Shark Updates

See the latest Shark Finesse feature releases, product improvements and bug fixes.

2025

Feature
Feature
May 19, 2025
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Build your own benefits

Now you can build your own benefits within ValueHub!

2024

Feature
Feature
November 6, 2024
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QPilot (formerly SharkSense AI): Session Generation

Once you're happy with your business case session outline, you can select create this session and QPilot will create a brand-new session.

Feature
Feature
November 6, 2024
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QPilot (formerly SharkSense AI): Session Outline

QPilot generates a full session outline, including suggested business case description, benefits, and costs (and an image if selected).

Feature
Feature
November 6, 2024
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QPilot (formerly SharkSense AI): Business Case Description & Presets

Describe the business case using your own text or preset prompts.

Feature
Feature
November 6, 2024
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QPilot (formerly SharkSense AI): Business Case Details

Fill out key business case details - customer name, industry, organisation size, and review period.

Feature
Feature
April 7, 2024
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Session Comparison

Select sessions to compare benefit and costs, value realization, and produce reports.

2023

Feature
Feature
November 15, 2023
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Single Page Summary

This single-page infographic provides a concise overview of a project's top benefits, total costs, and its Return on Investment (ROI).

Feature
Feature
November 7, 2023
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Output templates & customization

The output template feature enables you to explore a variety of templates, select from fresh designs, and offers the capability to customize colors and add session images.

Enhancement
Enhancement
July 10, 2023
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Revamped UI and theme enhancements

A much-anticipated update to ValueHub's user interface (UI) and theme options.

Enhancement
Enhancement
July 9, 2023
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Improved Navigation and Shortcut Features

Discover an upgraded navigation system and a range of convenient keyboard shortcuts, improving your user experience and streamlining your workflow.

Enhancement
Enhancement
July 9, 2023
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Improved Performance

ValueHub is now faster than ever before, empowering you to accomplish tasks swiftly and seamlessly.

Enhancement
Enhancement
July 8, 2023
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New Chart Options: Pie and Horizontal Bar Charts

As part of our major update, we are bringing you new chart options, including horizontal bar charts and pie charts.

Enhancement
Enhancement
July 7, 2023
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Survey Responses: Streamlined Insights at Your Fingertips

Survey responses now have a dedicated section on the Shark dashboard, allowing you to effortlessly access and review all your valuable insights in one centralized location.

Enhancement
Enhancement
July 7, 2023
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Benefit Calculator Side Drawer Updates

Now, you can access not only the benefit charts but also the benefit cashflow, notes, and detailed calculation information, all conveniently displayed alongside the main calculator.

2022

Feature
Feature
November 11, 2022
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Business Case Survey

Send customers an interactive survey to gather input on relevant benefits before your business value review session.

Feature
Feature
June 1, 2022
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CRM Integration

Shark can integrate with your CRM.

Feature
Feature
June 1, 2022
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Changing the name on your ValueHub profile

This features allows you to update or change the name that is visible on your ValueHub profile.

Feature
Feature
June 1, 2022
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Adding a ValueHub profile photo

You can add a photo to your ValueHub profile!

Feature
Feature
June 1, 2022
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Changing your ValueHub password

You can reset or change your password from within your ValueHub profile.

Feature
Feature
May 2, 2022
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Session version history

See all previous versions of a Shark session and restore from an older version.

Feature
Feature
May 2, 2022
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Session collaboration

You can invite others to collaboratively work on a business case session.

Update
Update
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Benefit notes

Keep important notes about the business case.

2021

Feature
Feature
September 19, 2021
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Benefit modifiers

You can now adjust benefits to accommodate for Adoption, Risk and Growth factors.

Feature
Feature
September 19, 2021
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Benefit smoothing

You can now smooth out the cash profile of individual benefits.

Feature
Feature
May 30, 2021
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Default start month

You can now create a default start month across all benefits within your business case.

Feature
Feature
April 12, 2021
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Create folders

You now have the ability to create folders to organise all of your business cases within ValueHub.

2020

Feature
Feature
November 18, 2020
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Report cover page

You can now add a cover page to ValueHub's Short and Long Form outputs!

Feature
Feature
November 15, 2020
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Image picker

You can now add images to business case sessions!

