> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.gowindmill.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Insights > Analyze performance review responses at scale with aggregate charts, AI summaries, target distributions, and access controls for managers, cycle admins, and calibration participants. Insights turn submitted performance review responses into an aggregate view of each question. You can spot patterns across a team or cycle without opening every review packet. ## What Insights shows Windmill adapts each insight to the question type: * **Text questions** — Generate an AI summary of recurring themes, sentiment, and notable patterns. You can also open the underlying responses when your review access allows it. Windmill only generates a summary when there are enough responses to protect confidentiality. * **Rating, scale, and numeric questions** — Compare the distribution of answers and review statistics such as the average. Numeric questions can also show the median, minimum, and maximum. * **Single-select, multi-select, and yes/no questions** — Compare how often each option was selected. * **Net Promoter Score (NPS) questions** — Review the score and its promoter, passive, and detractor breakdown. Depending on the question type, you can switch between a bar list, distribution bar, column chart, or graph. Select a value or response count to open the answers behind it. ## Where to find Insights The responses you can analyze depend on where you open Insights and your access to the cycle. | Location | Who can see it | Responses included | | -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **Cycle → Insights** | Managers assigned manager reviews in the cycle | Self, peer, upward, and manager-review responses for employees in the manager's reporting hierarchy, based on the org chart saved with the cycle | | **Cycle → Admin → Insights** | Cycle admins | Self, peer, upward, and manager-review responses across the cycle | | **Individual review packet → Peer or Upward → Insights** | People who can open that review packet | Peer or upward responses about that reviewee; Insights appears when more than one response was submitted | | **Calibration session → Insights** | Facilitators and committee members of that calibration | Supported structured answers for the employees included in the calibration, shown before and after the session's proposed changes | Use the stage selector to move between self, peer, upward, and manager-review questions. Filters let you narrow cycle and calibration results to a department, team, manager, or other employee group within your access. Insights never gives you access to feedback written about you. Manager results are limited to their reporting hierarchy, and calibration results are limited to that calibration's reviewees. See [Who sees what](/features/performance-reviews/visibility) for the complete visibility rules. ### Manager and cycle admin insights The cycle-level Insights tabs summarize both response distributions and stage activity. Managers see results for their reporting hierarchy, while cycle admins can analyze the full cycle. Manager-stage Insights also shows how many employees are in calibration and how many ratings have been adjusted. Calibration itself is analyzed separately inside each calibration session. ### Insights in a review packet When an employee has multiple peer or upward responses, their review packet opens to an aggregate **Insights** view for that feedback type. Switch to **Responses** to read each submission individually. If only one response was submitted, Windmill shows that response directly instead of creating an aggregate. ### Calibration insights Inside a calibration session, **Insights** compares each supported question's initial manager-review distribution with the distribution after the session's proposed changes. It also summarizes reviewees, ratings changed, the average rating shift, comments, and contributors. Text responses aren't included in calibration comparisons. Open the manager-review stage or an individual review packet to analyze those responses. Learn more about [calibration views](/features/calibrations/views). ## Add a target distribution Target distributions add a reference line to column charts and graphs so you can compare actual answers with an expected shape. They are available anywhere those chart types appear, including cycle, review-packet, and calibration Insights. Open **Target** on an insight card and choose: * **Even** — Splits the target evenly across every answer option * **Bell** — Centers the target around the middle options * **Top heavy** — Places more of the target in the higher answer options * **Custom** — Lets you set the target percentage for each option * **Off** — Removes the target line The target distribution is a visual reference only. It doesn't change responses, ratings, or calibration results. ## Related reading * [Manager reviews](/features/performance-reviews/manager-reviews) * [Calibrations](/features/calibrations) * [Progress tracking](/features/performance-reviews/tracking-progress) * [Who sees what](/features/performance-reviews/visibility)