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Patch notes.
580 commits of receipts.

DealArena ships in public. This is the build log: every feature, buff, fix, and rework since the first commit hit production, call recorder and all. Vendor names scrubbed, security work sealed, everything else on the record.

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The Forge · preseason Road to season 01 · 27%
v0.1.0 · first blood · apr 26 to 27 v0.9.14 · you are here season 01 opens · jan 2027
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AUGUST 2026
v0.9.14 Aug 31 Rework

Every price comes down, annual billing goes away

  • Basic is $35. Solo is $79. Pro is $199. The Founder’s Edition holds Pro at $179 a seat, still the first 100 seats, still yours for as long as you keep the seat.
  • Every one of those numbers went down. Solo used to be $200 and the Pro sticker used to be $350.
  • The annual discount is retired. Basic, Solo and Pro bill monthly now. One rate, one line item, cancel in one click, and nothing to sign. Enterprise is still annual, by contract.
  • Prices stay on the page. You should not have to book a call to find out what a seat costs.
v0.9.13 Aug 14 ReworkNew

The Sauce drops the ticker, adds prediction markets

  • The stock ticker is gone, and so is the market-data vendor behind it. It looked good and nobody used it to sell anything.
  • Polymarket replaces Manifold on the prediction-market feed. Deeper books, real money, and signals that move before the news does.
  • The Sauce stays free on every tier. It was always the part you were supposed to read with coffee, not trade against.
v0.9.12 Aug 13 Rework

The product page, de-gamified

  • /product is a full tour now: the CRM underneath, sequences and the dialer, The Sauce, and the API. Less arena, more receipts.
  • The homepage hero is a circuit cube instead of a fake database screenshot. Nobody was ever fooled by the screenshot.
  • Link previews stopped 404ing. The Open Graph images had been missing, which meant every share of this site rendered as a grey box.
v0.9.11 Aug 3 ReworkFix

A real migration system

  • The database schema is built by numbered migrations that run before the app boots, not by importing the app and hoping.
  • Six destructive boot-time operations are retired. Starting the server can no longer drop, truncate or rewrite anything.
  • A failed migration now stops the deploy instead of quietly serving a half-migrated schema. Boring, and the good kind of boring.
JULY 2026
v0.9.10 Jul 28 NewBuff

Catalyst pairs in one click

  • Connect replaces paste. The Chrome extension pairs with your account in one click instead of asking you to copy a token around.
  • Tokens expire on a 90-day cycle and rotate silently, with a grace window so a stale tab never logs you out mid-prospect.
  • All-websites access is opt-in. The extension asks for the sales platforms it needs and nothing else unless you say so.
  • A dead extension is a silent extension: when it cannot reach the app it stops drawing on the page instead of leaving broken furniture behind.
v0.9.9 Jul 25 New

The AI call recorder

  • Record a call, get the transcript, the summary and the next steps written back onto the prospect. No note-taking, no post-call amnesia.
  • A /calls library with paging and an orphan filter, so a recording that never got linked to anybody is findable instead of lost.
  • Re-link a recording to the right contact after the fact. Everybody picks the wrong record occasionally.
  • Capture mode and usage live in Settings. The recorder is part of every paid plan; per-tier allotments come once there is real usage to measure.
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v0.9.8 Jul 24 New

Meetings, booked from inside the CRM

  • An in-app scheduler that sends real Google Calendar invites. Book the meeting on the call instead of promising to send a link.
  • The unsubscribe footer became opt-in rather than automatic, because stamping a marketing footer onto a one-to-one reply was never right.
v0.9.7 Jul 22 NewBuff

API v1, an MCP server, and sequences that behave

  • API v1 is complete. Mint a scoped bearer token in Settings and drive prospects, deals, tasks, sequences and webhooks from your own code.
  • A 19-tool MCP server ships alongside it, so Claude can run your desk directly instead of through a browser.
  • One compliant sender for sequences: unsubscribe handling, a suppression list, send windows, timezones and per-mailbox throttling.
  • Notifications split into guild and personal streams, with click, reply and bounce tracking behind them.
  • The leaderboard splits three ways: Bounties, Guilds and The Grind, on both arena surfaces.
v0.9.6 Jul 17 Rework

