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Changelog
Every update, feature, and improvement to the ESR platform. Newest first.
August 2026
New look on pricing, features and partners
The pages outside the app now carry the same glass and motion as the homepage, so the whole site reads as one product instead of several.
Search across everything your team has made
One search box now covers tasks, deliverables, knowledge, files, goals and board sessions. It only ever returns your own work, and it tells you when something is broken rather than pretending there is nothing there.
Watch your team work, live
The workspace now shows what each teammate is doing at this moment, drawn from real running work rather than a placeholder animation. A task that has stalled says so instead of spinning forever.
A work board with a Waiting for you lane
Your goals are broken into real steps grouped as done, working now, waiting for you, and not started. Anything blocked on your decision is the loudest thing on the board.
Ava suggests what to do next
Ava now proposes your next move based on what your business actually needs, never repeats a suggestion you have already turned down, and says plainly when she has nothing worth suggesting.
One room for the whole team
Specialists can now join a conversation with the full history, do their part, and leave, with Ava keeping the thread readable instead of you repeating yourself to each teammate.
The morning briefing now actually arrives
The daily briefing is on by default, is suppressed on days with nothing to report, and can be switched off in one click. It also now surfaces work your team drafted overnight and is holding for your approval.
Scheduled routines really run
Recurring routines were reachable but never fired on their schedule. They now run on time, and a run that failed is reported as failed instead of being marked as completed.
The ESR blog
A public blog with articles, RSS and search listings, replacing the old answers section.
Partner programme
A public partner page with the real commission rate, the agreement terms and a signup path, linked from the footer.
Security settings in plain English
Three straightforward security settings for your workspace. Each one can only ever tighten what your agents are allowed to touch, and every setting lists up front what it will always refuse to do.
Onboarding is one question now
Setup no longer opens with a long introduction. You answer a single question about your business and watch a real plan get built from it. Voice is off unless you turn it on.
July 2026
Agents now cite what they used
When a deliverable draws on something you told your team, the answer shows which knowledge entry it came from, so there's no more guessing where an answer originated.
Referral rewards
Refer someone who subscribes and you both get 50% bonus Power, up to 10 referrals.
Billing status now reads live from Stripe
Your subscription and account status on the Billing page reflects what Stripe actually has on file, not a cached guess.
Files tab
Every file your team has produced, including drafts, exports, and deliverables, is browsable and downloadable in one place.
Workspace and Work merged
The task list and the workspace used to be two places. They're one now, so you're not bouncing between tabs to see what's happening.
Three Power bonuses on your first three payments
Founding-window customers get a non-expiring Power bonus on each of their first three charges, on top of the standard monthly allowance.
New look across every remaining page
Sign-in, onboarding, settings, and community got the same visual pass the rest of the app already had: consistent glass-and-light styling everywhere.
Honest empty and error states
Pages with nothing in them yet, or something that broke, now say so plainly instead of showing a blank screen or a spinner that never resolves.
Full visual redesign: signup, dashboard, workspace, team, knowledge
A ground-up design pass across the core app surfaces: cleaner layout, lighter visual weight, same functionality underneath.
Onboarding shows your real first task
The task waiting for you after setup is built from what you actually told your team about your business, not a generic placeholder.
Power explained before you hit a limit
Onboarding now walks you through what Power is and how it's spent before you're in a position to run out of it.
Four pricing tiers live
Founding, Launch, Growth, and Empire pricing is live on the homepage with real Power allotments per tier.
Power battery shows subscription vs. refill separately
Your monthly Power and any Power you've purchased on top of it are now shown as two distinct balances instead of one blended number.
"How this was made"
Every deliverable now shows which team member produced it, a plain-English reason why, and what it cost in Power.
Revise instead of restart
You can now iterate on a past deliverable with the same agent instead of throwing away a draft and starting over.
Board of Advisors grounded in your business
The 12-seat Advisors Board now factors in what it knows about your specific company when it gives a verdict, not generic advice.
Agents remember what you've told them
Before starting a task, your team now pulls from what it already knows about your business, and writes back what it learned when the task is done.
Deliverables appear the moment they're done
Finished work now shows up in the app in real time instead of requiring a refresh or a separate check.
Activity & Power Log
A full per-task audit trail at /app/ledger: see exactly what ran, when, and what it cost.
Ava picks your first agents from your real business
The three starting teammates you're assigned during signup are now chosen from your actual answers, not a fixed default list.
