We just launched a brand new AI-powered templates system for Live Goals, added an integration for Confluence, and made Echoes smarter. Read on to learn more.
⚡️ Quick Fill templates for Live Goals
Steady’s Live Goals are flexible tools for solving big-picture alignment and cross-team coordination, but that flexibility came with a blank page problem. What’s the best way to structure my goal? How should I format my updates? Where do I start?
Talking to customers, we found that it often created just enough friction to push writing that goal update off to later. To solve the blank page problem and help keep the updates flowing, we’re introducing a new template system for Live goals. Static templates alone would go a long way to solving the blank page problem, but we wanted to Steady to take care of context assembly heavy-lifting too.
With that in mind, you can add one or more Quick Summary blocks to goal and goal update templates that are powered by the same engine that Echoes uses. So not only can you quickly fill in the structure of an update, you can have it automatically summarize all the PRs that shipped last week, list any Linear issues that were closed in the last month, summarize progress from check-ins, and a whole lot more. The net effect is less write from scratch, and more edit and extend.
We packed in a few goal templates based on popular methodologies to get you started, and a single goal update template that more or less mimics the now-replaced summarize sub-goal updates Quick Fill action.
You can learn more about using templates here. We’ve been chomping at the bit to use Quick Fill templates internally, and can confirm that they are very useful in practice. We hope you like them.
Note; you can use these new Quick Summary blocks outside of templates too. Drop a prompt into any goal or goal update field and go.
📄 Confluence integration
A lot of our customers are on the “Atlassian stack”, and we’ve long covered 2 out of 3, integration-wise. To round out the trifecta, we recently shipped an integration for Confluence. Like with Jira and BitBucket, the Confluence integration attaches user activity in Confluence to check-ins in Steady, and adds the activity to a unified activity feed. You can learn more about how to set up the Confluence integration here.
🔊 Smarter Echoes
We recently shipped some behind-the-scenes prompt and model updates for Echoes. What that means for you is Echo answers are generally better.
More specifically, accuracy is improved thanks to more precise data selection, summaries based on large quantities of input data are much improved, and complex prompts generally behave more how you want/expect them too.
Note; these updates apply to Quick Summary blocks in goal/goal update templates too.
As a reminder, if you haven’t checked out the new Steady desktop app, give it a try. It’s the very best way to use Steady.
— The team at Steady
