October 31st, 2025
Continued enhancements to the best way to keep 1:1 notes
Every single week we are improving the 1:1 flow to make Windmill the best possible place to store your 1:1 notes on the internet. If you haven’t tested the flow out yet, see how it all comes together here:Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Select your desired integrations during onboarding
- Significant improvement to onboarding copy
- Improvements to Google workspace group syncing
- Fixed a bug that was showing cancelled 1:1s in the UI
- Cleaner design for the 1:1 side panel
- Better product marketing for 1:1s
- Improvements to Airtable syncing
- Fixed a bug that led to odd formatting blocks in Windy responses
- New help site links everywhere in the platform
- Improvements to the Rippling integration
- When launching a pulse with a number of questions, Windy will now alert you to how many questions are in the sequence
October 24th, 2025
Continued improvements to the 1:1 Experience on Windmill
We’ve improved the notes section of the 1:1 experience to be faster, smoother and easier to use with your team. Each of your meeting instances will be available in the notes section, and you can always remove dates if the meetings don’t take place.We’ve also made some improvements to the “Catch me up” section to improve not only the load times, but also the quality of the information in there.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- When an employee is archived, we will automatically disable 1:1 prep
- Improvements to onboarding, making it easier and faster to get into the product
- Better handling for users with multiple Slack accounts
- Bug fix for the sub-header of 1:1s showing incorrect information
October 17th, 2025
The best way to run your 1:1s, take notes and maximize value for your team
Do you keep you 1:1 notes in:- Google Docs?
- Notes App?
- Record them?
Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Improvements to 1:1 notifications
- Survey reports delivery bug has been resolved
- Links now work within the 1:1 cells
- Improvements to the Attio, Notion, Jira, Hubspot, Zendesk, Gong, Github, Asana and Front integrations
- Improvements to the groups UI
- Added a 30 minute option for 1:1 prep notifications
- 1:1 toolbar now works in dark mode
- Better handling to transfer ownership of a 1:1
September 12th, 2025
Run your One on Ones on Windmill
We’ve been blown away by the reaction thus far to One on Ones and are excited to make it a core building block within the product. As a refresher - Windy will build your one on one agenda for you. Agendas will include specific items that are top of mind and will include context about the work the team member has done since you last spoke.Stop showing up to your One on Ones unprepared - and start making better use of the time. Windy is here to help!Bugs and Improvements
- Improvements to One on One agenda titles
- Improvement to visibility messaging within the platform
- Bug fix around scheduled report permissions
- Improvements to report citations
- Attio Stats!
- Bug fix for bad logo rendering
September 5th, 2025
One-on-Ones
One of our favorite Routines yet! Regardless of your cadence, One on Ones are an important part of managing a team. The best One on Ones have a clear agenda, and a manager comes into the meeting with all of the context necessary to make good use of the time.Windy can help collect agendas, aggregate context and follow up on action items. In addition to One on One notes, this Routine will also give you the ability to leave notes through Windy. These notes can help add to One on One agendas or just overall reports about your direct reports. The One on One routine is available now - give it a try, we’re excited to hear your feedback!Rippling
Having an up-to-date org chart is essential to getting the most out of Windmill. If your team uses Rippling as an HRIS, you can now connect Rippling to Windmill.Download to PDF
One of our more popular requests - customers can now download reports as PDFs. Open the Report you want to download and select the option to “Download PDF”.Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Resolved a bug impacting Report generation
- Improvements to the One on One meeting classifier
- Added Slack link unfurling to allow for full Report previews within Windy
- Fixed a bug around Notion authentication
- Added ChartHop as an available integration
- Improvements to employee onboarding flow for first time Routine participants
August 29th, 2025
Better handling for overlapping routines
As Windmill continues to grow within organizations, we’ve seen instances where a single team member is enrolled in multiple Routines. This can create an uncomfortable experience for team members where they are being asked the same question multiple times in a week.Now, when setting up a Routine, Windmill can alert you to any team members who are already enrolled in that Routine. As part of this fix, you can now have multiple Feedback and Recap Routines running across an organization.Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Resolved a bug with merging duplicate employees and improved the overall experience
- Fixed a bug with the CSV export from the stats page
- When creating a routine that sends “manually”, we moved the “run” button to make it clearer where you can begin your routine
- Improvements to the Weekly Priorities Report format
- Improvements to Google Meet syncs
- Improved the Routine creation flow to show relevant integrations earlier in the flow
- Better handling for long Report titles in the “Reports” tab
- Improvements to the quality of the Goals generator
- Fix for the Groups dropdown and Groups icons
- Include the date for CSV export
- When relevant, moved the Action Items to the top of Reports
August 22nd, 2025
Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Fixed a bug around CSV Export
- Improvements to One on One meeting classification
- We’ve included a sample report during onboarding to help better orient users to the platform
- Significant improvements to employee merging and org chart management
- Bug fix for the Routine filter not showing the correct Routines
- Resolved a bug for the incorrect duration displaying in certain reports
- Fixed unaligned nudge buttons within Routines
- Resolved a bug around stats displaying incorrectly
- Improved cards used to display meeting details
August 15th, 2025
Zero Bug Policy
We have built a ton of functionality over the last few months, and a priority for August is ensuring that we maintain a bug free experience.Please hold us accountable by continuing to send us any bugs you encounter! We’re here to help.Emojis
Windy chats can become crowded in a hurry. We’ve added emojis to help you differentiate between different Windy messages. Check it out below!Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Rename the Employee tab to Org Chart
- Fixed a bug that lead to the incorrect displaying of the X axis on graphs
- Improvements to Org Chart search
- Settings tab no longer gets buried by direct reports
- Improvements to editing participants in a routine
- Improvements to Github Stats
- Bug fix for bad loading states in the product
- Improvements to deep dives
- Emoji per chat!