Company Progress Journey
A shareable recap of your team's verified wins over time, only work that was actually confirmed done, not claimed.
Real verification before a task is marked done
A second, independent check now runs before any deliverable is marked complete. Work that fails verification is refunded, not billed.
You're charged for actual usage, not an estimate
Power is now debited based on the real cost of the work performed, replacing a flat per-task estimate.
Failed tasks file an honest ticket
If a task genuinely can't be completed, it now automatically opens a support ticket instead of silently disappearing from your queue.
Live Stripe billing
All plans and Power refill packs are wired to real, live Stripe products: what you see is what you're charged.
Autonomy controls
You now approve what your agents are allowed to do on their own before they can act without asking each time.
Two-factor authentication and voice input
Real TOTP-based 2FA, avatar upload, and voice input/output for talking to your team.
Resizable workspace panels and knowledge graph
The workspace layout is now resizable, and your Knowledge page has an interactive graph view of how your business facts connect.
June 2026
Homepage and onboarding overhaul
Onboarding rebuilt as a guided research flow; homepage rewritten for clarity on what ESR does and who it's for.
Full interface redesign
A ground-up visual rebuild: spatial workspace layout, collapsible sidebar, and a single consistent light theme across the app.
Pricing simplified
Moved to a single clear plan structure with a straightforward community CTA, replacing an earlier multi-tier layout.
Brand refresh
New logos, favicons, and the ESR red accent color applied consistently across the app and marketing pages.
Full email automation
Welcome sequence, abandoned-signup follow-up, low-Power alerts, and weekly summaries: all sent automatically, all able to be unsubscribed from.
Dashboard simplified
Trimmed the dashboard down to what matters day to day: a warm greeting, decisions that need you, and what's happening right now.
14-day refund guarantee
A self-serve refund window with trust signals shown up front, plus admin tooling to manage requests.
Content Studio
Auto-generated short video clips from completed tasks, board verdicts, and weekly wins, ready to post.
Adaptive onboarding research
Onboarding now does a research pass on your business before building your first agent instructions, instead of using generic templates.
Task output viewer and follow-ups
Read your team's work directly in the app, ask a follow-up on any board verdict, and reuse quick-brief templates.
Stripe billing goes live
Checkout, webhooks, and automatic Power allocation on payment: the first real money path in the product.
Automated account emails
Welcome emails, payment-failure notices, and a daily low-Power alert, sent via Resend.
Complete 7-step onboarding
Welcome, team introduction, knowledge brief, office tour, business type, and your first task: all in one guided flow.
Data export
Export everything, including agent instructions, tasks, knowledge, and board sessions, as a single ZIP, any time.
Command palette
Cmd+K opens instant search across navigation, agents, tasks, and quick actions.
Goals and routines
Set goals with sub-goals and progress tracking, and schedule recurring routines your team runs on their own.
Mobile layout
Bottom tab navigation and phone-optimized pages across the whole app.
Social sharing cards
Share a weekly accomplishment, a board verdict, or your founding member badge directly to social media.
This changelog
The page you're reading now: a public record of what shipped, when.
Notification system
A real-time notification bell covering agent errors, task completions, and platform updates.
Ava, your executive assistant
Ava lives at reception, routes tasks to the right teammate, and gives you a daily briefing on login.
Power system
An AI usage battery on your dashboard, with automatic refill options when it runs low.
Knowledge base
Brief your team about your business once, using five structured fields covering business, audience, brand voice, competitors, and goals, and every agent uses it.
Board Room
A 12-seat board of advisors, each modeled on a distinct leadership style, ready to weigh in on any business question.
Plain English everywhere
Every technical term in the interface replaced with everyday language: no more model names or engineering jargon in the customer view.
Virtual office redesign
A six-zone office layout, including reception, leadership offices, break room, and board room, as the home for your AI team.
May 2026
Knowledge visualization
An interactive 3D brain visualization of your business knowledge, plus a dedicated team page.
ESR Portal launches
The first version of the platform: landing page, full dashboard, briefings, approvals, org chart, goals, routines, and the virtual office, the foundation everything since has been built on.
The system watches itself
A monitor that runs continuous health checks and repairs common faults on its own, before you would have noticed them.
The command center
One dashboard answering the five questions that actually matter about your business, with live activity, a health panel and alerts when something needs you.
Lessons your system keeps
When something goes wrong, the fix is written down and kept, so the same problem does not come back a second time.
