Our team has been busy at work, rebuilding the foundation of Framework, in order to allow use to ship new features in coming weeks. Below you’ll notice several new under the hood improvements. Over the coming weeks, you’ll see several new features launched to help streamline your construction projects.
Added
- Team Collaboration & Permissions — Invite team members to your projects with role-based access control. Four permission levels (Owner, Admin, Editor, Viewer) control who can edit documents, manage members, and access AI tools. Invitations are sent via email and support both email and Google sign-in. The project owner’s subscription covers all in-project usage so collaborators don’t need their own paid plan.
Changed
- Redesigned App Shell — The entire application layout has been rebuilt. A new icon-only navigation rail on the left edge replaces the old text sidebar, giving more room to your documents and conversations. Resizable sidebar panels, a cleaner top bar with a project switcher, and a unified layout that merges the Hub and project workspace into one seamless experience. The mobile layout was also rebuilt with full-screen navigation and a bottom tab bar.
- New Design System — Updated the color system with a warm stone palette, tighter radii, and refined typography across the entire interface. Dark mode now uses warm neutrals instead of pure grays. Buttons, cards, badges, and inputs all received updated styling. The note editor has refined heading sizes and cleaner formatting.
- Smarter AI Conversations — The AI is now better at managing long, document-heavy conversations. It uses its tools more efficiently early on and wraps up with a clear written answer before running out of time. Complex queries that previously timed out should now complete without interruption.
- Help & Bug Reporting — New help menu in the top bar with separate flows for reporting bugs, requesting features, and getting help. A new user avatar dropdown provides quick access to settings and sign-out.
- Improved Document Reading — The AI now self-corrects more reliably when it has trouble locating a document, instead of getting stuck in a retry loop.
Fixed
- Chat Streaming Animation — AI responses now stream with a smooth typewriter effect. Words fade in as they arrive with a blinking cursor while generating.
- Onboarding Redirect Loop — Some Google sign-in users were getting stuck in a loop during onboarding. This has been resolved.
- AI Crashes on Long Sessions — Fixed a bug where long AI conversations could crash and enter a retry loop with no way to recover. These sessions now complete gracefully.
- Conversation History Loss — In rare cases, a failed AI response could cause previously saved messages in the conversation to disappear. Message history is now fully protected.
- Memory File Errors — Memory files used across multiple conversations in the same project could cause errors. This has been fixed with improved handling.
- Email Notification Links — Links from notification emails now navigate directly to the correct view in the new layout.
Performance
- Faster Conversation Loading — Conversation lists now load significantly faster, especially on projects with many conversations.
- Faster Onboarding — The profile setup step during onboarding now completes in 1–2 seconds, down from 5–15 seconds.
- Smoother Chat Streaming — Reduced unnecessary screen updates during AI responses for a smoother experience.
- Faster Dashboards — Project dashboard and project list pages now load faster.
