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    <title>EmpireOS: What's new</title>
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      <title>The Specialist has a face and a voice, on the site and on the phone</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-09-03-the-specialist-has-a-face-and-a-voice-on-the-site-and-on-the</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>The Specialist is now something you can see: a presence in the corner of the panel that breathes while it waits, opens up while it listens to you, and moves with its own voice while it answers. Every answer is read aloud (the speaker button turns that off), and the microphone beside the box still takes a spoken question. Inside the product, Ask Empire has the same presence, the same microphone and the same voice. And the Specialist answers the phone now, from the same written answers it uses here. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/pricing</description>
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      <title>The Specialist answers from its documents, and you can talk to it</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-09-02-the-specialist-answers-from-its-documents-and-you-can-talk-t</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>The Specialist on this site now answers from a written corpus of 163 passages about the product, the company, the price and the sale: what a screen does, how to connect a CRM, what the trial includes, why one system instead of four, and the honest cases where a point solution is still the right answer. A question that matches a passage is answered as written, instantly, with the page or the walkthrough chapter that shows it. There is a microphone beside the box: ask out loud and it reads the answer back. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/pricing</description>
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      <title>Get the app on your phone</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-09-02-get-the-app-on-your-phone</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>EmpireOS installs from a phone's browser as a home-screen app with its own icon and a full screen, signed in, where you left off. The new page has the two taps for iPhone and Android and a code to point a phone at from a laptop. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/get-the-app</description>
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      <title>Ask how the product works, and get walked to the screen</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-31-ask-how-the-product-works-and-get-walked-to-the-screen</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>The search box at the top of the app now answers questions about using EmpireOS, not only questions about your numbers. Ask how to connect Salesforce, where to submit your forecast, how to invite your team or what the deal score means, and you get a short answer that names the real buttons, with a button underneath that takes you straight to the screen. It covers 122 topics across every module and answers them instantly, without waiting on a model. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/tour</description>
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      <title>Get EmpireOS onto your phone</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-31-get-empireos-onto-your-phone</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>A new page shows you how to put EmpireOS on your phone's home screen, with the right steps for an iPhone or an Android and a QR code when you are at a desk. It installs from the browser, so there is nothing to download and no app store account, and you get the whole product with its own icon and a full screen. It is in your profile menu under Get the app. There is a link in the site footer too. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/tour</description>
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      <title>Light mode keeps its sand</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-31-light-mode-keeps-its-sand</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The light appearance went a step too pale last week and lost the warm sand that makes the product look like itself. The page is warm sand-cream again, cards are cream and lift clearly off it, and the side rail is a deeper sand. Every word on every screen was measured for readability afterwards and nothing sits below the readable floor. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/tour</description>
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      <title>A true Home: the first thing you see decides your day</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-30-a-true-home-the-first-thing-you-see-decides-your-day</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>Signing in now lands on Home. It greets you by name with one true sentence from your live pipeline, offers one box that opens any record or answers any question, and lays out four to six large cards for the day: a rep sees Your day, Focus and Opportunities; a manager sees the Command Center, Team and Forecast. The navigation shrinks to a slim strip of icons there and slides open when you point at it, so everything stays one click away. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/tour</description>
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      <title>Light mode, de-sanded</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-30-light-mode-de-sanded</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The light appearance is two tones now: a barely warm near-white page and pure white cards that float on real shadows, with crisp graphite text and saturated score chips. Every word on every screen was measured for readability in both appearances. The Light, Dark and System control also moved into the profile menu, and System follows your device live. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/tour</description>
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      <title>Install EmpireOS from your phone browser</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-30-install-empireos-from-your-phone-browser</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Open EmpireOS on your phone and add it to your home screen: it installs with its own icon and opens full screen like any other app, no app store needed. The everyday screens are built for phone width, so a deal list is a stack of cards and nothing scrolls sideways. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/tour</description>
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      <title>The home page says one thing per screen</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-28-the-home-page-says-one-thing-per-screen</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The front page was ten sections deep, with a five-tab screenshot switcher, a scripted replay, a video, a price table and a nine-card link grid on top of each other. It is six screens now, each with one headline, one sentence and one large picture of the running product. Nothing was dropped: the cost breakdown moved to the pricing page, the Approvals replay to the Empire Command page, and the one-record argument to the Why EmpireOS page, all of them linked. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/</description>
