Ask Copera AI Redesigned, Smart Email AI & Copera Voice
This week brings a completely redesigned Ask Copera AI experience with web search, deep research, image generation, and voice input. Plus, a new smart email AI that automatically classifies and summarizes your inbox, and Copera Voice for hands-free dictation and commands.
New Features
Ask Copera AI — Complete Redesign
The Ask Copera AI assistant has been completely rebuilt from the ground up with a modern chat experience and powerful new capabilities (#2799):
- Web Search — Ask Copera AI can now search the web to answer your questions, with inline citation links so you can verify sources
- Deep Research — for complex topics, activate Research mode to get comprehensive, in-depth answers with multiple sources
- Image Generation — generate images directly in the chat by describing what you want
- Think Mode — enable advanced reasoning for complex questions that require step-by-step analysis
- Voice Input — speak your questions instead of typing, with real-time audio visualization
- Context Picker — attach documents, Drive files, or meeting transcriptions to give the AI full context for better answers
- Conversation Branching — edit a previous message to explore a different direction without losing your original conversation
- Copera Help — the AI can now browse Copera's help documentation to answer questions about how to use the platform
- Personalized Welcome — a greeting screen with weather-aware messages and quick-start suggestion cards
- Sources Panel — view all web search sources in a dedicated side panel with links to original pages
Additional polish and fixes for the new AI experience (#2800, #2801, #2802, #2803, #2804, #2805):
- Smarter location awareness — the AI can request your location for weather and local information, with improved city-level precision
- Stop generation — a stop button to halt the AI's response at any time
- Smoother animations — polished loading indicators and transition effects
Super Copera Email AI
A new invisible AI layer that makes your inbox smarter (#2797):
- Automatic email classification — emails are automatically sorted by category (important, updates, promotions, etc.) as they arrive
- Email summaries — get quick summaries of long emails so you can triage your inbox faster
- AI draft replies — the AI suggests draft replies based on the email content, which you can edit and send
Copera Voice — Hands-Free Experience
A brand new way to interact with Copera using your voice:
- Dictation — dictate text anywhere in the platform instead of typing
- AI Assistant — ask questions and get answers using voice
- Voice Commands — perform common actions hands-free
Email — Calendar Invitations
When you receive an email with a calendar invitation (#2791):
- Event details banner — a visual banner shows the event date, time, title, location, and organizer
- RSVP buttons — respond with Yes, No, or Maybe directly from the email
- Attendee avatars — see who else is invited at a glance
Workflow — Approval System Improvements
Significant improvements to the workflow approval system (#2790):
- Conditional approvers — automatically assign approvers based on column values (e.g., different approvers for different departments)
- Pending status — a new pending state for items waiting for approval
- Global transitions — define workflow transitions that apply across all columns
Image Annotation
A new built-in tool for annotating images (#2792):
- Draw on images — add shapes, arrows, text, and highlights directly on any image
- Built-in to Copera — no need for external annotation tools
Bug Fixes
- Board — fixed row detail dialog and automations crashing in certain conditions (#2796)
- Board — fixed notification automation text not displaying correctly (#2793)
- Board — fixed issues with automation rules and formula calculations (#2794)
