Changelog

Beta 0.2.5May 15, 2026

Conductor Brief Mode improvements

• Drop a PDF, Word doc, deck, or spreadsheet into the intake and Iterel reads it directly. The Conductor populates the project dimensions it can ground in the brief — citing which document each fact came from — then asks clarifying questions only for the real gaps, and pushes back on vague claims (e.g. “for busy professionals” — who specifically?) instead of accepting them as‑is.
• Supports PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Markdown, plain text, and CSV — up to 25 MB per file. Multiple files at once are aggregated and cross‑checked for contradictions.
• A new Connector Picker in intake lets you pull a brief straight from a connected Notion, Confluence, or Evernote workspace — browse your pages, fetch the content, and feed it into the same intake conversation.

Conductor voice behavioural improvements

• Starting to speak now interrupts the assistant immediately for a more natural conversation.
• Live transcripts now appear in the chat as you and the Conductor speak.
• Improved Conductor's conversational behaviour.

Context Panel

• The Context Panel refreshes and opens automatically the moment intake finishes, so you don't need to reload to see what was captured.

Strategy improvements

• New Strategy Base on the Strategy generation page, mirroring the Evidence Base on Research. Attach prior strategy documents, paste a Notion or Confluence URL, or upload files; the strategist uses them when generating — and they stay strictly separate from research sources.
• Per‑generation toggles let you opt in or out of the research report, the Strategy Base, or both for any given run.
• Better strategic focus on persona interpretation in Who We Serve — each persona is now treated as its own strategic playbook (jobs‑to‑be‑done, acquisition profile, objections) instead of duplicating descriptive fields from research.
• Product bets and pricing tiers now show which research opportunity each one traces back to, including payment triggers and price anchors.
• Cleaner Strategy navigation — clicking a report sub‑item shows only report tabs (Overview, Market Position, Who We Serve, Go‑to‑Market, Metrics Cockpit); clicking Strategy Tools shows only tools (Elevator Pitch, Business Model, Product Bets).

User research

• Task journeysnow reflect the multi‑tool, manual workflows users live in today — the status quo Iterel is here to displace — instead of prescribing in‑app steps that don't exist yet. Each journey lists the tools the user currently juggles and rates problem severity on a real spectrum (painkiller, vitamin, or latent need).
• Separated user research sources for more clarity on information origin for user research.
• Jobs to Be Done now lives directly on each persona card — read in context with the rest of that persona instead of as a flattened standalone tab.
• Persona portraits frame tighter and more consistently across generations.

Creative direction

• Better results in visual style and imagery references.
• Thin or placeholder briefs fall back to safe domain defaults instead of inventing a generic aesthetic.

Realtime collaboration

• Live collaboration across tools feels smoother and is more reliable.
• Project lists now show a “Shared” badge on any project you collaborate on, and shared projects sort to the top — easier to spot the right one among many similarly named drafts.

Ideation canvas

• New file attachments— drop a PDF, Word doc, plain text, Markdown, or CSV onto the canvas to pin it next to your stickies and sketches. Files render as a card with type, size, and a green  “Conductor‑readable” indicator when their contents could be parsed. The Conductor reads any attached file on demand when you ask about it — no upload step, no copy‑pasting excerpts. Toolbar button, right‑click “Attach file…”, paste, and drag‑and‑drop all work.
• New link previews— paste a URL onto the canvas and it renders as a Figma‑style mini preview card with thumbnail, title, description, favicon and domain. Use the new toolbar action or the right‑click “Add link…” entry to type one in directly.
• New two‑tier right‑click menu — canvas actions (paste, select all, add comment, zoom to fit) and element actions (copy, cut, duplicate, lock, bring to front, paste‑to‑replace, delete). Multi‑select now supports shift‑marquee union, drag‑moves‑all‑selected, and right‑click preserves the full selection.
• Eraser improvements.
• UI design improvements.

Design editor

• The pen toolnow finalizes your path automatically when you switch to another tool — no more orphaned anchor overlays that can't be undone, moved, or deleted.

