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Velocity6.3

Envoy turned the roster it already had into a physical-security product, and is now hardening it.

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◆Current state
The August 7 release moved Envoy into threat monitoring: a Threat Dashboard tracking verified global and local risks, employee home addresses synced from HRIS, and per-individual monitoring for executives and other VIPs. The releases since have been operational hardening — location-scoped blocklists so site teams can act without touching the company-wide list, and an audit log covering published changes to the workplace map. Around that, steady platform work continues across Visitors, Workplace, Screens, and the Developer API.
◆Where it's heading
Envoy is converting data it already holds — locations, employee directory, desks, visitor records — into products that sit beside the originals rather than requiring new collection. Response is the clearest instance: it works out of the box for every existing location and deepens when the HRIS directory sync shipped in July is switched on. The two releases that followed suggest the near-term concern is making these surfaces auditable and delegable enough for multi-site administration, where a single global list or an untracked map edit becomes a real operational problem.
◆Prediction
Response most likely gains administrative depth next — alerting rules, roles, and reporting — following the same scope-and-audit pattern just applied to blocklists and the workplace map. The entries give no indication of how Response is packaged or priced against the existing plans.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    Audit logs for move management

    The Event Log now records published changes to the workplace map — desk and reservation edits, move-queue tasks, and desk lending updates. It is the accountability layer for features already shipped, and the second consecutive release aimed at making shared workplace state safe for multiple teams to edit.

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  2. 6d ago

    Location-based blocklists

    Blocklist records can now be scoped to chosen locations instead of applying company-wide, letting a site team block someone locally while the global list stays protected. A delegation fix rather than a new capability, and one that matters more as Envoy adds security surfaces across multi-site customers.

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  3. 11d ago

    Executive/VIP protection

    VIP protection narrows threat monitoring from regions to named individuals, with a radius drawn around each person's home or office and its own alert routing. It is the highest-value slice of the Response launch it shipped alongside, built on the same dashboard rather than extending it.

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  4. 11d ago

    Remote worker safety

    Employee home addresses synced from HRIS appear as a layer on the Threat Dashboard and count toward each threat's impacted totals, pulling offsite staff into emergency notifications and safety confirmations. This is what makes the July HRIS directory sync pay off, and it stretches the duty-of-care workflow past the office footprint.

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  5. 11d ago

    Threat intelligence

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    Threat Intelligence is the release that made Envoy a security vendor rather than a workplace one, and the two features shipped beside it are refinements of the dashboard it introduced. Everything since — scoped blocklists, map audit logs — reads as preparing the platform for customers who will now use it in that register.

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  6. 22d ago

    Manage Deliveries with new endpoints in the Developer API

    Deliveries gain full Developer API coverage, so mailroom records can be created, retrieved, and synced with external systems instead of exported by hand. Routine API completion work, and part of the pattern of making each Envoy module addressable programmatically.

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