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      <title>Light, system or dark, in the corner of every page</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-28-light-system-or-dark-in-the-corner-of-every-page</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The appearance control on the marketing site was a single button that flipped between light and dark, and once you pressed it there was no way back to following your computer. It is three targets now, in the top right of every page: light, system, dark. System follows your machine and keeps following it, including when it changes at sunset. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/</description>
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      <title>One box for search and for asking</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-27-one-box-for-search-and-for-asking</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>The command palette, the Ask Empire launcher and the panel docked at the bottom of the screen were three doors to the same place. There is one box in the middle of the top bar now. Type a name and it opens the record, type a question and it answers with the chart, type open forecast and it goes there. Command K opens it from anywhere. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>Look at the product the way your reps do</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-27-look-at-the-product-the-way-your-reps-do</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>An owner, an admin or a manager can now view the product as a rep or as a manager and see exactly the screens that person sees. It is a lens, not a permission: nothing you can do changes, and a pill at the top says whose view you are in until you leave it. Signing out clears it. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>Your plan, your trial clock and what you have got out of it</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-27-your-plan-your-trial-clock-and-what-you-have-got-out-of-it</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>A new plan page opens with how long is left on the trial, read from your own dates, and then the receipt: what the platform has actually done on your workspace, with the arithmetic behind the time saved printed rather than asserted. Under it, the one plan we sell and the Founding Partner terms. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/pricing</description>
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      <title>Training and content live behind one door</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-27-training-and-content-live-behind-one-door</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>Elevate and Content were two tabs that both meant enablement, so a rep looking for a deck had two places to guess between. They are one place now, Enablement, with training and content as groups inside it. The old address still resolves. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>A dead Salesforce connection says so, and can be fixed in one click</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-27-a-dead-salesforce-connection-says-so-and-can-be-fixed-in-one</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>fix</category>
      <description>A connection whose access had been revoked showed as an error with a code in it. It now reads Needs reconnecting, shows the last time it did sync and what happened on the last attempt, and Reconnect runs the sign-in again. A check runs every night against every connected workspace, and after two failed nights the workspace owner gets one email with the link that fixes it. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/faq#what-does-it-connect-to</description>
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      <title>Create anything from anywhere</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-26-create-anything-from-anywhere</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>A Create button sits in the top bar on every page and makes a deal, an account, a contact, a task or a note without leaving what you were doing. It knows where you are, so creating a contact from an account starts with that account already filled in. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>A CRM connection starts read-only</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-26-a-crm-connection-starts-read-only</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>Connecting Salesforce or HubSpot now defaults to a read-only mirror: EmpireOS reads your records and writes nothing back until you turn writing on yourself. Connecting a live CRM should not be a decision you can only unmake by hand. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/security</description>
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      <title>Your day, on one screen, shaped by your job</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-26-your-day-on-one-screen-shaped-by-your-job</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>The first screen after signing in is now different for a rep and for a manager. A rep opens on the day ahead: what needs a decision, which deals are slipping, what to do next. A manager opens on the team: coverage, the deals worth a conversation, and who is behind. Focus opens over the top of either without losing your place. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/tour</description>
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      <title>A demo workspace a person can read in a sitting</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-26-a-demo-workspace-a-person-can-read-in-a-sitting</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The shared demo workspace is twenty-five open deals now, spread evenly across the reps and the stages, from twenty-eight thousand dollars to three hundred and twelve thousand. The queue holds a Tuesday's worth of decisions rather than a month's backlog, and three deals are overdue rather than eight. Enough to prove the mechanics, small enough to hold in your head. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/demos</description>
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      <title>A demo workspace you can hold in your head</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-23-a-demo-workspace-you-can-hold-in-your-head</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The shared demo workspace is forty open deals now, not nine hundred. Each one carries its people, its activity and its qualification, with more than three hundred closed deals of history behind it so the win rate, the sales cycle and the four-quarter forecast receipt still have something true to read. A board you can actually scan beats a wall of rows. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/demos</description>