August 8th, 2025
Brand new Windmill Homepage
Our product has grown up significantly over the last two months. Windmill and Windy have become faster, easier to use and more powerful for our users. We’ve now updated our website to reflect these changes to showcase the power of Windmill. Check out the latest updates to gowindmill.com and let us know if you have any thoughts or feedback!Nudges!
As the creator of a Routine, you will always have the lingering non-responders. People who “missed the message on Slack”, “missed the deadline” or “opened the message and then forgot to reply”. No matter what their excuse is, we built this function for them.Now available in Windmill is a Nudge function, which will let you send your own reminders to non-responders. Click into your Routine, and send nudges to anyone who has missed, ignored or forgot about your prompt.Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Resolved a bug with that lead to Routine pages breaking
- Improvements to formatting issues in Reports
- Bug fix for a bug that adjusted the reminder times for Routines
- Fixed an issue with manually adding participants to a Routine
- Improvements to the zero response state for Routines
- We no longer show response rate before the Routine has been run
- Better tooltips for the different nudge states
- Improvements to the GIF sent when Windy is messaged outside of a thread
- We now prevent the creation of anonymous Routines with only one participants
- Download CSV of replies from any report
August 1st, 2025
Goals!
One of our most powerful Routines is now live. Are you managing goals in a clunky spreadsheet or project tracker? Are you constantly bugging your team to add their updates? Windmill’s Goals Routine is the best way to keep track of your team’s progress.Upload your team’s goals to Windmill and Windy will check in with the team every week for their updates. As a team member, you no longer need to log your updates manually in a tracker. As a manager, Windy will organize all of the updates into an easy to read report that will be sent to you on whatever cadence you prefer.Include “requester” in your Windy Routines
When setting up a Routine, you may want include the requesters name or in some cases, include someone else’s name. I’ll give you an example:If I am collecting Goals from my team, I may want Windy to say “Mark wants to know how you’re tracking on your goal?”If I am helping organize the team’s All Hands meeting, I might want to use the CEO’s name in the prompt so team member’s know Max wants agenda items.As an Admin within Windmill you now have the ability to:- Include no name
- Include your own name (or someone who’s account you have delegated access to)
- Include the recipients Manager as the requester
Improved Report Sharing
If you want to share reports with team members, we’ve improved that flow. Within the Report, just select “Share” on the top right and choose the setting that allows anyone with the link to access the report or to share it with people one by one.Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Improvement to chat delivery delays
- Improvements to Github contributors
- Fixed an issue with Stats table truncating text
- Improved formatting of citations in table of contents
- Bug fix for un-clearable unread icon on Reports tab
- If you reply outside of a thread, Windy will teach you how to reply in a thread (gif below)
July 25th, 2025
Multiple Report owners and better Report sharing
Windmill Reports offer you valuable insight directly to Email and Slack. However, they were previously only useful to one person. Now Reports can be easily shared across the org. Just go into the Report and you can share directly with others.Windy Reminders
Windy now supports natural language reminders, letting users ask things like “remind me in five minutes” across any chat type—tasks, goals, updates, and more. This quick, flexible feature helps users stay on track without needing separate tools or calendar hacks. Just chat with Windy in your Slack DM and tell Windy what to do.Better Group Admin
A dramatically improved Groups editing flow! Windmill is the home for both your vertical org chart (who reports to who) and your horizontal org chart (who is actually collaborating on projects etc.). The new Groups UX introduces a cleaner interface with improved functionality, including the ability to create and rename groups and add or remove members directly from the page. If you want to get set up with Windmill quickly, you can easily build a group and set up a Routine without the hassle of building the full org chart.If you’re an Admin, navigate to Settings > Groups to check it out.Improvements and Bug Fixes
- Fix for a Notion Oauth bug
- Report prompts are now visible within the final Report
- Improvements to 404 page
- Improvements to the team picker during Routine set up
- Improvements to error handling for Reports with permissions issues
- Fix for overlapping text on Stats page
- Improvements to Report subject lines
- Better introductory disclaimers for auto-generated Reports
- Update to handle slugs under 5 characters during account creation
- Improvements to meeting labeling to better categorize External and Internal
- Limit Routine Slack updates to only the creator - not all co-owners
July 18th, 2025
We’ve changed the name of Accomplishments to Recaps
Overview
We’re updating the name of the Windy routine from “Accomplishments” to “Recaps.” This change aims to better reflect what the feature is truly designed to do: provide a lightweight summary of what each team member has been focused on during the week.Why the Change?
