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This guide is part of the User Guides collection. Read it when you are building a dashboard for a board pack, a program review or a renewal negotiation and want to know what is already available before you build a chart from scratch.
A dashboard in Coverbase is a grid of charts drawn from live workspace data across vendors, assessments, findings, contracts and intake requests. You can build one chart at a time, but most reporting questions have already been answered: the library ships 15 ready-made dashboards and 110 individual charts, each written for a specific job rather than for a table in the database. Open them from Dashboards: Browse templates starts a whole dashboard, and Chart library on any open dashboard adds individual charts to it. Clicking a dashboard card creates that dashboard straight away, under the template’s name, and opens it.
Applying a template makes a copy you own. The charts and the dashboard become ordinary records in your workspace, editable like any other. Retitle them, change the measure, re-slice them, resize them, delete them. Nothing syncs back: later changes to the Coverbase template never reach your copy, and your edits never leave your workspace.

The ready-made dashboards

Each one is a laid-out set of charts from the library, sized for a 12-column grid and ordered so the headline numbers sit at the top.
The Coverbase dashboard template gallery, showing template cards with layout thumbnails, audiences and job labels

Browse templates. Each card shows the dashboard's layout, who it is built for and the jobs it covers.

Start from the dashboard closest to your question and delete what you do not need. That is faster than assembling one chart at a time, and the layout already reads top-down: headline tiles, then the breakdowns, then the detail.

Every dashboard in detail

Executive TPRM Overview

The one-screen answer to how third-party risk is trending: portfolio size, risk mix, assessment throughput and where the gaps are.
Executive TPRM Overview dashboard in Coverbase

Executive TPRM Overview. Built for executives and the board.

On it: Total Vendors, Active Vendors, Assessments Run, Median Assessment Cycle Time, Vendors by Inherent Risk Level, Assessments Over Time, Vendor Status by Inherent Risk, Issues by Control Set. Reach for it when: board and executive reporting; quarterly business review; monthly program review.

Vendor Risk Portfolio

The portfolio in depth: risk tiering, domain exposure, growth and how the book is split across analysts.
Vendor Risk Portfolio dashboard in Coverbase

Vendor Risk Portfolio. Built for risk analysts and the TPRM lead.

On it: Total Vendors, Active Vendors, Vendors Onboarding, Issues Raised, Vendors by Inherent Risk Level, Vendors Added by Quarter and Risk, Risk Domain Exposure, Portfolio by Risk Analyst, Risk Register. Reach for it when: portfolio review; risk committee pack; audit and regulator evidence.

Assessment Operations

Run the assessment queue: volume, outcomes, who is loaded and whether high-risk vendors are getting the scrutiny they should.
Assessment Operations dashboard in Coverbase

Assessment Operations. Built for assessment team leads.

On it: Assessments Run, Median Assessment Cycle Time, 95th Percentile Cycle Time, Issues Raised, Assessments Over Time, Assessment Outcomes, Assessment Workload by Assignee, Outcome by Inherent Risk, Assessment Coverage by Quarter. Reach for it when: weekly team stand-up; queue management; capacity and headcount planning.

Cycle Time & SLA

Where the time goes. Median and tail cycle times, the phase-by-phase breakdown, and the outliers that break an SLA.
Cycle Time & SLA dashboard in Coverbase

Cycle Time & SLA. Built for program managers tracking SLAs.

On it: Median Assessment Cycle Time, Average Assessment Cycle Time, 95th Percentile Cycle Time, Assessments Run, Cycle Time Trend, Cycle Time by Inherent Risk, Time Spent Collecting Documents, Time Spent in Review, Cycle Time by Assignee, Cycle Time Distribution. Reach for it when: SLA reporting; process improvement; bottleneck analysis.

Contract Spend & Renewals

Committed spend, where it is concentrated, and the renewal runway: the view to take into a negotiation.
Contract Spend & Renewals dashboard in Coverbase

Contract Spend & Renewals. Built for procurement and vendor managers.

On it: Total Contract Value, Contracts Under Management, Average Contract Value, Negotiated Savings, Spend by Department, Spend Concentration by Vendor, Renewal Calendar, Value Up for Renewal by Quarter, Contracts by Status, New Contract Value by Quarter, Spend by Supplier Tier, Spend by Relationship Owner, Contract Value by Owner and Tier. Reach for it when: renewal negotiation prep; budget planning; vendor rationalisation.

Savings & Value Capture

What the program saved, where it came from, and how much of it landed rather than staying on paper.
Savings & Value Capture dashboard in Coverbase

Savings & Value Capture. Built for procurement leadership and finance.

