DeployHQ now offers the ability to generate AI-powered overviews for your deployments, streamlining communication and saving you time. This feature is available for users on **Pro**, **Business**, and **Enterprise** plans.

![AI Deployment Overview](https://i.imgur.com/mpnH1lC.png)

### How AI Overviews are Generated

When you create a new deployment, you'll see an optional field for entering a deployment overview. If you're on a qualifying plan, you can click the **magic wand icon** to automatically generate this overview using AI.

Here's how it works:

-   **Standard Deployments:** For standard deployments, our AI analyzes the **commit messages** included in the current deployment. It then synthesizes these messages into a concise and informative overview, highlighting the key changes and updates.
    
-   **Full Deployments:** If you're performing a full deployment, the AI takes a broader approach. It examines the **last 100 commit messages** from your repository to create a comprehensive overview that captures the recent significant developments.

![Deployment with a AI Overview](https://i.imgur.com/yYGGLMV.png)

_* For security and privacy reasons, we only use the commit messages to generate these overviews. We do not access or analyze file changes or their content._

### Review and Edit

Once the AI generates the overview, it will populate the text field, allowing you to review it immediately. You have full control to **edit, refine, or add any additional information** before proceeding with your deployment. This ensures the overview accurately reflects your communication needs.

This feature aims to simplify your deployment workflow by providing quick, insightful summaries, making it easier to keep your team and stakeholders informed.

### Customising the Output

If you'd like the generated overview to always follow a particular format, you can set custom instructions per project. Go to your project's **Settings** page, where you'll find a **Custom AI deployment overview instructions** field.

Anything you enter here is added to the prompt whenever an overview is generated for that project, so you can control the style and structure of the result. For example:

> Leave out any headings and create a numbered list. No icons, no markup.

A few things worth knowing:

-   Instructions are limited to 1000 characters.
-   They apply only to the project you set them on.
-   They influence formatting and presentation. The overview is still generated from your commit messages, and the instructions cannot change what information is included or override how the feature works.
-   Leave the field empty to use the default format.

### AI Summaries for Archived Deployments

DeployHQ also uses AI to generate summaries for archived deployments. When a deployment is archived due to your plan's data retention policy, the system automatically creates a Deployment Intelligence Summary that preserves key information about what happened during the deployment, even after detailed logs are removed.

These archived deployment summaries:

-   Are automatically generated during the archiving process
-   Capture the deployment outcome and key actions performed
-   Allow you to understand historical deployments without full logs
-   Are displayed in the same Deployment Intelligence Summary format

This ensures you maintain visibility into your deployment history while optimizing storage and performance. For more information about data retention, see our [FAQ on deployments](Article: #637).