Nov 2026Release log10 November 2026
René Studio can now be installed on a phone or desktop and sends push alerts. René carries out approved plans on its own, every ritual is made by the ritual engine, and the engine learned 450 more researched journeys, including three new industries.
René as an app
7 changes- New: René Studio can be installed as an app. On iPhone use Share › Add to Home Screen, in Chrome or Edge use the install button. It opens straight to your Dashboard in its own window, and holding the app icon gives shortcuts to Journeys and Notifications.
- Push notifications: comments, mentions, shares, collaboration invites, journey transfers, status changes and journey health alerts now reach every phone or computer you turn them on for. Tapping one opens the page it is about.
- Each alert is sent once, even when two parts of René pick it up, and nothing older than 15 minutes is pushed, so you never get a burst of stale alerts.
- The installed app offers to turn alerts on once, and you can say no. Settings › Notifications can send a test alert to check a device.
- Pull to refresh works in the installed app, like any phone app.
- On phones, navigation moved to a bottom tab bar. The jobs dock, René chat, tours and the alerts prompt now sit above it instead of behind it.
- Menu items an admin has hidden no longer flash on screen before disappearing.
René agent
5 changes- René now carries out an approved plan by itself. Before, steps only moved forward while the chat was open and René was prompted. Now each finished job starts the next step, so a plan keeps going after you close the chat.
- Steps run in a safe order: a step for a journey René is creating waits until that journey exists, and changes to a journey's structure (creating, enhancing, adding a stage, changing its type) never run at the same time on the same journey.
- René respects journey types. Rituals, behavioural design and Voice of Customer plans need a future or deployed journey; René no longer queues them on a current-state journey, explains why, and offers the choices that would work.
- New plan step: change a journey's type, done instantly.
- The jobs dock shows every task in a plan, including the ones not started yet, with the journey each one is for. The ring shows how much of the whole plan is done, and finished tasks have Open and Review links.
Rituals
2 changes- Every ritual set is now made by the ritual engine, whichever way it is asked for: Design with engine, a René plan, a René action, or an older open tab. Before, René and the older dialog still used the old generator, which made the old cards. Moments someone names, such as a welcome or a farewell, are passed to the engine as moments the set must cover.
- Journeys that still have an old set show "Made with the old generator" and one button, Redesign with engine. The old Add and Regenerate options are gone.
Canvas and blueprint
6 changes- The blueprint now knows what changed. It records the steps, stages and journey details it was written from, and when the journey changes it shows "N columns changed · Update". Update rewrites only the columns that changed and keeps cells you wrote by hand; Keep as is accepts the change. The old check compared dates and marked most blueprints out of date even when nothing had changed.
- Blueprint exports: PNG and PDF export fixed, phase titles stand out, structural lines are coloured, and edit buttons no longer appear in the file.
- Canvas cards show their full text instead of cutting it off, and so does the Solutions view. The highlight action is now called Enhance highlight.
- Journeys can be deleted from their card.
- Edit details: change a journey's industry, country, city and tags from the journey menu or by clicking its industry badge. Promoting a journey keeps its industry.
- Archetype radar charts keep every value on the 0 to 100 scale.
Industry research
7 changes- Fitness (new industry): 150 researched journeys across 33 countries, from choosing and joining a club to booking classes, induction, the workout itself, freezing or cancelling a membership, and employer benefits. Statements that only point at a policy ("the club publishes its terms") no longer count as rules.
- Food & beverage (new industry): 150 researched journeys across 26 countries, with 185 structured market rules. Each rule records the country, state or city it applies to, so a rule for Ontario is used for Toronto but not for Vancouver.
- Sports & leisure (new industry), starting with cycling: 50 researched journeys across the UAE, the UK, Switzerland and Ireland, covering club riders, junior riders moving up to national squads, and sponsorship. Rules from federations, venues and operators, such as an airline's bike policy, are used only when the request names that operator.
- E-commerce: 100 more researched journeys across 13 markets, including the repeat shopper as an everyday customer.
- Rules can now belong to a designated site as well as a place, such as a free zone or a track, and a site outranks the city or emirate around it. The engine is ready for the free-zone research that is under review.
- When a journey comes with structured rules, the engine no longer also learns rules from its step text, which had let a Dubai rule reach an Abu Dhabi journey.
- In total the engine learned 450 more researched journeys this month.
Comments and teams
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