What shipped this week

FlowRelay stopped being a demo. Every page in the app now reads and writes one real backend, and the things it shows are measured, not typed.

Triggers you can trust

The Triggers page lists every event the platform actually emits — bookings, invoices, leads, deals, payments, e-mail, inbound hooks — generated from the same catalog the services publish to. If an event is on the page, a workflow can start on it.

Workflows that run

A workflow is a trigger, an optional filter, and an ordered set of steps: create a task, send an e-mail, wait, branch on a condition, call a webhook, ask the AI. Runs are idempotent per event (a redelivered event never double-fires), rate-limited per workspace, and every step is visible on the run page with its result.

Twenty recipes, ready to install

For trades, salons and wellness, agencies, dealers and coaches: four recipes each, from “new booking → confirmation + reminder” to “invoice overdue → polite nudge”. Install one, tweak the steps, done. Each recipe was proven to install and run end to end before it shipped.

Native connectors

Connect the tools you already pay for, from inside FlowRelay:

• Xero — push invoices and customers, with a reconciliation report that shows any drift in cents. Available now.
• Slack — post to a channel from any workflow via an incoming webhook. Available now.
• Zapier and Make — a signed inbound hook URL to start workflows from 5,000+ apps, and outbound REST hooks to send events the other way. Available now.
• Google Calendar and Gmail send-as — built and registered; opens to everyone once Google finishes verifying the app.
• QuickBooks Online — built and registered; opens once Intuit’s app review completes.
• Outlook calendar and mail — listed and coming next.

Credentials are stored encrypted and deleted the moment you disconnect. A connector whose vendor app is not yet approved says so on its card instead of pretending.

Plans

FlowRelay remains part of Business. Basic stays $9.95 and nothing on any tier went up.

Fixes worth knowing about

• PayGate onboarding created the account shell instead of returning a 404 for new merchants.
• Estimate emails showed line amounts in cents and a bare sender; they now show dollars and your name.
• The PostFrame dashboard only shows domain panels when your plan includes domains.
• Renewal reminders were querying columns that never existed; they now derive from the plan catalog.
• Auth pages are pinned to the cream palette in every theme, with an espresso sign-in button.
• Social profile icons are in the site footer, and Bing can now verify the site.

Fixes worth knowing about

• Password-reset and signup-activation emails could fail silently; both now retry and report.
• Every outbound email template escapes HTML — a defence-in-depth change you will never see, which is the point.
• The public invoice pay page returns you to your invoice after paying, and webhooks are safe against duplicates.
• The marketplace seller profile page 404’d for every seller, and the public storefront asked visitors to sign in. Both fixed.
• The website’s hero copy lost a space under compression, the share card is now the right size, and robots.txt points at our real sitemap.

Also this week

The marketing site was being served with no cache headers at all — every page loaded from scratch on every visit. Pages now cache correctly, so the site is noticeably faster on a return visit.

Behind the scenes

Most of this week went into things you should never notice: 65 service images had their dependencies audited for the first time, secret rotation now verifies every credential before calling anything safe to retire, and the alerting that pages us stopped crying wolf (one scrape blip used to page 73 times; it now pages once).

What “beta” means for you

Your data is real, your billing is real, and your account carries forward unchanged when beta ends. What changes during beta is the pace: features arrive weekly, copy gets sharper, and occasionally we correct a claim the product was not yet living up to — and we say so here rather than quietly.

How we decide it is over

General availability is not a date we pick to look finished. It is the point where the platform stops changing faster than its documentation can describe it, the money paths (signup, trial, invoice, estimate, payout) have run clean for a full billing cycle, and the SLA alerts we watch have been quiet for the same stretch. The exit criteria are written down in our launch runbook and reviewed weekly.

Seven apps moved from the coming-soon catalog to installable today, taking the launch catalog from ten apps to seventeen:

Seven newly installable apps

• NeuralGrid — AI office manager: summaries, drafts and answers across your data
• WikiShelf — the built-in EternalEngine guide and your own team wiki
• NotifyStack — transactional email and notification delivery
• CrewGrid — crew scheduling and dispatch
• StockShelf — inventory and materials tracking
• SignSeal — e-signature for estimates, contracts and change orders
• FlowRelay — workflow automation between apps

The coming-soon catalog therefore stands at 23 apps, matching the pricing page and the in-app store. The v1.0 launch entry’s “30 more apps” section and its coming-soon list are historical and carry a superseded note pointing here.

