Changelog

New

• Microsoft 365 support across the platform. A firm can now connect a Google workspace and a Microsoft workspace at the same time - no more choosing one ecosystem.
• Two calendars, one schedule. Google Calendar and Outlook stay in sync together. Pick which calendar an event goes to, and deduplication keeps recurring events from doubling up.
• Two drives, one search. AI agents now read Google Drive and OneDrive side by side, so every document is reachable from your matters.
• Agents handle Outlook email. Search, matter filing, and drafting now work the same whether your firm lives in Gmail or Outlook.
• Threaded email view. The inbox shows full conversations, replies you send stay in the thread, and sending gives clear feedback.
• Redesigned onboarding with a guided tour. New firms get a cleaner setup flow and a walkthrough of the workspace.

Improved

• A secure OAuth foundation for connecting Referent to external AI tools.
• Security hardening across the app: stricter security headers, rate limiting, and automated dependency scanning.

Fixed

• Recurring Outlook events now keep their series identity when synced.
• Plus 2 smaller fixes - 24 changes shipped this week in total.

New

• Customizable bento dashboard. Arrange your dashboard the way your practice runs - every user picks and places their own widgets.
• Reply without leaving Referent. Answer emails from the app with AI-composed drafts, steered by one-tap intent chips (confirm, decline, ask for details, and more).
• Calmer agent chat. Agent work now collapses into a single tidy activity line instead of a wall of technical steps.
• Two-factor authentication on mobile. Sign in on your phone with the same 2FA protection as the web app.

Improved

• The iOS app went through App Store review preparation: nine builds in a week, smoother sign-in, calmer animations, and clearer explanations for every permission the app asks for.

Fixed

• Stuck AI-compose streams in the inbox now recover on their own.
• Email sync got more resilient under edge cases.
• Plus 18 more fixes across the inbox, calendar, and mobile sign-in - 47 changes shipped this week in total.

New

• Referent on your phone. The web workspace rebuilt one-to-one for mobile: chat with your agents, dashboard, records, tasks, calendar, inbox, clients, and matters.
• Native sign-in. Sign in with Apple and secure mobile sessions, built for the way phones work.
• Time tracking and taskboard on the go. The same task logic as the web app, shared under the hood so nothing drifts out of sync.

Improved

• Google Drive import now finishes cleanly even when every file was already up to date.
• A deep security vulnerability scan pass across the codebase.

Fixed

• Sign-in polish on mobile: keyboard handling, theme backdrop, and chat scroll behavior.
• Plus 3 more fixes - 32 changes shipped this week in total.

New

• Google Drive folder import. During setup, pick exactly which Drive folders to bring in - Referent imports them and routes every document through Triage for filing.
• Watched Drive folders. Add or remove watched folders anytime from the integration settings, so new files in those folders keep flowing into your workspace.
• A first run worth watching. Onboarding now ends with a live view of your email import running client by client, a progress bar, and a running counter of the time Referent is saving you.
• Triage tabs. Triage now splits into All, Files, Emails, and Tasks tabs, so you can clear one kind of work at a time.
• Sharper reading of scanned documents. An upgraded text-recognition engine pulls cleaner text out of scans and PDFs, which means better search and better AI answers.

Improved

• Large file uploads now stream reliably with a progress bar and a cancel button.
• Every matter and client from your initial import now gets its wiki page - no gaps in coverage.
• Voice transcription now understands legal terminology and your firm’s own vocabulary, in both English and Russian.

Fixed

• The Drive folder picker no longer misbehaves after switching Google accounts.
• Plus 3 more fixes - 26 changes shipped this week in total.

