Changelog
What changed, and when
Every entry here is something a person using thestory.run would notice. Newest first.
Switch between prepaid sessions and pay as you go
Billing now holds both ways to pay at once, and one press says which one settles your next coaching session. Sessions you bought never expire and a switch never spends them, so you can buy a batch, run out mid-month, move to pay as you go and move back when you top up. The same page says where the invoices, the billing address and the VAT number are, and only an admin can change any of it.
Start for free, with no waiting list
Every “Start for free” now goes straight to the sign-in. Create an account and write your first post with the coach in the time the old waiting-list form used to take. Teams of five or fewer pay nothing, and there is still no card to start.
Admins decide whether the team calendar shows everybody's progress
The progress table under the team calendar, which shows each person how much of their own plan they have published, is now an organisation setting at the foot of Settings → Users. It stays on, so nothing changes unless you change it, and switching it off stops the numbers being sent at all rather than merely hiding them, for everyone including admins. Organisation settings are admins-only now and no longer appear in anybody else's menu.
Download your organisation's data
Admins can download everything the organisation can see as one file, from Settings. It holds the people and their teams, the campaigns, the posts your colleagues have marked ready or already posted, the shared wins and the activity, and your billing and connection settings without any credentials. It holds nobody's drafts, ideas or conversations with the coach, and nobody's goals or check-ins: those belong to the person who wrote them, and the file says so itself.
Cheat mode credits the words you wrote
Write half a post, let the coach finish it, and the authorship bar counts only the words the coach actually added. When there is already writing on the sheet the cheat panel says what will happen to it, and undo brings your version back, so nothing is erased. The way in sits next to the writing timer at the top of the page.
The coach spars before it structures
Bring a thought to brainstorm and the coach stays in the conversation instead of rushing to an outline: it explores, pushes back, and offers the arc only after it has said your point back in one sentence and you have confirmed that is it. Ask for the arc and you get it immediately. Wave one off and it stays off the table.
A clearer review, and a clean page for every idea
What carries the post and what is waiting on you are numbered separately in the coach's review, and previewing one change leaves every other mark visible. Opening an idea now starts you on an empty writing page rather than pasting your raw thought into it, with the arc leading the side panel and your kept lines sitting inside their beats.
Cheat mode writes in your voice
When you let the coach write one for you, it reads the last handful of posts you published and matches how you actually write: the sentence length, the vocabulary, the way you open and land. It takes no fact, name or number out of those old posts, only the voice. If you and the coach already agreed an arc, the cheat follows that arc.
A new campaign reaches you in your day
The coach mentions a new campaign in your day, once, with one way in: take it on and you get a draft already attached to the campaign. It waits out a heavy day rather than piling on, it never says it twice, and a campaign aimed at another team stays quiet for you.
Three coach temperaments that actually differ
The temperaments differ in what they do rather than in adjectives: steady judges nothing and offers, driven pushes on your effort, sparring disagrees with your thinking. The same thin answer gets three different responses. Strict is retired, because it never offered anything new, and anybody who had chosen it now has steady.
Signing up is a conversation, not a form
The coach asks your name, then one thing at a time, in five short steps that fit on a phone, and it says up front how long the walk is. You can name your coach here too, or take one of its suggestions with a tap and re-roll them until one fits. Your first days are gentler as well: one nudge instead of a full plan, a today you can actually finish, and an empty shelf that admits it is empty rather than showing you a pretend streak.
Let the coach write one, on the record
Some days there is no post in you. Cheat mode lets the coach write the whole thing from your idea, and it is never hidden: the post is marked as the coach's words, the authorship bar says so, and it costs a coaching session like anything else the coach does. A bad day stops breaking your rhythm, without you pretending you wrote it.
Every Slack reaction reaches your activity log
When somebody reacts to your post in Slack, that reaction appears on the entry in your activity log, whichever emoji they picked. Before, four of them counted and the rest quietly did not.
The whole app fits in one hand
Every screen was rebuilt for a phone rather than shrunk onto one. The month reads as a month, the week is a strip of dots you can thumb along, the four things you do most sit on a bar at the bottom and everything else opens as a sheet, and drafting is three plain tabs: Idea, Write and Review. So you can capture an idea, look at your day and mark a post published while standing on a platform.
Pay for coaching sessions, not for seats
Teams of five people or fewer are free, with no card and no clock. From the sixth person you pay for coaching sessions and nothing else, so a quiet week costs nothing and a colleague who only reads costs nothing at all. Sessions can also be bought up front, in any number, for less than they cost as you go, and they never expire.
A timer for the writing itself
Once a draft is ready to write, you can set a timer for as long as you want to give it, and the app rings once when the time is up. It sits in the footer while it counts, so a phone can see it without scrolling.
Notifications name what happened, and link to it
A notification names what actually happened rather than the nearest thing to it, and takes you to the post or the win it is about instead of leaving you to find it. Every entry in your history is written out in both languages, too, where some used to show their internal name.
Your name and your picture come from LinkedIn
If you have connected LinkedIn, the app takes your name and your photo from your profile instead of asking you to type one and upload the other, because the picture your colleagues recognise is the one that is already there. Anybody publishing by hand can still type a name, and a profile without a photo is fine.
Pause your pace, and everything goes quiet with you
A week off no longer costs you a streak or earns you a row of crosses. Pause your pace and every surface goes quiet with it: the week strip draws no missed days, the line beneath it says paused instead of counting, the card at the top of your day stops telling you that you are nought of two posts in, and the coach asks how you are rather than where your post is. There is no end date to get wrong. Start again when you are back.
