Changelog
What we shipped.
Every release that reached production, newest first. Dated the day it landed.
- #011IntegrationsPlatform
Connect Claude or ChatGPT to your projects
Prototype now speaks MCP, the protocol Claude and ChatGPT both use to connect to outside tools. Point an assistant at your workspace and it can read your projects, specifications, components, milestones, tasks, documentation and meetings, then write back documentation pages, tasks, meeting minutes and meeting notes. It acts as the person who connected it, sees exactly what they see, and signs everything it writes with their name.
Read more· 6 highlights - #010Design
Custom brand hex, and readable accent colours
Type your team's actual hex into organisation settings instead of picking the nearest of ten. A live preview shows the surfaces the colour lands on before you save it, and the app now works out the rest of what it needs from that one value, including what colour text has to be to stay readable on top of it.
Read more· 5 highlights - #009Platform
Timeline view for project tasks
Every project's tasks now have a timeline view next to the board. Bars sit on a real date scale, so a task slipping shows up as a shift in position rather than as a status buried in a card. The board answers what state everything is in; the timeline answers whether you will make the date and what is holding it up, which is the question every team was asking and the one a board cannot show.
Read more· 5 highlights - #008MeetingsCollaboration
Private meetings and attendance
Meetings are now first-class records in Prototype rather than notes that live on someone's laptop. Track who actually attended, and control who can see what. Access is set per meeting, so a leadership discussion and a general build meeting can sit in the same project without sharing an audience, and the sensitive conversation stays next to the work it is about instead of moving to a separate tool where it loses its context.
Read more· 4 highlights - #007MeetingsCollaboration
Attendance by QR code, and a rebuilt meeting page
Put a QR code on the projector and people check themselves in from their own phones. There are four steps between the code going up and the answers sitting on the meeting record, and none of them is a person typing a list up afterwards. Attendance stops being a clipboard somebody forgets to circulate, and the meeting page itself was rebuilt around the record rather than around the form.
Read more· 5 highlights - #006MeetingsPlatform
Transcription and meeting summaries
Record a meeting and get back a readable transcript and a set of notes with the decisions and actions pulled out, without the audio leaving hardware your team controls. Transcription runs while the meeting does, so the work is mostly done by the time everyone leaves rather than starting from scratch afterwards.
Read more· 7 highlights - #005Collaboration
Reactions, read receipts, and stickers in chat
Discussion happens where the record lives. Chat now supports reactions, read receipts and stickers, so the lightweight signalling a team does all day, acknowledging, agreeing, confirming somebody saw it, does not have to move to Discord and take the context with it. The reason to care is not that chat is a missing feature. It is that every conversation which leaves takes the decision with it, and six months later the record says a choice was made and nothing says why.
Read more· 4 highlights - #004Integrations
GitHub integration: repos, code references, and boards
Firmware and ground-software work now connects to the hardware it runs on. Link a repository to a project, point a component at the exact code that drives it, and browse the repo without leaving the record. Electronics designs committed to a linked repo render in the browser, so reviewing a board no longer starts with everybody installing the same toolchain.
Read more· 4 highlights - #003Integrations
OpenRocket import and simulation
Import an OpenRocket design and Prototype reads the airframe out of it: stages, components, and the parameters that define them. The design tool stays the design tool. What this removes is the copy-out step, where numbers are transcribed into a spreadsheet by hand and start drifting from the file they came from within about a week.
Read more· 4 highlights - #001Documents
Document revisions, tags, and full-text search
Documents attached to a build now have history. Every upload creates a revision with its own version string, and opening a document lets you step back through what it used to say, so the question of which version a review was run against is answerable months later. Tags and full-text search, including inside PDFs, are what make a two-year-old test report findable at all.
Read more· 4 highlights - #002Platform
Self-serve signup and the founding-team programme
Anyone can create an organisation and start using Prototype without talking to us first. Billing runs end to end, and the founding-team programme, the first twenty student teams at one dollar a month for life, is live with an application flow behind it.
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Longer write-ups on the thinking behind this live on the blog, and what’s coming next is on the roadmap.