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A weekly digest of the user-facing improvements released across The Support Lab.

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Week of August 31, 2026

Offerward

  • Returning Offerward users can now continue setup with a resume they added earlier, without uploading it again.
  • Offerward's experience questions now include a simple response outline, a live character counter, and enough room to finish a full example.

Previous updates

Earlier release notes

Week of August 24, 2026

Offerward

  • Offerward now offers a Career Review that compares a resume with saved roles, highlights supported and transferable experience, asks for missing context, and keeps tailored application wording separate from the original resume.

Scheduler Lite

  • Larger Scheduler Lite windows now stage reliably without timing out, while overlapping assignments remain safely blocked.

  • Scheduler Lite now identifies the configured Google calendar that needs attention, shows calendar-by-calendar access checks in settings, and gives clear recovery steps for connection or sharing problems.

Scheduler

  • Scheduler now identifies the configured Google calendar that needs attention during a time-off pull and shows calendar-by-calendar access checks in calendar settings.
Week of August 17, 2026

Transcription Lab

  • Browser meetings now start with one clear action using ready defaults, while titles, microphone choices, and speaker follow-up remain available without delaying the recording.

  • Speaker review now stays available for every meeting, with a visible multi-person recording choice and a correctable That's me confirmation.

Offerward

  • Offerward Live now presents saved-voice matches as suggestions and directs uncertain matches to speaker review without using them to decide interview roles.

  • Offerward Live now prompts users to review and confirm speakers before using transcript roles for interview guidance or debrief.
Week of August 10, 2026

Offerward

  • Live Assist now keeps microphone checks separate from consent and asks before audio is shared for each session.
  • Offerward now reviews a resume through short, focused questions and lets users confirm, correct, or set aside each detail before it can support interview preparation or optional Live Assist.

  • Offerward now welcomes new users into a guided, resumable profile setup with smaller steps, automatic progress saving, optional voice recognition, focused experience review, and clear next actions.
  • Offerward now guides users through adding and reviewing experience, including profiles that start without a resume.
  • Users who are still deciding on a target role can keep moving forward and refine their direction later.
  • Interview preparation now stays aligned when users change a target role.
  • Offerward now lets users shape one or several possible career directions, keep the goal broad, or continue while still exploring.
  • Offerward career paths can now include several related areas and acceptable levels, keeping flexible possibilities together without making users repeat the same direction.

  • Invited users can now set up their account from the invitation email and continue directly into their private Offerward workspace.
  • Offerward personal workspaces now show only the navigation and account options relevant to individual users.

Transcription Lab

  • Microphone checks no longer count as approval to share live audio; users now choose separately for each session.
Week of August 3, 2026

Scheduler Lite

  • Agent schedules now adapt more comfortably across phones, tablets, laptops, and desktop screens.

  • Workspaces now move cleanly between Scheduler and Scheduler Lite, keeping the scheduling experience consistent.
  • Agents can now review committed shifts, work days, rest days, and time off in a focused, read-only schedule with optional coworker context.
  • Agent schedules now use clearer activity and day-status colors, while coworker details remain visually secondary.

  • Workforce managers can now preview an agent schedule in a focused, read-only view.

  • Assignment Summary can now turn a plain-language coverage goal into a reviewable proposal to fill required or preferred staffing or trim excess automatic seats, showing exact coverage and fairness effects before Apply and offering guarded Undo afterward.
  • Coverage Planner proposals can now be refined around a specific proposed change or occurrence, with an exact prior-versus-revised comparison and a way to keep the previous preview before anything is applied.
  • Assignment Evener refinements can now be focused on one proposed change or the active workforce goal, with guided choices when a supported name or schedule item needs clarification.
  • Eligible replacement options now show the projected direction of the shift's availability-adjusted fairness, and revised previews identify exactly which proposed assignments were added, removed, assigned differently, or regrouped.
  • A still-current, unapplied Assignment Evener proposal can now be restored after the workbench is closed and reopened.
  • Workforce managers can now maintain each person's recurring availability and Prefer, Neutral, or Never shift rules from the Agents page, with clear defaults, precedence guidance, and warnings before restrictive rules are saved.
  • Rotations now supports faster bulk shift-bag assignments and a saved-input preview showing how rotation days, availability, and time off affect upcoming scheduling outcomes. Bulk assignment saves now complete together or leave the previously saved assignments unchanged.
  • Assignment Evener now explains why a proposal is available or blocked and why each visible person is eligible or unavailable, without exposing private availability or time-off details. Reviews that are too large stop safely with guidance to narrow the selection.
  • Unavailable calendar publishing now uses concise workspace-level guidance.

