3.8.1 March 2026 Release

Onboarding Wizard: when you first load Sapience, there is now an onboarding wizard that walks you through the different parts of the system, and gives you a summary of capabilities for each of Sapienc’e major modules (Agents, Files, Notes and Projects).

Mode selector replaced with Thinking: we have improved the user experience around the concepts of Skills versus Modes. The Mode selector has been removed, and replaced with a Thinking menu. This essentially allows you as a user to choose how long the Agent should work on a given task. Default still shuts down at 4 minutes. For longer-running jobs, use the Thinks Longer option. Research mode has had its timeout increased to 60 minutes, although Research runs usually complete in 10-15 minutes.

Smarter File Chat: we upgraded the AI model used for File Chat to a more recent 1-million token model from OpenAI. File chats are now “smarter”, but still fast, and still able to handle very large files.

Share Files Directly as URL (AKA publish website): we added a tool to most Agents that allow them to save files to your workspace, and then to publish those files as websites. This enables the flow of having Sapience create landing pages or interactive slides, and then to share these with non-Sapience users, simply by providing the URL. Note that these are password protected by default, and the Agent will generate a password and give it to you in the chat. You can ask it to create such a published URL without a password.

File Preview for PDF: you can now preview PDF files in your browser without downloading a file. Preview was previously only availale for HTML and image files.

File Preview for Word (.docx): you can now preview Word files in your browser without downloading a file.

Users cannot Create Projects: We have made a system-wide change, so that users with the role “User” can not create Projects anymore. Power User and above can create projects (including template projects). Note that regular Users can still participate in Projects, just not create them.

Power Users can now create Org-wide Agents: previously, only the Org Admin could create Agents that are visible to all Organization members. Due to customer requests, this has been changed so that power users who often act as junior org admins, can now a) create org-scoped agents; b) edit an exisitng user-scoped Agent and make it org-scoped; c) demote an Org scoped Agent that they own/created to User Agent.; d) edit an Org-scoped Agent that they own and created. Org Admin permissions were not changed.

Track Changes & Visual Diff: Sapience Notes now supports Track Changes, much like the feature in Microsoft Word. When you view the version history of a Note either from the main Note viewer, or from within the Note Editor, you are now able to see: 1) who made the change; 2) an inline preview of the change; 3) a side-by-side comparison of the two versions of the Note. If you own the Note, you can also rollback the Note to any previous version. The system continues to save unlimited versions of Notes.

Insert Link to URL: from within the Note Editor, in the Insert menu, there is now an option to more easily add URLs to other webpages for a note.

Insert Link to Note: from within the Note Editor, in the Insert menu, there is now the option to link to another Note from within your Sapience workspace (Notes you own, or have been shared with you).

Insert Link to File: from within the Note Editor, in the Insert menu, there is now the option to link to any File in the system that you have access to as a user (owned or as a share recipient or Project Member).

Insert Link to Project Resource: for Notes that exist as part of a Project, there is a special menu in the Note Editor, that allows you to link to any Project Resource (Task, Goal, Note, File). This is similar in concept to the “Related Resources” panel within a given Task, that also allowed you to easily cross-link items within a given Project.

Project Agent Changes: defaults to Think Longer, as Project Agent work is often complex. We added the list-other-Agents and query-any-Agent tools by default to Project Agents, making the Team of Agents workflow more user-friendly.

New Role - Project Admin: a new role was added to the system called Project Admin. The Project Admin generally has all the same rights as the Project owner/creator. The intended use case is for Project owners/creators to add other users to help administer things like updating non-owned tasks, adding Project members, updating core Project meta-data, etc.

Chat button: Added chat with project button to the main Project header so quickly available everywhere inside Projects (dont need to use dropdown, but can).

Enterprise - Project Agent Org-Level Override: Organizations now have the ability to choose what AI model and which vendor will be used for Project Agent Chat. The general Project Agent default remains the latest Open AI model (GPT-5.4 at the time of writing). Some customers prefer Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, Google’s Gemini Pro 3.1, etc so this is now a configuration option.

Email File Attachments: You can now email a file attachment to an Agent, and that file will be added to the Sapience File system. The agent will USE that file in its reply to the email in question.

Sapience Marketing Agent: this is your designer and creative partner. Terrific at creating web pages, dashboards, slides, infographics, and anything at all that can be created in HTML or with the various image generation tools currently available (currently uses Google Nano Banana Pro, which is based on Gemini 3 for image generation).

Chat GPT (Sapience Agent - Open AI Edition): for users that like ChatGPT, it is now available from the Agent Store as an optionally installable Agent for use in the system. Note that our recommendation remains using the Claude-Opus based Sapience Agent as the default.

Save File Tools: Regular agents with the save_file tool and all project agents using the save_project_file tool can now output PDF or Word (.docx) binary files. These files actulaly have their content come from markdown or html, but conversion is done auto-magically. So Agents can now save/create the following file types: Markdown (.md); HTML (.html); CSV (.csv); PDF; Word (.docx).

Inline skill help: when you select a Skill, the system will now inject two messages into the Chat transcript, the first being the Description of the skill provided by the Skill author, and the second being usage instructions (optionally provided by the Skill author).

Create Website Skill: Because the creation of “vibe coded” websites has been so popular, but because there are tips and tricks to really make this work in the wild, we created a Skill that you can use from the Skills menu, that provides ~1000 words of advanced prompts to any Agent on how to best create websites that work on desktop and mobile browsers

Charts Skill: there have been multiple ways to create charts in the platform and that list has grown over time. You can use the Data Analyst Agent, the Sapience Coding Agent, you can hack the Diagrams Skill. Now, you can simply install and use the Charts Skill. This is far more efficient and will get you great charts quickly. It supports 15 different types of charts, from scatter plot to time series, and can even create interactive 3D models (although the Coding Agent and Data Analyst Agents are better at this).

Enterprise - Create Powerpoint With Template Skill: Sapience Enterprise customers can now provide a PowerPoint file using the Slide Master feature of Powerpoint, and have that be adopted by all users in their workspace when Sapience creates powerpoint files. This allows you to use your corporate PowerPoint template, set it once, and ensure that all content generated by users in your org are creating PowerPoints that your marketing leader will be happy with.

Yahoo Finance MCP: new tool created, that can be optionally added to agents, which leverages Yahoo finance, using an stdio MCP server wrapper around the Yahoo finance API. Allows agents to get all the data from Yahoo finance (e.g. stock prices, etc). Install the Stock Analyst Agent from the Agent Store to try this out.

Here are a few interesting Agents to try out:

LinkedIn Expert Agent: An Agent that knows the current best practices for creating LinkedIn content that will cause users to enage and please the LInkedIn algorithm. Terrific for combining with Scheduled Jobs to give you a series of proposed LinkedIn post drafts in your inbox each day.

Stock Analysis Agent: a powerful Agent that combines many tools, including live access to all of Yahoo Finance’s data, as well as the FRED database, that can do comprehensive analysis of any listed security on major markets (NYSE, Nasdaq, etc).

ISO9001 Expert Agent: a long-thinking Agent powered by Opus 4.6 that is an expert on the ISO9001:2015 standard. Capable of advanced and complex analysis.

Sapience for Windows is here! It is very fast, allows for the easy uploading of hundreds of Files, and is generally a power-user experience for using Sapience. Note that this is still a preview, and because it is desktop software, will not be updated as frequently as the web application. If you are a heavy user of Sapience, we recommend Sapience Desktop to you. Check out the separate article about Sapience For Windows.