Tidy up your sidebar
Collapse the sections of the sidebar you do not use, and they stay collapsed.
Newest first in long threads
Long task threads can now show the most recent message at the top, so you are not scrolling to the bottom every time.
You get told when work is handed over
If a job has to be picked up again after an interruption, you now see a notice saying so instead of silently getting a different result.
April 2026
The Board Room
Put a question to several senior agents at once and watch them answer, argue it out and land on a recommendation, with the decision kept on record.
The customer portal begins
The first build of the portal that became ESR.co. Up to this point the system was ours alone. This is where it started being built for other people to sign into.
See your agents as teams
A view that groups agents into the teams they work in, so a large roster reads as an organisation instead of a long list.
Your work is backed up, and you control it
Daily, weekly and monthly backups with settings you can see and change, rather than a policy you have to take on trust.
Approve work straight from the board
Approvals are now attached to the task they belong to, so you can see what you are approving and sign off in one place.
Tasks that wait on other tasks
Mark a task as blocked by another one. When the blocker is finished, the waiting task wakes up on its own.
Run a skill by typing a slash
Type / in any message to see the skills an agent has and pick one, instead of remembering the name.
Subtask counts on collapsed tasks
A collapsed task now shows how many subtasks sit under it, so you can tell there is more inside without expanding it.
Bring your own office characters
Use your own artwork for the characters in the office view instead of the ones we ship.
Tell an agent when it got it right
A thumbs up or down on anything your agents produce. The feedback is kept and used to improve later work.
March 2026
Chat messages come to the agent panel
Messages sent from your phone now show up in the agent panel alongside everything else, so one conversation is in one place.
Your agents remember
A memory system so agents carry what they learned in earlier work into the next job, instead of starting from nothing each time.
Watch a routine as it runs
Open any scheduled routine and follow the current run live, rather than waiting for a result at the end.
Review an agent's work before it lands
A review step you can drop over any piece of work, so nothing is applied until you have looked at it and said yes.
Work with three agents side by side
Open up to three agent conversations in one view and move between them without losing your place in any of them.
Add-ons
The platform can now be extended with add-ons, each with its own settings page, so you can switch on the pieces you need and leave the rest off.
Faster to write a new task
Tabbing through a new task no longer stops on fields that are already filled in for you.
A new look for the office
The office view was redesigned to be easier to read at a glance and less cluttered when a lot of agents are working at once.
Know exactly where the money went
Costs are now broken down by agent, so you can see which part of your team is spending what.
Copy any comment as text
A copy button on every comment, so you can lift an agent's answer into a doc or an email without losing its formatting.
A smoother live feed
Watching an agent work used to flicker and occasionally repeat itself. Updates now arrive as steady text and duplicates are filtered out.
Hand work over from a comment
You can now assign someone directly from a comment, using the same picker as everywhere else.
Mention a project anywhere
Type @ to link a project inside any task, comment or note. The link becomes a coloured chip you can click straight through.
Put your projects in your own order
Drag projects in the sidebar into whatever order suits you, and it stays that way next time you sign in.
A clearer list of your agents
The agents list was rebuilt so you can scan roles and status without opening each one.
February 2026
Projects get their own workspace
Each project now has a dedicated workspace holding its own work, files and history, so two projects never bleed into each other.
Pick up where you left off
Switching between companies now returns you to the last page you were on in that company, rather than resetting you to the start every time.
Active agents panel
A single panel showing every agent currently working, so you no longer have to open each one to find out.
Notifications stay up when they matter
Important alerts now stay on screen longer than routine ones, instead of every message vanishing after the same few seconds.
Pick a project without leaving the page
A project picker on the task detail view, so reassigning work no longer means navigating away and back.
Easier to move around the office
You can now pan the office with a trackpad, and zooming is far less twitchy.
See what each agent costs
A cost breakdown per agent, plus unread badges in the sidebar so you know where something needs you.
A guided setup for your first agent
Hiring an agent now walks you through it step by step instead of dropping you into a blank form.
The virtual office takes shape
The first version of the office view: your agents appear as characters who move around a shared floor, so a running team is something you can watch rather than a list of rows.
See what every agent is doing, live
Agent status now updates in real time instead of only when a job finishes, so you can tell at a glance who is working and who is idle.
January 2026
The private portal launches
ESR began as a private portal we ran our own companies on. On this day it went live internally, and the work started on turning it from an in-house system into a product anyone could sign up for.
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