New

• Redesigned onboarding from the ground up. New firms get a clearer guided setup: connect Gmail, set your default rate and currency, and review what the first inbox scan found before diving in.
• Flat-fee billing. Matters and tasks can now be billed at a flat fee, not just by the hour.
• One-step team invitations. Invited teammates get a welcome screen with their email already filled in, set a password, and land signed in to the workspace - no extra hoops.
• AI suggestions arrive as approvals. When Referent spots likely matters and tasks in your inbox, they now show up in Triage as suggestions you approve or dismiss - you stay in control.
• A real support form. Reach us from inside the app with your name, a reply-to email, and screenshots attached, and your ticket goes straight to our team.
• Branded emails from Referent. Sign-in and invitation emails now arrive in a clean, recognizable Referent design.

Improved

• Client search now looks across every field at once, so one search box finds the right person by name, email, or phone.
• Document uploads support drag and drop, show a clear “Processing” status, and files uploaded straight to a matter skip Triage entirely.
• Matters, clients, and tasks now link directly to their wiki pages.

Fixed

• Blocked Google sign-ins now show a clear “account not found” message instead of failing silently.
• The inbox now opens on your Clients filter by default, keeping client email front and center.
• Plus 14 more fixes - 66 changes shipped this week in total.

New

• Sign in your way. Sign in with Google, protect your account with two-factor authentication, or skip passwords entirely with passkeys - Face ID and Touch ID included.
• A dashboard built for lawyers. Your key stats, today’s schedule, and recent activity, all in one cockpit view when you open Referent.
• Real-time sync everywhere. New emails, changed files, and calendar updates now land in Referent moments after they happen in Google - no more waiting on the next refresh.
• A dedicated triage queue. Inbox decisions get their own queue, and a redesigned decision pane explains the reasoning behind each suggestion. The firm wiki also flags contradicting information for you to resolve.
• A complete activity log. Every change to clients, matters, tasks, time entries, and approvals is recorded, so you always have a full audit trail.
• Tell the assistant how it did. React with a thumbs up or down on any answer, and type /support in chat to send a request straight to our team.

Improved

• Email import now shows honest progress, detects mailing lists, fetches faster, and previews the full email.
• Quick search now finds clients, matters, and notes even from partial names.
• Disconnecting Google now fully removes your indexed data, and reconnecting takes one click.

Fixed

• A sign-in redirect issue with Google accounts, resolved the same day it appeared.
• Plus 12 more fixes - 71 changes shipped this week in total.

New

• The assistant works across everything. Ask in plain English and it can look up, create, and update clients, matters, tasks, notes, time entries, and calendar events - and search your documents, including files in Google Drive.
• Billing foundations. Set hourly rates per matter, override the rate on individual time entries, and see time cost totals on every matter and client.
• Smarter email intake. Search your email by meaning, not just keywords, import clients from email with the legal matter scope extracted automatically, and keep multiple email addresses on one client.
• Tasks open as full pages. A redesigned task detail view, plus board cards you can edit right on the board: priority, assignee, due date, matter, and client.
• Two-way Google Calendar sync. Changes flow in both directions, and event colors come along too.

Improved

• Error monitoring and session diagnostics behind the scenes, so problems get caught and fixed before you notice them.
• Interface polish across the app: a searchable matter picker with client avatars, cleaner scrollbars, and more consistent hover and cursor behavior.

Fixed

• Chat now renders your messages with proper formatting, including lists.
• Google connection problems now show you the real error instead of failing silently.
• Task deadline chips on the calendar are now clickable.
• Plus 27 more fixes - 101 changes shipped this week in total.

New

• A timer that follows you around. Start, pause, and resume from the header on any page, and glance at the running time right in your browser tab.
• Timesheet and Time entries views. Review your week at a glance, add entries manually, edit them, or update many entries at once.
• Timers built for legal billing. Idle detection, time rounding, tenth-of-an-hour quick picks, non-billable reasons, and an alert when a timer has been running suspiciously long.
• Time lives on the task. Pick a task when you start any timer, log entries straight from the task page, and see all time and attachments on a task in tidy collapsible sections.
• Global command search. One shortcut to search and jump anywhere in your workspace.
• Light theme. Prefer a brighter workspace? Flip the switch.

