# Rapid Lens — Complete Site Content for Language Models > This file is the long-form companion to /llms.txt. It contains the substantive > public content of rapidlens.com in plain text, organized by page, so language > models can answer questions about the Rapid Lens product suite with accurate, > up-to-date information. ================================================================================ ABOUT ================================================================================ Rapid Lens is the umbrella brand for a suite of business-intelligence governance products built by Factual Soft Company LLC: - Rapid BI Catalog — flagship platform for Tableau impact analysis, lineage, and automated documentation across the entire Tableau estate (Server + Cloud). - RapidDox for Tableau — desktop application that documents individual Tableau Workbooks, Data Source files, and Prep flows. - RapidDox for Power BI — desktop application that documents Power BI Desktop files (.pbix), including DAX measures and calculated columns. - Rapid Hub — coming soon. Unified navigation surface across Tableau and Power BI dashboards, with business glossary and technical documentation co-located with each dashboard. All Rapid Lens products are metadata-only. They never read, transmit, or store the rows in customer data tables. ================================================================================ HOMEPAGE — RAPID LENS PLATFORM ================================================================================ Headline: Find what breaks before your users or auditors do. Lead: Instant impact analysis, visual lineage, and automated documentation across your BI ecosystem — Tableau and Power BI. The cost of guessing — every BI team is one rename away from a 9 a.m. fire drill. Schema drifts, calculated fields rot, documentation lies. The bigger your Tableau or Power BI estate, the smaller your visibility. Common problems Rapid Lens addresses: - Source system informs your team at the last minute that a column is being renamed. Manually investigating every workbook for impact takes days or weeks. With Rapid BI Catalog, one click produces an Excel-exportable comprehensive report listing every dashboard, worksheet, calculated field, set, group, and hierarchy that depends on the field. - A source column changes — how fast can you react? Rapid BI Catalog pinpoints exactly which Tableau objects are impacted at the most granular level: dashboards, worksheets, calculated fields, sets, groups, hierarchies. The blast radius is visible immediately. - Are you audit-ready, and is your documentation enterprise-standard? Auditors want lineage end-to-end and standardized documentation across every dashboard. Manually documenting hundreds or thousands of dashboards can take years and is error-prone. Rapid BI Catalog runs documentation as a scheduled job — no manual intervention unless your team chooses to add business definitions. - Onboarding a new analyst without docs takes months. With always-current documentation and visual lineage, new analysts can ship by week two; tribal knowledge stays in the system, not in someone's head. The transformation: from reactive (guesswork before every change, manual stale documentation, reactive fixes after users complain, audit prep takes weeks, tribal knowledge walks out the door) to radically clear (instant impact analysis on every field, auto-generated always-current docs, proactive alerts before deployment, audit-ready in one click, lineage stays). The business case writes itself: - $275K+ annual cost savings from eliminating manual impact analysis and documentation - 137+ new dashboards your team can build annually with freed-up time - Audit-ready: always-current documentation kept ready as a scheduled job - 10-15× return on investment in the first year Calculations based on 100 Tableau dashboards, 2 analysts, 25 source system changes annually, 2 hours per dashboard for manual impact investigation, $50/hour analyst cost, and 50 dashboards requiring documentation at 10 hours each. Results vary based on environment size and change frequency. ================================================================================ PRODUCT — RAPID BI CATALOG (FLAGSHIP) ================================================================================ Hero: Know exactly what a data change will break — instantly. What it does: Table and field-level impact analysis. Visual lineage. Automated documentation. One platform that answers "which dashboards will break if I change this?" Three core capabilities: 1. Tableau Impact Analysis at Field & Table Level - 10 minutes vs. 1 month of manual investigation - Select any database, table, or field to see complete upstream and downstream impact across the entire Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud estate - Affected dashboards, worksheets, calculated fields, bins, sets, groups, and hierarchies — all listed - Excel-exportable reports for change-control reviews and stakeholder sign-off - Prevent production dashboard breaks before they reach end users 2. Visual End-to-End Data Lineage for Tableau - 100% visibility into data dependencies - Source-to-dashboard lineage including calculated fields and data source connections - Interactive zoom, pan, and drill-down — no more screenshots in slide decks - Identify bottlenecks, redundancies, and