We’re excited to share Next Lab 2.38.2, focused on giving you more control and flexibility when working with AI session reports.

🔒 Password-protected reports

You can now protect shared reports with a password, ensuring only the right people can access them.

🧩 Customize your report structure

Reports are now more flexible:

Reorder sections to match your preferred flow

Delete specific sections you don’t need

Add and shape content more freely

👁️ Control what is visible

Choose what to include in your report:

Show or hide drills

Show or hide resources

🖼️ Improved resource display

Resources are now displayed more clearly, including better handling of images within the report.

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for your feedback

We’re excited to share Next Lab 2.38.1, a small update that makes AI session reports more flexible and easier to manage.

✏️ Edit your reports

You can now edit titles and content in each section of your report, making it easier to refine and improve your results.

➕ Add new sections

Need more structure? You can now add new sections to expand your report and organize your ideas better.

🗑️ Delete reports

You can now delete reports when they are no longer needed.

⚠️ Note

Editing for drills and resources sections is not yet available—we’ll continue improving this in future updates.

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for your feedback—these improvements are part of making reports more flexible and useful for your workflows!

We’re excited to introduce Next Lab 2.38.0, bringing a new way to generate AI-powered session reports from your sessions.

🧠 Generate reports with rich context

Create reports using:

Title + context (text or recorded audio)

Session resources

General attachments (images, PDFs, links)

Drill-level attachments

All inputs are combined to produce more complete, meaningful insights.

🎙️ Audio recording & transcription

Record audio directly when creating a report—it's automatically transcribed and included as context.

📎 Flexible attachments

Add files at both:

Session level

Drill level

Attachments are processed and used by the AI to improve report quality.

⚙️ Background processing & smart actions

Reports are generated in the background:

“View Report” appears when completed

“Generate Report” shows if not yet created or failed

Automatic redirect when ready

🌐 Public sharing

Each report is available via a public link, making it easy to share results.

📩 Email notification

You’ll receive an email with the report link once it’s completed.

🎨 UX & i18n improvements

Improved file upload experience

Better handling of attachments

Multi-language support for file pickers and labels

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for the continuous feedback—this release unlocks a powerful new way to capture and share session insights.

We’re excited to introduce Next Lab 2.37.0, bringing a major upgrade to how you interact with AI in the Lab, along with improvements in stability and overall chat experience.

⚡ Real-time AI responses (Streaming)

AI responses are now delivered using streaming across all supported models:

OpenAI

Claude

Mistral

This means you’ll see answers as they are being generated, instead of waiting for the full response—making interactions faster and more natural.

💬 Improved chat experience

We enhanced how conversations are handled by sending the full chat context, allowing models to better understand the flow and provide more relevant, consistent answers.

🛠️ Chat reliability & performance

We addressed technical debt in LLM chats and improved internal handling of messages and services, resulting in a more stable and scalable experience.

🔧 Fixes

Fixed an issue where the “New Session” button in instigators home incorrectly triggered the tour.

General bug fixes and UX improvements across chat flows.

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for the continuous feedback

What's New in Version 2.36.0

We're excited to announce the release of Next Lab v2.36.0! This update brings powerful new features, important improvements, and key bug fixes to enhance your experience. Here's everything that's included:

✨ New Features

🤖 AI-Powered Help & Support Chat

We've launched a brand-new AI-powered Help Support Chat directly within the platform!

Users now have instant access to all canonical definitions from the IIS Assistant

• Available for both Leaders and Instigators tracks.
• Interact with definitions and guidance through a clean, intuitive chat interface.
• Get the answers you need, right when you need them — without leaving the platform

🌐 Mistral Agent with Web Search

We've integrated a Mistral Agent into our LLM chat experience, unlocking powerful new capabilities:

• Web search is now enabled within Mistral-powered chats
• Get real-time, up-to-date information directly from the web during your conversations
• Enhances the depth and accuracy of AI-generated responses across the platform

🛠️ Improvements

📝 Expandable Session/Challenge Statement Field

Based on your feedback (Frill Idea — thank you, community!), the Create Session / Challenge Statement field is now expandable:

• Resize the field to comfortably write longer, more detailed statements
• No more struggling with limited text space when crafting your challenges
• A small change with a big impact on your workflow ✍️

📦 Summary

✨ New

AI-Powered Help & Support Chat with IIS Definitions

✨ New

Mistral Agent with Web Search in LLM Chats

🛠️ Improved

Expandable Statement Field in Session/Challenge Creation

🛠️ Improved

License Expiration Notification Flow (30, 10, 3 days & expiration)

🗑️ Removed

New User Notifications to Former Team Members

💡 Have feedback or ideas? Submit them through our Feedback button on the lab — your input directly shapes the future of Next Lab!