Improved

• Calendar events now sync in real time.
• The matter picker shows client avatars, so the right matter is easier to spot.

Fixed

• Start, end, and duration fields on a time entry now interact predictably.
• Search results for wiki pages now open in the right section.
• Plus 3 more fixes - 22 changes shipped this week in total.

New

• A full calendar, built in. Month, Week, and Day views show your events and task deadlines side by side, color-coded by matter, with a live now-line and multi-day event spans.
• Two-way Google Calendar sync. Connect in seconds and changes flow both directions - create, edit, or delete an event in Referent and it lands in Google Calendar, complete with an optional Meet link and a linked task.
• Task deadlines on your schedule. Deadlines mirror to Google Calendar automatically, and each task has explicit add-to-calendar and remove controls when you want manual say.
• Recurring events and drag-to-reschedule. Set up repeating events, drag any event to a new time, search the calendar, and cancel with a soft-cancel that keeps the event visible (struck through) until you restore it.
• Comments, mentions, and attachments on tasks. A rich-text editor, a dedicated comments view, @mentions to loop in colleagues, and file attachments turn every task into a place your team can actually work.
• Redesigned filter and display panel. A streamlined drill-down filter for the Taskboard, plus display preferences and filters that are now saved per person, per firm.

Improved

• Overdue tasks now carry a clear indicator, and new dashboard widgets surface what needs attention first.
• The Knowledge section is now called Records - a clearer name for where your firm’s information lives.
• Matters and tasks gained a first version of category labels, laying the ground for better organization and reporting.

Fixed

• Month view got a thorough polish: event chips align cleanly and a “+N more” popover shows busy days in full.
• The first board column no longer gets clipped when the Taskboard scrolls.
• Plus 15 more fixes - 40 changes shipped this week in total.

New

• A real task board, built for legal work. Drag and drop tasks between columns, or flip to a list view when you want a flat picture - your choice, per matter.
• One Taskboard for the whole firm. A new global Taskboard tab gathers tasks from every matter in one place, and each task carries a matter picker so it always lands where it belongs.
• Columns that match your workflow. Rename, add, remove, and reorder board columns right on the board, backed by proper workflow states under the hood.
• Task details without losing your place. Click a task and a side sheet slides in with the full detail view, or pop it out into a dialog - and quick-add lets you capture a task inline without opening anything.
• Filters and quick presets. Filter the board per matter, and one-click presets jump you straight to the views you use most.
• An early look at AI assignees. Task detail now previews assigning work to an AI agent, including a manual-trigger option - a first glimpse of where the Taskboard is headed.

Improved

• Smoother lists everywhere: loading skeletons, polished rows, and board reordering that feels instant.
• The client import review page got a cleaner, easier-to-scan layout.
• Connecting the same Gmail account twice is now prevented, keeping your firm’s email connections tidy.

Fixed

• Nothing to report, a clean feature week - 13 changes shipped this week in total.

Referent has been in the works long before this page existed - the team had been building the core platform for months. From this point on, the changelog records what ships every week.

New

• Guided onboarding for new firms. Setting up your workspace is now a step-by-step flow instead of a blank screen, so your firm is ready to work in minutes.
• An inbox that hides the noise. Newsletters, notifications, and other low-value mail now get tucked away automatically, with a visible count so nothing disappears silently.
• Duplicate documents, detected automatically. When the same file arrives twice, Referent now recognizes it and keeps your document library clean - no more sorting through copies.

Improved

• A cleaner, more compact inbox layout that puts your email front and center.
• Groundwork for smart filing suggestions that will route incoming email to the right matter.

Fixed

• Linking a Telegram account that already belongs to another firm is now blocked with a clear message.
• Duplicate-document records now repair themselves if the underlying file goes missing.
• Plus 2 more fixes - 23 changes shipped this week in total.