On it: Negotiated Savings, Realized Savings, Consolidation Savings, Negotiated Savings by Department, Realized Savings by Department, Savings Captured by Quarter, Savings by Vendor Tag, Savings Contribution Waterfall. Reach for it when: procurement performance reporting; finance reconciliation; board and executive reporting.

Third-Party Exposure

Risk and money on one screen: how much spend sits with high-risk vendors, and which of them carry the open control gaps.
Third-Party Exposure dashboard in Coverbase

Third-Party Exposure. Built for risk and finance leaders.

On it: Total Contract Value, Total Vendors, Issues Raised, Spend by Inherent Risk Tier, Vendors by Inherent Risk Level, Spend Concentration by Vendor, Issues by Vendor Risk Tier, Renewals by Risk Tier. Reach for it when: risk committee pack; concentration-risk reporting; board and executive reporting.

Intake & Demand

The front of the funnel: what the business is asking for, where requests stall, and the assessment load coming next.
Intake & Demand dashboard in Coverbase

Intake & Demand. Built for intake owners and program managers.

On it: Intake Requests, Total Vendors, Assessments Run, Intake Funnel, Intake Volume Over Time, Intake Outcomes by Month, Vendors Added Over Time. Reach for it when: demand forecasting; capacity and headcount planning; intake process improvement.

Control Assurance

Which controls and frameworks vendors fail, how that is trending, and the vendors carrying the most gaps.
Control Assurance dashboard in Coverbase

Control Assurance. Built for control owners and compliance.

On it: Issues Raised, Assessments Run, Total Vendors, Issues Over Time, Issues by Control Weight, Issues by Control Set, Most Failed Controls, Control Set Failures by Risk Tier, Issues by Vendor. Reach for it when: framework gap analysis; audit and regulator evidence; remediation planning.

Tag & Ownership Coverage

Data-quality and accountability: what is classified, what is owned, and which segments are quietly going unassessed.
Tag & Ownership Coverage dashboard in Coverbase

Tag & Ownership Coverage. Built for TPRM program owners.

On it: Total Vendors, Active Vendors, Assessments Run, Vendors by Tag Category, Ownership Coverage, Tag Category by Risk Tier, Portfolio by Tag, Vendor Status by Analyst, Assessment Coverage by Tag. Reach for it when: data-quality review; analyst load balancing; coverage assurance.

Monthly Executive Report

Built to be exported into a monthly pack: portfolio size and tier mix, findings raised against findings resolved, assessment effort by tier, and where the remediation sits.
Monthly Executive Report dashboard in Coverbase

Monthly Executive Report. Built for executives and the board.

On it: Total Vendors, Assessments Run, Findings Raised, Findings Resolved, Findings Raised vs Resolved, Portfolio by Supplier Tier, Assessments by Supplier Tier, Findings by Supplier Tier, Findings by Severity. Reach for it when: board and executive reporting; monthly program review; quarterly business review.

Findings and Remediation

The remediation book end to end: what is open, what closed, how severe it is, where it came from and who owes the work.
Findings and Remediation dashboard in Coverbase

Findings and Remediation. Built for the TPRM lead and risk analysts.

On it: Findings Raised, Findings Resolved, Issues Raised, Total Vendors, Findings Raised vs Resolved, Findings by Stage, Findings by Severity, Findings by Source, Resolutions by Month, Remediation Load by Relationship Owner. Reach for it when: remediation stand-up; monthly program review; showing that remediation is working.

Supplier Tier Review

Everything sliced by supplier tier, for a program that has to show its effort and its exposure follow criticality.
Supplier Tier Review dashboard in Coverbase

Supplier Tier Review. Built for the TPRM lead and the risk committee.

On it: Portfolio by Supplier Tier, Supplier Tier by Inherent Risk, Assessments by Supplier Tier, Assessments by Tier Over Time, Findings by Supplier Tier, Severity by Supplier Tier, Assessment Outcomes by Tier. Reach for it when: tier-based reporting; risk committee pack; tiering review.

Relationship Owner Accountability

The business owner’s view: how many suppliers each owner is accountable for, the assessments run on them, and the remediation they owe.
Relationship Owner Accountability dashboard in Coverbase

Relationship Owner Accountability. Built for business relationship owners and their leadership.

On it: Book of Business by Relationship Owner, Remediation Load by Relationship Owner, Assessments by Relationship Owner, Suppliers by Owner and Tier. Reach for it when: accountability reporting; capacity planning; renewal preparation.

Radar Signal Triage

What Radar raised about your vendors, where each signal stands, and which detectors and vendors keep the queue full. It opens on the last three months.
Radar Signal Triage dashboard in Coverbase

Radar Signal Triage. Built for analysts triaging Radar signals and the TPRM lead.

