<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Product updates on Axiomat — Applied AI consulting, run by Andrew Meyer</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/</link><description>Recent content in Product updates on Axiomat — Applied AI consulting, run by Andrew Meyer</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Old records can now age out on their own</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-08-28-record-retention-policies/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-08-28-record-retention-policies/</guid><description>&lt;p>An assistant that&amp;rsquo;s been running for a while accumulates records — leads it tracked, predictions it scored, items it triaged. Left alone, an older assistant&amp;rsquo;s default views fill up with things nobody needs to see anymore.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>There&amp;rsquo;s now a place to configure that yourself: a &lt;strong>Data &amp;amp; Retention&lt;/strong> section in workspace settings. Set a default number of days records should stick around before archiving, and override that window for specific collections that should age out faster or slower than the rest.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Steadier market data, and fewer stuck scheduled runs</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-08-28-market-data-and-steadier-runs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-08-28-market-data-and-steadier-runs/</guid><description>&lt;p>A handful of fixes, mostly for assistants that watch markets or run on a schedule.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Market data.&lt;/strong> Stock prices and market overviews could occasionally show up blank instead of a number — usually during a trading session that hadn&amp;rsquo;t fully settled yet. That&amp;rsquo;s fixed, with a real fallback instead of a blank. Sector performance for the 1-day view had a similar problem and was returning nothing at all for any sector; it now shows real numbers. When a price or sector genuinely isn&amp;rsquo;t available, you&amp;rsquo;ll see that explicitly instead of a silent gap.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Invite links, and runs that waste fewer steps</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-08-12-invites-and-steadier-runs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-08-12-invites-and-steadier-runs/</guid><description>&lt;p>Two smaller things from this week.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="an-invite-link-gets-you-in">An invite link gets you in&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>If someone at Axiomat sends you an invite link, opening it and signing in now puts you straight into Ward. No card, no plan to choose first.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>This also works if you&amp;rsquo;ve been here before. Previously, anyone who had ever started a subscription — including people who had already cancelled one — was turned away with a message telling them to cancel a subscription they no longer had. That&amp;rsquo;s fixed: an invite works whether or not you&amp;rsquo;ve subscribed in the past. If you&amp;rsquo;re on a live paid plan, an invite is declined, and you&amp;rsquo;ll be pointed at the billing portal instead.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Assistants can build dashboards worth looking at</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-08-10-dashboards-worth-looking-at/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-08-10-dashboards-worth-looking-at/</guid><description>&lt;p>Ward has always been able to draw more than tables. Your assistants didn&amp;rsquo;t know that.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>When an assistant built itself a dashboard, it was choosing from a short list — a table, a list, a couple of others — even though Ward could render far more. So a tracker following a number over six weeks gave you a column of numbers, because a line chart was never on the menu it was reading from.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>More accurate market data, and honest failures instead of empty answers</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-31-more-honest-market-and-news-data/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-31-more-honest-market-and-news-data/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="predictions-stay-accurate-through-a-stock-split">Predictions stay accurate through a stock split&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>If an assistant tracked a stock prediction against a company that later did a stock split, the comparison could come out wrong — the original price it recorded didn&amp;rsquo;t reflect the split, but the current price always does, so the two weren&amp;rsquo;t measuring the same thing anymore.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Assistants that score predictions now re-check the price on a consistent basis at scoring time, so a split no longer throws off the result.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Your assistants can now leave each other notes</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-31-assistants-can-leave-each-other-notes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-31-assistants-can-leave-each-other-notes/</guid><description>&lt;p>If you run more than one assistant, they&amp;rsquo;ve had no way to talk to each other — a news monitor that spots something a market tracker would care about had no way to say so.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>An assistant can now send a short note to another assistant you own. The note shows up automatically the next time that assistant runs, and only once — no digging through history to find it.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Scheduled runs stop stalling, and a tidier connection catalogue</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-29-scheduled-runs-and-connections/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-29-scheduled-runs-and-connections/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="scheduled-assistants-no-longer-stall-on-read-only-work">Scheduled assistants no longer stall on read-only work&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>If you had an assistant that watched a feed, scored trends, or ran a calculation on a schedule, it may have quietly stopped and waited for your approval — even with a policy that granted it those tools and asked for no approval at all.