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Changelog

What's new in Daysim

Last updated: 14th September 2026

A running log of what we ship, from fixes to new features.

14th September 2026

This release refines the Daysim simulation experience with clearer language and a more focused onboarding flow. Scenario prompts now use a plain workplace tone, the personalisation quiz has updated phrasing, and the brief summary has been removed from page 1 for a cleaner start.

Improved
  • Scenarios now use a plain workplace tone, making dialogue feel more natural and true to real work environments.
  • Personalisation quiz questions have been rewritten for clarity.
  • The personalisation brief summary is no longer shown on page 1, giving you a cleaner entry into your simulation.

12th September 2026

This release ships the workplace story engine, bringing a continuous five-day narrative arc to every simulation. It also introduces a public changelog page, a "Dive Into This" example script feature on the feedback screen, automated sprint nudge emails with personalization and improved styling, and a range of reliability fixes across AI calls, session handling, and story generation.

New
  • You can now experience a continuous workplace story arc across your five-day simulation, with recurring characters and evolving threads that carry through each day.
  • You can now tap 'Dive Into This' on the feedback screen to see an example script for any scenario, with a framed intro, speaker labels, and contextual notes.
  • You can now receive sprint nudge emails reminding you to stay on track, personalized with your first name and styled with badge tones.
  • A public changelog page is now live and linked from the site footer.
Improved
  • Story threads can now spawn new characters when the continuity pool runs dry, keeping the narrative fresh across longer simulations.
  • Scenario scenes and complications now render as separate paragraphs, making them easier to read.
  • Sprint nudge emails only send the latest due nudge, preventing stale backfill messages from piling up.
  • Sprint nudge emails now show the correct day number in copy.
Fixed
  • Transient network failures when calling AI tasks are now retried automatically.
  • Submitting a scenario while your session has expired now redirects you to login instead of failing silently.
  • Schedule generation now recovers correctly after a story validation failure.
  • The final-day scenario transition now completes reliably, with retries on transient server errors.
  • Score captions, reflection field typography, and day completion copy have been corrected and polished.
  • The 'Daysim' sender name is now correctly cased in all outgoing emails.

19th August 2026

We've launched a new blog powered by Sanity Studio, giving you a modern publishing platform for career insights and company updates. Blog posts now render rich formatting, images, and draft status indicators, with full revalidation to keep content fresh across the app.

New
  • You can now publish blog posts through Sanity Studio with rich text formatting, images, and draft previews.
  • Blog cards are now fully clickable, making it easier to navigate to full articles.
  • Draft posts are clearly marked in the blog list so you can preview unpublished content before launch.
Improved
  • Blog link colors now match the Daysim brand styling for better visual consistency.
  • Blog card layouts and typography have been refined for improved readability and editorial hierarchy.
  • Inline images render correctly within blog posts, even when posts contain no featured image.
Fixed
  • Portable Text blog formatting now renders correctly across all content types.
  • Draft status detection for Sanity documents now works reliably in staging environments.

17th August 2026

This release adds staging environment support for error tracking, improves intake form validation to catch edge cases, and updates the development environment to use modern package management tools.

New
  • You can now validate intake draft forms more thoroughly, catching questions that fall outside expected ranges
Improved
  • Error tracking now works properly in staging environments

1st August 2026

This release adds public-facing pages for transparency, improves the signup experience with clearer confirmation messaging, and gives admins more control over simulations. We've also refined the UI across multiple pages for better responsiveness and clarity.

New
  • You can now visit a public About page with team information.
  • You can now access a redesigned FAQ page with updated content.
  • Admins can now remove simulations from the system.
Improved
  • Signup confirmation message is now more prominent.
  • About page typography, spacing, and responsiveness have been refined.
  • Email confirmation instructions are clearer and more direct.
  • FAQ link is now accessible in the footer.
  • Page admin progress view now displays simulations correctly.
Fixed
  • Signup form now hides after successful confirmation.
  • About page content and footer alignment corrected.
  • Sitemap now includes the correct FAQ URL.

