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Dovetail

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Velocity5.0

Customer insights platform for analyzing research, feedback, and user interviews

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Dovetail spent July opening doors to other tools; August is spent making its own rooms easier to enter.

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◆Current state
Dovetail is a customer-research workspace whose center of gravity has moved to chat and agents. July was an integration run — Snowflake into Channels, a Microsoft Copilot connector, MCP tools inside chat, and a one-click menu for sending work out to Linear or Notion. August contains no new reach at all: every release this month files down the chat and Digital Twin surface that those integrations feed.
◆Where it's heading
The pattern across the last five releases is access, not capability. Digital Twins went from a two-step workaround — make a generic agent, then change its type — to a first-class create option, then gained a share link that lands a recipient in a conversation rather than a configure page. Chat is being simplified along the same line, with a thinner footer and scoped context that survives the jump to fullscreen. Dovetail is preparing these agents for people who will never build one.
◆Prediction
Expect the sharing path to keep widening — permissions, guest access, or an embed for a twin link — since a link that opens straight into chat only pays off if it can safely leave the workspace.

◆Recent moves

  1. 6d ago

    Share a direct link to chat with your digital twin

    A shared twin link now opens a conversation instead of its configure page — the difference between handing a colleague a working tool and handing them a settings screen. Small as routing changes go, it fits August's push to put Digital Twins in front of people who would never assemble one themselves.

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  2. 12d ago

    A simpler chat footer

    Chat's footer sheds controls. Part of the same August tidy-up as the fullscreen context fix, with no new function behind it.

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  3. 13d ago

    One click actions

    One menu now sends any Doc, data point, or Channels idea into the tool where someone will act on it, carrying its context along. This is the outbound half of July's integration run — material leaves Dovetail as readily as it arrives.

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  4. 13d ago

    Your chat context now follows you into fullscreen

    A repair for context lozenges that dropped when a corner chat was expanded to fullscreen, so a conversation scoped to a project or dataset now survives the switch. Real friction removed, but it restores intended behavior rather than adding any.

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  5. 16d ago

    More ways to create Digital Twins

    Digital Twins get their own entry wherever you create, replacing the make-an-agent-then-retype-it detour. The capability itself arrived with July's Agents GA; this release is Dovetail deciding the twin is common enough to deserve a front door.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Snowflake integration in Channels

    Channels can pull directly from Snowflake, reaching past app-level feedback sources into signal that has already been modeled across systems. It belongs to the July inbound run that stocked the workspace August is now spent making navigable.

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