February 2026: Workflow Engine, Open-Source Starter App, and Major AI Upgrades
February was a shorter month, but we packed in a lot. We shipped our Workflow Engine with SLA tracking, released an open-source Starter Application, and brought major AI upgrades across the platform — plus 80+ bug fixes. Here's everything.
New: Workflow Engine, SLA Tracking & Approvals
The biggest release of the month. Boards now support a full Workflow Engine that lets you define exactly how work moves through your process:
- Workflow transitions — Define which status changes are allowed, who can make them, and what conditions must be met
- Inline transition editing — Rename transitions directly in the workflow editor
- Required fields — Ensure specific columns are filled before a task can move to the next status
- Approval workflows — Route tasks through approval chains before they can proceed
- SLA tracking — Set time-based goals per status with customizable business calendars. Track how long items spend in each stage and get alerted before deadlines
- Per-status visibility — Control which columns are visible at each workflow stage, keeping your board clean and focused
This is a game-changer for teams running structured processes — support queues, hiring pipelines, content approvals, and more.
New: Open-Source Starter Application
We're releasing an open-source Starter Application that shows you how to build custom applications on top of your Copera Boards using the @copera.ai/sdk.
The idea is simple: your Boards act as the database, and you build any frontend you want on top of them. The Starter App gives you a working foundation — a Fastify API, a React frontend with Tailwind CSS, authentication, and everything wired up. From there, you can turn it into anything:
- A customer support portal
- A product catalog or storefront
- An HR self-service portal
- A project submission form
- Anything that reads from or writes to your Boards
The current reference implementation is a support ticket portal, but it's designed to be customized for any use case. And you can use AI tools — Copera AI, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor — to help you build and customize your app. Just point the AI to your column IDs and the Copera University documentation.
We're also adding developer documentation to Copera University with a setup guide, column ID reference, and tips for building with AI.
Learn about the Starter Application
New: AI Gets Smarter
Several major AI upgrades this month:
- MCP Server Support — Connect external tools and data sources to Copera AI through the Model Context Protocol. Manage your MCP connections from a new settings UI
- Voice-to-text in AI Chat — Speak to Copera AI instead of typing. Your voice is transcribed and sent as a message
- Ask AI in Feed — Get AI-powered answers and insights directly from your activity feed
- Streaming responses — AI chat now displays responses as they stream in, with smarter tool usage and contextual suggestions
Improved: Meeting Channels
- Raise Hand — Request to speak with a dedicated raise hand button, complete with a sound notification and an ordered queue so no one gets skipped
- Dynamic tile layout — Video tiles now resize and rearrange dynamically based on the number of participants
- Auto speaker identification — After a recording, Copera now automatically matches speakers to transcription segments, so you know who said what without manual tagging
- Invite preferences — Customize how you receive meeting channel invites: choose your preferred visual style and notification sound
- Virtual Office backgrounds — Add blur or custom background effects during virtual office sessions
Meeting Channels | Speaker Identification | Virtual Office
Improved: DocSign
DocSign received two major upgrades:
- Templates — Create reusable document signing templates. Set up signature fields once and reuse them across multiple documents
- ICP-Brasil Digital Signing — Full support for Brazilian digital certificates with RFC3161 timestamps, making Copera-signed documents legally valid under Brazilian digital signature law
Improved: Inbox (Beta)
Our email client keeps getting better:
- Email attachments — Full attachment support with inline image rendering
- Large file support — Attachments that exceed email size limits are automatically uploaded to Drive with a download link
- Search across all folders — Find any email across your entire inbox, with search history and recent searches
- Purge junk & trash — Clean up your mailbox by emptying entire folders
- Email security details — View authentication headers and the original email source
Improved: Boards
Beyond the Workflow Engine, boards got several enhancements:
- Nested formulas & rollups — Formulas can now reference other formulas and rollups, enabling complex calculated fields
- Workload view colors — Choose which column determines task colors in the workload view for better visual grouping
- Link modal pagination — The row linking modal now supports pagination for boards with many rows
Improved: Chat
- Team mentions — Use @here and @channel to notify everyone in a text channel, just like you'd expect
- Message reactions — Reactions now update in real time, even when you're not the one reacting
Improved: Documents
- Draft/Publish — Public documents now support a draft mode. Make changes, preview them, and publish when you're ready
- Mermaid diagrams — Public documents now render Mermaid diagrams, supporting flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and more
Documents | Sharing & Permissions
Improved: Calendar
- Edit events — You can now edit calendar events after creation
- Participant tracking — See participant status (accepted, declined, tentative) on events
Under the Hood
- 80+ bug fixes across chat, boards, inbox, meeting channels, documents, and more
- Performance improvements — Faster message loading in text channels, optimized meeting recordings, and improved caching
- Now available in 3 languages — All system emails now support English, Spanish, and Portuguese-BR
Copera University
Copera University continues to grow. This month we added comprehensive documentation for workflows, developer guides, and new comparison pages. If you haven't bookmarked it yet: university.copera.ai
February was short but packed. Thank you for your continued feedback — it directly shapes what we build. March is looking even bigger.
— The Copera Team