Trenston Changelog

About this changelog

What actually shipped, not a roadmap. One summary per day in plain language. Older notes may still say Helm; the product is now Trenston.

Recent ships

2026-10-18 — Set up Trenston from a spreadsheet and see the ripple of a decision, a Monday briefing email, an easier-to-read Help page, plus a reset button for the invite code, safer first sign-in and comparison pages: You can now set up your company from a spreadsheet you already keep. Open Set up from a file, drop in an Excel or CSV file (a monthly P&L or budget, a client list, job orders, supplier orders or a to-do list), and Trenston shows what it found on each sheet before anything is saved. Totals and future months are left out so nothing is counted twice, you choose how each P&L line counts, and one click undoes the whole import. Every value comes from your file; AI only helps match columns using a few sample rows. Decisions now have a ripple: say what a decision costs or brings in, and see what it does to your runway, the month cash runs out, and your cash in two years, compared with doing nothing. Drag the start month to see what waiting changes, then save it to the decision so the card shows the change at a glance. It uses your own Financials and is only shown to people with Financials access. Team & Access now has a Reset button next to the invite code. Removing someone from a company does not change the code, so a person who left could rejoin with it. Resetting makes the old code stop working right away, and the removal message now reminds you to do it. Creating a company is also safer: pressing Enter twice no longer makes two companies, and a company name is limited to 120 characters, the same as renaming one. If you open a link to a page inside Trenston while signed out, such as a task from an email, you now land on that page after signing in instead of the home page. The sign-in page also says when a sign-in did not finish, and the sign-up page no longer mentions a third-party service by name. Adding and removing people is cleaner too. When a teammate deleted their account, their seat stayed counted, so the owner could be told to upgrade while the plan had room. Seats are now freed when someone is removed, deletes their account, or is deleted from the sign-in provider. Removing a person also clears their department lanes and stored Google connection, so adding them back later starts fresh. Deleting an account clears their roster link, department lanes and the email addresses they had referred, and deleting a company no longer leaves teammates pointing at it. An email address can be invited again after its old account was deleted. The homepage now opens with the problem Trenston solves and three reasons it is different, and there are new Compare pages for Excel and Google Sheets, Power BI and Notion. They quote each product's own public description with a source link and date, say nothing about price, and say when the other tool is the better choice. The Briefing now warns you when a department has gone quiet, for example "Sales has not been updated in 20 days. Ask Priya.", with a link to open it. The same warning leads your daily briefing email, so you know who to ping before data goes stale. People working in a department now get a short email when it has gone quiet, such as "Hi Priya, the Production department hasn't been updated in 17 days", with a link to open it. A department is nudged at most once a week. We also added a Guides section with two founder guides, how to track runway and what a CEO should check every morning, each with a worked example. Your weekly email is now a Monday briefing: it arrives at 7am Monday in your company's own timezone and says what needs you in the message itself, so you do not have to open an attachment or log in. It lists the decisions waiting on you, overdue tasks and departments that have gone quiet, and people with Financials access also see cash, monthly burn and runway. It goes to every plan, a week with nothing to report sends nothing, and the CEO pack PDF is still attached on plans that include it. The Help page is easier to read: a dark page with larger text, a table of contents you can jump from, tighter spacing, copy buttons on the connection commands, and a new step for setting up from a spreadsheet. It was also unreadable for anyone using dark mode, because the public page showed pale text on a white background; that is fixed.

2026-10-17 — Click a month on Financials, a clearer Reports page, and new integration plans: On Financials, click a month on the charts, or pick one from the month buttons under Revenue vs expenses, to see exactly what was counted that month. A recurring expense such as a monthly subscription now shows in each month it applies to, with when it started. Two different recurring subscriptions in the same category, for example Cursor Pro and Claude under Software, now both count every month. Before, the newer one replaced the older one. A newer entry with the same name still replaces the old one, so a price change counts once, and the month view tells you when that happens. Reports is now in a clear order with plain names: This week at a glance, CEO Pack, Export for your accountant, Daily report files and Saved reports, with quick links at the top. The last CEO Pack you wrote now stays on the page after a reload. The accountant preview opens only when you ask for it, and saved reports can hold up to six numbers. A month where you made money reads as profit instead of a negative burn. If one file in a batch can't be read, the rest still go through and you can try again on that file. People limited to some finance departments now see only their own figures in the Money check-in. Slack alerts now come with Starter, along with QuickBooks, Xero and Google. SAP Business One moved to Growth and Business, together with HubSpot. Free still includes Google Calendar and Drive. Deleting a workspace or account now cancels its paid subscription first, so you are never billed for a company you removed, and if the cancellation can't be confirmed the delete stops so you can retry. The activity-log export now uses your company's timezone for its date range and no longer lets spreadsheet apps run text as a formula. Saving only the cash balance on Financials can no longer clear your gross margin. Billing is safer too: downgrading now changes your Paddle subscription at the end of the period, so you stop paying the old price, and upgrading while subscribed changes your existing plan instead of starting a second subscription. After a downgrade or cancellation, paid features such as accounting auto-sync, Slack alerts and extra automation rules stop running. Pressing Escape no longer breaks open dialogs, the Excel export keeps typed text as plain text, and quantity and cost fields on Procurement only accept numbers.