Transcription Lab

  • Transcription Lab now centers recording and recent meetings in a simpler, responsive workspace, with clearer meeting status and recovery actions and detailed filters kept out of the way.
  • Recording setup now keeps the meeting title, signed-in profile name, microphone check, and consent together, while optional recording controls stay collapsed.
  • Completed multi-speaker meetings can now ask which speaker is you, show short transcript samples, and apply your profile name with one confirmation while leaving other speaker names optional.
  • Finished browser-recorded meetings now move through clear transcript, summary, and ready steps, automatically preparing summaries and action items when the transcript and speaker details are ready.
  • Meeting results now prioritize summary, action items, conversation, and direct summary, transcript, or full-meeting downloads.
  • Optional download customization, transcript correction, quality review, and meeting-improvement tools now stay grouped out of the way until needed.

Offerward

  • Offerward now keeps its overview, jobs, interview prep, and profile within one clear navigation path that adapts more comfortably to smaller screens.
  • The Offerward overview now prioritizes the next useful action, active job, and essential destinations while keeping optional detail out of the way.
  • Starting an interview now opens the interview workspace directly and checks that the selected stage and preparation are current before recording begins.
  • Active interviews now lead with recording and move into review, while interview prep can be printed or saved as a PDF for use away from the screen.

The Support Lab

  • Tool navigation now adapts more comfortably to smaller screens.

  • Account setup and Preferences now show only the options relevant to the tools available to each user.

  • Visitors now see a simpler, beaker-themed home page with clearer lab-inspired positioning, direct Login and Contact links, and subtler release-notes navigation.
  • Page changes now show loading feedback immediately, keeping navigation transitions visually consistent.
Week of July 27, 2026

The Support Lab

  • The release-notes page now opens directly on the latest updates without an extra jump control, with optional email signup tucked into a collapsed section and quieter navigation.
  • Public profile pages now use domain-specific site identity and author attribution.

  • The release notes page now offers a direct jump to the latest updates before the optional email signup.
  • Visitors can join the release-notes mailing list with one clear action and email confirmation before future messages begin.
  • Subscribers can unsubscribe from release-note emails without signing in.
  • Earlier product updates from the past 180 days are now organized into expandable weekly summaries.

  • A public release notes page now provides a weekly, product-by-product digest of user-facing improvements.

Scheduler Lite

  • Assignment Evener can now turn plain-language workforce goals into reviewable proposals to reduce one named person's assignment count by one, balance a named shift, cap every in-scope person's assignments, or exchange one assignment between two people.
  • Workforce-goal previews now show how the request was understood, the safeguards used, and the exact before-and-after outcome before the scheduler chooses whether to apply it.

  • Initial staging now explains whether assignment fairness reached its availability-adjusted lower bound, was proven best for the staged coverage pattern, or is a safe best-found result that may still be improved.
  • Assignment Summary now shows availability-adjusted fairness for the current staged schedule, with expandable shift and per-person calculations.
  • Plain-language Assignment Evener requests now show exactly what was understood, the proposed approach and safeguards, what still requires calculation, and the exact previewed effects before anything can be applied.
  • A still-current applied Assignment Evener proposal and its Undo action can now be recovered after the workbench is closed and reopened.
  • Shift setup now explains when selected agents form an exclusive scheduling pool, when active mapped agents are eligible by default, and which agents remain explicitly excluded.

  • Rebalance proposals can now be adjusted before applying, with options to keep current assignments, protect people or schedule areas, request another eligible assignee, and preview the complete revised proposal.
  • Rebalance adjustments can now be described in plain language, reviewed as specific proposed controls, and previewed before any schedule change is applied.
  • Initial staging and Assignment Evener now use the same availability-adjusted fairness standard within each shift. Evener shows affected people's before-and-after shift totals and adjusted shares, preserves coverage, and keeps proposals reviewable before they are applied.

  • Calendar publishing now shows clear in-progress feedback and refreshes publishing options as soon as an action completes.
  • Schedule views can now be filtered by agent name or email, with a clear control to return to the full schedule.
  • Time Off Import now includes a collapsible history of saved time off with added and updated dates.
  • Shifts can now use separate minimum and target staffing levels, with an optional scheduling mode that protects minimum coverage before working toward the target.
  • Assignment balancing now accounts for each agent's actual availability, helping keep shift totals closer without treating time off or rest days as missed assignments.
  • Schedule summaries now distinguish minimum coverage gaps from additional seats needed to reach target staffing.
  • Starting a schedule again now replaces the previous draft cleanly, so abandoned attempts no longer affect assignment balance.
  • Staged schedules can now preview availability-aware rebalancing proposals, protect selected assignments, review linked changes, and undo an applied rebalance before commit.