Two front doors: the app moves to its own origin

  • dealarena.io is the marketing site. app.dealarena.io is the product. A router sends every URL to whichever one owns it.
  • Every product page is behind the login now. The anonymous and demo branches that had quietly accumulated are deleted.
  • Analytics came off the app shell entirely. The tracking that belongs on a marketing page does not belong on a page where you work.
  • The Chrome extension talks to the app origin directly, so old installs kept working through the move.
v0.9.5 Jul 11 ReworkFix

One workspace, and two retirements

  • /settings/workspace is the one place teams are managed. The old admin team page redirects there instead of being a second truth.
  • Pipeline gets working filters, saved views and live KPIs, which is what the page was pretending to have since April.
  • Codex and the Cold-Open Coach are retired. Brain is the only knowledge product; both old URLs redirect rather than 404.
JUNE 2026
v0.9.4 Jun 22 GameNew

Daily quests go live

  • All four daily quests now track real actions and pay real XP: log calls, advance stages, book meetings, clear tasks.
  • Won deals award XP. Stage advances too. Close something, watch the bar move.
  • The road to v1.0 continues. Season 01 opens with launch in January.
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v0.9.0 Jun 7 to 10 Rework

Deals become first-class citizens

The biggest data-model rework of the run so far. If you have ever fought a CRM that thinks a person and a company are the same row, this patch is for you.

  • Prospects and Companies split into separate objects: own cards, own filters, tenant-scoped accounts.
  • A real Deal object with polymorphic tasks. The kanban renders from deals and stage moves persist. Quotes attach to deals. Old pipeline rows backfilled automatically.
  • The /tasks page talks to the real API. The static mock is dead.
  • Log Call modal polish with follow-up tasks, and the new-contact hotkey moved from C to N so it stops eating your copy shortcut.
MAY 2026
v0.8.2 May 28 Fix

Console chat actually sends

  • Live chat on the console now wires up on the new app shell. The Send button looked dead because the page was never subscribed to the broadcast. It is now.
  • Messages render optimistically the instant you hit Send, and the logged-in-but-asked-to-log-in flash is gone.
v0.8.1 May 22 to 26 Buff

The database learned to nap

  • Background workers are event-driven now, so our serverless SQL cloud database autosuspends when nobody is grinding. Lower burn, same speed when you show up.
  • Pipeline drag-and-drop no longer reverts cards on a stage move.
  • Every newsletter signup lands in one subscribers table, and every ⌘K cheatsheet row triggers a real handler.
v0.8.0 May 15 to 17 GameNew

The FX layer: selling gets a particle system

  • Gamification FX across the whole app: XP ticks, level-up flashes, streak fire. Subtle enough for a sales floor, loud enough to feel it.
  • Top XP level renamed Supergrade. There is a GS-16 joke in the FAQ. If you know, you know.
  • Arena and Console merged into one surface, database intake got people lists, and a streak bug that double-counted kanban XP is dead.
v0.7.x May 13 to 14 Classified

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A three-day hardening sprint. 40+ commits. We are not going to tell you what we fixed, because a public list of past weaknesses is a map. What you need to know: your data got safer and nothing about your workflow changed.

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v0.7.1 May 13 BuffFix

Sequence builder: the polish patch

  • Nodes snap to a 24px grid. Auto-connect anchors new steps to the bottom of your chain instead of orphaning them.
  • Branch YES/NO edges finally color-code, and dangling outputs pulse amber so you spot them before your prospect does.
  • Test run is real: pick a prospect, pick a step, fire it once through your connected inbox.
  • CRM connector layer landed: inbound webhooks, secret rotation, and a multi-company toggle for people running two grinds at once.
v0.7.0 May 12 to 16 New

The Sauce enters the arena

Digging through an old build of the original prospecting tool, we found a signal feed we had completely forgotten we wrote. It was too good to leave buried, so it got ported into the CRM and polished up.

  • A rotating feed of markets, tech, and prospect alerts with a live stock ticker. Open it before your first dial.
  • Live public-filings and news-wire alerts on the companies already in your pipeline.
  • Agent Hub ships: every agent on one page instead of scattered across the sidebar.
  • Demo seed data is dead everywhere. If it renders, it is your pipeline.
v0.6.2 May 8 to 9 NewRework

Codex, Brain, and a 10-button database

  • The old Brain is now Codex (Pro and up). The new Brain is an Enterprise product: upload your org's documents, chat over them, and every agent quietly reads them for context.
  • Database bulk actions: a 10-button selection bar, soft-delete trash, and AI enrich/clean on whatever you have checked.
  • Mobile nav drawer redesigned as a rounded dropdown sheet with safe-area support.
v0.6.1 May 8 New

