Data & analytics · Connects with an API key

An AI teammate for BSC Designer.

Connect BSC Designer and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 10 BSC Designer actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about BSC Designer
  • What changed in BSC Designer this week compared with last week?
  • Pull these numbers from BSC Designer into a sheet and chart them.
  • Text me if the daily figure in BSC Designer drops by more than 20%.
  • Build me a Monday summary from BSC Designer.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in BSC Designer

10 BSC Designer actions, picked for what you ask.

About BSC Designer: BSC Designer helps organizations create balanced scorecards, manage KPIs, visualize strategy maps, and track strategic performance.

Reads

7 in all · always allowed
  • Get Document
    Get metadata and sharing settings for one scorecard document by numeric ID or alias.
  • List Documents
    List scorecard documents owned by or shared with the connected user, returning IDs and aliases for…
  • Get Scorecard Item
    Get detailed metadata for one scorecard item, such as an indicator, goal, or initiative, using its…
  • Get Indicator Value
    Get one indicator's value, baseline, target, minimum, and maximum for the requested as-of date…
  • List Scorecard Items
    List the goals, perspectives, indicators, initiatives, risks, rationales, and expected outcomes in…
  • Download Excel Report
    Generate and download a scorecard's Excel report, optionally evaluated at a specified date.
  • Get Grouped Indicator Values
    Get one indicator's values grouped by day, week, month, quarter, half-year, or year over an…

Changes

3 in all · off when BSC Designer is read-only
  • Update Indicator
    Update an indicator's name, description, or leading/lagging business type without changing its…
  • Set Indicator Values
    Set one or more indicators' value, baseline, target, minimum, or maximum in one batch request.
  • Balance Scorecard Weights
    Recalculate and persist balanced indicator weights across a scorecard, returning every changed old…

Showing 10 of 10. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect BSC Designer

    Open Connections, find BSC Designer and paste an API key from your BSC Designer account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share BSC Designer with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a BSC Designer job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

BSC Designer, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

Questions

BSC Designer and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with BSC Designer?

Yes. BSC Designer is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect BSC Designer?

Open Connections, find BSC Designer and paste an API key from your BSC Designer account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in BSC Designer?

10 actions: 7 that read from BSC Designer and 3 that change things in it, for example get document, list documents, get scorecard item. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in BSC Designer?

Yes. In Connections, set BSC Designer to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about BSC Designer from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run BSC Designer jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my BSC Designer data safe?

Your BSC Designer login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

One teammate. The output of a team.

Works nights, remembers every decision, answers in the thread. Start free with 300 credits.

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