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      <title>One name for at risk, everywhere</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-23-one-name-for-at-risk-everywhere</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>fix</category>
      <description>The deals page counted a deal as needing attention below a score of 50 while the board's own dots, the forecast filters and the score badge all used the published band of 41 to 70. A pipeline could read &quot;0 at risk&quot; directly above eleven cards marked at risk. There is one definition now and every surface reads it. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>The pipeline board tells you how fresh its scores are</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-23-the-pipeline-board-tells-you-how-fresh-its-scores-are</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>fix</category>
      <description>The line above the board counted every deal in the workspace, closed ones included, and closed deals are never re-scored. A board scored a minute ago could say the scores were three weeks old. It now describes the deals actually on the board. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>Who is in this deal, as a web</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-23-who-is-in-this-deal-as-a-web</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Every deal record now opens on a web of the people on the account: the deal in the middle, each person around it, colored by how recently you spoke to them. Click a person for the history with them, read the three next steps above it, and click a stage in the deal path to see who was in the room at that point. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/demos</description>
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      <title>Follow-ups arrive written</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-23-follow-ups-arrive-written</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Your Day opens with the follow-ups ready to send, one per deal, each addressed to a person with the reason it is due. The same drafts sit on every deal record and under every call summary. Send from a connected Gmail, copy to your own mail, edit first, or plan it for tomorrow. The empty follow-up box is gone. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/demos</description>
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      <title>One home, and a deal record that leads with what to do</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-23-one-home-and-a-deal-record-that-leads-with-what-to-do</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The dashboard and the planner merged into one Your Day: the brief, the proposals waiting, the written follow-ups, the top priorities as cards you act on in place, then everything about the book one click deeper. A deal record lands on the actionable page: follow-ups, what is outstanding, what changes the outcome, who is in the deal, then the facts. Deal Review lost its split screen: pick a deal, and the call sits inline with notes pinned to the second. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/demos</description>
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      <title>Reading a deal no longer depends on who owns it</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-23-reading-a-deal-no-longer-depends-on-who-owns-it</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>By default, anyone in a workspace can open and read any deal, including one reached from an Ask Empire answer. Reps still land on their own book: a My deals and All deals switch sits next to the search box, and My deals is where a rep starts. A workspace that has switched on role enforcement in Roles &amp; Permissions keeps the scopes it configured. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/demos</description>
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      <title>The security page now answers the question it was being asked</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>&quot;Is my data used to train models?&quot; was answered on three pages with a true statement about cross-customer benchmarks, which is an answer to a different question. The actual answer is published now, on the security page, the FAQ and the pricing page: no model is trained, fine-tuned or improved on your data, every model call is inference, and the model providers' own commercial and API terms say the same about their side. The same page also now says that every deal, account and contact carries a change history showing the field, the value before, the value after, when, and whether a person or the AI made the change. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/security</description>
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      <title>Four more honest answers, including two reasons not to buy yet</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>EmpireOS is US dollars only, and there is no mobile app: it opens in a phone browser and the everyday screens work, but dragging a deal between stages does not work by touch. Both are now on the list of reasons this might be the wrong product for you, beside the ones that were already there. Two more answers were added as well: exactly what an import brings across, which is accounts, contacts and deals and not custom fields or activities, and how canceling works, which is a button in Settings with no minimum term behind it. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/why-empireos</description>
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      <title>Two more pieces in Learn: whether reps will use it, and proving who changed a close date</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-21-two-more-pieces-in-learn-whether-reps-will-use-it-and-provin</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The first takes the objection that decides most of these deals seriously: reps do not resist an AI CRM because of the typing, they resist being measured by it, and the piece names that trade rather than talking around it. The second is about audit trails, and it includes the time our own tamper check reported a break, which turned out to be our own snapshot writer rather than anybody tampering. We fixed the writer, left the broken row in place as the record, and wrote down why. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/learn</description>
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      <title>The demo forecast keeps a receipt you can check</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-20-the-demo-forecast-keeps-a-receipt-you-can-check</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>fix</category>
