This release brings important improvements and refinements to make your workflow smoother and communication clearer inside the Next Lab.

🌐 Next Cycle Agents API Integration

We’ve connected the Next Cycle Agent API with the Next Lab — paving the way for automated cycle management in upcoming releases. This integration sets the foundation for more seamless coordination between your Next Lab Innovation Opportunities and the Next Cycle, try our first integration: The Triage Agent that will help you place an innovation opportunity inside the Next Cycle after a few simple questions.

📢 Announcement Emails

Announcement emails now include a direct “View announcement” link, making it easier for you and your team to jump straight into the details without hunting through your inbox.

✉️ Clearer Email Sender Details

All Lab-generated emails now display a recognizable sender name: Next Lab Updates, helping you quickly identify official communications and avoid confusion.

👥 Team Licensing Clarity

We’ve improved clarity around team licensing — specifically what happens to a user license when a member adds another user to a team. This helps ensure transparency and smoother team management.

That’s it for this release!

As always, we’re continuously improving Next Lab to support your teams and automate more of your product cycles. Stay tuned.

We’re excited to announce Next Lab 2.20.0. This update personalizes announcement emails and improves resource visibility in Opportunity reports—plus a key AI bug fix.

Personalized announcement emails

• Emails are now sent per recipient (no BCC), greeting each user by name and using their preferred Lab language. The Unsubscribe link auto-detects the address and includes a one-click revert if you change your mind.

Painsizer AI fix (Pain Hypo Generation)

• Resolved an issue where AI-based Painsizer generation could fail under certain conditions.

Opportunity Full Report: resource links

• The Full Report now includes direct links to:

• The Opportunity’s own resources.

• The Small Bets resources associated with that Opportunity.

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for the continuous feedback—please keep it coming!

We’re excited to announce Next Lab 2.19.0. This update improves how you find users, adds unsubscribe controls to emails, polishes team-join messaging, and ships a round of stability fixes.

Case-insensitive user search

• Searching by name or email is now case-insensitive, improving match rates and reducing missed results.
• Email unsubscribes: Release/announcement emails now include an Unsubscribe option so anyone can opt out of future updates.

• Bug fixes (Frill reports)

We resolved multiple issues reported via Frill and internal QA to improve overall stability and consistency.

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for the continuous feedback—please keep it coming through the boards!

We’re excited to announce Next Lab 2.19.0. This update improves how you find users, adds unsubscribe controls to emails, polishes team-join messaging, and ships a round of stability fixes.

Case-insensitive user search

• Searching by name or email is now case-insensitive, improving match rates and reducing missed results.
• Email unsubscribes: Release/announcement emails now include an Unsubscribe option so anyone can opt out of future updates.

• Bug fixes (Frill reports)

We resolved multiple issues reported via Frill and internal QA to improve overall stability and consistency.

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for the continuous feedback—please keep it coming through the boards!

We’re excited to announce Next Lab 2.18.0. This update focuses on clarity in the AI Focus Group and a series of UX refinements, plus a bunch of community-reported bug fixes.

AI Focus Group: show the tested hypothesis

You can now see the hypothesis being tested directly in the Focus Group view for better context and evaluation.

UI layout tweaks

We streamlined button placement in key screens to reduce friction and misclicks.

Clearer action texts

Several labels and messages were rewritten to better describe what each action does.

Bug fixes (Frill reports)

We fixed multiple issues reported via Frill to improve overall stability and consistency.

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for the continuous feedback—please keep it coming through the boards!

We’re excited to announce the release of Next Lab version 2.17.0! From now on, every time we publish an announcement in Frill, an automatic email is sent to all Lab users. We also applied several community-requested improvements and text/UX corrections.

✉️ New: Automatic Emails on Announcement Publish

• When a new announcement is published in Frill, the system now automatically sends an email to all active Lab users.
• Benefits: better communication reach, fewer missed updates, and more visibility into releases.
• The email includes the title, summary, and a direct link to the full announcement.
• If you don’t want to receive these emails, let us know and we’ll update your preferences.

🔧 Improvements (from idea boards)

• Linking Next Opportunity – Improvements: Clarified copy and links; minor validations to reduce confusion in linking flows.
• Improve Sharing – Next Tools: Simpler text and button hierarchy; clearer tooltips for sharing actions.
• System messages – correct language: System messages now display in the appropriate language

🙌 Thanks

Thanks for the feedback—keep it coming in the boards!

We’re excited to announce the release of Next Lab version 2.16.0! This update focuses on giving teams finer control and traceability over spendings inside opportunities—plus a round of stability improvements based on your feedback.

What’s New in v2.16.0

Edit Spendings

You can now edit spendings directly. Make quick corrections or updates without leaving the context of your work.

Spendings History in Opportunities

Each opportunity now shows a complete history of spendings so you can track changes over time and keep your financial trail transparent.