Tasks & Kanban

• Phase tasks (Research, Strategy, Creative Direction, Flows, Design, Ship) move themselves through Backlog → Running → Review → Done as generation runs and you open the resulting page. No more manual status bookkeeping.
• Add‑task and new‑epic flows moved into proper slide‑in side panels matching the rest of the editor, with a popup calendar for deadlines and consistent inputs throughout.

Navigation

• A new generation progress chip follows you across pages whenever a phase generation is running, with a one‑click jump back to whichever phase is in flight.
• Strategy and Creative Direction sidebar clicks now keep the URL in sync with the active inner tab, so the next click on the same sub‑item actually moves the page.
• The Context Panel now scrolls and expands to the right section when opened from a specific card (e.g. Configure Integrations).

Learn & onboarding

• New video tutorials tour with deep‑linked lessons and a graceful Coming Soon state for lessons still being filmed. The /start page picks up a Watch the Tour card alongside Start Creating.

Platform

• Generation reliability reinforcement — research, strategy, creative direction, flow, and backend generation now run to completion consistently end to end.
• General reliability and performance improvements across the editor shell, panels, and project list.

Bug fixes

• Renaming a project now surfaces a clear message when something blocks the change, instead of a generic error.
• Optimize tab content now renders inside the same card surface used across the rest of the editor.
• Empty‑state illustrations in the Backlog Version History and Styles panels are vertically centered, matching every other panel.
• Various smaller fixes across the canvas, panels, and reports.

Beta 0.2.4May 5, 2026

Engineering improvements

• Generated projects now boot inside a sandbox, probe every page and API route, and feed any runtime errors back into the fix loop — automatically, until the app runs clean or the agent decides to stop and ask. Build, type, and runtime errors are merged and prioritized in one pass.
• The engineering agent can search the web, fetch documentation pages, and pull real code examples from GitHub when a library reference is uncertain.
• Projects are now planned as a sequence of independently verifiable slices (foundation, database, auth, integrations, features, shell) so a single broken file can't derail the whole build.

Smarter Conductor

• Pasted product or reference URLs are read in the background, with a live “Browsing example.com…” indicator while the page is being summarized.
• Asking for a single screen in chat — “design me a landing page”, “build a pricing page” — generates it directly onto the canvas. New screens automatically inherit the visual language of frames already on the canvas.
• New frames drop into open space next to existing work instead of stacking on top of dragged screens.
• Projects only leave Draft when the user actually starts working — opening a project no longer marks it active.
• Several fixes for chat replies that occasionally leaked raw machine‑readable payloads into the bubble. Replies are clean across both structured and fallback generation paths now.

Design editor

• Redesigned History panel: a two‑pane Navigator‑style layout with action history on top and saved versions below, separated by a draggable divider. Undo, redo, and close moved into the toolbar.
• The gradient direction overlay now tracks the live position of the element it's editing, so handles stay glued during reflows, scrolls, and state changes — and only renders for the selected frame instead of bleeding across the canvas.
• Conductor‑driven refinements now work reliably on pasted or imported frames from other projects.

User research

• Pain points, jobs‑to‑be‑done, design implications, and acquisition insights are now aggregated across all personas — primary persona first — with attribution back to who said what.
• The User Research tab filters out industry reports and other non‑user sources, so market data stays in Market Research where it belongs.
• Top findings are pulled from real user signal — pain magnitude, top frustration, leading job — not synthesized boilerplate.
• Generic placeholder methodology is gone: only objectives and methodology actually generated for the project are shown.

Custom domains

• Apex domains (example.com) verify against the correct A record automatically; subdomains continue to use CNAME. The instructions panel updates to show whichever record the user actually needs, with a one‑click Copy button on each value.
• Domain progress now walks through clear stages — DNS check, DNS misconfigured, attaching to Iterel, SSL provisioning, live — with a human hint at every step.
• The “Upgrade Plan” button on the domain panel now takes free‑tier users straight to checkout.
• Refreshing the page during SSL provisioning resumes the polling loop instead of stranding the user.
• Disconnecting a domain now asks for confirmation; the live state shows a one‑click “Open https://yourdomain.com” link.