The term “accomplishment” caused confusion. Many users interpreted it as referring only to completed, significant work. That led to underreporting of important in-progress efforts or smaller—but still valuable—tasks. We chose the name “Recap” because it more accurately captures the feature’s purpose: summarizing where time was spent, regardless of whether the work is finished.What’s Different?
There’s no real change in functionality. Here’s what’s been updated:- UI Update: We’ve replaced checkmarks with bullet points to remove the impression that everything listed is complete.
- Prompt Tweak: The AI prompt is now worded to encourage a more comprehensive summary, not just final deliverables.
- Name: Everywhere you previously saw “Accomplishments,” you’ll now see “Recap.”
Ability to add a second owner to Routines
Yes, once the routine is created, you can click into the routine and you’ll see a section called “owners”. Through the edit pencil, you can add owners to the routine, this will give them access to not only the individual responses, but also the final report.Attio Integration
If your team uses Attio as it’s CRM, you are in luck! Windmill now supports Attio as an integration, letting you pull in essential deal data from your CRM to help power Windy.Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Improved conversation flow for Windy initiated shoutouts
- Improved handling when users ask Windy what time routines go out
- Bug fix for visibility issue on Routine responses
- Improved delivery for Reports via Slack
- Bug fix for Accomplishments overflowing in the UI
- Improvements to the labeling of meetings without matching calendar events
July 11th, 2025
Welcome to the new Windmill Help Desk
Welcome to the new Windmill help desk. We’ve completely overhauled our help desk with new Looms, articles and walkthroughs of how to get the most use from the Windmill product. Enjoy it, and please don’t hesitate to reach out with questions or thoughts on new content we can add.Multiple Owners on a Routine
Windmill now lets you assign multiple owners to any routine (e.g., Priorities, Continuous Feedback). Once a Routine is created, you can click into a Routine and within the “Owners” section, add as many owners as you’d like. All owners will automatically receive routine responses and reports, and gain full edit permissions. This makes shared accountability easy—and Reports and Routines can easily be shared across teams.Mass Shoutouts
You can now give a shoutout to multiple people in the same shoutout! Simply ask Windy something like, “Can I give a shoutout to Alice, Bob and Carol for doing such a great job presenting at the All-Hands?”, and your shoutout will be sent to your company’s channel as one slack message, @ mentioning them all.Improvements and Bug Fixes
- Better handling for unthreaded messages with Loom tutorial
- Better visibility into the expiration of Routines for responders
- Resolved a bug where and archived routine affected the ability to create a new routine
- Improvements to the Deep Dive error states
- Resolved a bug in the selection of participants in a Routine
- Improvements to the Reports chat delivery experience
July 4th, 2025
Routines, routines, routines.