The week says where it stands, and a missed day admits it
The week strip carries three marks now, posted, planned and gone by, with a line underneath saying where the week actually stands rather than leaving you to count circles. A posting day you chose and let pass is named as missed instead of left blank, and the coach mentions it once instead of acting as though it did not happen.
Post to LinkedIn from the app, as you
Connect your LinkedIn account once and a finished post can go out from here, under your own name, with one press. Nothing leaves without you pressing it, the connection is yours to remove whenever you like, and if you would rather post by hand the app still takes your word for it.
The flame answers one question: is this still going
The streak flame used to teach four states nobody could keep apart. It answers one question now, in three: burning, low, or out, in your own words for what keeps it alive. Drafts that have gone quiet leave your Homebase instead of sitting there looking at you.
A coach with a name and a temperament
The coach stopped being a nameless box. Give it a name, choose the temperament you want it to have, and that voice carries through everywhere it speaks: the questions it asks, the nudges in your day and the review of your draft.
A team can have leads, and a lead plans for their team
Running a team's writing is no longer an admin-only job. A lead can create and fix campaigns for the teams they lead, and for nobody else, so the person who knows what their team should be writing about does not have to ask an admin to type it in.
A face in the roster, and a way to find one person in it
You can upload a picture of yourself, change it and remove it again, and it appears wherever your name does. The list of people in Settings got a search box, a team filter and pages, so a long roster is something you look somebody up in rather than scroll through.
Teams inside an organisation, and campaigns aimed at them
An organisation can be split into teams, and a campaign can name the teams it is for and reach nobody else. So a campaign for the engineers stops turning up in everybody's day, and a team's calendar is about that team's writing.
Ask your team to have a look at a post you published
Published something you would like read? Ask one colleague, or a whole team, to take a look at it. It is a request between people rather than a task anybody is scored on, and nobody is told what to write under it.
Save for later actually saves
Two things the app got wrong about your own writing: Save for later threw the post away and reported it saved, and reopening a draft could have the app accuse you of a second copy that never existed. Both are fixed, so what you wrote is where you left it.
A win says which goal it moved
When you share something that went well, you can say which of your goals it moved, and it is reported back against that goal. So a win is not only a nice moment in the feed, it is evidence that the thing you set out to do is happening.
The arc arrives as a note you can keep
The shape of the post you are about to write is no longer something the coach says once and you scroll past. It arrives as a note pinned inside the conversation, it waits for the writing step instead of interrupting the thinking, and when it changes it says that it changed. So the plan is still in front of you when you start typing.
The coach reads your draft back
Ask, and the coach reads what you wrote and says what it would change: which line deserves to lead, which sentence to cut, what the ending is missing, quoting your own words each time instead of talking about your post in the abstract. It proposes and never edits, so now you can get a real second read without handing your text over.
The app speaks German
Every screen, every notification and the coach itself exist in German as well as English, written by native speakers rather than translated word for word, and you can switch language whenever you like. So now you can work in the language you actually write in.
All your writing in one place, as a list or a board
Everything you have written lives in a Posts library now, in two views: a list that groups your pieces by where they have got to, and a board you can drag a piece across as it moves from idea to draft to ready to posted. So you can see all of it at once instead of hunting back through days.
Slack, in both directions
Your organisation connects Slack once, and then each person chooses what reaches them and where: a direct message, an email, or only the rail inside the app. It listens as well as speaks. Mention it in a channel or write to it directly and you can capture an idea or plan a campaign without opening the app, and it repeats back what it understood and waits for a plain yes before it writes anything. Reactions on a post come back to your activity log.
Sign in the way your company signs in
An organisation can put single sign-on in front of the app, with Google or with any SAML 2.0 identity provider, and either offer it on the login page or require it of everybody. So nobody needs a separate password for this, and access can be taken away in one place.
Campaigns you can run, not just declare
A campaign is a theme with a start and an end that your team writes into. Create one, change it in a single dialog, see what has been written for it and end it, all from the row it sits on. A post written into a campaign takes the campaign's topic, so nobody has to remember to tag anything.
Bring your own coach key
An organisation can put in its own Anthropic key and pay for the coach's calls directly instead of through us. The key is encrypted, never shown again and never leaves the server. So a company with its own contract or its own rules about where its writing goes can use the app on those terms.
A public API, and the app in your own tools
There is a documented API at /v1 and an MCP connection, both reached with keys you create in Settings and scopes you choose. Your own script, or an assistant you use, can list what you have written, capture an idea, mark something as posted and read how your plan is going. Publishing stays a thing you do yourself, so no key can post anything in your name.
Tag your links without editing them by hand
A channel carries the UTM parameters you usually want, a campaign can override them one by one, and a single action rewrites every link in a post. It says plainly when there was nothing to do, instead of looking like it worked. So now you can tell where a click came from without keeping a spreadsheet of tagged addresses.
See what the rest of the organisation is up to
A rail down the side of every screen shows what your organisation is doing as it happens: what was published or planned, campaigns starting, wins shared, people joining. Only that. Nobody's ideas, nobody's drafts and never the text of anything unpublished. You can react to an entry, and hide the rail when you want quiet.
More than one organisation, on one account
If you write for more than one place, you can belong to several organisations and switch between them from the top of the page. Everything you see, your day, your posts, your team, belongs to the one you are in at the time.
The app stops being a single-player tool
An organisation with people in it, a week calendar showing who is publishing on which day, the channels you publish to kept in one place, and a feed where somebody can share a win. The feed is opt-in and unranked on purpose: it is a place to tell your colleagues something, not a leaderboard. So now you can coordinate a week of writing without a spreadsheet and a chat thread.