New Capabilities

Flags Flags are a new blueprint we rolled out to everyone using 4149. It allows your 4149 teammate to proactively send you a DM whenever they notice something you should be aware of when it comes to your team.

A few examples of flags raised in the beta so far…

🚩 – Hey I’m worried Francis is taking on too much since they are leading the product launch effort but were also assigned many bug fixes this week.

⚠️ – Hey, I noticed that we have not discussed any customer-feedback in over a week, so let’s try to add it to the next team meeting.

💚 – Shoutout to Mark for going out of their way to make sure we have a place to consolidate all the feedback we gather from the beta.

Our goal is to help founders and managers, who juggle a million things, be more aware of their team’s work and be more agile to take action to help the team. Rather than adding another transactional product on the existing stack, we built an AI agent that works independently and uses the same tools as you.

Supervisor Mode You can now go into the settings of your 4149 teammate and turn on/off Supervisor mode. With Supervisor mode enabled, 4149 will send a DM to the team admin (person who created the 4149 teammate) for approval before sharing that deliverable with the team.

You can then modify the message right in Slack or just click approve and have 4149 share it as usual.

We have turned on Supervisor mode on all of your accounts by default and look forward to hearing what you think!

Blueprint Builder Revamp We’ve made some substantial updates to the blueprint builder. Notably we adjusted the block layout to follow the following logic:

+ Triggers — Why / when this blueprint should run in the context of the team.
+ Insights — What insights need to be formed when this blueprint runs.
+ Actions — What actions this blueprint should create, with the written deliverable being an action itself.

The biggest change here is that the blueprint deliverable template is now its own field rather than multiple block templates combined. We think this simplifies the mental model of this process and also allows us to expand blueprints to do more than just generate deliverables.

If you have any issues migrating or find your old blueprints not compatible with this, send us an email and we’ll help troubleshoot!

Enhancements

Slack DMs as Deliverables You can now choose to have 4149 send you docs as a DM. When you are setting your deliverable preference for a blueprint or manually assigning a task to 4149, you can now choose to have that task go to you as a DM.

On The Horizon

Blueprint Actions At the moment, 4149 is fantastic at proactively prepping your team for meetings that are coming up and with project management tasks ensuring your team stays on track to hit their goal. The next phase to this is adding actions to the blueprints. So when you get off your weekly team call, instead of taking time out to go update your project tracker, you can go straight to work because your 4149 teammate will make those updates for you. Stay tuned for more updates here.

In the News

ProductHunt: We’re live on ProductHunt to showcase Flags! If you have enjoyed what we’ve been delivering over the last few months this is a fantastic way to show us support. Hop on and share your thoughts about 4149!

That’s it for now! Thank you for being awesome and making it to the bottom of the page. Enjoy the new week and end of summer!

— Team 4149

For those new to the beta, welcome! We send out these update emails on a monthly-ish cadence to roundup major milestones as we build out 4149.