This Week’s Recap
This week we opened up our private beta. If you haven't already, you can join the waitlist here.
In this issue: an exciting Slack integration, a new BCV x Sentience film, an April Fools email written by Sentience, product updates like faster audio and more reliable chat, and a peek at the beta onboarding gift. 🤩
PRODUCT
👀 Coming soon: Sentience in Slack
Sentience is coming to Slack. We're building an integration that will turn your Sentience into a digital twin your teammates can query directly, right inside Slack. Someone on your team has a question about a project you're working on, a meeting they missed, or context only you have? They just ping your Sentience, and it responds on your behalf using your real knowledge and context.
Think of it as a version of yourself that's always available in Slack—one that knows what you've been working on, what was discussed in your meetings, and what's top of mind. Your teammates ask questions, your Sentience answers, and you stay in the loop the whole time.
We're looking for Slack-native teams of 3 to 10 people to try this out for free as part of a limited release. If you're interested, fill out this form, ping me in the Discord, or email me at [email protected]. We use it internally every day and think it's going to change how small teams work.
MEDIA
📹 Bain Capital Ventures: Outlier Briefings
A few weeks ago, Bain Capital Ventures partner Kevin Zhang sat down with Sam to talk about our company, the product, and where we're headed. They discuss how Sentience takes a fundamentally different approach than most AI companies by starting with individual-level context and memories instead of general information. Sam walks through how Sentience captures your conversations and remembers your context, and Kevin explains why he sees AI moving away from centralized, generic systems and toward personal models that belong to the individual, not the platform. If you're curious about what we're building and why, this video is a great place to start.
COMMUNITY
⭐ Prompt of the week, from Spencer Dennis
Spencer, a film director and partner at a Brooklyn and LA-based production company, used his Sentience creatively last week. 😆 He wanted to pull an April Fools prank on his business partners, so he asked his Sentience to brainstorm ideas and then write a hilarious fake email lead in his coworker's voice. Per Spencer: "It did a great job of replicating what a real lead looks like with the details.”
COMMUNITY
👨👩👧👦 Onboarding Gift
If you filled out your US mailing address when signing up for the beta, you’ll receive a personalized onboarding gift in the mail in the next few weeks. They’re in production now—here’s a sneak peek at the gift.
Stay tuned—our first in-person user event will be announced next week! 👀🗽
RELEASE NOTES
📜 What’s new? (v1.0.14-v1.0.25)
Gmail got a major usability boost with better handling of tone/style across multiple connected accounts.
Privacy safeguards were tightened across the product, including clearer privacy copy, a broader privacy pass, consent messaging for email/calendar ingestion, and reduced exposure of sensitive calendar data in logs.
Calendar intelligence became more reliable, with fixes for future events incorrectly showing up in the Sense of Self document.
Audio workflows got faster and smoother, with improved processing speed and fixes for recording controls that weren’t reliably stopping capture.
Chat became more dependable, including fixes for conversations that wouldn’t start and live updates that weren’t refreshing correctly.
Sidebar behavior was stabilized, so closing the sidebar no longer interrupts output unexpectedly.
Onboarding was cleaned up significantly, with better permission handling and fixes for broken/stuck flows during account setup and social account connection.
Knowledge and memory features improved, including better syncing from the sidebar into memory logs and stronger indexing/linking across memory sources.
Daily summaries and generated activity outputs became more usable, with fixes for failures in production and overly long digest generation.
MAINTENANCE
🚨 Beta Update Bug
Attention beta users:
We found a bug in the auto-update feature affecting recent versions of the app. If Sentience has been stuck on an update screen or looping when trying to update, you'll need to manually re-download the app from the link you were initially sent, double-click the .dmg, and drag Sentience Desktop to your Applications folder. Once you do, you'll be on the latest version and auto-updates will work normally going forward. Sorry for the inconvenience!