Start with evidence, then carry it into delivery
This week connects more of the path from first product context to reviewed evidence and delivery work. New workspaces get a guided start, existing teams get clearer review and planning surfaces, and connected clients can work with more of the same product relationships.
In this edition
Give a new workspace something real to work with
- Turn a website into a reviewed Product Brief, confirm a small starter set of Capabilities and keep existing Product Context or workspace data intact.
- Move through Nova feedback, GitHub setup and the workspace tour as complementary steps. GitHub can be deferred, valid imports are reused and progress survives reload.
- Nova can prepare a Demo feedback set from the accepted brief. It enters the ordinary feedback pipeline, where summaries, evidence and reviewable Problem proposals appear with visible processing progress.
- Remove the Demo set together or delete individual Demo Feedback without removing real feedback, Company Context or unrelated relationships. Reset can prepare fresh examples.
The guided flows were exercised in DEV. Production rollout is not verified.
Review Problems against evidence and delivery
- Problem verification considers attributable Initiative Decisions alongside delivered Changes. A deliberate, documented decision can resolve evidence, while deferral or exploration does not replace implementation evidence.
- Saved verdicts become stale when their linked delivery, Decisions, evidence or Initiatives change. Initiative details can audit open Problems in a batch while the user keeps the final closure decision.
- Closure previews show the total Initiatives, Problems, Feedback items and Evidence chunks affected. Partial resolutions call out the remaining scope against linked Changes and pull requests.
- Feedback analysis keeps focused customer evidence and separates background context from the primary evidence that must be resolved.
Plan work and keep GitHub status honest
- Proposed Changes appear in the Delivery Timeline with implementation context, desired outcome and success criterion. Create work item is the primary action, and one proposal can connect several Work Items and implementations.
- Prepared briefs keep oversized drafts editable with a validation message. Proposal exports remain hidden until each provider has passed live verification.
- Pull request cards distinguish Open, Draft, Merged and Closed. Older webhook deliveries and import batches cannot overwrite a newer stored GitHub state.
- Discovery Decisions use a focused queue beside the Decision Brief, with search, counts and sorting. Initiative details remain alongside the brief on wide screens and move into a drawer on smaller screens.
Let connected clients work with more of the model
- Authorized MCP connections can create and update Capabilities, create Problems from evidence, prepare draft Campaigns and link existing Feedback, Evidence, Problems, Capabilities, Initiatives and Changes within their documented permission and feature-switch limits.
- Initiative goal suggestions are available to connected clients for inspection and confirmation, including custom outcomes and repeat-safe receipts. Initiative links use the canonical Initiative workspace URL.
- Work Items follow confirmed GitHub Issue status. Connected tools distinguish direct product links from inherited relationships, and Feedback updates or evidence-backed Change claims do not silently mark a Problem as resolved.
- Capability creation, Problem creation, Campaign drafts and other guarded writes retain their existing default-off or permission boundaries. Older connections need to approve added scopes.
Run outreach with ownership and context nearby
- Campaign member details support member and touchpoint-history imports, inline touchpoint logging and editing, next-action scheduling and rich-text selection rationale.
- Linked Contacts and Companies open inside the campaign detail stack. Campaign pipelines can be filtered by assignee, while cards, tables and touchpoint history show ownership.
- Contacts can be filtered by workspace LinkedIn network labels. Connected clients can preserve network provenance and tags while returning ambiguous identities for review.
Make dense workspaces easier to operate
- Feedback, Problems, Initiatives, Product, Strategy, Competitors, Sources, Contacts, Campaigns, Stories and Metrics share more consistent selection, spacing, reading surfaces and narrow-screen behavior.
- Keyboard editing separates titles from menus, preserves failed drafts, blocks duplicate saves and returns focus after a successful save. Long dialogs and detail headers keep actions reachable on smaller screens.
- Bridge highlights active competitor risks and low Product Quality scores, while Crew shows real agent history without placeholder deployment actions or fabricated workload totals.
- Capability Health breakdowns now distinguish direct scores from composite rollups. Critical direct Problems cap the parent score, and composite history follows the rolled-up result. This release is live in production.
- Story source search, workspace tabs, comments and read-only titles received focused navigation and reliability fixes.
What this means for you this week
Teams can start with grounded context, inspect the evidence behind a decision and carry the chosen work into delivery with fewer detached records. The same relationships are also becoming usable through connected clients, with explicit permissions and review boundaries still in place.
Complete change list
- Guided onboarding gained a reviewed Product Brief, Demo feedback, optional GitHub setup, recovery across reloads and removable starter data without touching real workspace records.
- Problem and Initiative review gained evidence-aware verification, stale-verdict detection, aggregate closure previews and explicit remaining-work callouts.
- Delivery gained multi-implementation proposals, safer long briefs, honest pull-request states and a focused Decision workstation.
- Connected clients gained guarded Capability, Problem, Campaign and relationship writes plus Initiative goal confirmation, with existing permission and default-off limits preserved.
- Campaigns gained bulk member and touchpoint-history import, inline logging and editing, assignee filtering, ownership indicators and linked Contact details.
- Dense product surfaces gained more consistent selection, responsive details, keyboard editing, trustworthy agent history and corrected Capability Health rollups.