A big pain point we heard with routine creators over the last two weeks, is that creators want better alerting as a routine is running. We have now implemented the following to help fix that for creators:Better alerting for routine creators - creators will now be pinged:
- When the routine goes live
- First reply
- First day update
- Daily report on responses until the routine deadline
Better Report delivery after a routine has been completed
When a routine is completed and a report is generated, Windy will send you a link to the final report in Slack.Bugs and Improvements
- Improvements to chat delivery alerts in UI
- Fixed a bug where reports weren’t able to generate from Slack
- Creators can now add participants to an active Pulse
- Improvements to the employee view and org chart management
- Better admin controls on the Employee page
- Improvements to reports
- Improvements to reports data parsing from multiple connections
June 27th, 2025
We’ve been overwhelmed by the response to Routines thus far, and we’ve been blown away by the types of things customers have started to use Windy for. Whether it be:
- Feedback on All Hands
- Monthly alignment check ins
- The collection of meeting agendas
- Feedback on candidates
Routine Deadlines
Different routines require information delivered at different times. We have now added the concept of a deadline which will let the creator specify when they need the responses. This is essential for items like Priorities, stand up notes or meetings agendas. If you create a routine asking the team about agenda items for a meeting in two hours, you can now set that routine to end right before that meeting. Depending on the deadline you set, Windy will follow up before the routines closes to nudge non-responders.Editable Discussion Guides
Windy makes it really easy to ask questions to large groups of people, and Windy also helps contextualize and understand those response by auto-generating reports for you. However, not all questions can be simplified into a single ask. What if you have follow up questions? Now, in routine creation, Windy will give you the ability to edit your discussion guide. This will let creators add any follow up questions they’d like Windy to ask. Here is an example - by hitting Edit on the discussion guide, I am able to add follow up questions about our in office experience.Change to non-threaded messages
Replying to Windy can only be done in threads. Previously Windy would try to continue the conversation with you if the response was in a separate thread. However, this experience presented other challenges, so now Windy will only let you reply in the proper thread. If you attempt to reply out of a thread, Windy will quickly nudge you back in the right direction.Bugs and Improvements
- Improved language for chat deadlines
- Improved citations in reports
- Bug fix for editing accomplishments in the platform
- Improvements to the reports inbox with unread indicators
- Bug fix for bad minute formatting on minutes
- Updates and improvements to routines cards
- Report progress indicator
- Icons included on the feed routine drop down
- Better report naming
- Generate a perf review directly from report creation screen
- Better handling on slack permissions issue on shoutouts
- Fixes to a timeline bug
- Improvements to the display of open chats on the homepage
- Bug fix on response totals in routines
June 6th, 2025
The best organizations have routines.
We are going to begin rolling out an updated version of Windmill to select customers next week (and will continue a phased roll out over the next few weeks). This update gives users the ability to control Windy on their own. Previously, Windy could assist with accomplishments and feedback, but in speaking with users, there are hundreds of other routines that Windy can assist with:- Daily Stand-ups - AI-generated daily check-ins with integration data to replace or shorten stand-up meetings
- Weekly Priorities - Automated priority collection and alignment reporting to ensure teams stay focused
- Weekly Blockers - Proactive blocker identification and escalation to remove friction before it compounds
- Pulse Surveys - Custom employee surveys with natural language responses and comprehensive insights
- Performance Reviews - Lightweight monthly self-reflection and manager feedback cycles instead of heavy annual reviews
- Goals & OKRs - Automated goal progress tracking with risk identification and mid-cycle review reports
- One-on-One Agendas - AI-prepared meeting agendas based on recent activity, past meetings, and role context
- Meeting Agendas - Automated agenda item collection from attendees before group meetings
- Meeting Feedback - Monthly audits of expensive recurring meetings with improvement recommendations
- Sprint Retrospectives - Pre-meeting reflection collection to make retros more focused and efficient
- Interview Feedback - Structured post-interview feedback collection with consistent evaluation rubrics
- Employee Onboarding - Daily then weekly check-ins for new hires to catch confusion early and improve ramp-up
- And countless more…
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Additional context for accomplishments & feedback
- Improvements to document based feedback and accomplishments
- Improvements to meeting sync
May 30th, 2025
A management system built specifically for you is coming soon. We are putting the finishing touches on this next iteration of both Windmill (and Windy). These updates are a culmination of incredible feedback from all of our customers, and we are excited for you to see it.As always if you want a preview - grab some time with me next week: https://cal.com/marktanner/15minIf you haven’t turn on Shoutouts yet, it’s not too late.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Bug fix for a meeting time zone issue
- Improvements to Windy response times
- Improvements to Accomplishments
