Release v5.17.16

Getting started is now one smooth conversation

Your first run of Brev has been rebuilt from the ground up. Instead of a stack of setup screens, you now move through a single guided session: tell us about yourself, optionally connect Slack and your calendar right where they come up, and land your first goals before you leave the flow.

• The first person in an organization now gets organization-level goals, not personal ones.
• When Brev asks what outcome you want, it suggests options and lets you write your own.
• Each objective arrives with its key result already estimated.
• Once your goals are in, a clear "go to your goals" button takes you straight there.
• If you connect a calendar during setup, your upcoming events appear inline in the conversation.

Importing your existing goals in one pass

Goal import used to run in stages, asking you to keep going after each batch. Now it imports your file in one continuous step. If Brev cannot match an owner, a team or a time period, it asks you about it while the import is still running rather than failing quietly at the end.

We also fixed a problem where a background import could propose the same question to you more than once.

Projects now carry a delivery window

Projects can have their own start and due dates, shown on both the goal list and the detail panel. A project's expected progress now paces against its own due date instead of the surrounding period, so a project on a different schedule no longer looks behind when it is not.

Trials and billing

Brev now has a complete trial experience, including clear entitlement while your trial is active and a proper trial-ended screen when it finishes. The billing area has been rebuilt around your plan, usage and payment details.

Operator is easier to follow

• When Operator has several questions, they gather in one card that you answer and submit once.
• Operator shows what it is actually doing rather than its internal thinking.
• Goals that Operator creates appear as an inline card, with child goals visible rather than hidden behind a count.
• You can mention a goal or project inline with a slash command while typing.
• Goal creation follows one staged path with a single honest progress bar.

A cleaner, more consistent interface

We made a broad pass over the shell and settings: consistent page headers across every module, a reworked sidebar with search and hover tooltips, one dismiss control in the same place on every banner, and aligned spacing, widths and section ordering throughout Settings. Banners now line up with the content beside them.

Fixes

• Every documentation page crashed on load. It no longer does.
• Moving between pages could crash the app. Fixed.
• The Operator page could crash during heavy use. Fixed.
• Checking in from inside an artifact recorded the wrong percentage.
• Renaming a single occurrence of a recurring meeting renamed the whole series.
• Artifacts deleted from a cadence still appeared in artifact view.
• Artifacts created by Operator could not be deleted.
• The date picker's weekday header rendered white on white.
• Pressing Enter in the cadence artifact editor could exit the artifact or save into the wrong one.
• Meeting recording now respects the host's choice, and everyone can see who turned it on or off.
• Progress tiles rounded incorrectly, and the Company Goal Progress tile counted goals beyond org-level objectives.

Security and reliability

We closed a server-side request forgery in an integration connector, corrected a case where an expired organization could still reach AI features, and fixed background data collection runs that failed when a deploy landed mid-run.