Changelog

Hi, friends!

We’ve updated the AI model in Envoy to gpt-4.1, which should significantly improve the fidelity and quality of timesheet summaries for project managers.

Check it out now: https://envoy.pve-edi-apps.com

Email and stability updates

Novus and Stanza are undergoing updates to their email sending functionality, after an issue with a vendor required some maintenance to Novus earlier this week.

We’re hard at work at other stability and quality-of-life changes, as well as work on new tools.

Hi, friends, and happy 2025. The first Stanza release of the year brings a cavalcade of fixes and updates:

1. Updating the report template document (which you can do by hitting the Settings button and selecting the Word document icon) now includes the name of the report you’re updating. (Thanks to Sarah Hulton for reporting this — and check out Pitch Kit on Stanza!)

2. Date fields can now be optional — previously, all date fields were required due to a backend parsing restriction.

3. Deleted reports can no longer be filled out.

4. And we squashed a few pesky bugs with repeater functionality!

We recently closed the book on a collection of features (what software nerds call an “epic”) to give report creators more power. A summary of what was released:

• Reports can be automatically emailed upon their creation. Do you want to be notified every time a field inspector completes a report on-site? Want proposals to be forwarded to a director automatically? Now you can pre-fill emails and automatically send them whenever a report is completed.

• Reports can be named based on their fields. This will allow you to change the default filename for completed reports — want your documents to be named “123 Main Street Field Report” instead of just “Field Report”? Now you can.

• Photo reports can now be made optional. No more putting in random photos just to delete them.

And a few smaller fixes and features:

• Photo report photos can include prefixes.

• Report creators can specify a numbering offset, so photo reports can start their numbering at a number greater than one. (Thanks, Alan, for requesting this.)

• Report creators can optionally disable downloading and renaming of reports.

• Plus signs in report names won’t cause an error anymore.