May 23rd, 2025
A whole new Windmill coming soon…
The team is still pushing hard to bring you the new and improved Windmill. The first AI management system that helps you run your team without the headache. As we put the finishing touches on the new features, we’re always looking for more feedback. If you’re excited about Windmill, and want a preview - grab some time with me next week: https://cal.com/marktanner/15minBug Fixes & Improvements
- Bug fix for duplicate accomplishments
- Fix for deleted entities being included in accomplishments
- Improve document history syncs
- Better format for Slack @ messages
- Bug fix for Windy thread handling
- Deep dives should more accurately pull meeting history
- Bug fix for Shoutouts pulling in company values
May 16th, 2025
Big changes coming soon…
The team has been hard at work, and we’re almost ready to show you the future of Windmill. If you’re excited, and want a preview - grab some time with me this week: https://cal.com/marktanner/15minBug Fixes & Improvements
- Improvements to accomplishments
- Resolved a bug which pulled in older Asana tasks into accomplishments
- Improvements to deep dives, accessing older meetings
- Bug fixes for company values in shoutouts
May 9th, 2025
Shoutouts can now incorporate company values
Last week we rolled out Shoutouts. This week we enhanced that experience even more by adding your company values. Not only can you collect shoutouts from you team, you can also prompt your team for value based feedback, and continue to encourage your company goals and values.Significant improvements to Windy
Windy is getting smarter and faster every week. If you haven’t chatted with Windy in a bit you’ll start to notice that Windy is smarter, easier to talk to and more knowledgable about your organization. As a reminder, you’re always welcome to ask Windy to:- Collect feedback on a team members
- Proactively give feedback about someone
- Generate your weekly accomplishments
- Edit your weekly accomplishments
- Tell you your schedule for the week
- Share feedback you’ve received
- Give you a summary of your overall performance
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Resolved a bug that affected the visibility of private channels in Windmill
- Made improvements to unthreaded behaviors in Windy chats
- Fixed an issue where failed accomplishments would load for extended periods of time
- Fixed a bug where Windy was incorrectly associating PRs with the wrong authors
- Improvements to Deep Dives
- Improvements to Notion syncs with better handling of 404s
- Every Windy chat will now @ the user
- Resolved a bug on the Slack settings page
- Fixed an issue affecting Asana syncs
May 2nd, 2025
Shoutouts!
Windy already collects feedback from your team, but some feedback is worthy of sharing with the whole team or organization. Now, through shoutouts, Windy can prompt you to share pieces of positive feedback in a dedicated shoutouts channel (of your choosing).Say goodbye to your clunky kudos form or empty kudos channel. Let Windy gather the content for you, and keep the team motivated and recognized.Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed an issue with Gong calls not storing properly
- Improvements to Deep Dives
- Better handling for employees without correct permissions
- Better handling of questions around upcoming tasks
- Added Gong recording comments
- Enhancements to the Figma integration
- Improvements to Notion syncs
- Fixed a bug where Github mapping would clear incorrectly
- Updated accomplishments flow for users who have limited connections
April 25th, 2025
Improvements to the stats detail page
As a manager, when reviewing stats it’s easy to get lost in all of the information. We know it can sometimes be overwhelming - particularly when you see everything in a single place. We’ve made some tweaks to the UI so you can now better navigate and better understand the stats.In the stats detail page, you will now see a tab for each of the following:- The activities associated with the stat (Pull Requests in the below screenshot)
- The trend line for the individual over the period of time you select
- How the individual compares to the rest of the team in a given category
More time options for accomplishment review
Everyone preps for the upcoming week at different times. As a manager, you now have more options for when to review your team’s accomplishments. Go into Settings > Accomplishments > and you can edit the delivery time to almost any time you’d like.Bug Fixes & Improvements
- All weekly accomplishments are now generated and sent at 12pm (noon) local time
- Continued improvement to accomplishments quality
- Better handling when asking Windy multiple prompts in a singular thread
- Improved responses for Deep Dives without sufficient data
- Improvements to Gong stats
- Better handling for time zone issues across Deep Dives and accomplishments
- Fixed a bug on the “auto-join all public channels” option for the Slack integration
April 18th, 2025
Gong Integration now syncs comments and contributes to stats
Last week we launched our Gong integration, focused on providing valuable insight from your sales team. This week we added two significant upgrades to the integration allowing for users to both generate Gong stats and access video comments.If your sales team uses Gong, you can now supercharge it’s capabilities by connecting it to Windy.Citations are available for accomplishments and stats
One of the key benefits to using Windmill as a manager, is being able to quickly go from a high level view of everything into the weeds. We have now taken that a step further. Within the Windmill platform now, we have made every citation clickable so you can link out directly from Windmill to the underlying platform.- Need more context on a ticket? Click through to Linear.
- Need more context on a PR? Click through to Github.
