Navigating the Platform
The sidebar is how you move around GrowthFactor. It runs down the left of every page and is organized top to bottom: the workspace you're in, Home, then your work, then help and your account.
The Workspace Switcher
The workspace you're working in sits at the top of the sidebar. Everything below it is scoped to that workspace, so switching changes which studies, stores, layers, and deals you see. See Workspaces.
Home
Click Home to return to the Home page — your search bar, quick actions, and recently edited studies. The GrowthFactor logo at the top of the sidebar does the same.
Legacy
Site Analysis and Deal Dashboard sit under a Legacy heading.
Site Analysis takes one address and returns a full read on it. See Site Analysis.
Deal Dashboard is your pipeline. See Deal Dashboard.
The Deal Dashboard is still where deals are managed. Site Analysis is the older single-address workflow, and studies have replaced it for new analysis.
Study and Manage
Below Legacy, a two-tab switcher splits the rest of the sidebar.
Study
Where your analysis lives.
New study opens an empty study.
All studies and Shared studies open the full list.
Starred holds the studies you've starred. Stars are yours alone.
Recents lists what you opened last, with View all to see the whole list.
See Studies Overview.
Manage
Your workspace's data and saved work.
My Stores — your existing store portfolio. See My Stores.
My Layers — custom layers. See Map Layers.
My Files — files you've uploaded. See My Files.
Shared Maps — saved analyses shared with your team. See Shared Maps.
Workspace admins also see Admin Settings here.
Collapsing the Sidebar
Click Collapse at the top of the sidebar to shrink it to icons and give the map more room. Click again to bring the labels back.
Book a Walkthrough
The Book a walkthrough button sits next to the help menu at the bottom of the sidebar. Click it to schedule time with the GrowthFactor team for platform questions or a guided walkthrough. When the sidebar is collapsed, the button appears as a calendar icon.
Help and Resources
Click Help & Docs at the bottom of the sidebar to open the help menu. When the sidebar is collapsed, this appears as a ? icon. The menu provides quick access to:
Ask AI — an assistant that answers questions about the platform without leaving the app
Help & FAQs — the help documentation and frequently asked questions
Known Issues — current platform issues, their status, and when they were last updated
System status — a live colored dot shows whether the platform is operational, degraded, or experiencing downtime; click for the full status page
Changelog — the latest product updates and improvements
User Menu
Click your user avatar at the bottom-left of the sidebar to access:
Organization switching, if you belong to more than one organization
Log out
Your name and current organization display beneath the avatar.
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