On it: Radar Signals, Radar Signals In Alert, Triaged Radar Signals, Dismissed Radar Signals, Radar Signals by Status, Radar Signals by Severity, Radar Signals by Month and Status, Radar Signals by Detector, Radar Signals In Alert by Vendor, Radar Signals by Supplier Tier and Severity. Reach for it when: weekly triage review; continuous monitoring reporting; tuning monitoring. The totals count each signal once, however many detectors flagged it. The per-detector, per-source, per-vendor and per-tier charts count a signal under each detector, source, vendor or tier it touches, so they can add up to more than the total.

The chart library

The dashboards above draw on 93 of the library’s charts. Every one of them is also available on its own, along with 17 more that no packaged dashboard uses. Open Chart library from a dashboard, search or pick a shelf, select as many as you want, and they are added below whatever is already on the grid, so an add never lands on top of a widget you positioned. Charts are filed by the question they answer, not by the table the data comes from, so a spend chart and a vendor chart can sit on the same shelf if they answer the same question.
The Coverbase chart library dialog, showing the search field, category shelves with counts, chart cards, and a live preview of the selected chart

The chart library. Shelves across the top, cards in the middle, and the selected chart drawn against your own data on the right.

Selecting a card renders it against your own data in the panel beside the grid, so you can see a real result before you commit it to the dashboard. The preview covers all time; once the chart is added, the dashboard’s own date range applies. You can select several and add them in one go.
Four chart cards from the Coverbase chart library, each with a preview thumbnail, description and job labels

Chart cards in the library. Each one previews the shape of the chart, says what it shows, and lists the jobs it is meant for.

Search matches names, descriptions and the job labels on each card, so renewals, board reporting and SLA all find something. It also matches the vocabulary your workspace uses: if you have renamed “vendor” to “supplier”, searching for suppliers finds the vendor charts.

What is on each shelf

What you will and will not see

The library hides templates your workspace cannot fill, so you never add a chart that can only ever render empty. A dashboard inherits its charts’ requirements: if any chart on it needs Contracts, the whole dashboard is hidden from workspaces without Contracts rather than arriving with holes in it. A shelf with nothing left to show drops out of the row of shelves. The remaining 66 charts and 10 dashboards depend on nothing beyond vendors, assessments and findings, so every workspace sees them.

Making them yours

A template is a starting point, not a fixed report. Once a chart is on your dashboard:
  • Retitle it. The shipped names are descriptive, not fixed. “Median Assessment Cycle Time” may be “Time to clear a vendor” in your program.
  • Change the slice. Most charts group by one dimension and split by another. Swapping either (tag, department, analyst, risk tier, quarter) usually gets you a different question answered by the same chart.
  • Resize and rearrange. Drag any widget; the grid reflows around it.
  • Set the date range on the dashboard rather than per chart. Every chart on it follows.
  • Mix shelves freely. Nothing stops a savings chart sitting next to a cycle-time chart if that is the story your review needs.
Charts count across your whole organization, not only the records you can open, so everyone who opens a dashboard sees the same totals. Radar and Inspect charts are the exception: they show only to people who can see those modules. Money charts add up amounts in your base currency (US dollars unless your organization has set another). An amount in another currency counts only once a conversion rate is set for it; without one it is left out of the total rather than added as if it were dollars.

Use the library from MCP or the API

You can browse the library and copy dashboards and charts from an MCP client or with an API key. An MCP client reads with query_platform(kind="dashboard_library") and writes with mutate(entity="report", action="apply_template") and mutate(entity="report", action="add_chart_templates"). The API routes are GET /v1/dashboard-templates, POST /v1/dashboard-templates/{template_slug}/apply and POST /v1/reports/{report_id}/chart-templates. See Dashboard templates and exports. Before an MCP client sends a write, it shows you the change and waits for you to confirm it. The MCP tool reference lists every field. Browsing the library needs report:read:org, which organization API keys hold. Copying a dashboard or adding charts needs report:create:org or report:update:org. API keys do not hold those, so for that use a key created by a person whose role holds it.

Where to go next

Contracts workspace

The contract records behind every spend, renewal and savings chart in the library.

Requesting a vendor

The intake flow the Intake & Demand dashboard measures.

Permissions and roles

Why two people can open the same dashboard and see different numbers.

Reporting overview

Assessment deliverables (Word templates, PDF and spreadsheet exports), as opposed to live dashboards.

Exporting and scheduling dashboards

Export a dashboard to PDF or Excel, or email it on a schedule.