- Want to find the Slack thread associated with an accomplishment? Click through directly to that part of the conversation.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Accomplishments better incorporates Slack messages
- Improved recall for accomplishment citations
- Overall Improved accomplishments quality
- Improvements to feedback prompt quality
- Improvements to the Notion integration to avoid issues around rate limits
- Fixed a bug that interfered with Figma document syncs
- Fixed a bug that caused employee merges to error
- Improvements to the handling of Github stats
- Enhanced the flow when trying to proactively give feedback to multiple people within an org
- Deep Dive improvements
- Better handling of Time Zones
- Better handling of requests from integrations where Windmill lacks a connection
April 11th, 2025
New Integration: Gong
One of more popular requests for a few weeks now has been Gong. If your sales team uses Gong, Windy can now pull recordings and transcripts and apply them to feedback and accomplishments.Improvements to Deep Dives
We are continuing to make Deep Dives better. Whether you are using Deep Dives via the Windmill platform or via Slack, our goal is to deliver you actionable insights that would have required a lot of time or effort to compile without Windy’s help.Let us know what you think!Enhancements to requesting and giving proactive feedback
Giving and requesting feedback through Windy is getting better every single week.If you haven’t yet, try two things this week:- Hey Windy, can I request some feedback from __ (enter co-worker) about __ (enter something you worked on)?
- Hey Windy, I’d love to give some feedback to _______________ (enter co-worker) about ________________ (enter the thing you want to provide feedback on)
Improvements
- We released a significant upgrade to the processing of accomplishments. You should see significant improvement in your weekly accomplishments. As a reminder, accomplishments only have access to data from systems connected to Windmill. If you ever want to know what Windmill has access to, just ask Windy.
Fixes
- Improvements to Figma document syncs
- Enhancements to Google workspace syncs
April 4th, 2025
Request to give and receive feedback
This has been a popular request from users for a while now. Windy can always collect feedback from your team, but sometimes you have feedback you want to request on your own. Windy can now request feedback from others and give feedback based on user requests. Just let Windy know who you want to give feedback to or collect it from and Windy can do the rest.Deep Dives
As a reminder, we launched Deep Dives last week, and we’ve been blown away by the power of the feature. If you haven’t tried a deep dive yet, reach out to Windy in Slack today and have Windy do the work for you.Windy Stats
Now that your team is engaging with Windy, it’s useful to keep tabs on Windy stats. The following stats are now available in your stats table:- Windy Chats - The total number of chats initiated by anyone
- Windy Initiated Chats - The total number of chats initiated by Windy (first message is from Windy)
- User Initiated Chats - The total number of chats initiated by the user (first message is from the user)
- Windy Response Rate - The % of chats that a user responds to that are initiated by Windy
Improvements
- Increased the feedback expiration timing to one month (up from 7 days). This will give you more time to reply to outstanding requests.
- If you initiate a Deep Dive in Slack, Windy will not email you a copy of the report. Emails are only triggered from Deep Dives run directly in the Windmill Platform.
Fixes
- Fixed a few bugs in Deep Dive to yield better and faster responses
- Resolved a calendar bug that was omitting external meetings
- Onboarding bug fixes
- Improvements to the Figma integration
- Fixed a bug where stats were populating for systems that are not integrated
March 28th, 2025
Deep Dives
Today we’re launching Deep Dives, a brand-new way to interact with Windy. Until now, Windy has focused primarily on gathering information from you. With Deep Dives, you can now ask Windy your own questions. Windy will generate detailed research reports that combine feedback, accomplishments, and underlying data gathered through your connected integrations.To start using Deep Dives, just ping Windy in Slack with your question. Here are a few ideas to inspire you:- Austin just started. How’s he doing and what has he been up to?
- How much time have we been spending in meetings recently?
- I have a 1:1 with Jack soon—what should we talk about?
- What are the common issues in my team’s PRs?
- Who’s the best at demoing our product?
Improvements
- Completely rebuilt Windy’s internals, making Windy smarter and capable of handling more complex requests (like Deep Dives!). Expect more exciting features soon.
- Updated the accomplishments algorithm to handle repeated activities more effectively.
- Windy now respects user timezones and Slack activity status, ensuring users are pinged only when available.
- Slack messages are now expanded by default, making them easier to read.
- Users can now authenticate with Microsoft 365 accounts. Currently, this integration is limited to authentication and does not sync data.
Fixes
- Resolved an issue where Google Meet recordings weren’t always pulled in correctly.
- Resolved an issue causing Slack @mentions to occasionally display invalid IDs.
- Resolved an issue where meetings were sometimes missed.