Thank you for being part of the journey! 🙌

We’re excited to introduce Next Lab 2.35.0, bringing improvements to the guided tour experience and powerful new capabilities in the LLM chat.

🧭 Tour available from more places

The Lab tour can now be launched from several areas of the platform, including index, select, home, session pages, and drill lists, making it easier to explore the Lab from wherever you start.

▶️ Play Session guidance

The tour now includes steps explaining how to start a session and how the Play Session page works, helping users understand how to run sessions more easily.

🤖 Compare AI models side-by-side

We added a new chat mode where a single question is sent to multiple models, allowing you to compare responses from:

• OpenAI
• Claude
• Mistral

This makes it easier to evaluate how different models respond to the same prompt.

🌐 Web search capabilities

OpenAI and Claude models now support web search, enabling them to bring more up-to-date information into their responses.

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for the feedback that keeps improving the Lab

We’re excited to introduce Next Lab 2.34.0, bringing a new guided onboarding experience designed to help users get started faster and with more clarity.

🧭 Step-by-step guided tour

We’ve added a new in-app tour that walks you through the key steps to create a session and add a drill. The tour guides you step by step, making it easier to understand the workflow inside the Lab.

🎥 Video-enhanced guidance

Some steps in the tour can include short instructional videos, giving you visual guidance and helping you quickly understand what to do next.

📊 Insights through Mixpanel

All interactions with the tour are now tracked with Mixpanel, allowing us to better understand how users engage with onboarding and identify areas for improvement.

🌐 Full language support

The guided tour automatically adapts to all languages available in the Lab, ensuring a consistent onboarding experience for every user.

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for all the feedback that helped shape this feature.

We’re excited to share Next Lab 2.33.0, focused on improving IIS reliability, response quality, and overall navigation experience.

🤖 IIS Assistant stability fix

We resolved an issue where the IIS AI Assistant could return an error when multiple questions were asked at the same time.

The assistant now handles concurrent interactions more reliably.

🧠 Improved prompt quality

We enhanced the LangChain prompts used by IIS, resulting in more consistent, structured, and relevant responses.

🔍 User search pagination fix

We fixed pagination issues in user search to ensure results are displayed correctly across pages.

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for your continued feedback—keep sharing ideas and improvements.

We’re excited to introduce Next Lab 2.32.0, which includes an experimental (beta) feature to create agendas directly through the IIS chat.

🧪 Session Agenda creation via IIS chat (Beta)

You can now ask the IIS assistant to create an agenda through chat.

This feature is currently in beta, and we’re actively testing how well it fits into real workflows.

We’d love to hear from you:

Does this flow feel intuitive?

Is anything missing or unclear?

What would make agenda creation faster or more useful for you?

Your feedback will help shape how this feature evolves before a full release.

⚠️ Beta notice

Since this is an experimental feature:

You may encounter rough edges or incomplete flows.

We’ll be iterating quickly based on your feedback.

🙌 Share your feedback

Please share your thoughts and suggestions through the Frill boards—we’re excited to learn how this works for you and improve it together!

We’re excited to announce Next Lab 2.31.0, focused on improving the stability, usability, and shareability of LLM chats—along with a few behind-the-scenes enhancements.

⏳ Clearer feedback when sending messages

We added a loader when sending messages, including scenarios with multiple image uploads, so it’s clear when content is being processed.

🔧 LLM chat reliability improvements

We addressed technical debt in LLM chats to improve stability, error handling, and overall reliability across chat flows.

🔗 Shareable deep links for chats

LLM chats now support deep links, allowing you to share a conversation URL and reload the chat directly in the Lab.

📊 Better internal insights

We introduced internal tooling to help identify the most engaged users, enabling better understanding and future improvements.

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for all the feedback.