Patch notes.
580 commits of receipts.

The Sauce drops the ticker, adds prediction markets

• The stock ticker is gone, and so is the market-data vendor behind it. It looked good and nobody used it to sell anything.
• Polymarket replaces Manifold on the prediction-market feed. Deeper books, real money, and signals that move before the news does.
• The Sauce stays free on every tier. It was always the part you were supposed to read with coffee, not trade against.

The product page, de-gamified

• /product is a full tour now: the CRM underneath, sequences and the dialer, The Sauce, and the API. Less arena, more receipts.
• The homepage hero is a circuit cube instead of a fake database screenshot. Nobody was ever fooled by the screenshot.
• Link previews stopped 404ing. The Open Graph images had been missing, which meant every share of this site rendered as a grey box.

A real migration system

• The database schema is built by numbered migrations that run before the app boots, not by importing the app and hoping.
• Six destructive boot-time operations are retired. Starting the server can no longer drop, truncate or rewrite anything.
• A failed migration now stops the deploy instead of quietly serving a half-migrated schema. Boring, and the good kind of boring.

Catalyst pairs in one click

• Connect replaces paste. The Chrome extension pairs with your account in one click instead of asking you to copy a token around.
• Tokens expire on a 90-day cycle and rotate silently, with a grace window so a stale tab never logs you out mid-prospect.
• All-websites access is opt-in. The extension asks for the sales platforms it needs and nothing else unless you say so.
• A dead extension is a silent extension: when it cannot reach the app it stops drawing on the page instead of leaving broken furniture behind.

The AI call recorder

• Record a call, get the transcript, the summary and the next steps written back onto the prospect. No note-taking, no post-call amnesia.
• A /calls library with paging and an orphan filter, so a recording that never got linked to anybody is findable instead of lost.
• Re-link a recording to the right contact after the fact. Everybody picks the wrong record occasionally.
• Capture mode and usage live in Settings. The recorder is part of every paid plan; per-tier allotments come once there is real usage to measure.

Meetings, booked from inside the CRM

• An in-app scheduler that sends real Google Calendar invites. Book the meeting on the call instead of promising to send a link.
• The unsubscribe footer became opt-in rather than automatic, because stamping a marketing footer onto a one-to-one reply was never right.

API v1, an MCP server, and sequences that behave

• API v1 is complete. Mint a scoped bearer token in Settings and drive prospects, deals, tasks, sequences and webhooks from your own code.
• A 19-tool MCP server ships alongside it, so Claude can run your desk directly instead of through a browser.
• One compliant sender for sequences: unsubscribe handling, a suppression list, send windows, timezones and per-mailbox throttling.
• Notifications split into guild and personal streams, with click, reply and bounce tracking behind them.
• The leaderboard splits three ways: Bounties, Guilds and The Grind, on both arena surfaces.

Two front doors: the app moves to its own origin

• dealarena.io is the marketing site. app.dealarena.io is the product. A router sends every URL to whichever one owns it.
• Every product page is behind the login now. The anonymous and demo branches that had quietly accumulated are deleted.
• Analytics came off the app shell entirely. The tracking that belongs on a marketing page does not belong on a page where you work.
• The Chrome extension talks to the app origin directly, so old installs kept working through the move.

One workspace, and two retirements

• /settings/workspace is the one place teams are managed. The old admin team page redirects there instead of being a second truth.
• Pipeline gets working filters, saved views and live KPIs, which is what the page was pretending to have since April.
• Codex and the Cold-Open Coach are retired. Brain is the only knowledge product; both old URLs redirect rather than 404.

Daily quests go live

• All four daily quests now track real actions and pay real XP: log calls, advance stages, book meetings, clear tasks.
• Won deals award XP. Stage advances too. Close something, watch the bar move.
• The road to v1.0 continues. Season 01 opens with launch in January.

Closers Coffee gets sub-communities

• Rooms with custom URLs, threads, votes, and moderation tools. Build a corner for your vertical and run it your way.
• The main room stays what it is: the place BDMs trade what actually worked this week.

Gmail send, end to end

• Connect Gmail in two clicks. Sequences and one-off sends go out from your own address, and Settings is now your account home.
• Legion moved to its own surface under Agents, and Origin came back as a compose page.

Join the Guild, plus a meaner leaderboard

• New Join the Guild band and quest modal on the homepage, with a proper social row in the footer.
• Agents page redesign merged to main.
• Restored the public leaderboard's Infernal theme after a stylesheet port flattened it to gray. Never again.

Deals become first-class citizens

The biggest data-model rework of the run so far. If you have ever fought a CRM that thinks a person and a company are the same row, this patch is for you.

• Prospects and Companies split into separate objects: own cards, own filters, tenant-scoped accounts.
• A real Deal object with polymorphic tasks. The kanban renders from deals and stage moves persist. Quotes attach to deals. Old pipeline rows backfilled automatically.
• The /tasks page talks to the real API. The static mock is dead.
• Log Call modal polish with follow-up tasks, and the new-contact hotkey moved from C to N so it stops eating your copy shortcut.

Console chat actually sends

• Live chat on the console now wires up on the new app shell. The Send button looked dead because the page was never subscribed to the broadcast. It is now.
• Messages render optimistically the instant you hit Send, and the logged-in-but-asked-to-log-in flash is gone.

The database learned to nap

• Background workers are event-driven now, so our serverless SQL cloud database autosuspends when nobody is grinding. Lower burn, same speed when you show up.
• Pipeline drag-and-drop no longer reverts cards on a stage move.
• Every newsletter signup lands in one subscribers table, and every ⌘K cheatsheet row triggers a real handler.