Chrome extension v1: the drawer follows you

  • A right-edge drawer on every LinkedIn and Sales Nav profile: pipeline status, ICP match score, contact enrichment, signals, community insight, and AI-drafted outreach in your voice.
  • Bulk-add from Sales Nav search results with ICP scores pre-computed.
  • Honest privacy story: it only reads pages you have open in your own browser. No headless requests, no scraping farms.
v0.6.0 May 8 New

API tokens, webhooks, and the enrichment waterfall

  • Scoped API tokens with one-time reveal, plus signed outbound webhooks on 18 event types with retries and a dead-letter queue. Docs live at /docs/api.
  • Enrichment waterfall: stack eight data providers in whatever order you want, per field. It short-circuits on the first confident answer so you never pay twice for the same email.
  • Credit thresholds warn you a week before you run dry, then throttle, then pause. No surprise bills.
v0.5.2 May 7 New

The sequence executor wakes up

  • The cadence you draw on the canvas now runs itself: email, LinkedIn, and call steps fire on schedule with waits and YES/NO branches.
  • Pause, resume, or cancel any enrollment from the prospect page, with a full step-run history inline.
  • Auto-pause on reply is wired and waiting for reply tracking. It will not double-email someone who answered you.
v0.5.1 May 7 New

Ship day: The Arena, onboarding, TOV Database

  • The Arena goes live in-app: your XP, level, and streak on real data.
  • TOV Database (tone-of-voice): paste your five best emails, train it, and every AI draft starts sounding like you instead of a press release.
  • A 3-step onboarding takeover, rebuilt Add Deal and Add Prospect modals, and three more agents (Marketing, RevOps, CEO) visible in development.
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v0.5.0 May 7 to 8 Rework

The orange era begins

  • Full rebrand to orange with the bracket-arrow mark. The graffiti pitbull had a good run. It is in a better place now.
  • Tool-tax math overhauled across the site: real line items, real yearly totals, no hand-waving.
  • Sequence connectors went solid orange-and-green with glow. Dashed gray lines are for wireframes.
v0.4.0 May 6 NewFix

Going paid + the dead-button massacre

  • Paid-tier foundation: roles, team management with multi-seat admin, and a mobile gate that captures your email instead of serving you a broken layout.
  • An automated UI audit found 40 dead buttons and links. All 40 now do something or are gone. If it renders, it works.
  • Session redirects fixed: page routes send you to sign-in instead of a JSON error nobody asked for.
v0.3.0 May 5 to 6 New

The Agent Swarm: seven agents in 48 hours

The single biggest drop of the run. A vector-search runtime, then seven agents built on top of it, back to back.

  • Signals worker watching public financial filings and news wires, a help chatbot grounded in the actual docs, and a Customer Success agent sweeping for stuck deals daily.
  • Account Prospecting agent for on-demand account briefs, and BDM Legion: a virtual BDR team with custom personas and per-member stats.
  • Then two days of reliability work: graceful degradation when the model is unreachable, retry handling, and network fallbacks. Agents that die silently are worse than no agents.
v0.2.0 May 1 to 5 NewRework

The marketing front + the truth patch

  • This entire public site went live in a week: home, pricing, about, FAQ, resources, contact, and this changelog. Server-rendered, fast, readable by humans and crawlers alike.
  • Full app reskin: dashboard, pipeline, database, outreach, analytics, community, plus real auth pages.
  • The truth patch: a full pass to kill fake numbers, placeholder stats, and overclaiming copy. Then a compliance scrub on top. If the site says it, it is true.
  • Pricing rebuilt as four honest tiers, and Closers Coffee opened its doors.
APRIL 2026
v0.1.1 Apr 28 to 30 NewBuff

The command deck

  • Nav rebuilt around a sidebar and a ⌘K command palette. Analytics moved to its own page instead of squatting on the dashboard.
  • List filters and automations: your CRM should move prospects between lists for itself. This one started doing that.
  • Native alert() popups replaced with a styled in-app notice system. We are not animals.
v0.1.0 Apr 26 to 27 New

First blood

The log opens. The original prospecting tool Tyler built as a working BDM becomes DealArena.

  • The whole database moved onto a serverless SQL cloud platform, and the app went live on a managed cloud host with weekly deploys.
  • First production P0 squashed within a day of migrating. A rite of passage.
BEFORE THE LOG
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