unused assets across the estate - Audit-ready lineage views for governance teams and compliance reviews 3. Automated, Always-Current Tableau Documentation - Zero compliance gaps, always audit-ready - One-click generation across the entire Tableau environment - Captures calculated fields, data sources, filters, parameters, and dependencies - Scheduled automation keeps the documentation current as dashboards evolve - Export to Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, or CSV Audit & Governance: When the auditors call, have an answer in 90 seconds. Documentation exports — Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, CSV. Visual end-to-end lineage navigable in-app. Field-level activity logs with timestamps. Role-based access control. On-prem or private cloud deployment. Standard documentation across the entire estate. Pricing — Rapid BI Catalog (annual subscriptions, all include 15-day free trial, all support Tableau Server AND Tableau Cloud): - Starter: $10,000 / year (or $12,000 monthly). Up to 250 published workbooks. 1 admin, 2 power users, 5 read-only. Impact analysis, workbook-level lineage, cross-workbook dependency mapping, metadata insights, exports to Word/Excel/PDF/HTML/CSV, on-prem or private cloud deployment, email support. - Professional (custom pricing — most popular): Up to 1,000 published workbooks. 2 admins, 5 power users, 25 read-only. Adds automated scheduled documentation, bulk processing, object-level lineage (tables, fields, parameters, sets, groups), MySQL & PostgreSQL metadata storage, priority email support. - Enterprise (custom pricing): Unlimited published workbooks and users. Adds SSO/SAML integration, granular role-based access control, dedicated onboarding and SLA-backed support. Multi-year discounts available on 3+ year contracts. Government agencies, consulting firms, and verified nonprofits qualify for special programs (50% discount for verified nonprofits). ================================================================================ PRODUCT — RAPIDDOX FOR TABLEAU ================================================================================ Hero: Tableau documentation, automated. What it does: Generate comprehensive, customizable documentation for Tableau Workbooks (.twb, .twbx), Tableau Data Source files (.tds, .tdsx), and Tableau Prep flows (.tfl, .tflx) — in minutes, not weeks. Runs locally on your desktop. Does NOT connect to Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud directly; download files locally first, then point RapidDox at them. Five feature areas: 1. Easy Customization — include or exclude any section, field, or worksheet on demand. Hide unused calculated fields, parameters, and data sources. Custom headers, footers, and brand styling. Add background context where business stakeholders need it. 2. Dashboard Screenshots — auto-embedded HQ dashboard screenshots per worksheet. Designed for non-technical business stakeholders to read end-to- end. Intuitive desktop UI; no SQL, scripting, or coding required. 3. Analyze Calculations, Custom SQL & Unused Objects — browse calculated field formulas across the entire workbook. List custom SQL and parameters in one searchable view. Identify unused worksheets, calculations, and parameters. Works on Workbooks, Data Source files, and Prep Flows. 4. Export in Every Format — Word (.docx) for stakeholder reviews, Excel (.xlsx) and CSV for piping into databases or back into Tableau, Adobe PDF for governance reviews, HTML for internal portals/wikis. 5. Tableau Prep Flow Documentation — step-by-step breakdown of every Prep flow node. Joins, unions, aggregations, and pivots documented in execution order. Inputs and outputs for each step with field-level details. Pricing — RapidDox for Tableau (per user): - Free Trial: $0 for 7 days, all features unlocked, no credit card required. - Standard: $49 monthly OR $499 yearly (saves 15% vs monthly) OR $999 lifetime (one-time, plus $199/year maintenance from year 2). Standard is for companies offering internal support to their own teams. - Agency: $99 monthly OR $999 yearly OR $1,999 lifetime (plus $399/year maintenance from year 2). Agency is for consulting firms (serving multiple external clients) and government agencies. Same features as Standard; pricing reflects the broader use case. Each license is valid for installation on one computer. ================================================================================ PRODUCT — RAPIDDOX FOR POWER BI ================================================================================ Hero: Power BI documentation, automated. What it does: Generate detailed, customizable documentation for Power BI Desktop files (.pbix). Captures DAX measures, calculated columns, data sources, custom SQL, and dependencies. Runs locally on your desktop; does NOT connect to Power BI Service directly. Four feature areas (mirrors RapidDox for Tableau, adapted to Power BI): 1. Easy Customization for Power BI Reports 2. Dashboard Screenshots inside the documentation 3. Analyze DAX Measures, Custom SQL & Unused Objects 4. Export Power BI Documentation to Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, CSV Pricing — same structure as RapidDox for Tableau (Free Trial, Standard $49/$499/$999, Agency $99/$999/$1,999 with maintenance addons). ================================================================================ PRODUCT — RAPID HUB (COMING SOON) ================================================================================ Hero: Stop switching tools. See everything in one place. The fragmentation problem (a navigation problem, not a data-reconciliation problem): The Tableau dashboard lives in one portal. The Power BI report lives in another. Every executive review starts with logging into both, hunting for bookmarks, and explaining where to click — every single time. Rapid Hub does NOT reconcile data — your BI team owns that. What it does is give every dashboard a single home, with the business glossary, definitions, and technical documentation right alongside it. Three planned features: 1. One pane for both — Tableau and Power BI dashboards side by side under a single, unified umbrella. End the constant tool-switching for business users and execs. 2. Easy cross-tool navigation — browse, search, and open any dashboard (Tableau or Power BI) without juggling browser tabs, bookmarks, or second logins. 3. Definitions where the dashboard lives — every dashboard ships with its business glossary, definitions, and technical documentation in the same view. No more hunting through wikis to understand what a metric means. Status: Early access opens Q3 2026. Onboarding 50 design partners first. Priority for existing Rapid BI Catalog and RapidDox customers. Join the waitlist via the website. ================================================================================ SECURITY & COMPLIANCE ================================================================================ Rapid Lens is the umbrella brand for Rapid BI Catalog, RapidDox for Tableau, RapidDox for Power BI, and Rapid Hub. Every product follows the same four security principles: 1. Metadata-only, across the entire suite — Column names, schemas, calculated- field formulas, dashboard structure. The rows in your tables are never read, transmitted, or stored. 2. Deploy where you need — Desktop client for RapidDox runs entirely on your computer. Rapid BI Catalog deploys on-premise or in your private cloud. Your data never leaves the building. 3. Respects your existing permissions — Each Rapid Lens product honors your existing Tableau / Power BI roles. Users only see what their underlying BI account can already access; no privilege escalation. 4. Full audit trail — Every scan, every export, every user action — logged with timestamp and identity. Audit-ready by default for governance, security, and compliance reviews. Detailed legal documents (Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, EULA) are available on the site as web pages and as downloadable Word documents. ================================================================================ ROI CALCULATOR ================================================================================ Rapid Lens hosts a live ROI calculator at /roi-calculator with the following inputs: - Tableau Dashboards (total in environment) - Number of Analysts on the BI team - Analyst Hourly Rate (fully loaded) - Source Changes Per Year (database changes requiring impact analysis) - Hours Per Dashboard (manual impact analysis) - Dashboards to Document Per Year - Hours to Document (manual) Outputs include hours saved on impact analysis and documentation, dollar savings, productivity gain percent per analyst, total annual value, and ROI multiple. Methodology assumptions: automated impact analysis ≈ 2% of manual time; automated documentation ≈ 6% of manual time; 40 hours per dashboard for new dashboard build; 2080 analyst hours per year. ROI is computed against an assumed annual subscription cost of $12,000 (Starter tier). ================================================================================ CONTACT & DEMO ================================================================================ The website is at https://rapidlens.com. Contact form at /contact submits to a backend that creates Freshdesk tickets. Topics: Request a Demo, Pricing & Plans, Enterprise Inquiry, Government / Public Sector, Partnership, Technical Support, Other. The Watch Demo flow: complete the demo request form (first name, last name, company, work email) on any "Watch Demo" CTA. After submission, the user is taken to a watch page with the embedded full product demo and a 15-day free trial CTA. The demo link is also emailed to the requester. The product demo video covers the Rapid BI Catalog flagship product in approximately 7 minutes — no sales pitch, just features in order. ================================================================================ TECHNICAL NOTES FOR AGENTS / RAGS ================================================================================ - Pricing figures are accurate as of 2026. - Tableau versions supported by RapidDox: 2020.4 through 2025.1. - File formats supported by RapidDox for Tableau: .twb, .twbx, .tds, .tdsx, .tfl, .tflx (no Server / Cloud connection — local files only). - File formats supported by RapidDox for Power BI: .pbix (no Power BI Service connection — local files only). - Rapid BI Catalog connects directly to Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud via the metadata API. - Rapid Hub status: pre-launch; waitlist only. - All trademarks ("Rapid Lens", "Rapid BI Catalog", "RapidDox", "Rapid Hub") are owned by Factual Soft Company LLC.