Ideation canvas

• Resizing rotated sections now drags in screen space and scales along the section's own axes — corners stay anchored.

Live activity & logs

• Generation logs now stream instantly through a real‑time channel — the console feels live the moment a step starts, instead of waiting on the next poll.
• The sidebar shows a pulsing indicator next to any project with a background generation in flight, so it's obvious where work is still running.

Brand identity

• Isotype briefs now hand the model concept, palette, and mood rather than prescriptive geometry — producing more iconic results without overconstraining the image generator.

Platform

• Fixed a server crash that intermittently broke design proposal generation, code, and landing‑page routes after the framework upgrade.
• New admin Activity dashboard summarizing sign‑ins, project events, signup queue, and per‑user operations / credits / session minutes across 1d / 7d / 30d windows.
• General reliability and performance improvements, including a large internal refactor of the Conductor for faster, more stable session start.

Bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes.

Beta 0.2.3April 18, 2026

Improved quality in code generation

• Generated projects now boot and run a real check before being delivered. When a problem is found, it's fixed and re-run automatically for a more reliable final build.
• The engineering agent can now look things up on the web and in real code examples when a library reference is uncertain.

Smarter Conductor

• When a reference link is pasted, the thinking indicator now shows exactly what's being read — e.g. “Browsing linear.app…”.
• Design requests like “design a landing page” or “make a dashboard” are now recognized directly in chat and generate a new screen straight onto the canvas.
• Cleaner assistant replies in chat.
• Generation logs stream in real time, so progress is visible as it happens.

Clearer user research reports

• New Jobs to Be Done view shows what each persona is trying to accomplish, how they do it today, and how satisfied they are — making opportunity gaps obvious.
• New Acquisition Insights view maps where users hang out, what triggers them to search, who they trust, and how competitors reach them — a starting point for go-to-market.
• Sections only appear when there's real data to show. Market data stays in Market Research; user data stays in User Research.
• Top findings are pulled directly from the actual research behind the report.

Design from a prompt

• Improved Conductor-driven design generation.
• Style inheritance from existing frames.
• Smarter frame placement on the canvas.

Design editor UI improvements

• Redesigned history panel with saved versions.
• More consistent inline text editing.
• Smoother gradient handle interaction on the canvas.
• Improvements in layout distribution.

Stronger brand identity

• Logo and isotype generation now hands the image model creative direction rather than rigid geometry — producing more iconic, more distinctive results inspired by the craft of studios like Pentagram and Collins.

Cleaner projects list

• The recent projects list now shows only projects with real activity. A project activates the first time it's worked on.

Desktop app

• Google and other providers can now be used to sign in directly from the desktop app.
• The Mac download is properly signed, so it opens on first launch without warnings.
• Separate downloads for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
• Smoother terminal and code editor, plus a fix for a crash that could prevent the editor from loading.

Strategy & reports

• The positioning map spreads competitors more reliably across quadrants.
• Cleaner severity tags, simpler cards, and more consistent layouts throughout reports.
• Renamed “Mission Control” to “Overview” to better reflect what it does.
• Product bets canvas now sits cleanly within its container.

Design & creative direction

• Canvas connections are colored by their source frame, unrelated lines dim on selection, and frames sit in clusters with more breathing room.
• Slimmer Color System and Typography tabs in the Creative Direction editor, plus a dedicated edit panel for focused changes.
• Persona personality and accent color flow into creative direction automatically.
• Generated persona portraits are saved and survive reloads.
• The persona card stays visible throughout generation.
• Research and creative direction reports scroll cleanly end to end.
• Flow editor picked up an architecture summary, a connection properties panel, and canvas improvements.

Custom domains

• Apex domains (example.com) can now be connected in addition to subdomains (www.example.com).
• Domain verification walks through clear stages — DNS, SSL, live — so progress is always visible.
• Free-tier users see a direct upgrade path when they try to attach a custom domain.

Platform

• Patched five dependency security vulnerabilities (one critical, one high, three moderate).
• General reliability and performance improvements.

Bug fixes

• Gradient handles no longer leak across frames on the design canvas.
• The blank-canvas prompt no longer blocks clicks to the toolbar or side panels.
• The thinking indicator no longer overwrites specific operation labels with generic messages.

