Changelog ​

What has changed in VERA, week by week. The newest week is first.

Week 36 · Oct 12, 2026 ​

  • Project managers: Attach links or notes to an envelope to say which pieces of work count toward it.
  • Project managers: See monthly hours by project and by person on Staffing, hours only, with a CSV download.
  • Project managers: Record a vendor's time away so planning shows when they are unavailable.
  • Owners: An invite email is sent when you add a person, and a Send invite button covers anyone added earlier.
  • Owners: Import your history from Harvest in the console, with safe re-runs and one-click undo, then top up later time.
  • Owners: Warnings appear when someone with an allocation has no cost rate.
  • Owners: LER is measured as gross margin over direct labor, and contractor and vendor fixed fees are treated alike.
  • Project managers: Move a project to another client, see a project's client, type and deadline in its header, and see how well deadlines are held.

Week 35 · Oct 5, 2026 ​

  • Project managers: Edit a retainer period on its own page, and attach vendor liabilities to a period.
  • Owners: Contractors on a fixed price can hold a liability that accrues by the calendar and moves together with their envelope.
  • Project managers: A Vendors tab on Staffing lists every vendor and contractor with their liabilities.
  • Project managers: Resolve or dismiss several unresolved items at once, and hours fields accept two decimal places.
  • Owners: A vendor's accrued hours count as earned revenue in the Monthly P&L and Billing.
  • Team members: Time is recorded only by the person who did it; a project manager can edit any entry on their project.
  • Project managers: Envelope pages show each week's number, and burn-up charts run on through planned retainer periods.
  • Everyone: Vendors can no longer sign in to the console, and time entries without a task read as a dash.

Week 34 · Sep 28, 2026 ​

  • Everyone: The console is reorganized into hubs: Money, Staffing, Needs you, Performance, Settings and Logs, each with tabs.
  • Project managers: The home page opens with a one-screen brief of money, projects and people, and the morning message uses the same brief.
  • Project managers: A retainer is judged on its current period, and a due renewal shows on its page.
  • Project managers: Duplicate an envelope, see time outside envelopes, and list a project's tasks alphabetically.
  • Owners: Convert a project between types.
  • Project managers: The Needs you page lists everything waiting, including projects that still need setup, and unresolved items are grouped by type.
  • Team members: A week in progress counts only the days left in it, so capacity reads correctly mid-week.
  • Everyone: PTO, Sick and Leave are evergreen: no dates, budgets or financials.

Week 33 · Sep 21, 2026 ​

  • Project managers: Retainers can be created again: each period has its own page for staffing, edits and tasks, with a Re-up control to roll forward.
  • Project managers: The PM of a retainer is told when a period is about to end with no successor.
  • Project managers: Past capacity weeks show recorded hours, and finished projects stop counting as committed.
  • Owners: Forecast scenarios show the effect of winning an open proposal alongside the committed forecast.
  • Owners: The projects table has an LER column, and a completed T&M project's unapproved time is back in the approvals queue.
  • Project managers: Configuration, PM and Enabled tasks are one card, and advice links open the form they point to.
  • Everyone: Everyday labels are clearer: for example "103h over" instead of a negative figure.

Week 32 · Sep 14, 2026 ​

  • Project managers: A "What this project needs" card lists the next steps for each project in plain language, ranked by what clears the most.
  • Project managers: Set a project's start date; time before a client project starts is refused, and envelope windows stay inside the project's dates.
  • Owners: Set a company-wide target LER and override it per project, with a button that sets hours for the target.
  • Owners: A Finish setting up checklist on the home page walks a new workspace through the basics.
  • Project managers: Managers can create projects and clients and make themselves the PM of a project without one.
  • Owners: Use VERA without Slack, signing in with Google or Microsoft, and move your own account between owner and admin.
  • Everyone: The morning briefing reads correctly by email, and time reads answer for exactly the person you ask about.
  • Everyone: Tightened who can see and change what.

Week 31 · Sep 7, 2026 ​

  • Owners: Project cost no longer applies an employer cost multiplier; that figure now lives in the Users hub only.
  • Project managers: See how each allocation's plan changed over time, and a Plan accuracy column on the Project Managers tab.
  • Everyone: Full-time staff are automatically given holiday time once a company holiday has passed.
  • Everyone: Dates follow your workspace's own time zone.
  • Owners: Gross pay and employer cost on the Direct labor tab are calculated the right way round.
  • Everyone: Chart axes spell out months in full and show fewer labels on long schedules.

