What's new

The governance journey

• New Governance set-up takes you through each step in order and shows which one comes next.
• New The AI State of Play asks everyone which AI tools they use and how, and people can answer from an email link without signing in.
• New The AI tools register records each tool's decision (Approved, Approved with limits, Not approved or Decision pending), its owner, its costs and its renewal date.
• New What people tell you in The AI State of Play arrives as proposals you can turn into decisions and policies.
• New A policy can be shown to everyone, and staff then see it in their AI Adoption Portal.
• New You can send a message to everyone, and see how many people it was sent to.
• New Staff can ask to use a tool, report an incident or share a find, and you answer them from Requests.
• New The How We Use AI Report is a dated PDF of the policies and tool decisions staff see, and how governance runs, ready to send to a client, a supplier or your board.
• New Reviews bring the findings, decisions and renewals that are due into one place.
• New You can add people in bulk from a pasted list or a file, and send a pulse to chosen groups.
• New Each pulse is anonymous or identifiable, set pulse by pulse, with a default for your organisation.
• Note With Standard, you get the governance journey, along with The AI State of Play, General Feedback, the AI Pulse, the AI Review and the AI Capability Check. With Pro, you also get ROI by tool, the AI Impact Report, the AI Roadmap, AI Champions, team results for Group Leaders, and the pulse library and custom pulses with branching.
• Note A trial runs for 30 days and then stops until a plan is chosen, and we keep its data for 90 days after it stops.

The Leadership Position tool

• New Each leader chooses a position on seven decisions about AI, and then sees where the team agrees and where it differs.
• New Leaders can take a second look and change their minds before the team discusses what is left.
• New Where leaders stay split, the Final Decision Maker decides.
• New The agreed position is confirmed and kept as a dated record, which you can download as a PDF.

The Senior Leader role

• New A new Senior Leader role sits between Group Leader and Admin.
• New Senior Leaders take part in the Leadership Position tool and can read the organisation's Dashboard and Reports, without changing settings.
• New Senior Leaders and Group Leaders see names only on identifiable pulses, and only in the groups they lead.
• New An organisation can have several Owners, and only an Owner can make someone else an Owner.
• Improved People is now the one place to add people and change their roles.

Automated decisions statement

• Note From 10 December 2026, organisations covered by Australia's Privacy Act that use software to make, or help make, decisions that could significantly affect a person must say so in their privacy policy (APP 1.7 to 1.9).
• New Governance > Automated decisions records the decisions software makes, or helps make, that could significantly affect a person: who it affects, the software involved and the part it plays.
• New The GAiGE drafts the privacy policy wording from what you record, using AI, for your lawyer or privacy officer to check before it is published.
• New Once the wording is in your privacy policy, you confirm it, and the How We Use AI Report prints it with the date.
• New If there are none, Record the check keeps the date you checked.

Privacy protections

• Improved When a pulse is anonymous, your name isn't shown with your answers to anyone, admins included.
• Improved In a small group, or from something you write in a comment, someone may still be able to work out an answer is yours, and the AI Adoption Portal, the answer page and the extension say so.
• Improved Identifiable pulses say so before you start, and show your name with your answers.
• Improved The AI Adoption Portal shows each person what their organisation sees of their answers.
• Improved A figure from an anonymous pulse shows once at least five people have answered.
• Improved On anonymous pulses, Group Leaders see their groups' figures and written comments.
• Improved Your data download and account deletion cover everything version 2 adds.
• Improved Invitation links are stored in a form that cannot be read back, and answer and invitation links are kept out of analytics and error reports.
• Improved The audit log shows who did what and when, without IP addresses or browsers.
• Improved Our website loads analytics, advertising tags and Google One Tap only after you agree to them.
• Note Everyone who signs in to The GAiGE may get emails from us about new features, and help and support emails, as our terms and privacy policy now say, and each one has an unsubscribe link.

Browser extension 2.0.0

• New The panel opens on what your organisation has decided about AI tools, with its published policies.
• New On a tool's website, the toolbar icon shows the tool's decision, and a notice appears the first time you visit.
• New The chatbot answers questions from your organisation's published policies and decisions, checking the policies first, and shows a policy that might apply beside an approved tool.
• New When there is no answer yet, you can ask a person, and their reply appears in the panel under Your requests.
• New You can give feedback any time your organisation offers it.
• Improved Each pulse says before its first question whether it is anonymous or identifiable.
• Improved A pulse you start yourself opens without giving the extension access to every site.
• Improved Signing out ends the sign-in on our side too, and switching accounts clears the previous person's data.
• Note Version 2.0.0 of the extension reaches Chrome and Edge as an update once the stores approve it.

Getting started

• New Onboarding takes Owners and Admins through what The GAiGE does, then the organisation's details and its people.
• New You can bring in an existing tool list by pasting it or uploading a CSV file.
• New On a trial, The AI State of Play closes after 10 days, leaving time to agree the policies before the trial ends.
• Improved Tours and welcome emails are written for each role.
• New View the demo now shows the governance journey too, with a register, policies and a How We Use AI Report to look through.

