# Understanding trends

Sauce AI is constantly reviewing each piece of new feedback across all sources. Converts them into highlights and automatically clusters anything that is 70% or more similar. We call these thematic similarities — trends. There's a few different types of trends in Sauce. Let's break down the differences between each. 

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{% tab title="Emerging & largest trends" %}
When you log into Sauce, you see a listing of emerging trends. This is the most recent highlights analysed by Sauce, clustered into a trend based on any historical similarities.

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{% tab title="Generated on-the-fly" %}
Anytime you search, Sauce clusters all feedback into a summarised view of trends so that you can instantly see thematic insights across your search. The same rule applies to `Saved views` and `Saved clusters`. Views and clusters will automatically update as new feedback enters Sauce — enabling you to see new issues as they arise in real time.

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{% tab title="Top down trends" %}
Top-down trends show real-time patterns across **all feedback sources.** Giving you a glanceable, birds-eye-view of what your customers are saying. You can drill-in to any trend to unpack sub-trends. Learn more about [Top-down trends](https://support.sauce.app/tools/top-down-trends).

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### What's in a trend?

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There's a few things you can do when reviewing a trend:

* Understand which customers are impacted by this trend
* Tracking a trend by saving as a cluster.
* Understand its recent growth and change
* Exporting all highlights
* Add tags


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