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Ward was being over-cautious. When it wasn&amp;rsquo;t certain whether an action would change something outside your workspace, it asked for approval — which is the right instinct, but it was applying it to work that only &lt;em>reads&lt;/em>. Unattended, there was nobody there to approve, so the run stopped.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Three plans, all with a free trial</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-29-three-plans-with-a-free-trial/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-29-three-plans-with-a-free-trial/</guid><description>&lt;p>Ward now has three plans — &lt;strong>Basic&lt;/strong> at $9.99, &lt;strong>Plus&lt;/strong> at $19.99, and &lt;strong>Pro&lt;/strong> at $29.99 a month — and every one of them starts with a &lt;strong>14-day free trial&lt;/strong>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>They all include the same features. The only differences are how many runs you get each day (3, 9 and 15) and whether &lt;a href="https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-25-power-levels/">Max mode&lt;/a> is available — Basic runs Normal and High, which is the whole range that fits inside a 3-run day anyway.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Some jobs deserve a bigger brain</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-25-power-levels/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-25-power-levels/</guid><description>&lt;p>Not every job needs the same amount of thinking. Watching a feed for a keyword and writing a considered market analysis are different problems, and until now they ran the same way.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Every assistant now has a &lt;strong>power level&lt;/strong>, and you set it per assistant or per run.&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Normal&lt;/strong> — the default, and right for nearly everything. Monitors, trackers, digests, feed pollers.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>High&lt;/strong> — a stronger model when the work needs more care: summarising, classifying, routine analysis.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;strong>Max&lt;/strong> — the most capable model, for research synthesis and multi-step judgment.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>The stronger levels draw more from the daily budget your assistants already share, so turning one assistant up means fewer runs elsewhere that day. That&amp;rsquo;s the whole trade: breadth or depth, on your terms.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>A new look, files you can download, and somewhere to start</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-24-a-new-look-and-files-you-can-download/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-24-a-new-look-and-files-you-can-download/</guid><description>&lt;p>The biggest visible change since Ward started.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="ward-looks-like-itself-now">Ward looks like itself now&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Ward was built fast and looked it — everything in monospace, the palette of a terminal. It now has a considered design: a typeface meant for reading, monospace kept for the things that genuinely are data, and one calm accent instead of whatever each screen felt like.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Nothing moved. Everything reads more easily, and the eleven themes all inherit it, so switching one still changes the whole app.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Security work you shouldn't have to think about</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-06-credentials-and-the-open-web/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-06-credentials-and-the-open-web/</guid><description>&lt;p>Most of what shipped this week is invisible if it&amp;rsquo;s working. Worth saying out loud anyway, because &amp;ldquo;trust us&amp;rdquo; is not an argument.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="your-connection-credentials-are-encrypted-where-theyre-stored">Your connection credentials are encrypted where they&amp;rsquo;re stored&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>When you connect an account, Ward holds a scoped token — never your password. Those tokens are now encrypted before they&amp;rsquo;re stored, so a leaked copy of our storage yields unreadable data rather than working credentials.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The assistants themselves never see the raw credential. They ask Ward to act on a connection; Ward holds the key.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Try an assistant before you trust it</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-05-test-mode-and-per-assistant-permissions/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-05-test-mode-and-per-assistant-permissions/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="test-mode-a-real-run-that-touches-nothing">Test mode: a real run that touches nothing&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>You can now run an assistant in test mode. It thinks through the whole job for real — reads what it would read, reasons over live data — but &lt;strong>every action that would change something is held back&lt;/strong>. Nothing sends, nothing posts, nothing gets written anywhere.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>You see what it &lt;em>would&lt;/em> have done, listed out, and a comparison against its last real run so you can tell what your edit actually altered.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Follow any feed, trigger from anywhere, and stop a run mid-thought</title><link>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-02-feeds-webhooks-and-stopping-a-run/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://axiomat.io/ward/updates/2026-07-02-feeds-webhooks-and-stopping-a-run/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="point-an-assistant-at-any-feed">Point an assistant at any feed&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Ask an assistant to follow a blog, a news source, a release page, a regulator&amp;rsquo;s notices — anything that publishes a feed. You don&amp;rsquo;t need to find the feed URL yourself; describe the site and Ward goes looking for one.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Feeds turn out to be the cheapest way to make a monitor genuinely useful. A competitor watcher that reads their changelog directly is a different thing from one guessing at a homepage.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>