Week 30 · Aug 31, 2026 ​

  • Owners: A month-end Billing view compares what each project was scheduled to bill with what it earned.
  • Owners: Fixed Price projects can carry a billing schedule, edited on its own page.
  • Project managers: T&M projects have a time approval page where a PM writes hours down before billing.
  • Project managers: Reset to default and Undo reset on both shaping editors.
  • Owners: Discipline-level fixes: tasks are classified for client or internal work, and by-discipline reports no longer misattribute time.

Week 29 · Aug 24, 2026 ​

  • Project managers: The envelopes table is narrower and easier to read, with a sortable Hours column and a usage bar that reads each envelope on its own.
  • Owners: Contributions shows each figure as a percentage of capacity, and chart lines match each person's color.
  • Project managers: Task notes appear on hover wherever a task is listed.
  • Project managers: Managers can open a capacity cell, and the envelope chart shows other commitments and weekly capacity as context.
  • Project managers: Budget health and Projected exhaustion show the working behind them.

Week 28 · Aug 17, 2026 ​

  • Project managers: Log time to a specific allocation when more than one covers the same task; capacity no longer double-counts hours across them.
  • Owners: Every scheduled message VERA sends is recorded and can be read by an owner.
  • Project managers: The Schedule verdict shows its working: how many hours were recorded against the plan, and the plan's expected progress.
  • Owners: Export a CSV for a project or a date range, with cost columns and no blank or truncated rows.
  • Project managers: Allocations can carry a label, and the Log time dropdown shows each project's client.
  • Owners: People filters can separate contractors and vendors.

Week 27 · Aug 10, 2026 ​

  • Team members: Time, Activity and Time off are now one tabbed Time page.
  • Project managers: Charts on Reports, Forecast and Portfolio can be zoomed.
  • Project managers: The Activity tab shows company holidays and the work week.

Week 26 · Aug 3, 2026 ​

  • Project managers: A Delivery view shows planned versus recorded hours per person, week by week, with pills ranked by how far off plan each person is.
  • Owners: Disciplines carry a color shown across the console, and tables sort by clicking any header.
  • Project managers: Charts can be zoomed with the mouse wheel or buttons and panned by dragging.
  • Team members: The Time page marks holidays, weekends, time off and empty days, and shows the week total beside what is expected.
  • Project managers: Time recorded on a company holiday is flagged for review instead of blocked.
  • Everyone: Dates read as "Jul 30", success messages float and fade, and errors stay on screen until fixed.
  • Owners: The Budget health label clarifies what it measures, and the contribution-margin column uses a segmented bar.
  • Everyone: Everything is written in American English.

Week 25 · Jul 27, 2026 ​

  • Project managers: Shape an allocation across the weeks it covers, and see the plan as a Planned pace line on the burn-up chart; on-course status follows your plan.
  • Project managers: Capacity honors the window and weekly shape of each allocation; a proposal's capacity simulation shows demand week by week.
  • Project managers: Envelopes are edited on their own page with a readable chart.
  • Owners: Users, Rates, Bands and Direct labor became one tabbed Users page; expand a person to see their rate and level history.
  • Project managers: Time outside any allocation, or beyond an allocation's hours, becomes a short exception list instead of an approval step.
  • Owners: Projected exhaustion follows the plan, and the portfolio uses the same planned baseline as each project.
  • Everyone: Charts are smoother and no longer depend on outside libraries.

Week 24 · Jul 20, 2026 ​

  • Owners: A team Contributions view compares everyone's hours by month, quarter or year, with filters, bulk select and a per-person view.
  • Owners: Compensation bands per discipline and level, a direct-labor view that compares pay to the band, and salary bands refreshed from published wage data.
  • Project managers: The capacity heatmap uses a scale where idle and overbooked are both red, and grays out weeks with no availability.
  • Project managers: Managers see a My projects group in the sidebar, a list scoped to their own projects and a "You" badge.
  • Everyone: Link-style navigation updates part of the page in place instead of reloading.
  • Everyone: Every sidebar item has an icon; the audit channel now announces only things that are created or retroactive time changes.
  • Everyone: Admin accounts no longer get time-recording nudges, and LER excludes projects that earn no revenue.

Week 23 · Jul 13, 2026 ​

  • Everyone: Sessions renew automatically for 30 days of use instead of expiring after 12 hours.
  • Project managers: The capacity heatmap and the person page agree on overbooked weeks, and Projected exhaustion shows the gap to the deadline in work days.
  • Project managers: Names in week-entry tables link to the person and project, and the person time page opens to project managers.

Week 22 · Jul 6, 2026 ​

  • Everyone: Behind-the-scenes reliability and speed improvements.

Week 21 · Jun 29, 2026 ​

  • Owners: Closed proposals are locked read-only, and the hours budget is suggested from contract value, target LER and blended cost.
  • Everyone: The console works better on a phone: tables scroll within themselves and page margins tighten.
  • Owners: Every new project automatically starts with Project Management enabled.
  • Everyone: A round of fixes for financial calculations, input checks and reminder timing.