A full refresh across everything public-facing, shipped today.

New website, top to bottom

The marketing site has been redesigned end to end: a new type system (Bricolage Grotesque displays, Instrument Serif accents, Space Grotesk body, Space Mono details), centered compositions, scroll-reveal motion that respects reduced-motion preferences, smooth cross-page transitions, and the dot-grain texture across every page — light, dark, and PayGate-indigo alike. Every page and every clickable element was reworked.

Legal pages, rewritten to be read

• Terms of Service — fully rewritten and grounded in the product as it exists today: early-access status, provisional pricing disclosure, plans and cancellation, add-on services, PayGate/Stripe Connect terms, PostFrame email sending rules, and AI usage. Every section opens with a plain-English summary.
• Privacy Policy — updated with our actual service providers (Stripe, Cloudflare, AI model providers), an AI-and-your-data section, and a commitment we already honor: privacy rights requests answered for every user, every jurisdiction, within 30 days.
• Security — expanded with our secure-development pipeline (CodeQL + Semgrep on every change, dependency review, secret scanning, signed commits), vulnerability remediation targets (Critical: 24h, High: 72h), and a coordinated-disclosure channel for researchers.

Fresh from the blog

Two product deep-dives are up: Introducing PostFrame and Introducing PayGate, plus an honest state of early access.

EternalEngine is now live. The launch release ships ten apps installable on day one — the in-app store (ScrollForge), CRM (ClientForge), community forums (ThreadRealm), email delivery (PostFrame), payment processing (PayGate), appointment scheduling (BookSlot), estimates (BidForge), projects (ProjectPath), file storage (AssetVault), and invoicing (TitanLedger).

What’s Included on Day One

• ScrollForge — the in-app store and launcher
• ClientForge — CRM with contacts, accounts, deals, leads, pipelines, custom fields, workflows, email sequences
• ThreadRealm — cross-customer community forum with boards, threads, comments, votes, polls, reactions, DMs, events, moderation
• PostFrame — transactional + marketing email with SPF/DKIM/DMARC, open + click tracking, templates, webhooks
• PayGate — in-app payment processing with a Free tier (2.9% + $0.30, up to $10K/mo) included on every plan
• BookSlot — appointment scheduling with Google + Outlook sync, customer-facing booking page, recurring appointments
• BidForge — line-item estimates, takeoffs with CSV export, reusable templates, digital signing, auto-flow to TitanLedger
• ProjectPath — projects, tasks with checklists, daily logs, inspections, time tracking, milestone-triggered invoices
• AssetVault — cloud file storage with folders, version history, tagging, multipart uploads, tenant isolation
• TitanLedger — PDF invoices, full lifecycle (issue/send/approve/bill/refund/void), aging reports, multi-currency books

Add-On Services (à la carte)

• PostFrame add-on tiers — higher email volume, longer retention, dedicated IPs (from $9/mo)
• PayGate add-on tiers — lower per-transaction fees, fraud rules, multi-currency, embeddable checkout (from $49/mo)
• AI Credit Top-Ups — one-time token packs ($5 / $19 / $89 / $449), no subscription, applied instantly

Three Plans

Superseded 2026-08-28. Launch pricing was replaced by the six-tier ladder (Free · Basic $9.95 · Team $49 · Pro $99 · Business $199 · Enterprise). The lines below are the launch-day record; see /pricing for what is sold today.

• Starter — $39/mo, 2 users, 6 apps installable
• Pro ⭐ — $89/mo, up to 4 users, all 10 apps installable
• Business — $149/mo, up to 15 users, all 10 apps + white-label + SSO + advanced reporting

Save 20% on annual billing on every plan.

Coming Soon — 30 More Apps in the Catalog

Superseded 2026-06-15. Seven of these shipped and became installable that day (see the v1.2.0 entry), leaving 23 in the coming-soon catalog.

Visible in the in-app store from day one with full marketing copy and feature lists; install opens app-by-app as each ships. CampaignForge, CrewGrid (field service), StockShelf (inventory), HireFlow, NeuralGrid, MeetGrid, MediaPipe, TextCast, VoiceRing, and 21 more — no additional charge when each lands.

Security & Compliance

• Postgres row-level security with tenant_id from auth context only
• AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit
• Role-based access controls, full audit trails
• Built against OWASP ASVS and NIST guidance
• Business tier adds SSO / SAML / LDAP for enterprise identity