front door, not a replacement.

Community Pulse sits alongside your dashboards, GIS layers and BI stack. For deep exploration or mapping work, your existing tools stay the right tool.

Community PulseDashboards & source sitesA chatbot from memory
Answers from real, published datasets
Source, unit and period attached to every figurePartly
Says plainly when it can’t answerDepends
Ask in plain English
Minutes, not days
Deep exploration and mappingPartly
FAQ

Questions your IT team will ask.

We’ll walk your team through the checks in 15 minutes.

No. Community Pulse is a plain-English front door onto published datasets — not a replacement for your dashboards, GIS layers or wider BI stack. For deep exploration or mapping work, your existing tools stay the right tool.
It says so, plainly, instead of estimating. A period outside the data’s coverage, a rate the data can’t support, or a place name it can’t resolve uniquely all come back as a stated refusal with the reason — never a real-looking number that happens to be wrong.
Read-only Tableau extracts for the datasets listed on this site — nothing else in your environment. Access sits behind individual sign-in, so it’s clear who did what.
No. There is no write path back to Tableau or any other system — not behind a setting, not for an administrator.
No. We don’t log the content of your questions or Claude’s answers — only which tool ran, which dataset it touched, and whether it succeeded. See the privacy policy.

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