Week 20 · Jun 22, 2026 ​

  • Owners: Proposals let you model a prospective engagement: staffing, costs, a vendor make-or-buy view, a capacity simulation and one-click conversion to a project when won.
  • Owners: A forecasted P&L panel and a project cost breakdown show each person's share of cost.
  • Project managers: A team activity feed and a read-only person time page show who recorded what.
  • Project managers: The capacity heatmap can slide forward and back by week, with a by-discipline summary.

Week 19 · Jun 15, 2026 ​

  • Owners: Reports gained tabs: monthly P&L, estimates versus actuals, a CSV export, and Segmentation by customer and by discipline with make-or-buy LER.
  • Owners: Manage tasks, disciplines, settings, company holidays, time off and unresolved items from the console.
  • Project managers: See a capacity heatmap across the team, a portfolio chart of margin versus schedule, and sparklines in the project list.
  • Project managers: Project pages show a burn-up chart, work days remaining and a live budget panel for Fixed Price projects.
  • Team members: Request time off yourself, with a notice-period picker that blocks dates too soon, and log time against a default task for your discipline.
  • Owners: Cost-aware hours-budget calculator warns when a price implies a loss.
  • Everyone: Rates now follow the correct effective date, and amounts in the audit channel are hidden.

Week 18 · Jun 8, 2026 ​

  • Owners: The console gained a monthly company-wide P&L, a Project Managers comparison, a forecast page, and a per-project P&L card.
  • Owners: Console navigation became a left sidebar with mobile support, modal forms and a workspace switcher for multi-workspace email identities.
  • Owners: Sign in with Google or Microsoft, and delete empty clients and projects.
  • Project managers: A top-level Envelopes page lists every allocation with person filter, sorting and usage dot.
  • Team members: A Time page lets you log, review and edit your own hours.
  • Everyone: A new visual identity with the VERA logo, Inter and IBM Plex Mono type and a deep blue brand color.

Week 17 · Jun 1, 2026 ​

  • Owners: The VERA web console launched with Google sign-in: project list, project detail, configuration, project creation and PM assignment.
  • Owners: Manage clients, users, rates and vendor liabilities from the console.
  • Project managers: Allocations (envelopes) are created, edited, cancelled and reactivated per project, and a project's analytics and health appear on its page.
  • Project managers: Filter and sort the project list and navigate through a consistent sidebar.
  • Team members: Logging, editing and deleting your own time in Slack is faster and predictable, with a menu when a name is ambiguous.
  • Project managers: Retrieval questions like "show my time" and creating clients and tasks now answer instantly.

Week 16 · May 25, 2026 ​

  • Owners: A new Admin role has owner-level access but is left out of utilization and capacity statistics.
  • Team members: The morning message leads with your active allocations, and sub-hour entries read as minutes instead of decimals.
  • Everyone: The chat window stays pinned to the bottom while VERA replies.
  • Everyone: VERA's understanding of requests moved from guessing to a fixed, predictable process, so the same request gives the same result.

Week 15 · May 18, 2026 ​

  • Everyone: Many fixes so that creating clients, projects, allocations, users and tasks by chat works first time without a confirmation step.
  • Project managers: Allocations can now be updated, cancelled or reactivated by number, and projects can be closed or budgets changed through chat.
  • Everyone: Edit and delete your own time entries.
  • Everyone: Pronouns and names with long dashes are understood correctly.

Week 14 · May 11, 2026 ​

  • Everyone: VERA now understands requests like "log 2 hours on that project" more reliably, remembering names and projects from earlier in the conversation.
  • Everyone: Dates such as "last Friday" are understood based on whether you are logging or setting a deadline.
  • Owners: Safely offboard a client workspace, with a full export of their data before anything is removed.
  • Project managers: Permission checks happen up front, so you are told right away when a request is above your role.

Week 13 · May 4, 2026 ​

  • Owners: Create, rename and archive tasks, clients and disciplines. Archiving keeps history intact instead of deleting it.
  • Project managers: See team-wide time off, and see a project's LER, schedule and expected margin on the dashboard.
  • Everyone: Name matching is much stricter, so VERA no longer picks the wrong person on a near-miss spelling.
  • Everyone: VERA now reports its own errors automatically so problems are fixed faster.
  • Everyone: Several fixes so that time off, logging time and allocations work for newly created workspaces.

Week 12 · Apr 27, 2026 ​

  • Owners: A live dashboard shows projects with filters, sortable columns and a shareable web address.
  • Owners: Track vendor commitments with agreed hours, accrued cost and hours spread across the project.
  • Owners: Add a new person or rename a client with confirmation steps built in.
  • Everyone: Terms of service, privacy policy and license documents were published.
  • Everyone: Security: web traffic is always redirected to a secure connection.