      <description>The accuracy table in the live demo said the team had beaten its own call by 144% in one quarter and 190% in another, which is not a thing that happens. Historical submissions had never been updated after the demo book grew, so the committed number covered a third fewer deals than actually closed. The four closed quarters now read 92%, 93%, 109% and 108%, the middle lane is populated for the first time, and a check refuses any quarter outside 80 to 120%. This is the table the site now shows on three pages instead of describing. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>Ask Empire could not reach the numbers it was answering about</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-20-ask-empire-could-not-reach-the-numbers-it-was-answering-abou</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>fix</category>
      <description>Asked for the state of the pipeline, the panel answered that there were no open deals and no value, on a workspace whose board showed a hundred and thirty of them. It could not reach the metric registry, so it answered from nothing rather than saying so. It reads the registry again. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/tour</description>
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      <title>Two integrations we were listing, and should not have been</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-20-two-integrations-we-were-listing-and-should-not-have-been</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The pricing page and the FAQ listed recording import and mail and calendar sync among what $129 includes. Neither is something a customer can switch on today: the recording integration has no registered application behind it, and the mail and calendar one fails at the provider's own consent screen. Both are written and both are named as what is coming, on every page that mentions them. They go back on the list the day somebody has watched each of them work. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/pricing</description>
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      <title>Two more pieces in Learn: CRM data quality, and the buyer's side of your process</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-20-two-more-pieces-in-learn-crm-data-quality-and-the-buyers-sid</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>One on why data cleanup projects lose and which four fields are actually worth keeping true, and one on what a B2B buying process looks like from the buyer's chair. Both are plain-language and neither names a competitor. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/learn</description>
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      <title>The confirmation email's link did nothing at all</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-20-the-confirmation-emails-link-did-nothing-at-all</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-20-the-confirmation-emails-link-did-nothing-at-all</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>fix</category>
      <description>Somebody signing up got the email, clicked the link, and landed on a password-reset page saying the link had expired. The page that verifies the link was itself behind the login wall, and an emailed link is by definition clicked by somebody who is not signed in. It works from any device now, proven with a real signup on production: the email arrived, the link was opened in a browser that had never seen the signup, and it landed inside the workspace, signed in, with the trial counting down. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/signup</description>
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      <title>Three numbers that were not computed from anything</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-20-three-numbers-that-were-not-computed-from-anything</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-20-three-numbers-that-were-not-computed-from-anything</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>fix</category>
      <description>A commission tooltip on every deal told a rep how far they were from an accelerator tier, using a rate, a target and a threshold that were placeholders somebody left in. The agent dashboard's &quot;Calls Today&quot; was the literal number 47. And a coaching brief showed a percentage toward an accelerator tier that the AI had written, from a plan that has no tiers on it. All three are gone: the two that can be counted are counted, and the one that cannot says so instead of drawing a bar. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>The trial form says what it costs</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-20-the-trial-form-says-what-it-costs</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The signup form asked for a name, a company, an email and a password, said seven days and no card, and never mentioned the price. It now says it in the same breath: $129 per user per month afterward, every module included, no card taken now and nothing charged at the end. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/signup</description>
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      <title>Every screenshot on this site is the demo you are about to open</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-20-every-screenshot-on-this-site-is-the-demo-you-are-about-to-o</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The pictures of the product were taken on 16 August against a copy of the demo workspace. The demo itself was reshaped on the 19th, so the forecast in the picture and the forecast behind the See it live button had stopped being the same company. All eighteen screens were re-shot from the live demo, so what you look at here and what you get when you click are the same numbers. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/</description>
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      <title>Six scheduled jobs had been failing on every attempt</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-20-six-scheduled-jobs-had-been-failing-on-every-attempt</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>fix</category>
      <description>Daily briefings, the nightly pipeline snapshot, analytics reports, CRM sync, deal scoring and billing reconciliation were all being refused by the door they knock on, and had been for months, with nothing raised because five different handlers answered every problem with the same two words. There is one door now that tells the failures apart, records the real reason, and raises an alarm when a job cannot run. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>Somebody is watching from outside</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-somebody-is-watching-from-outside</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-somebody-is-watching-from-outside</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>A machine that is not the application checks the app, this site and the public API every minute from outside our own hosting. Three failures in a row raise an alarm, and the alarm stands itself down when the next check passes. The result is public: anyone can read it without an account. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/security</description>