25th July 2026

This release introduces a new privacy policy page, Google sign-in authentication, and major improvements to the intake flow and simulation setup experience. You can now see an intro cover page before starting your assessment, view your progress through a redesigned intake interface, and navigate between days in your simulation using browser back and forward buttons. The final reports page has updated headings and score formatting for clarity.

New
  • You can now sign in with Google in addition to email
  • New privacy policy page with current contact information
  • Intro cover page now appears before the intake assessment
  • You can navigate between days using browser back and forward buttons
  • Admin progress dashboard shows simulation-level start and completion dates with sortable columns
  • Scenarios now display in read-only mode during replay instead of skipping to feedback
  • Intake flow now includes a mandatory location question in the Your Role section
  • Loading animation appears during simulation setup
Improved
  • Final reports page heading, score caption, and verdict format have been updated
  • Intake flow questions are clearer and more consistent
  • Role fields now use title casing for better readability
  • Day break fonts are now larger and more legible
  • Intake dropdown options are rendered as pills for easier selection
  • Reflection page text is now more consistent
  • Buttons have been restyled throughout the app
  • Intro dark mode contrast has been enhanced
Fixed
  • Acquisition commitments section has been removed
  • Day page URL state is now properly restored when navigating
  • Signed-in users are now correctly redirected after OAuth
  • Intake questions no longer auto-advance
  • Malformed scenario retry responses are now handled gracefully
  • OpenRouter responses with no choices no longer cause crashes
  • Auth callback error messages are now clearer
  • Button click feedback has been added for better interactivity

11th July 2026

This release fixes password reset routing so you're directed to the reset form when clicking password recovery links.

Fixed
  • Password reset links now route correctly to the reset form

10th July 2026

This release adds embedded joins support to mock Supabase for better testing, expands end-to-end test coverage across new and legacy intake flows including existing customer scenarios, and refines test isolation and configuration for more reliable regression detection.

New
  • You can now test embedded joins in Supabase mock queries
Improved
  • End-to-end test coverage expanded to include legacy intake flows and existing customer day 1 and day 3 resume scenarios
  • Test configuration now guards legacy intake E2E tests and isolates intake runners for cleaner test isolation

9th July 2026

This release improves how Daysim handles personalization data and updates the intake questionnaire. Sparse user profiles are now normalized correctly to prevent simulation inconsistencies, and the intake flow has been streamlined with updated question options for better data collection.

Improved
  • Intake questionnaire now includes multi-select options for worries and expanded business unit choices
  • Personalization profiles are now normalized correctly, preventing simulation errors from incomplete user data
Fixed
  • Fixed sparse personalization profiles causing incorrect career simulation results

8th July 2026

This release introduces a redesigned intake assessment flow with a percentage-based progress indicator, adds social media links to the footer, and improves mobile layouts across the profile panel. We've also added a message for existing customers who attempt to sign up again.

New
  • You can now complete an intake assessment with a redesigned interface and percentage-based progress tracking.
  • Social media links are now available in the footer.
  • Existing customers who attempt to sign up receive a clear message directing them to log in instead.
Improved
  • Select option helper text has been clarified.
  • Mobile layouts for the profile panel now display correctly without unnecessary padding and borders.
  • Back button is now more prominent in the intake flow.
  • Profile panel is now centered on mobile devices and respects device width constraints.
Fixed
  • Profile card text no longer overflows on narrow screens.
  • Progress bar is now clickable to navigate through the intake assessment.
  • Mobile profile sheet layout issues have been resolved for better usability.

7th July 2026

Daysim now maintains persistent decision summaries across your career simulations and uses continuity threads to connect decisions across scheduling. We've improved resilience when AI requests fail transiently, added personalization profiles to simulations, and made it possible to select multiple options during setup.

