While we have some exciting new features up in our sleeves, this week's release was primarily focused on two things: First, making sure that the agents we use to generate and review code is equipped with all the needed documentation and coding guidelines. Second, a few regressions creeped into the product that we needed to prioritize.

We can't wait to show you what we're working on, stay tuned 👀

Introducing Direction: Align your team's priorities with purpose 🧭

After launching our Priorities workflow, we saw a clear need: a way to ensure individual priorities align with the teams overall strategy. Therefore we're introducing our newest workflow: Direction.

How it works: Direction lets team leads set strategic direction for any timeframe—weekly, quarterly, or custom periods. Palette automatically prompts and coaches leaders to keep direction up-to-date. When Palette checks in with team members about their priorities, it intelligently nudges them toward the team's direction—keeping everyone aligned without the manual effort 💪

Enhanced Team Workflows & Reliability Improvements: We've optimized weekly priorities with smart 15-minute delays, migrated to Inngest for more reliable workflows, and boosted Next.js performance. Bug fixes include resolved team member crashes, restored onboarding images, and improved Slack integration with reconnect notifications. Plus, we're teasing an exciting new workflow feature coming soon! 🚀

Three major moves this cycle: we rebuilt our entire integration layer to handle the complexity coming next (user-level, team-level, org-level permissions all sorted), polished the Slack experience with auto-joining and better threading, and fixed the database scaling issues that caused recent downtime.

The integration work is the bigger story here—we're now equipped to add Google Calendar, Linear, Jira etc. and cross-team sharing without architectural headaches. Meanwhile, the team's been networking hard at TechBBQ and Paris CTO events while Brian explores Europe in his camper.

Bottom line: the foundation's stronger, the daily experience is smoother, and we're positioned for the integration expansion that's coming.

Weekly Priorities that fit your team's ritual 🫶

Your Weekly Priorities workflow now adapts to how your team actually runs check-ins. You configure which areas Palette focuses on — priorities, blockers, wins — and how it groups the summary. Palette handles the collection and synthesis intelligently within those guardrails.

Choose your focus areas and formatting rules once, then Palette runs the routine consistently. The agent asks contextual follow-ups and synthesizes responses, but you're setting the framework for what matters to your team.

Less manual coordination, more reliable ritual.

✨ New Features

Palette integrates with Slack
Ever since we started this journey, we've been discussing when and if to integrate Palette with tools like Slack and MS Teams. Our vision is to have Palette be available in the tools our users use, while also ensuring the user experience we would like to provide. Guess what, now is the time! We've added a new page called "Integrations" under settings. Once enabled, you can write to Palette in Slack and it will behave just as you're used to 💬

Workflow configuration
Some workflows require a bit of customization and because of that, we've added a small "Configure" modal to our Weekly Priorities workflow. In here you can adjust the timing of requests as well as adding a Slack channel (if Slack is enabled) for Palette to post your summaries ⚙️

Team-specific time format
After adding timezone configuration (per team) last week, we figured we might as well add time format to the team as well. This means you can now configure whether your team prefers 12h or 24h time format - which will then be used across communication from Palette 🕐

✨ New Features

Weekly priorities workflow
Wow, this ended being a bit more work than anticipated, but we're super excited to announce the weekly priorities workflow! Most of us know the challenge of staying up to speed with what everyone is doing. That's why we're introducing the Weekly Priorities as a workflow in Palette. Every Monday at 9am, you'll get a message from Palette asking for your priorities for the week and a few hours later, the entire team will get an intelligent, concise and motivating summary. What a great way to start the week aligned! ⚡︎

A new workflows page
Our good old team pulse (or collaboration survey) as well as our new weekly priorities are now called "workflows" and can be turned on/off under Settings -> Workflows. We can't wait to add more workflows as we move forward 💪

Team-specific timezones
With all of that scheduling across team pulse and weekly priorities, we added a small timezone picker under your team settings, to ensure you get your reminders tailored to your timezone 🌅

✨ New Features

Personalized agent experience
Besides implementing our multi agent system, we also went a bit further, and ensured that our Palette agent now tailors its communication to the user's DISC profile. For example a D profile might prefer direct and action-oriented communication whereas a S might appreciate more gentle and supporting communication 💬

✨ New Features

Get notifications straight to your inbox!
As hinted last week, we've been working on integrating Knock as our notification infrastructure, and we've now added that into our dashboard. This means that your notifications for team pulse surveys will now show up straight in the dashboard (don't worry we'll still send you an email after some time in case you haven't seen the message).

✨ New Features

The Palette changelog is live!
We’ve officially launched our changelog — now powered by Productlane. This means:

• A public roadmap for full transparency

• In-app feature requests from users

• Weekly changelogs delivered right where you work 🎉