2026-10-16 — A money summary on Financials: Financials now has a Money summary with three short sections: What's making money, What's losing money and Why this matters. It looks at your last finished month, compares it with the month before, and explains it in plain English. The numbers come straight from your ledger, so the summary always matches the rest of the page. If a month has no revenue or expenses logged, it tells you what to add instead of showing zero. Press Write summary to create it and Refresh to update it. If nothing has changed since the last one, Refresh keeps the saved summary. If AI summaries are unavailable, you'll see a short under maintenance message.

2026-10-16 — A calmer, easier to scan Home page: Home now puts the most important things first. The AI summary shows its first two sentences with a Show more link, and the full note is still one click away. What changed lists one line per change with the time on the right, and skips rows that say nothing changed, like a page view with 0 items. What to decide stands out with a priority marker, a clear Review button and long details you can expand. If the AI summary is over a day old, Home tells you so and points you to refresh it. The cash reserve alert no longer suggests a cut in burn that would only add a few days, and points you to raising cash or revenue instead.

2026-10-16 — Runway you can trust mid-month, and a check for money counted twice: Runway now uses your last three full months of revenue and expenses. Before, the month in progress was included, so in the middle of a month runway could look longer than it really is. The Financials page, the Model page, the cash reserve alert and the AI now all work from the same numbers, and Financials tells you which months runway is based on. If a month hasn't finished and it's all the history you have, runway is marked as an early estimate. Trenston also warns you when something you typed by hand looks like the same money your accounting system already synced, such as Rent added manually and the rent bill from QuickBooks, Xero or SAP Business One. If your accounting system is connected, your next sync re-reads your records once so every entry follows the latest rules.

2026-10-15 — One Home for everyone, no Gmail access, and clearer access for your team: Trenston now has one Home page that fits your role. Owners and executives see the company briefing with their own day underneath, and everyone else sees their own work, notes and updates. The Decisions card no longer appears twice. Telemetry is now called Metrics, and old links still work. Trenston no longer asks for any Gmail access. Connecting Google covers Calendar, the Sheets export and Drive files you pick, and the Privacy and Security pages say so. We checked every page from a team member's point of view and fixed what we found. Money figures now stay with people who have Financials access everywhere, including the AI daily summary, Metrics, the Home headline and revenue retention. Department figures on Home, such as procurement spend, only show for departments you belong to, and HR status on the People page needs HR access. The Executive role now sees everything, including Financials, Financial Modeling, every department and the Company map, but cannot edit the books, HR records, billing or automations. Executives can save their own modeling scenarios. The People / HR role now runs the HR department as its lead, without being added separately. Pages you cannot open now say so right away instead of loading for several seconds, and Billing, Automations and the Company map explain who can open them. The badge next to your name shows your real role, like Executive or Finance, instead of Member for everyone. Teammates no longer see buttons they cannot use, like adding financial entries, setting a cash reserve or assigning departments, and a teammate who hits a plan limit is told to ask the owner to upgrade. Role descriptions in Team & Access now match what each role can do. On the public site, search engines and AI tools can now read the homepage, pricing, testimonials and FAQ without running the app, the copy uses plain words, and the About page has the founder's story.