New
  • You can now select up to 2 options during career simulation setup.
  • Simulations now include a personalization profile that carries your preferences through the session.
  • Decision summaries are now persisted and linked across day scheduling for better continuity in your career narrative.
Improved
  • Continuity threads are now injected into your daily schedule to maintain narrative flow between decisions.
  • Feedback prompts have been updated to better guide you through decision-making.
  • The system now retries transient AI failures automatically instead of failing immediately.
Fixed
  • Sprint dimensions now recover gracefully from incomplete data.
  • Anthropic API failures no longer block your simulation when they are temporary.
  • Snapshot decision summaries are now correctly passed through to your saved responses.

25th June 2026

This release includes a revert of recent FAQ changes to restore stability. We're focused on ensuring core simulation features work reliably for your career planning.

Fixed
  • Reverted recent FAQ updates to address stability concerns

24th June 2026

This release adds custom text support to scenario feedback generation, giving you more control over how feedback is tailored to your simulations. We've also expanded our FAQ section on the landing page to answer more common questions.

New
  • You can now add custom text to scenario feedback generation to personalize simulation results
  • Expanded FAQ section on the landing page with additional common questions and answers

23rd June 2026

This release improves the consistency and reliability of password entry across Daysim. We've streamlined the password input experience on login, signup, and password reset pages, and fixed a test issue to ensure the app continues to work smoothly.

Improved
  • Password input fields now work consistently across login, signup, and password reset pages
Fixed
  • Fixed a failing test to restore stability

21st June 2026

This release adds video playback capabilities to Daysim, letting you embed and play YouTube videos directly within your career simulations. The new video component is production-ready and fully tested.

New
  • You can now embed and play YouTube videos in your simulations

19th June 2026

This release adds analytics and search visibility improvements to Daysim. We've integrated Microsoft Clarity for user behavior tracking and enhanced SEO metadata across the site to improve discoverability.

New
  • You can now benefit from Microsoft Clarity analytics, which tracks user behavior and interactions across the site.
  • Added SEO metadata and schema markup to improve how Daysim appears in search results.

18th June 2026

This release improves report readability with dimension score tooltips, refines dimension prompts for clarity, and fixes authentication flows on mobile and email confirmation redirects to work reliably across different deployment environments.

New
  • You can now hover over dimension scores in reports to see detailed tooltips
  • Mobile users now see a login call-to-action on the login screen
Improved
  • Dimension prompts are now more concise and focused
  • Verdict display on reports has been refined for better clarity
Fixed
  • Email confirmation redirects now work correctly in signup and password recovery flows
  • Authentication callbacks now properly redirect on mobile devices and across different environments

16th June 2026

This release adds account recovery through a forgot password flow, reduces UI clutter by consolidating repeated tooltips, and fixes malformed schedule data that was causing display issues.

New
  • You can now reset your password if you forget it
Improved
  • Participant role tooltips no longer repeat unnecessarily in the interface
Fixed
  • Schedule slots that were malformed are now normalized and display correctly

14th June 2026

This release fixes a critical bug in sprint replay that was skipping days after completion, adds a persistent feedback widget for alpha users, and improves scenario handling to better retain context when introducing new characters.

New
  • You can now submit feedback directly from Daysim through a persistent alpha feedback widget
Improved
  • Scenarios now retain role context when introducing new people, making character interactions more coherent
Fixed
  • Sprint replay no longer skips days 2-5 after completing day 1

13th June 2026

This release stabilizes the Daysim platform with fixes to core workflows and test infrastructure. We've improved how AI mocking works in end-to-end tests and resolved several issues with the release automation pipeline to ensure smoother deployments.

Improved
  • AI mocking in end-to-end tests now works reliably across test scenarios
Fixed
  • Release workflow now correctly handles git operations and branch references
  • Automerge job dependencies updated to wait for end-to-end tests to complete