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      <title>The demo front door is one button</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-the-demo-front-door-is-one-button</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The demo page used to ask you to choose. It now has one button that puts you inside the running product, and beside it a watch-it-run mode that plays the walkthrough for you with the narration written on screen, for anyone who would rather not drive. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/demos</description>
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      <title>Help, top right, on every screen</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-help-top-right-on-every-screen</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-help-top-right-on-every-screen</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>A help button in the top bar with the walkthroughs, Ask Empire, the guides, and a way to send us a message that carries your workspace, your plan and the page you were on. No ticket number, because there is no ticket system; a person reads it. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>A won deal can start its own onboarding</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-a-won-deal-can-start-its-own-onboarding</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-a-won-deal-can-start-its-own-onboarding</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>Close a deal and the implementation project for that customer can be started from the deal itself, carrying the account, the contacts and the value across. Until now a project had to be typed in from scratch with no link back to the deal that produced it. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>Enablement is stocked with our own material</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-enablement-is-stocked-with-our-own-material</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-enablement-is-stocked-with-our-own-material</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>Battlecards, collateral, playbooks and the deal desk were shelves with nothing on them. They now hold real material about selling EmpireOS itself, including deal desk requests that have already been decided with the reasoning written down, so the module shows a working record and not only an empty queue. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>Two endpoints answered a question they should not have</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-two-endpoints-answered-a-question-they-should-not-have</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-two-endpoints-answered-a-question-they-should-not-have</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>fix</category>
      <description>Two internal checks would tell anyone, with no account and no session, which configuration settings were present on the server. They named no values and no secrets, but the shape of a system is not a stranger's business either. Both now require a signed-in platform administrator. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/security</description>
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      <title>Fields that know when they apply</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-fields-that-know-when-they-apply</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>A custom field can now be set to appear only when it is relevant, so a renewal question stops showing on a new-business deal and the record stops being a wall of empty boxes. The detail drawer also opens to half the screen, which is the width a long field list actually needs. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>The demo workspace reads like a real company's book</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-the-demo-workspace-reads-like-a-real-companys-book</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-the-demo-workspace-reads-like-a-real-companys-book</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>The shared demo everyone can open reported net revenue retention near 295%, a 52% win rate and twenty-five opportunities per customer. Every sum was right and the book was not: an account's won contracts all ran at once instead of one succeeding the last. Contracts now chain, the cohort has churn and contraction, losses are logged, and the quota is one a team could carry. It reads 112% retention, a 31% win rate and a 56-day cycle. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/demos</description>
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      <title>Deal scores were only computed for the first thousand deals</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-deal-scores-were-only-computed-for-the-first-thousand-deals</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-deal-scores-were-only-computed-for-the-first-thousand-deals</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>fix</category>
      <description>The pass that scores every deal in a workspace read one page of them and stopped, then logged a count that looked complete. A workspace with more than a thousand deals had the rest silently left unscored. It reads all of them now. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/intelligence</description>
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      <title>Signing up works from every door</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-signing-up-works-from-every-door</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-signing-up-works-from-every-door</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>fix</category>
      <description>Three of the four ways to create an account were failing, and the only thing anyone saw was a database error. A missing flag on the workspace record was being read as neither true nor false, and that non-answer went into a column that will not take one. All five paths through signup are now covered by a test that runs against both databases. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/signup</description>
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      <title>Your onboarding plan writes itself the day you start</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-your-onboarding-plan-writes-itself-the-day-you-start</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-your-onboarding-plan-writes-itself-the-day-you-start</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>A new workspace gets its own implementation plan without anybody creating one: three steps from the first minute of a trial, five when it converts, and a kickoff email that goes out on its own. Each step ticks itself off something the product watched happen, so nothing has to be marked done by hand. Progress heads the Implementation dashboard. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/product/command</description>