The FX layer: selling gets a particle system

• Gamification FX across the whole app: XP ticks, level-up flashes, streak fire. Subtle enough for a sales floor, loud enough to feel it.
• Top XP level renamed Supergrade. There is a GS-16 joke in the FAQ. If you know, you know.
• Arena and Console merged into one surface, database intake got people lists, and a streak bug that double-counted kanban XP is dead.

Sequence builder: the polish patch

• Nodes snap to a 24px grid. Auto-connect anchors new steps to the bottom of your chain instead of orphaning them.
• Branch YES/NO edges finally color-code, and dangling outputs pulse amber so you spot them before your prospect does.
• Test run is real: pick a prospect, pick a step, fire it once through your connected inbox.
• CRM connector layer landed: inbound webhooks, secret rotation, and a multi-company toggle for people running two grinds at once.

The Sauce enters the arena

Digging through an old build of the original prospecting tool, we found a signal feed we had completely forgotten we wrote. It was too good to leave buried, so it got ported into the CRM and polished up.

• A rotating feed of markets, tech, and prospect alerts with a live stock ticker. Open it before your first dial.
• Live public-filings and news-wire alerts on the companies already in your pipeline.
• Agent Hub ships: every agent on one page instead of scattered across the sidebar.
• Demo seed data is dead everywhere. If it renders, it is your pipeline.

Codex, Brain, and a 10-button database

• The old Brain is now Codex (Pro and up). The new Brain is an Enterprise product: upload your org's documents, chat over them, and every agent quietly reads them for context.
• Database bulk actions: a 10-button selection bar, soft-delete trash, and AI enrich/clean on whatever you have checked.
• Mobile nav drawer redesigned as a rounded dropdown sheet with safe-area support.

Chrome extension v1: the drawer follows you

• A right-edge drawer on every LinkedIn and Sales Nav profile: pipeline status, ICP match score, contact enrichment, signals, community insight, and AI-drafted outreach in your voice.
• Bulk-add from Sales Nav search results with ICP scores pre-computed.
• Honest privacy story: it only reads pages you have open in your own browser. No headless requests, no scraping farms.

API tokens, webhooks, and the enrichment waterfall

• Scoped API tokens with one-time reveal, plus signed outbound webhooks on 18 event types with retries and a dead-letter queue. Docs live at /docs/api.
• Enrichment waterfall: stack eight data providers in whatever order you want, per field. It short-circuits on the first confident answer so you never pay twice for the same email.
• Credit thresholds warn you a week before you run dry, then throttle, then pause. No surprise bills.

The sequence executor wakes up

• The cadence you draw on the canvas now runs itself: email, LinkedIn, and call steps fire on schedule with waits and YES/NO branches.
• Pause, resume, or cancel any enrollment from the prospect page, with a full step-run history inline.
• Auto-pause on reply is wired and waiting for reply tracking. It will not double-email someone who answered you.

Ship day: The Arena, onboarding, TOV Database

• The Arena goes live in-app: your XP, level, and streak on real data.
• TOV Database (tone-of-voice): paste your five best emails, train it, and every AI draft starts sounding like you instead of a press release.
• A 3-step onboarding takeover, rebuilt Add Deal and Add Prospect modals, and three more agents (Marketing, RevOps, CEO) visible in development.

The orange era begins

• Full rebrand to orange with the bracket-arrow mark. The graffiti pitbull had a good run. It is in a better place now.
• Tool-tax math overhauled across the site: real line items, real yearly totals, no hand-waving.
• Sequence connectors went solid orange-and-green with glow. Dashed gray lines are for wireframes.

Going paid + the dead-button massacre

• Paid-tier foundation: roles, team management with multi-seat admin, and a mobile gate that captures your email instead of serving you a broken layout.
• An automated UI audit found 40 dead buttons and links. All 40 now do something or are gone. If it renders, it works.
• Session redirects fixed: page routes send you to sign-in instead of a JSON error nobody asked for.

The Agent Swarm: seven agents in 48 hours

The single biggest drop of the run. A vector-search runtime, then seven agents built on top of it, back to back.

• Signals worker watching public financial filings and news wires, a help chatbot grounded in the actual docs, and a Customer Success agent sweeping for stuck deals daily.
• Account Prospecting agent for on-demand account briefs, and BDM Legion: a virtual BDR team with custom personas and per-member stats.
• Then two days of reliability work: graceful degradation when the model is unreachable, retry handling, and network fallbacks. Agents that die silently are worse than no agents.

The marketing front + the truth patch

• This entire public site went live in a week: home, pricing, about, FAQ, resources, contact, and this changelog. Server-rendered, fast, readable by humans and crawlers alike.
• Full app reskin: dashboard, pipeline, database, outreach, analytics, community, plus real auth pages.
• The truth patch: a full pass to kill fake numbers, placeholder stats, and overclaiming copy. Then a compliance scrub on top. If the site says it, it is true.
• Pricing rebuilt as four honest tiers, and Closers Coffee opened its doors.

The command deck

• Nav rebuilt around a sidebar and a ⌘K command palette. Analytics moved to its own page instead of squatting on the dashboard.
• List filters and automations: your CRM should move prospects between lists for itself. This one started doing that.
• Native alert() popups replaced with a styled in-app notice system. We are not animals.

First blood

The log opens. The original prospecting tool Tyler built as a working BDM becomes DealArena.

• The whole database moved onto a serverless SQL cloud platform, and the app went live on a managed cloud host with weekly deploys.
• First production P0 squashed within a day of migrating. A rite of passage.