2026-10-14 — A calmer light mode, a clearer Briefing, and a more reliable calendar and sign-in: The app in light mode now has a pure white page, softer card edges, bigger page titles, a warm gold accent for the active page and section labels, and content that stops stretching on very wide screens. The Briefing now puts what needs you first: today's summary, then what changed, what to decide and what to hand off, then your numbers. Duplicate finance tiles moved into a collapsed All metrics section, and the revenue chart loads after the rest of the page so it appears faster. The sidebar is grouped into Today, Money and Company, so the list is shorter and easier to scan, and the Connect your tools card steps aside on shorter screens. The welcome card now appears once, on the first page you open, instead of on every page. Dates read like Oct 14, 2026 across Tasks, Briefing, Procurement, HR, Legal and Calendar, and empty pages take up less space. Calendar events now appear at the time you typed. Before, an 11:00 AM event could show at 7 PM in Manila, and it could also reach Google Calendar at the wrong hour. Both are fixed. Signing in is more reliable: slow sign-in provider responses are no longer abandoned early, the connection starts sooner, and the error only appears after a much longer wait. Deleting a user in the sign-in provider now also ends their Trenston session. Phones got bigger tap areas for small controls, and every button and link shows a clear ring when you move through the page with the keyboard, with a skip to main content link on every page. On the public site, the homepage picture loads faster, the integrations section is a slim moving strip of logos and names, a Start free button now follows How it works, and the QuickBooks line says it is approved by Intuit and only reads your data. We also count button clicks and sign-up views anonymously, with no cookies and no user IDs, so we can see where visitors drop off. Behind the scenes, Tasks and Integrations keep what you were looking at if a refresh fails, task moves are queued so quick drags do not collide, and Gmail updates stop after you disconnect. The website now builds with Vite instead of Create React App, and the server software and database drivers were upgraded.

2026-10-13 — Learn as you go, Automations, Company map and quick add: Trenston now teaches itself inside the app. Each main page shows a short welcome card the first time you open it, with a Show me around button that dims the screen and points at the real buttons one at a time. A new ? button at the top of every page explains that page in plain words and can replay its tour. The Get started list now has a Show me button on each step that opens the right page and highlights exactly what to press, and teammates get their own list instead of the owner's. Money and sales terms like runway, burn, MRR and pipeline have a small (i) that explains them, and empty pages now give an example of what to add. A new Automations page lets the workspace owner set rules once: when a work order is overdue, a supplier delay blocks production, a legal deadline is near, a deal stalls, or cash runway gets short, Trenston creates a task for the right person or shows an alert. Ready-made rules get you started in one click. Each thing fires once, and a rule can create at most 10 tasks per run, so turning one on never floods the board. Trenston also checks the finance ledger once a day for entries that look duplicated, one-off expenses far above the usual, and revenue that drops or stops, and shows each finding with a plain explanation. None of this uses AI, so it costs nothing to run. Signing in is also faster: sessions are verified without a round trip to the sign-in provider, the sign-in screen starts instantly on repeat visits, and the error screen now offers Try again instead of forcing a sign-out. Assistant connections like Claude now last 30 days before they ask you to sign in again. A new Company map page (owner only) draws your company from records you already have: cash and runway in the middle, where money comes from on the left, where it goes on the right, what you have promised underneath, your team on top for workspaces with more than one person, and anything going wrong in red with a plain next step. It only shows what your records say, and asks for the missing facts instead of guessing when there is too little data. The search bar (Ctrl+K or Cmd+K) now doubles as quick add: type task, decision or note followed by what you mean, for example "task call the supplier friday for Ann", and it shows exactly what it understood, including the date, person and priority, and saves only when you press Enter. If a name matches two people it asks which one. Automations now have per-plan rule limits: 2 on Free, 5 on Starter, 15 on Growth and 25 on Business. None of this uses AI, so it costs nothing to run. The app now looks like the website: the same type throughout, headings set like the site's, rounder buttons and cards, and black primary buttons in the light theme. On the website, the home page opens on a white hero, the header logo is larger, and buttons have rounded corners. Every page, on the website and in the app, now uses one professional typeface, Inter, with its tighter Display style for big headlines and evenly spaced figures so money lines up in columns. Emails use it too where the email app allows. Key headline words on the website now sit on a tilted navy tag with a yellow frame behind it. On phones, the app now has a bottom bar for the pages you use most, with More for everything else. Text boxes no longer make iPhones zoom in, pop-up forms always fit the screen and scroll, small buttons are easier to tap, and the site and app respect the iPhone notch and home bar. The search bar is smarter: it now finds your own tasks, decisions, deals and people by name, forgives a typo, matches words in any order, ranks the best match first, and offers to ask Trenston when nothing matches. Pressing Enter right after typing always acts on what you see, and typing just task, decision or note takes you to that page instead of starting an entry. Quick add also understands dates like 12/10, on the 5th, next month and next quarter, shows the year when a date falls in next year, no longer reads a quantity after May as a date, and treats urgent: as high priority.