Week 11 · Apr 20, 2026 ​

  • Everyone: A public status page was added for customers.
  • Project managers: Resolution options for conflicting hours now look only at the affected project, and new unresolved items are listed with their numbers.
  • Everyone: VERA refuses to half-complete a batch change, so you never get a partial save.
  • Everyone: Clients can be renamed.

Week 10 · Apr 13, 2026 ​

  • Everyone: A live status page shows whether VERA, the database and Slack are healthy.
  • Project managers: See the work week and recalculated team availability, with envelope commitments spread across the dates they cover.
  • Everyone: Project names match regardless of extra spaces.

Week 9 · Apr 6, 2026 ​

  • Project managers: Edits to allocations and projects show exactly what changed. Envelopes can't be created for completed or cancelled projects.
  • Owners: Client projects now require an hours budget and a deadline, and vendor accrual follows the number of agreed hours.
  • Everyone: Display names stay in sync with Slack, and a new logic guide explains how VERA thinks about revenue and cost.
  • Everyone: Reduced waiting on busy mornings by smoothing how data is read.

Week 8 · Mar 30, 2026 ​

  • Everyone: A batch of fixes for allocation, permission and rate bugs, including envelopes on retainer periods and overloaded-service errors.
  • Everyone: Part-time schedules no longer over-subtract sick time from available hours.

Week 7 · Mar 23, 2026 ​

  • Project managers: The project manager now gets a message when time is logged to their project, and a message when someone makes them a project manager.
  • Project managers: The morning briefing shows pace forecasting with a trend direction, and a linear burn-down for each project.
  • Team members: The morning briefing lists your active allocations in a table, and a completed action returns a clear receipt.
  • Owners: Add Internal projects for overhead and non-client work such as admin and training.
  • Everyone: Allocations were clarified as project-lifetime budgets.

Week 6 · Mar 16, 2026 ​

  • Owners: Fixes to retainer periods: new periods inherit the last period's terms and read with plain-language names.
  • Everyone: VERA confirms only changes it actually made.
  • Project managers: Task suggestions come from a person's allocations, and owners and managers no longer need an allocation to log time.
  • Everyone: Responses are faster.
  • Team members: Reply 1 or 0 to answer yes or no.

Week 5 · Mar 9, 2026 ​

  • Project managers: Allocations now name a task, so each person's hours are planned by type of work. "Allocation" replaced "budget" for per-person hours throughout.
  • Owners: Rename people, restrict budget changes to owners, and see an audit message for every edit and delete of time.
  • Team members: Short numbered shortcuts in the morning summary let you act with a single digit.
  • Everyone: Many fixes to name matching so VERA picks the right person when you @mention or type a name.

Week 4 · Mar 2, 2026 ​

  • Project managers: Plan ahead: allocate hours to people, see who has capacity, and compare estimates against actual time.
  • Project managers: Set project budgets and deadlines and get proactive alerts before a project runs over.
  • Team members: Request sick days, leave and time off; managers approve in one step and the team is notified.
  • Owners: Monthly reports and capacity forecasts are available on demand, and the morning briefing shows team capacity as progress bars.
  • Owners: Deactivate and reactivate people, and choose your time zone when setting up.

Week 3 · Feb 23, 2026 ​

  • Owners: Several agencies can now use one VERA, each with its own Slack workspace, audit channel and time zone.
  • Everyone: Progress indicators show VERA is working while longer requests run.

Week 2 · Feb 16, 2026 ​

  • Owners: Clients are now first-class, so projects roll up under the client they belong to.
  • Owners: Owners see dollar amounts, project managers see percentages, and team members see their own time only.
  • Project managers: Assign project managers, track retainers for over- and underspend, and receive daily retainer summaries and alerts.
  • Team members: Every time entry now needs a task, and entries are tied to a person rather than a typed name.
  • Owners: Export time data as a CSV file straight into your Slack messages. Daily automatic backups run at midnight.
  • Everyone: Changes made by VERA are posted to a team audit channel as short, emoji-tagged messages.

Week 1 · Feb 9, 2026 ​

  • Team members: Log time by chatting with VERA in Slack, then edit or delete an entry later. Hours show as "4h 30m" instead of decimals.
  • Project managers: Create, rename and list projects, give each project its own tasks, and see progress bars for how much of a budget is used.
  • Team members: A morning summary and an evening check against your daily target arrive in Slack so nothing goes unlogged.
  • Everyone: VERA asks you to pick from a short list instead of guessing when a project or task name is close but not exact.