- The assistant gets to know your business first. The opening conversation now asks about your business before diving into the problem you're solving — and "understanding the business" is a permanent, locked step in your brief that can't be skipped or quietly deleted.
- Three things the brief always pins down. Your name or website, your budget, and your timeline are now locked, non-removable parts of the brief — the assistant won't head off to find talent without them. The logo step is no longer a blocker, and the old end-of-brief "do you want talent now?" question has been retired.
- Less padding, same substance. The assistant no longer opens every reply with a reflexive "Got it —" or repeats your own words back at you. It keeps the genuine, thoughtful reflections and just drops the filler.
- Your budget counts only when you say so. A budget can no longer slip in on a timer — it's locked in only once you explicitly agree to it. The assistant also flags numbers that simply can't work, and budget and timeline each live in one place in the brief instead of being echoed twice.
- A clearer read on who you are. The assistant stops mistaking a social-profile link or a filler placeholder for your real name or website, so your identity in the brief stays clean.
- Finalist cards show real "Responds" info. The "Responds" line on each finalist is now backed by an actual figure rather than a guess, and the questions you answered right before the search show up on each card.
- A friendlier progress bar. The brief progress bar starts already seeded so it never opens at a bare 0%, no longer overlaps the assistant's chat text, and budget amounts now read as "100 $" instead of "USD100". A question that already lists its own answers now pops up as a tappable decision card, and the assistant won't immediately re-ask for a file right after you've uploaded one.
- Share links that actually open. Brief share links are now full web addresses, so they open cleanly from WhatsApp, email, or anywhere else you paste them.
- Steadier under the hood. The chat reconnects cleanly if the live connection drops, the brief panel opens only once your identity is confirmed, a sign-in race that could error out a guest's profile is fixed, and the research step got more room so its write-up can't get cut short.
- From the crew. A new local test harness that runs the assistants through full multi-turn conversations, a faster pre-push check, preview links that survive deep-linking, and polish to the brief-flow copy — the review button and the find-talent button.
A disciplined day: the assistant learns your business before your problem, the brief locks down the few facts it can't do without, budgets only count when you agree, filler openers are gone, and a long tail of progress-bar, sharing and stability fixes lands underneath.