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      <title>A contact form, and the address printed beside it</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-a-contact-form-and-the-address-printed-beside-it</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>One place to reach us for anything that is not a sales conversation: press, a security review, a question about your data, billing, or something else. Pick the topic, write the message, and it lands in the same inbox as hello@empireos-inc.com, which is printed in full next to the form for anyone who would rather not fill one in. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/company#contact</description>
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      <title>The home page says what this is again</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-the-home-page-says-what-this-is-again</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-the-home-page-says-what-this-is-again</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>Under the headline, the line that names it: the AI-native revenue operating system for B2B sales teams, with the CRM, the forecast, the AI agent and the deal intelligence on one data layer, a person approving anything that reaches a customer, and the fact that it can run alongside the CRM you have today. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/</description>
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      <title>Ten categories on the replace-map, not seven</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-ten-categories-on-the-replace-map-not-seven</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-ten-categories-on-the-replace-map-not-seven</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>Coaching and training tools, data-quality tools and the buyer-facing sales room join the list of things one system now answers. Each was checked in the running product before it was written down, and a fourth candidate was dropped because the seam it claims to close is not closed yet. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/why-empireos#scoreboard</description>
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      <title>Three buttons nobody could see on the light appearance</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-three-buttons-nobody-could-see-on-the-light-appearance</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-three-buttons-nobody-could-see-on-the-light-appearance</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>fix</category>
      <description>Ask the Specialist on the home page, Have it shown to you on the demos page and Talk to us on pricing were near-white text on a cream background, which is to say invisible. Seventeen links elsewhere had the same problem in reverse: they looked exactly like the sentence around them. All of them now read as what they are. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/</description>
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      <title>The Specialist shows a film when you ask to watch one</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-19-the-specialist-shows-a-film-when-you-ask-to-watch-one</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>It used to offer a door into the running product whatever you asked, which is right almost always and wrong for the one person who says they would rather just watch something. It now hands you the film. And when it does not know an answer, it hands you the page that does instead of only a contact form. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/demos</description>
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      <title>A sixty-second film of the first click, recorded logged out</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-18-a-sixty-second-film-of-the-first-click-recorded-logged-out</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>A narrated film that starts on the pricing page, presses the button that says See it live, and ends inside the running product on a real workspace, with no sign-in anywhere in it. It is one take, every frame is the real application, and it carries a readable transcript. It leads the home page and the demo library. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/</description>
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      <title>The Specialist: an AI that shows you the product, not a chat box</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-18-the-specialist-an-ai-that-shows-you-the-product-not-a-chat-b</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>The website's assistant is now a seller. It opens by asking what your team runs on today rather than waiting for a question, it answers only from approved product information, and when describing something would be slower than showing it, it shows it: it opens the running product at the chapter that answers you, plays a walkthrough film inside the panel, and quotes the price word for word. It says it is an AI in its own first sentence and in its header. Hand it to a person and everything it established goes with you, already written into the form. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/</description>
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      <title>Every “See it live” now opens the product at the right place</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-18-every-see-it-live-now-opens-the-product-at-the-right-place</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>improvement</category>
      <description>A link from the pricing page opens the forecast. A link from the agent page opens the agent. The demos page leads with the six chapters and each one is a door. There is no sign-in anywhere in that path: the session is read-only, it can change nothing, and it closes itself. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/demos</description>
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      <title>The module map on the home page</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-18-the-module-map-on-the-home-page</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>One picture of what the platform actually is: one record in the middle, and the modules around it that all read from it and write back to it. Tap any of them for a plain sentence on what it is, a real screenshot of it, and a door straight into it in the running product. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/</description>
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      <title>Every subprocessor we use, named</title>
      <link>https://www.empireos-inc.com/changelog#2026-08-18-every-subprocessor-we-use-named</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>feature</category>
      <description>The security page now lists every third party the running product sends data to, what each one does for us, and what each one can see, read off the production configuration rather than off an architecture diagram. A vendor that appears in our code but is not switched on in production is deliberately not listed, because it is not running. The list also names the integrations that only carry data once you connect them. Where it lives: https://www.empireos-inc.com/security#subprocessors</description>
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