• Note Hours saved is now worked out per person rather than across the whole organisation, and each answer counts only for the period its question asked about. A question asking about today no longer gets treated as a week. Your reported hours will move, and for most organisations they will go down. The old figure counted some answers for longer than they covered, so the new one is lower and better founded.
• Note You can set your organisation's standard working week in Settings. Hours saved is expressed against it, so a four-day week is no longer measured as though it were five. Until you set one we use a sensible default, and nothing changes retrospectively.
• Improved The report no longer offers questions it cannot report on. If a question type produces nothing a chart can use, it is not offered in the builder.

• New A pulse can now be a one-off. It opens, each person answers it once, and it closes. Set a date to stop asking, a share of your team that closes it early, or close it yourself when you have enough. Reopen it if you need more answers, and nobody is asked twice. While it runs, your Pulses page shows how far along it is.
• New Four Discovery pulses, for an organisation that hasn't started with AI or has only just begun. The Current AI Use Pulse asks what people already reach for, how often it helps and how they learned it. The AI Risk Pulse asks what they understand about the rules and what has gone into public tools. The AI Opportunity Pulse asks where the repetitive work is and what they would hand over first. The Agent & Automation Pulse asks which of that work could be handed to software, and what stands in the way. All four go to everyone, including people not assigned to any AI tool.
• New The Baseline Report. A one-off gets a report of its whole run rather than a rolling month: how much of your organisation has answered, how far along each team is, how every question was answered, and, for the open questions, what people wrote grouped into themes. Open a theme to read the answers behind it, word for word. Nothing in it says who answered.
• New Describe the pulse you want, and we draft it. Say what you want to measure in a sentence or two, choose whether it's about one tool or the whole organisation, and the draft opens in the editor with its questions, answer types and report settings already filled in. Change anything you like before you save it. Nothing reaches your team until you switch it on.
• Improved Custom pulses can now be built for the whole organisation, not only for one AI tool. Choose what the pulse is about when you create it; an org-wide pulse reaches everyone, whether or not they have a tool assigned.
• Fixed The extension no longer loses an answer when a submission fails. It used to show the thank-you screen without checking the answer had been saved, so a dropped connection or a server error cost someone their answer and told them it had been saved. A failure now says so plainly, the answers stay on screen for another go, and anything still unsent is kept and re-sent in the background.
• Note One-off pulses and the Discovery set come with Pro, like everything else in the pulse library. Free trials run on Pro, so you can take a baseline while you decide.
• Note The Baseline Report lives on the Reports page for now. It isn't in the downloadable PDF yet: the themes are made to be opened and read, and a printed page can't do that.

• New The Pulse library has its own page. Browse ready-made pulses by category, search them, preview every question before you add one, and clone any pulse (a library one or your own) to edit your own copy. Your three core pulses appear there too, marked as included.
• New The AI Adoption Sentiment Pulse asks your whole organisation, monthly, how AI adoption feels: the pace of change, how supported people feel when tools change their work, where more help would make the most difference, and an optional comment to leadership. It goes to everyone, including people not yet assigned to any tool.
• New The Pulse Archive. A paused pulse that has collected responses can now be archived: it stops delivering, leaves your working list, and its history stays readable in Reports. Unarchive it any time (it comes back paused), or delete it for good by typing its name to confirm.
• Improved The dashboard fits more pulses on one screen: smaller dials, stat tiles that lead with the value, and a collapse control on every pulse panel. A collapsed panel loads nothing until you expand it, so a dashboard with many pulses stays quick.
• Note The library, custom pulses and the Archive come with Pro. Standard includes the three core pulses. Free trials run on Pro, so you see everything while you decide.

• New The Pulse library. The Pulses page now offers locked-question pulses you add on demand. Questions stay locked so the numbers hold up over time; the schedule, name, colour and delivery window are yours to set.
• New The Agentic Coding Pulse asks for the time a tool saved working on its own, and the time spent checking or redoing its output, so reports show the net rather than the optimistic half.
• New Agent tools. Mark a tool as an agent and give it a flat monthly cost instead of a per-seat one; ROI and the by-tool report use the flat cost.
• Improved The five-respondent floor is now visible in reports: any segment with fewer than five respondents shows that, rather than numbers, matching our published methodology.
• Improved Per-pulse PDF downloads now include only the sections that pulse actually measures, so slower pulses no longer print pages of empty ROI tables.

• New Reports redesigned, and they now adapt to each pulse. Every report leads with gauges showing exactly what that pulse measures: ROI, hours saved and satisfaction for The AI Pulse; an NPS gauge plus value, trust and 'would you miss it?' for The AI Review; a confidence gauge for The AI Capability Check. No more empty dials for metrics a pulse doesn't track.
• New A new Breakdowns section on every report shows how people actually answered each question: the full distribution, not just a single average.
• Improved The three core pulses now have three clearly distinct jobs. The AI Pulse: are people using a tool, and is it saving time (now with a quick 1-to-10 performance score). The AI Review: is the tool worth it (the value it delivers, how much you trust its output, and how likely people are to recommend it). The AI Capability Check: are your people confident and growing with it.
• Improved Every pulse now has its own colour, used consistently across your dashboard, your reports and the browser extension, so you can tell at a glance which pulse you're looking at.

