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The Themes page is a timeline table of the topics and themes seen in your organization for a period you choose. It lists themes with observations in the longer range described in Choose a period. Every control is reflected in the page URL, so you can share a view with a colleague and use the browser’s Back button to return to an earlier one.

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Open the page

In the sidebar, under Build, click Themes. Themes is available by default. See Availability. The toolbar shows Data through, the last day with observations grouped into themes, and Themes updated, when Tempo last updated your themes. Updated shows when the table on screen was computed, which can be up to six hours earlier. To recompute the table, click the refresh icon next to the time. If the same view was refreshed in the last minute, you see that result. If you see Couldn’t refresh Themes, the table keeps its previous results. Try again.
Themes page showing the Topics grouping, the Last 90 Days period, Weeks granularity, and a table of topics with Status, Growth, Occurrence, Timeline, Accounts, Observations, and First seen columns.

The Themes page grouped by topic: one row per topic with its status, growth, occurrence, weekly timeline, and counts for the last 90 days.

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Group by topic or theme

When topic grouping is on, a Topics | Themes toggle sits at the top of the page.
  • Topics shows one row per topic. Click the chevron on a topic row to expand its themes. The No topic yet row holds themes that do not belong to a topic and is always last.
  • Themes shows one row per theme. The Topic column names its topic. Click a topic to switch to Topics with that topic expanded.
Type into the search field to rank topics or themes by relevance to your words. While a search is active, the rows are ordered by relevance and the sort controls are disabled. Clear the search to return to the sorted timeline.

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Choose a period

Click the period button, for example Last 90 Days, to choose how far back to look. The table shows counts, status, and growth for this period. Status and growth compare it with the equal period just before it. First seen, Last seen, history totals, and Appears with use a longer range ending on the period’s last day. This range covers the last 90 days, or the selected period and the previous period if those span more than 90 days. These values count all sources, whatever you select in Sources. A theme marked New may have appeared before that range. To use a custom period, click a start date and then an end date in the calendar. The range can be at most 366 days. For periods of 14 days or more, use Days, Weeks, or Months to set the timeline granularity. Days is available for periods up to 31 days. Months is available for periods of 60 days or more. Tempo starts with Days for periods up to 31 days, Weeks for 32 to 179 days, and Months for 180 days or more.

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Filter

Click Filters to open the filter panel. The button shows how many filters are active. The seller and account lists include only deals you can open. Active filters appear as chips above the table. Remove a chip to clear one filter, or click Clear all. To show one observation type, point to its row in Types and click Only.
Themes page with the Filters panel open on the right, showing Sellers and Accounts search lists and the Types section grouped under What buyers ask and want.

The Filters panel: Sellers, Accounts, and Types grouped by family. Account names shown are placeholders.

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Narrow an observation type

Use a type’s detail filters to focus on questions customers ask or objections your team has not handled. Selected types with predefined choices show an arrow beside their name in Types.
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Select a type

Select Questions under Types in the Filters panel.
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Open its choices

Click the arrow beside Questions.
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Choose a value

Click Customer to include only questions asked by customers.
For Objections, Not handled limits results to objections your team has not handled. You can select several values for a field to include any of them. Unknown includes observations where Tempo could not tell or did not record that detail. These choices narrow only observations of that type. Other selected types still contribute to the results. Counts, timelines, topics, theme details, and evidence reflect your choices. Remove the filter chip above the table to clear a detail filter. Deselecting a type also clears its detail filters.

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Read the timeline table

Each row shows Theme (or Topic), Category, Status, Growth, Occurrence, Timeline, Accounts, Observations, First seen, and Last seen. In Topics, a Themes column shows how many themes each topic contains. Rows sort by Growth, highest first, until you change the sort.
  • The Timeline column shows activity across the selected period in one compact strip.
  • Click a sortable column header to sort by that column.
  • Right-click a column header to filter on that column, for example occurrence above a value or first seen after a date. One filter applies per column. The Topic and Timeline columns have no filter.
  • The table shows 50 rows per page. Use Previous and Next to page.

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Open a theme

Click a theme name to open it in a slide-over panel. The header shows its topic, type badges, status, name, and description. The panel has three tabs.

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Overview

Theme detail panel open over the Themes table, showing the topic breadcrumb, type badges, Growing status, the theme name and description, the Overview, Accounts, and Observations tabs, occurrence and growth figures, a weekly bar chart, and representative quotes.

A theme's Overview tab: This period, Over time, and What people say, with each quote linked to its deal and source. Names shown are placeholders.

A topic panel instead opens with Themes in this topic, ranked by accounts this period, followed by its time series and latest observations.

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Accounts

Accounts that raised the theme this period, with their deal and observation counts. Expand an account to see its deals. Click a deal to open it.

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Observations

Each observation with its deal, its date, and a Preview source link that opens the artifact it came from. An observation from an artifact kept on an account shows Not tied to a deal in place of a deal name, with no link.

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What evidence you can open

Counts and timelines are organization-wide. Every member can open evidence from the organization’s deals, but evidence on deals hidden in Tempo may be out of reach. When some evidence is out of your reach, the tab says so, for example “You can see 8 of the 12 accounts in this period; the rest are only on deals you can’t access.”