Descriptions for Each Spending

Add a description to every spending to capture intent, context, or any notes your team needs for future reference.

🐛Bug Fixes & Stability

We also fixed several bugs reported via Frill to ensure a smoother, more reliable experience across the app.

We're excited to announce the release of Next Lab version 2.15.0! This update brings significant improvements to portfolio management and innovation tracking, along with important bug fixes based on your valuable feedback.

What's New in v2.15.0

🔍 Comprehensive Portfolio View by Default

The Portfolio view now provides a complete picture right from the start. When you open the Portfolio view, all portfolios are selected by default, giving you immediate access to a comprehensive Assumptions vs Knowledge graph that spans all innovation opportunities across your entire portfolio ecosystem. This holistic view makes it easier to identify patterns, gaps, and opportunities at scale without manual selection.

📊 Enhanced Innovation Opportunities Table

We've given the innovation opportunities table a significant upgrade:

Clear Headers: The table now features properly labeled headers for better data organization and readability

Innovation Cycle Tracking: Each opportunity now displays its current stage and step within the innovation cycle, providing instant visibility into where each initiative stands in your innovation pipeline

These improvements make it easier to track progress, prioritize resources, and maintain oversight of your innovation portfolios' momentum.

🐛 Bug Fixes and Stability Improvements

Your feedback through Frill (our feedback button) has been invaluable in identifying and resolving several issues that were impacting user experience. We've addressed these reported bugs to ensure a smoother, more reliable platform experience.

We're excited to announce the release of Next Lab version 2.11.0, packed with powerful new features that make collaboration easier and innovation more accessible. This release represents a significant milestone not just in functionality, but also in how we're building the future of software development.

What's New in 2.11.0

🔗 Chat Links: Share Your Conversations

One of the most requested features is finally here! You can now generate direct links to your chats, making it easier than ever to reference important discussions or share insights with colleagues. For teams, this feature becomes even more powerful – team members can now share team chats seamlessly, ensuring everyone stays in the loop on critical conversations and decisions.

🔄 Flexible Innovation Opportunity Management

We've added the ability to move Innovation Opportunities between My Work (MW) and team spaces, giving you more control over your project organization. Whether you want to collaborate on a personal idea or take ownership of a team initiative, the transition is now smooth and intuitive.

Important note: You can only move an Innovation Opportunity from a team back to My Work if you were the original creator. This ensures proper ownership and maintains the integrity of collaborative work.

🐛 Quality Improvements

Behind the scenes, we've addressed several bug reports to make your Next Lab experience more reliable and smooth. These fixes contribute to a more stable platform that you can depend on for your innovation work.

The AI Revolution in Our Development Process

This release marks a groundbreaking achievement in our development methodology. 90% of this sprint's code was written by autonomous AI agents – a testament to how far AI-assisted development has come and our commitment to pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

Our AI Development Journey

We experimented with multiple approaches to AI-powered coding throughout this sprint. While not every method proved successful, we discovered several techniques that worked exceptionally well. This iterative process of testing and refinement has given us confidence that AI agents can handle complex development tasks while maintaining code quality and reliability.

The Human Touch Remains Essential

While our AI agents excelled at code generation, our deployment process remains 100% human-managed. This hybrid approach ensures that we maintain the highest standards of quality control and system reliability. However, we're already planning to evolve this process – our goal for the next sprint is to introduce AI assistance into deployment workflows as well.

As always, we value your feedback. Let us know how these new features work for you and what you'd like to see in future releases. Together, we're building the future of innovation platforms – with a little help from our AI friends.

Next Lab 2.11.0 is available now. For technical support or feature requests, please contact our team through the usual channels.

We're excited to announce the release of version 2.10.0, packed with intelligent new features and important stability improvements that will streamline your workflow.

What's New

Smarter AI Chat in Instigators

Our AI chat feature just got a major upgrade. When the AI suggests drills during your conversations, it now automatically generates direct links to those drills, making it incredibly easy to jump straight into the action. No more hunting through menus or searching for the exercises you need.

Enhanced Session Generation

Planning sessions is now even more intuitive. When you ask the AI to generate a session, it will intelligently suggest flow drills for both the beginning and end of your session, helping you create more structured and effective training experiences.

Bug Fixes and Stability Improvements

This release addresses several critical issues that have been impacting user experience:

• Session and Sprint Management: Fixed issues with moving sessions or sprints to folders, ensuring your organizational workflow runs smoothly
• S7 Team Functionality: Resolved S7 compatibility issues that were affecting team operations
• Board Member Generation: Fixed the S7 board member generation process, which now works correctly when generating members individually
• Additional Fixes: Multiple other stability improvements and minor bug fixes throughout the platform

As always, we're committed to continuously improving your experience. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for future updates, don't hesitate to reach out to our support team.

Happy innovating!