Beta 0.2.2April 11, 2026

Synthetic personas

• Persona interviews and screen tests open in a sliding panel with a dedicated settings sidebar, keeping context without leaving the page.
• A compact persona card shows where each trait came from — real data, research, manual, or inferred — in an expandable view.
• A grounding chart makes the sourcing breakdown clear at a glance.
• Personas can be switched mid-interview without leaving the chat.
• A user test can now be started directly from the interview dropdown — selecting “User Testing” hands the current persona a screen to evaluate.
• Personas speak more realistically — more natural voice, less sycophancy, speech patterns that match the demographic.

Design generation

• Reference images dropped into generation are now used alongside the text brief for more accurate output.
• Figma links pasted into the brief now have tokens, layout patterns, and components pulled in automatically.
• The Conductor detects Figma links in messages and adds them as context when the Figma account is connected.

Conductor Voice

• Clearer audio and smoother real-time behavior during voice sessions.

Documentation

• New section explaining how persona confidence scores are calculated and where synthetic personas are — and aren't — most useful.

Bug fixes

• The design canvas no longer re-renders unnecessarily during pan or zoom.

Beta 0.2.1April 4, 2026

New

• Status page: Public status page with real-time service health.
• Design persistence: Design state saves to version history automatically, with retries when a screen fails.
• Context-aware Conductor welcome: The Conductor greeting is now tailored to the current project phase.
• Better waiting states: Clearer feedback while generation runs.

Platform

• Patched a denial-of-service vulnerability in the underlying framework.
• More stable production builds.

Bug fixes

• Flow editor toolbar and undo/redo position correctly when the surface panel is visible.
• No more duplicate welcome messages on the Design page.
• Invite codes work correctly across all signup and signin paths.

Beta 0.2March 28, 2026

Design generation

• Screens that fail during parallel generation now retry automatically for a complete final output.
• Button and CTA colors stay consistent across screens, even in parallel batches.
• Uploaded reference images can now set the visual direction.
• When there's no flow context yet, the platform figures out the likely screens in one pass.
• Pre-built design systems can now be browsed and installed directly from the Creative Direction panel.

Creative direction

• Creative direction is now tailored to the project's audience and personas at every step.
• Aesthetic tile previews render correctly regardless of theme.

Visual editor

• Device surface tabs can be reordered by drag and drop — the order sticks.
• Any frame or element can now be locked or hidden directly from the navigator panel.
• Token changes cascade through font weight and line height too, not just size and family.

Conductor

• Chat and task console auto-scroll at the bottom, pause on manual scroll-up, and re-engage when new messages arrive.
• Smoother voice audio.

Pricing & hosting

• Clearer pricing page with better tier breakdowns, new FAQs, and add-ons for extra projects and credits.
• Credit plans now come with hosting built in.

Bug fixes

• Confidence assessment card no longer flashes at zero score.
• Duplicate suggestion actions no longer fire.
• Section refinement no longer runs a stale request.
• Dark mode applies correctly to the beta acceptance modal.
• Start New Project button shows a loading state.
• No more duplicate welcome messages on the Design page.
• Onboarding tour overlay is draggable and stays on-screen on small viewports.
• Invite codes work correctly across all signup and signin paths.

Beta 0.1March 21, 2026

Synthetic personas

• New preview module for viewing and interacting with synthetic personas outside of the research panel.
• Personas can critique designs and decisions in a structured conversation.

Creative direction

• Rebuilt all aesthetic tiles (imagery, layout, typography, effects, components) with cleaner rendering and a unified control surface.

Visual editor

• Token changes propagate to every affected element across the editor.
• Structural upgrades to the navigator panel.

Design generation

• Generation pathways accept reference images, so output aligns with imported material.
• Overhauled surface management to handle multi-device layouts cleanly.

Pricing

• Clearer pricing tiers with improved credit handling behind the scenes.

Bug fixes

• Better responsive behavior for onboarding modals on small screens.
• Fixed beta acceptance flow edge cases across signup and signin paths.