Communicate

  • Conversation search now loads results reliably and preserves the assigned-group details displayed with each result.
Week of July 20, 2026

Transcription Lab

  • Transcript correction is now optional, so summaries and exports can use the current transcript without requiring every segment to be reviewed.
  • Meeting summaries now organize discussion points, decisions, expectations, open questions, and grounded action items in an easier-to-read layout.
  • Summary and action panels use clearer headings and lists, and exported copies preserve the polished presentation.
Week of July 13, 2026

Transcription Lab

  • Users can optionally create or delete a saved voice profile so supported recordings can label their own speech more consistently.

  • Users can start a microphone recording directly in the browser after selecting a device, checking input levels, and confirming consent.
  • Browser recordings can separate two speakers automatically, retain corrected speaker names, and recover more reliably from interrupted connections.
Week of June 29, 2026

Transcription Lab

  • Session lists now highlight the next action and group work into useful categories for active sessions, review, failed processing, missing transcripts, and completed outputs.
  • Usage warnings appear before capacity-limited processing actions, while local transcript and session work remains available.
  • Exports now include quick presets for a summary package or a full session in several common formats.
Week of June 22, 2026

Transcription Lab

  • The recorder now supports live transcription with an on-screen transcript and input-level checks.
  • Transcript review now includes clearer quality guidance, revision controls, keyboard and batch review tools, and a readiness summary before outputs or export.
  • Session exports can include a broader selection of session content.

  • Sessions can be searched by transcript content and displayed as grouped conversation turns.
  • Optional higher-accuracy transcription shows processing progress and provides a retry path when processing fails.

  • Transcription Lab now offers a dedicated workspace for managing sessions, editing transcripts, labeling speakers, and filtering recorded work.
  • Users can review transcript text, generate summaries, action items, and a clean transcript, and export session content.
Week of June 15, 2026

The Support Lab

  • Users can submit a bug report, product comment, or feature request from within the platform and collapse the feedback control while working.

Scheduler Lite

  • Assignment Summary now shows coverage, gaps, averages, spread, and assignment totals by person and shift.
  • Summary columns can be sorted and resized, and the selected summary can be exported for further review.
Week of June 8, 2026

Scheduler Lite

  • Schedulers can once again uncommit unpublished assignments directly from the schedule.
Week of April 20, 2026

The Support Lab

  • Visitors can read a dedicated support leadership philosophy page and use a simpler contact conversation.
Week of April 13, 2026

Scheduler Lite

  • Filling an open gap now adds coverage without replacing existing assignments, and gap rows update or disappear as staffing is satisfied.
Week of April 6, 2026

Scheduler Lite

  • Schedulers can work with schedule windows of up to 93 days.
  • Shift, rotation, time-off, and scheduling tasks now use focused dialogs, clearer group-first selection, and simpler stage, save, and commit flows.
  • Pulled time off is matched automatically where possible, manual time off can be staged, and matched rows can be committed together.
  • Shift sections start collapsed and expand for editing, making larger configurations easier to scan.
Week of March 30, 2026

Scheduler Lite

  • Time-off import keeps issue details near the working area and places CSV upload after the main import controls.
Week of March 2, 2026

Scheduler Lite

  • Publishing a schedule can invite assigned agents directly to their calendar events.
  • Schedulers can select committed shifts and publish, unpublish, or uncommit them in bulk.
  • Initial schedule generation balances eligible agents within each shift over the selected period.
  • Rotation assignment and time-off import controls are easier to scan, and published calendars use clearer shift-group colors.
Week of February 23, 2026

The Support Lab

  • Workspace administrators can set a temporary password or remove a user through confirmation-based user settings.

  • Users can now change their password from Preferences.

Scheduler Lite

  • Scheduler Lite now has consistent product branding and clearer calendar event titles.

  • Schedule work can be committed before calendar events are published, with independent publish and unpublish controls.
  • Unfilled seats appear as clear gap rows, schedule section visibility persists between visits, and assignment panels show shift membership and rest days.
  • Large schedules stay contained in a scrollable grid with a simpler everyday view.

  • Scheduler Lite now provides a lightweight workspace for managing agents, shifts, rotations, time off, staged schedules, manual adjustments, and calendar output.
  • Schedulers can assign agents to individual shifts or across a shift group and review rotation days, time off, assignments, and gaps together.
Week of February 16, 2026

Scheduler

  • Scheduler run details now show the correct schedule date range and publishing status, and completed runs can be published reliably from their summary.