• New The GAiGE extension is now available on the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store, not just Chrome. Same extension, now installable for your Edge users.
• New You can now set how often each core pulse fires. Core-pulse schedules used to be fixed; admins can adjust the cadence of each one to suit how your team works.
• Improved A new guided setup walks you through connecting your AI tools, adding your team and turning on pulses, for a clearer path to your first results.

• Improved Homepage intro video refreshed to the 2026 cut. Same player, new content.
• Fixed The Chrome-extension install nudge no longer appears in the demo organisation. The demo is supposed to read as fully set up; that banner was undercutting it.
• Fixed Onboarding 'what plan am I on?' copy no longer hard-codes 'Lite'. New copy is plan-agnostic (true whether you started on Lite, Standard or Pro) and reinforces that switching is free during the trial.
• Improved The three demo-mode surfaces (top banner, welcome modal, 'how this works' modal) rebuilt to match the rest of the editorial design and simplified to one path. The 'Start your own trial' CTA from the older signup-light demo flow is gone, replaced everywhere by the Return to button, with your organisation's name.
• Fixed Signed-in users in demo mode can now navigate the full admin nav (Dashboard, AI Tools, Users, Groups, Pulses, Reports, Settings) read-only. Previously only Reports worked; every other tab bounced back to Dashboard.

• Improved Full editorial design refresh across the marketing site and the dashboard. Cream surface, serif headlines, crimson hairlines. Dense data UI (gauges, reports, tables) stays sans-serif because that's where the work happens.
• New Public sample report at /sample-report. The exact Reports surface a paid customer sees, running against a demo organisation's data. No signup, shareable directly with your buying committee.
• New Switch into the demo organisation from inside your account. New 'View the demo' item in the sidebar (just below Settings) lets you flip into a populated demo org any time. Same item swaps to the Return to button, with your organisation's name, when you're already in it. A gentle prompt on Dashboard and Reports also surfaces this while your real data is still landing, then disappears.
• New Downloadable PDF reports. Async generation with progress bar, server-side rendered against your live filters, lands in your downloads automatically when ready.
• Improved Cleaner sign-up and onboarding flow. Single-column layout, serif headline, Google and Microsoft SSO, and the trial reassurance ('14 days free, no card, cancel any time') front and centre.
• Improved Sharpened positioning across the site: Independent, Cross-vendor, Outcome-led. Reflects the reality that vendors are now shipping their own impact surveys; we're the independent measurement layer that compares them all apples-to-apples.
• Improved Free trials now start on Standard (was Lite). Standard exposes the full measurement story across all three core pulses, which is closer to what most evaluating orgs actually want to try. You can still switch down to Lite mid-trial without paying anything.
• Improved Pricing page: plan cards now align vertically across Lite, Standard and Pro (the Lite card used to sit higher). The Compare All Features table uses sharp crimson checkmarks and a muted X instead of nearly-invisible hairlines.
• New Blog now has category filter chips at the top: Founder Essays, Field Guides, Methodology, Product Updates. Sticky-post mechanic removed, everything sorts by date.
• New Three new long-form articles: 'Why AI vendor impact surveys can't replace independent measurement' (the strategic argument), 'How to compare AI tools like-for-like' (a CFO framework with worked examples), and the inaugural Product Updates post.
• Fixed Gauges scale correctly on narrow viewports. On mobile, when the 4-up gauge strip used to overflow and overlap, it now shrinks proportionally.
• Fixed Signed-out users clicking 'Go to Dashboard' from the marketing site now land on the sign-in page (with their intended destination preserved). Previously this hit a 404.
• Fixed Marketing CTAs reliably reflect signed-in vs. signed-out state. Replaced a brittle Clerk cookie sniff with our own session marker that flips on the actual auth state, so signed-out users never see 'Go to Dashboard' by mistake.
• Improved Deploys now cache the app shell correctly. Browsers stop holding stale HTML between releases, so design and copy updates appear immediately on next visit.

• Improved Blog: 'What's the best way to measure AI? Five honest options compared'
• New existing users can edit company website in Settings

• New Three core pulses ship by default: The AI Pulse, The AI Review and The AI Capability Check. With Standard plans and above, you get all three
• New Chrome extension delivers pulses in the browser on a schedule
• New Reports with ROI breakdown by tool, by group, and by time
• New When a pulse is anonymous, your name isn't shown with your answers to anyone, admins included.
• New Lite, Standard, Pro and Enterprise plans, with a 14-day free trial on all
• New Launch promo codes for the first customers (this offer has ended)
• New Help Scout in-app support beacon and a public knowledge base at help.thegaige.com