2025 was a whirlwind. It was the year we planted the flag for AI-powered QA and built the foundation of the InnerCircle. But if last year was about building the engine, 2026 is where we put our foot on the gas. We are kicking off the year with a frankly ridiculous level of excitement.
We’re obsessed with making life easier for design teams and creatives, and we’ve got a massive roadmap ahead. But first, let’s talk about the first release of the year… which brings a “holy grail” feature to your automation.
See the highlights from Vito below, or check out the full changelog on Atarim Labs.
⏳ New: Time Delays in Workflows
This has been one of the most requested features on our Labs board (if you haven’t voted on features yet, go do it now!).
Our Workflow feature already lets Atarim work for you in the background as you create and complete tasks. But this week, we added the “missing link”: Time Delays.
This allows you to set a specific gap between a Trigger and a Result. Why is this a game-changer? Because it allows for “conditional urgency.”
Here are 3 ways to use this right now (inspired by how we use Atarim internally):
- The “Check-In” Escalation: If a task is set to In Progress but hasn’t moved for 5 days, automatically change the urgency to High (the decision to @ everybody in Slack with 🚨 emojis remains yours).
- The “Manager Intervention” Trigger: If a task is still Open 5 days after it was created, automatically change the assignee to yourself (or a PM) so you can step in and see why it’s stalled.
- The 20-Week Backlog Groomer: Tag a task as “Backlog.” If 20 weeks pass and it’s still there, automatically set the urgency to High and reassign it to a team member to groom the backlog and get it moving. It’s like hot potato. Except the potato is now freezing cold.
This opens up unlimited possibilities for how you manage your team and your clients without ever sending a manual “Just checking in” email again.
🛠️ Squashing the “New Year” Bugs
We’ve been busy with the digital broom and bucket, tidying up the corners of the platform to ensure your first week back at work is as smooth as possible.
🖼️ Better Inbox Previews
Identifying files at a glance just got a lot easier. Uploaded images now display correctly in your Inbox previews, so you don’t have to play “guess the screenshot” every time a client uploads a stray .PNG.
We can’t make your whole email inbox tidy, but we can at least be absolved of some of the blame 😇
🧠 Smoother AI Guidelines
There was a particularly annoying bug where the AI Guidelines text area would lose focus with every single keystroke. We’ve fixed it, so you can now give your AI agents their marching orders without the UI jumping around like it’s had too much espresso.
(Who am i kidding. It’s the first full week of January. We’ve all had too much coffee.)
🤫 Distraction-Free Dashboard (Live Chat)
We love talking to you, but that little chat bubble can feel like a distraction when you’re in deep work mode, so we’ve hidden the live chat button by default inside the dashboard. It’ll only appear when you actually open it from the Help sidebar or modal.
Other Quality of Life Fixes:
- Signup Compliance: The Terms and Conditions link on the signup page is back and fully functional (boring, but important!).
- Task Popovers: We’ve fixed some broken components in the task popover to ensure every button does what you expect it to.
- Enterprise Intake Forms: For our Enterprise users, we’ve fixed the “Prev” button in form navigation. Multi-page forms are back to being a breeze.
What’s Coming in 2026?
We aren’t just shipping fixes; we’re shipping a vision. This year, you can expect the InnerCircle to become even more deeply integrated into your actual design files, more robust reporting, and even more ways to kill off “email ping-pong” for good.
What are you waiting for? Log in and set up your first delayed workflow today.