Feature
Feature
June 4, 2020
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Sidebar navigation

Sidebar navigation lets you quickly view business case details, benefits, costs, and ROI summaries, generate outputs, and use the built-in calculator—all from one place.

Feature
Feature
June 4, 2020
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Deal progression indicator

Move from benefits and costs straight to ROI figures you can reveal with confidence.

Feature
Feature
May 26, 2020
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Chart ordering

You can now choose how the graphing in the software is ordered (this will also be replicated in the outputs).

Feature
Feature
May 26, 2020
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Cost of do nothing

You've built the business case with your customer and then they decide that they are not going to move forward with you and have actually decided not to do anything at all.

Feature
Feature
May 26, 2020
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Cost of delay

You've built the business case with your customer and then they tell you that they are going to delay the project.

Feature
Feature
May 26, 2020
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Cost of tender

You've built the business case with your customer and then they tell you that they are going out to tender.

Feature
Feature
March 2, 2020
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Undo

We have now added undo and redo functionality so you can easily remove changes or bring them back.

Feature
Feature
February 25, 2020
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Default session values

When an input repeats across benefits, save it as a Default Session Value to reuse and instantly update it everywhere at once.

Feature
Feature
January 25, 2020
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Editable cost cashflows

Shark now allows you to freely edit a cost cashflow.

Feature
Feature
January 25, 2020
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Editable benefit cash profiles

Shark now allows you to freely edit a benefit cash profile.

2019

Feature
Feature
October 21, 2019
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See if a benefit has been completed

The benefit progress bar shows how much of a benefit has been completed.

Feature
Feature
October 21, 2019
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Create business case preparation documents

Before a customer visit you can send a document to help collect data pertinent to the business case.

Feature
Feature
July 8, 2019
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Add ValueHub as an App on your device

You can add ValueHub as an App icon on your phone or tablet home screen or computers desktop.

Feature
Feature
June 3, 2019
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Multiple language versions

ValueHub has multiple languages versions available including English (UK), English (US), Dutch, Spanish, French, German and Italian.

Feature
Feature
May 1, 2019
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Design your own benefit layouts

You can now create your own benefit layouts to only include the exact benefits you require.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Generate presentations

ValueHub generates a pptx presentation for use in your preferred software (PowerPoint, Google Slides etc.)

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Generate spreadsheets

ValueHub generates xlsx spreadsheets for use in your preferred software (Excel, Power BI, Google Sheets etc.)

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Cost cashflows

Ability to view each cost cashflow.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Reorder costs

Easily drag and drop to reorder costs.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Add notes about the costs

Each type of cost can have notes which will be added to the final output documents.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Add recurring & non-recurring costs

Include recurring and non-recurring costs in your business case.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Payback

Payback is displayed on the Summary screen when you have added benefits and costs.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

IRR is displayed on the Summary screen when you have added benefits and costs.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Net Present Value (NPV)

NPV is displayed on the Summary screen when you have added benefits and costs.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Business case summary

Central to creating a business case with ValueHub is the Summary screen.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Minimum return rate

Set the customers minimum annual return rate percentage on the investment.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Set the review period

Choose a review period from 1 to 360 months.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Add custom benefits

If you already have a benefit you would like to add to the business case you can use the custom monthly and one time feature.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Add benefits to a business case

Quantify the business case benefits from an extensive library of benefit calculators called Evaluators.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Duplicate a session

You can duplicate an existing session to create different variations of it.

Enhancement
Enhancement
January 21, 2019
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Works in all modern web browsers

ValueHub will adapt to your devices screen size.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
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Themes

With theme support you can change the user interface of ValueHub. Among the available themes are Light and Dark mode.

Feature
Feature
January 21, 2019
PRO ONLY

Generate long & short form ROI-based business case reports

Having carefully crafted your business case you can choose to output in Short Form or Long Form docx for use in your preferred software (Word, Google Docs etc.)

What we do

At Shark Finesse we have developed an enterprise-grade cloud application to help businesses standardise and simplify their value engagements across the entire customer journey.

Shark, a business value engagement platform used by 1000’s of customer-facing teams globally (e.g. pre-sales, sales, value teams, and customer success) is easy to use, intuitive and usable directly with the customer to negotiate the likely business returns from investing in a solution.

By adopting the Shark approach you will fundamentally transform conversations with new and existing customers, close more business, and differentiate from the competition.