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Rize ships its biggest release: a redesign, a web app, and an AI agent that sits across every view.

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◆Current state
Rize is now an agency operations platform built on automatic time tracking, and its October 20 release rebuilds the product around that identity. A new design system and table-based views replace the old layout, a web app joins the desktop client, and meetings, labels and workspace defaults all gain team-level controls. The Rize AI agent now reaches dashboards, people, clients and projects through @mentions, and runs on schedules through Routines.
◆Where it's heading
The August agency suite added the billing and margin layer; this release makes the agent the way users move through that layer. Saved dashboards, AI reports and scheduled Routines turn tracked time into something the agent queries and acts on, rather than a log a person reads. Meeting transcripts from Fathom and Granola, plus AI-assigned labels, push more of the categorization work off the user and onto automation.
◆Prediction
Expect Meetings to leave beta and more transcript or calendar sources to follow, since that page is the only beta in an otherwise shipped release. Whether the web app reaches parity with desktop tracking is unclear from these entries.

◆Recent moves

  1. 25d ago

    @Mentions in Rize AI Chat and the New Rize Web App

    @mentions let the agent work with specific dashboards, people, clients and skills across chat, routines and reports, so it reasons over named records instead of free text. The new web app gives managers and finance staff access without installing the desktop tracker.

  2. 25d ago

    Meetings with Transcripts (Beta): Automatic Meeting Time Tracking with Fathom and Granola

    The beta Meetings page imports Fathom and Granola transcripts and tags meeting time to the right client, project and task. That closes a common gap in automatic tracking, since calendar time used to be the hardest to attribute for billing.

  3. 25d ago

    Unlimited Labels and Auto-apply: Choose Which Labels the AI Assigns

    Removing the label cap and letting admins choose which labels the AI may apply on its own gives teams control over how much categorization they hand to automation. It fits the release's pattern of making the agent the default classifier while keeping a manual path open for the API and agents.

  4. 25d ago

    A Whole New Rize: A Simpler Design for Automatic Time Tracking

    The redesign, with table-based views, consistent components and a side sheet for client, project and task records, is the visual reset that the agency pivot needed. It moves Rize from a personal productivity look toward the dense, record-centric layout of operations software.

  5. 25d ago

    Workspace Defaults: Set Up Time Tracking for Your Whole Team

    Workspace-wide defaults for tracking, notifications and time entries, inherited by new members, continue the September work on schedules and member settings. It is the onboarding control that larger agency teams need before rolling Rize out company-wide.

  6. 25d ago

    The New Focus Page and Silent Mode: Focus Timer, Distraction Blocker, and Quiet Tracking

    Timer becomes Focus, with one-click distraction blocking, automatic or manual session start, and a Silent mode. It keeps the individual-productivity roots in place while the rest of the release points toward agency operations.