March 21st, 2025
Improvements to new user onboarding
After accepting an invite to Windmill, an admin is now greeted with this set up screen to help expedite the account set up stage. From here, an admin has easy access to connections and an easy way to invite other team members who may be needed to get systems connected.Improvements
- Improvements to the Jira integration - should lead to better Jira based accomplishments
- Fix to improve Figma syncing
- Improvements to Notion integration
- Bug fix for Github activity commit syncs
- Improvement to Airtable connection
March 14th, 2025
New Windmill website
Earlier this week, we unveiled our brand website, showcasing the full power of Windy. We have received a ton of positive feedback on the launch, website and product. If you’re interested in bringing Windy to your org, we’d love to speak with you! Book some time here.Figma Stats
If you’ve connected Figma to Windy - you can now see Figma stats in your stats views. As always, a full list of our available stats can be found here.Table exporting from Windmill stats
Speaking of stats, you can now export stats to a CSV! This has been a popular request, and now you can create any stats views you’d like and export to CSV.Improvements
- Bug fixes for dupes in accomplishments
- Bug fix for bad calendar events
- Improvements to the onboarding flow
- Accomplishments now give final edit rights to the users
- Bug fix for Airtable syncs
- Links to the Windmill dashboard have been added to accomplishment and feedback chats
March 7th, 2025
Figma is Live!
If your team uses Figma for design, you can now connect Figma to Windy. Connecting Figma is straight forward, all you need is:- An account Admin
- Access to your Figma team ID
Improvements
- Fixed a bug that was affecting Jira data syncing to accomplishments
- Improved Windy’s vocabulary - including better greetings
- Bug fix for Airtable documents sync
February 28th, 2025
Privacy Improvements to all views
At Windmill, privacy is always at the core of everything we do. In order to ensure Windmill users know what they do/don’t have access to, we improved all of our UI to make it clear when a user does not have permission to view an object.As you navigate through Windmill, you may encounter these warnings, which indicate that you do not have access to an entity in Windmill (or its original host system).Bug fixes
- Improvements to Notion syncs
- Bug fix to prevent users from requesting feedback from themselves
- Bug fix to improve Zendesk integration
- Fixed an issue to improve the rendering of accomplishments in dark mode
- Improvements to accomplishments preferences
- Bug fix around the Jira integration
- Fixed a bug that showed duplicate events in the meetings view
February 21st, 2025
Customize Your Weekly Accomplishments Preferences
Windmill now allows you to customize how your weekly accomplishments are generated through accomplishment preferences. These preferences help guide Windmill in creating more relevant and focused accomplishment summaries that align with your professional goals.You can see your current preferences and when they were last updated directly in the preferences panel. The system will show you the last update date so you can track when you made changes.Improvements
- Improvements to Github stats tracking
- Track PR changes
- Open => draft
- Draft => ready for review
- Track PR changes
- Windy can now return a list of Slack channels it has access to. Ask Windy to test it out!
February 14th, 2025
Additional context for feedback in Windmill
Windy has been collecting feedback from your organization and we’ve been organizing it for you on your team’s profiles. As the volume of feedback has increased, we wanted to provide additional context for users. In addition to seeing the feedback itself, we have now added the ability to see the original prompt.When on a team member’s profile, you can click into a piece of feedback and we’ll show you not only the feedback, but also the prompt.Stats are now available for Github Issues
If your team uses Github Issues for project management, you can now track stats in Windmill. We’ve added the following to the stats page:- GitHub Issues completed
- GitHub Issues created
- GitHub Issues moments
Improvements
- Fixed a bug effecting the merging of duplicated employees
- Removed the colors from the stats view
February 7th, 2025
Request Feedback from Teammates
Windy will ping the right people at the right time to collect feedback. However, if you’re ever looking for feedback from others, you can now request it directly in Windmill.Navigate to an employee’s profile, and select “Request Feedback”. Give Windy a little context around what specifically you want feedback on, and Windy will take care of the rest.Accomplishment Attribution
Accomplishments in Windmill are auto-generated by Windy, but are often edited by team members. As you review weekly accomplishment, we’ve added some context to help you better understand if they have been edited or tweaked by team members before being saved.Improvements
- Improvements to the labeling of internal and external meetings
- Fixed bugs in the onboarding flow
- Fixed bug when editing an employee’s primary email
- Improved handling for employees with zero accomplishments
January 31st, 2025
New Features
Feedback summaries
