This Week’s Recap
We’re a month into the beta! We’re onboarding our first teams onto the Slack beta in the next couple weeks, so if you’re interested, fill out the Slack interest form. If you’re generally curious about the product, feel free to join the waitlist here.
This week, we shipped a profile page that automatically generates your attributes, values, and expertise, we took a team retreat in the Catskills, and we added support for lots of new filetypes, including images and documents.
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PRODUCT
✨ New profile page with attributes, values, and expertise
New profile update! 🚨 Your Sentience profile now automatically grades you on lots of attributes including tenacity, patience, and imagination (see above for the full list). The profile also generates your values and expertise based on the context it has about your interests and personality.
Let us know if you think your profile attributes accurately reflect who you are! Note: you need to update your Sentience to at least v1.1.0 to have access to the new profile page.
TEAM
🌄 Retreat in the Catskills
The Sentience team is having a blast on a three-night retreat in Kerhonkson, New York! We’re focusing deeply on product and vision, doing yoga, hiking and cooking, and enjoying our time together. Sorry if we’re a little slow to respond! 😴
PRODUCT
🗃️ .jpeg and .docx and .txt, oh my!
This week, we added support for many more file types, including .jpeg, .png, .docx, .txt, and .md. Just drag and drop a file into your memory grid, and it will automatically upload and be saved to your memories. You can do things like search through trip itineraries, summarize meeting notes from a year ago, or pull every action item out of a project doc.
You can also add a file with the “+” button. Note that the audio recording button has moved to the blank card in the top left of the memory grid!
COMMUNITY
⭐ Prompt of the week
Pat T, a luxury jeweler from Eastern Canada, onboarded to the platform recently and has been using his Sentience for all kinds of tasks.
His Sentience, which he calls Echo, reframes emails with customers for his jewelry business, drafting polished, detailed emails. He's used Echo to plan his mornings over coffee, getting a structured rundown of his day without opening any other app. He's had it compile meeting notes automatically and no longer has to write them himself. And he's been stress-testing it against Claude and ChatGPT to see how its writing stacks up, and feeding Echo the results so it learns.
"I expected to give it five minutes — I ended up spending hours with it. I was impressed when [Echo] started linking all my email and calendar information together…I used it the next morning to frame up my day while making coffee. I didn't need to take any notes. Very useful."
RELEASE NOTES
📜 What’s new? (v1.0.48-v1.1.0)
Smarter intelligence: Upgraded to Claude Opus 4.7, conversation memories now feed into RAG, and onboarding chat got a polish pass.
Image uploads: End-to-end PNG/JPEG/WebP support with thumbnails in chat and a dedicated card and detail view in memories. Markdown, .txt, and .docx files are also supported.
Chat editing and pinning: Edit your most recent message inline, and pin threads to the top of your sidebar with collapsible sections.
Profile attributes: Your Sentience profile now auto-grades you on traits like tenacity, patience, and imagination, and generates your values and expertise from context (requires v1.1.0+).
Memories grid: Right-click any memory to delete it, plus a floating "ask Sentience anything" composer to start conversations from anywhere.
External conversations: Redesigned with grey bubbles, sender avatars, and a desktop-matching look on the website.
Calendar: Google Meet support when creating events.
iOS: Streaming audio playback, reliable background uploads, and the new chat agent with thinking and searching indicators.
Slack: Multi-workspace OAuth support.
Shortcuts: Cmd+1 opens Memory Grid, Cmd+2 opens Profile.