Your team has leaned into Windmill Feedback, and now team members have valuable pieces of constructive feedback in Windmill. Rather than log into the platform to see feedback as it comes in, Windmill can now summarize key insights and share them with team members proactively.This feature is still in development, and we are seeking feedback from both managers and IC’s. Once you receive your feedback recaps, you can ask Windy for more context and suggestions for how to improve going forward.Manager Feedback settings
As a manager not all feedback on your team is created equal. Positive feedback is easy to share, but more constructive feedback you may want to save for an in person meeting.Now within Windmill, managers can control how their team’s feedback is delivered. If you are comfortable with all feedback going directly to the team, you have that option. If you want to review every piece of feedback, you have that option as well. In order to access these settings, go into Settings > Feedback.Improvements
- Fixed a bug that led to incorrect plurals and capitalization
- Fixed an bug that disabled manager settings for non-Admins, now managers can adjust settings without needing Admin privileges
- Fixed a bug that broke employee merges
- Improvements to org management; archiving and merging
- Added visibility to feedback, team members can now see visibility settings for each piece of feedback
- Feedback and Accomplishments are now enabled upon account creation
January 24th, 2025
New Features
- Monday Integration - If you use Monday.com for task or project management, you can now connect your Monday.com instance to include Monday Data in Stats, Accomplishments and Feedback
- Pick your preferred Chat channel - This is particularly useful if your org uses both Slack and Roam, users can now select which platform they would prefer for Windy conversations.
- Accomplishment team review - If you’re a manager, you can have your team’s accomplishments sent to you on Slack or Roam every week.
- Github Issues are now in beta - If your team uses Github issues, you can now see those within Windmill. In upcoming releases, Github issues will contribute to Feedback, Accomplishments and Stats
Improvements
- Improved handling for updating employees and org chart - If your HRIS is connected to Windmill, and you manually edit Employee name or Org Chart within Windmill, your HRIS system will override the change. We have improved this experience to give you better guidance on how to handle this.
- Fixed bug during onboarding where the navigation would not load
- Post onboarding caching issues have been resolved
- Justworks connection error fix
- Improve the experience of removing Windmill from a private channel in Slack
- Improved speed of bulk invites to Windmill
- Update to Slack settings channel UI
January 17th, 2025
New Features
- Airtable and Notion are now contributing to Feedback and Accomplishments
- More Github stats are available including:
- Comments Received Per PR
- Commits
- Files Changed Per PR
- Additions Per PR
- Deletions Per PR
- Reviews Received Per PR
- PR Time to Merge
- PR Time to Review
- PR Comments
- PR Reviews
- PRs Created
- PRs Merged
- GitHub Dependabot PRs Resolved
- GitHub Releases Created
- Onboard through Windy - this allows users to invite new users and have them onboard through Slack and through a seamless conversation with Windy.
Bug Fixes
- Fix to the employee archiver
- Improved font rendering on Safari
- Manager dropdown now uses primary email address
- Small improvements to the Zoom Integration
January 10th, 2025
New Features
- Windy can now teach you about the product, ask Windy anything about the product, and Windy will find an answer from our Help Desk
- Airtable and Notion integrations are now in Beta
- Document stats are live, this includes:
- Google Documents Created
- Google Documents Edited
- Google Document Edits
- Google Drive Activities
- Notion Documents Created
- Notion Documents Edits
- Notion Documented Edited
- Notion Document Comments
- Airtable Documents Created
- Airtable Documents Edited
- Airtable Document Edits
- Airtable Document Comments
Bug Fixes
- Loading issue for Story Points metadata
- Bug fixes in onboarding and channel joining
- Better handling for a mismatch between the auth email and Slack email
- Improved Fonts
January 3rd, 2025
- New onboarding including team selection, channel selection and Windy onboarding
- Ability to edit a user’s primary email
- Improved navigation for Admins - this new settings page will let Admins control their team, superpowers and connections
Bug Fixes
- Bug fixes to onboarding
December 27th, 2024
December 20th, 2024
December 13th, 2024
December 6th, 2024
New Features
- Improvements to Stats UX
- Ability to choose comparison group
- Ability to save comparison group and set of stats to the profile
- Dark mode - Enable dark mode if you prefer for your Windmill experience - test it out today by adjusting the setting on your Windmill profile
November 22nd, 2024
November 15th, 2024
New Features
- New manager homepage - see all of your direct reports directly from the homepage
- Windy will @ mention users in Slack
- Accomplishment generation animation
- New “Add Employee” flow for Admins - add team members seamlessly to Windmill
Bug Fixes
- Click directly into profiles from Feedback tab