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v3.0.963

Current · 2026-06-01

Truth Layer gains its constructive twin. Alongside Contradictions, a new Consistencies tab surfaces same-speaker statement-pairs from different meetings that reinforce each other — the track record, not just the trap. The same cross-recording engine, pointed at agreement. Not a new Pro AI surface — an addition to the existing Truth Layer.

Truth Layer → Consistencies tab

The opposite of a contradiction: when the same person independently restates the same commitment across different conversations, Bonfiyah surfaces the reinforcing pair with both quotes and the recordings behind them. Review with one tap — Save to keep, Hide to dismiss — mirroring the contradictions inbox. Computed on Bonfiyah's backend from transcript text (never raw audio, which is deleted within 7 days); appears once you've recorded the same person across more than one conversation. See Truth Layer →

v3.0.764

2026-05-23

The Founder Insights release. A weekly cross-recording mirror on six dimensions of founder posture — Vision Clarity, Conviction, Customer Obsession, Capital Discipline, Hiring Posture, Operating Cadence. Each dimension surfaces a strength signal, the failure mode adjacent to it, and one Practice Move for the upcoming week. Seventeenth Pro AI cross-recording surface.

Founder Insights — seventeenth Pro AI cross-recording surface

Cross-recording read on six dimensions of founder posture: Vision Clarity, Conviction, Customer Obsession, Capital Discipline, Hiring Posture, Operating Cadence. Each dimension renders a one-line read anchored in specific quotes from the library, the strength signal, the failure mode one step further along the dimension, and one concrete Practice Move for the upcoming week. No composite score, no leaderboard, no comparison to other founders — the framework deliberately refuses the ranking premise. Weekly refresh Sunday at 06:30 UTC (immediately after Bonfire Pulse) using the trailing 28 days; manual refresh available. Minimum fifteen quotes per dimension before any read renders. Built for the operator running the company, not for evaluating other founders. Read the framework →

Settings → Notifications & AI — Founder Insights Run + Notify toggles

Run controls whether the Sunday 06:30 UTC inference touches your library. Notify controls whether the morning push lands. Run off automatically disables Notify. Founder Insights defaults to on for new Pro AI signups; existing users see an in-app onboarding card on first open after the update.

Settings → Privacy — Delete Founder Insights history

One-tap wipe of every prior week's dimension reads, strengths, failure modes, and Practice Moves from your account and Bonfiyah's backend. Source library entries untouched. Account-deletion flow cascades to Founder Insights history as standard.

Website — /why-founder-insights explainer, pricing + footer + hero rotator updates

Dedicated explainer at /why-founder-insights with the six dimensions, strength + adjacent-failure pairing logic, the five guardrails, the ethical fence (not for evaluating other founders), and the privacy posture. Pricing page picks up the new tier-card pill, matrix row, and FAQ answer; home page hero rotator gets the new card + chip at rotidx 15; footer Pro AI column adds Founder Insights with the v3.0.764 "new" pill; the canonical count moves from sixteen to seventeen across about, press, why-two-ai-tiers, alternatives, and every vs/ page.

v3.1.0

2026-05-23

The Bonfire Pulse release. A weekly self-portrait through the 10 Principles of Burning Man (Larry Harvey, 2004). Sunday at 06:00 UTC, Bonfiyah re-scores your library through the ten principles, picks one as the week's Focus, and proposes three Practice Moves. Sixteenth Pro AI cross-recording surface.

Bonfire Pulse — sixteenth Pro AI cross-recording surface

Weekly AI-generated read on your library through the 10 Principles — Radical Inclusion, Gifting, Decommodification, Radical Self-Reliance, Radical Self-Expression, Communal Effort, Civic Responsibility, Leaving No Trace, Participation, Immediacy. Sunday 06:00 UTC re-scoring, four-week trailing average overlay on the radar, principle with the largest week-over-week delta becomes the Focus. Three Practice Moves per Focus: daily 5 min, weekly 30 min, stretch once. Composite bands: Apprentice (0–34), Initiate (35–59), Practitioner (60–79), Adept (80–100). 2026 annual theme overlay: Axis Mundi. A personal-development reflection tool, not a clinical or therapeutic instrument. Bonfiyah is not affiliated with or endorsed by Burning Man Project; the principles are presented under fair use. Read the framework + fair-use disclaimer →

Settings → Notifications & AI — Bonfire Pulse Run + Notify toggles

Run controls whether the Sunday 06:00 UTC scoring touches your library. Notify controls whether the morning push lands. Run off automatically disables Notify. Bonfire Pulse defaults to on for new Pro AI signups; existing users see an in-app onboarding card on first open after the update.

Settings → Privacy — Delete Bonfire Pulse history

One-tap wipe of every prior week's radar, Focus, and Practice Moves from your account and Bonfiyah's backend. Source library entries untouched. Account-deletion flow cascades to Bonfire Pulse history as standard.

Website — /why-bonfire-pulse explainer, pricing + footer + hero rotator updates

Dedicated explainer at /why-bonfire-pulse with the full 10-Principle reproduction (verbatim, attributed), the week-mechanics, the four bands, the Axis Mundi overlay, privacy posture, and the fair-use disclaimer in full. Pricing page picks up the new tier-card pill, matrix row, and FAQ answer; home page hero rotator gets the new card + chip; footer Pro AI column adds Bonfire Pulse with the v3.1.0 "new" pill; the canonical count moves from fifteen to sixteen across about, press, why-two-ai-tiers, alternatives, and every vs/ page.

v3.0.447

2026-05-14

The Daily Brief release. One morning roll-up of every AI-detected item that needs attention, capped at 1 critical push per day, optional email-with-deep-links. Plus inline Stop / Quiet buttons in the Dynamic Island and a four-widget family for the home screen.

Daily Brief — fifteenth Pro AI cross-recording surface

Solves the "5 contradictions in 5 minutes" spam problem. The proactive scanner caps Critical-tier pings at 1 per cohort per day; everything else queues into the brief and surfaces at your configured delivery hour (default 8am local). Each item has Open / Mark Done / Snooze / Dismiss controls. Snoozed items resurface; checked-off items disappear; dismissed items don't come back. Read more →

Settings → Notifications & AI — 13 per-feature Run + Notify toggles

Master Daily Brief on/off, delivery hour picker, "Wake me for the brief" (sets the morning push to .timeSensitive so it pierces Focus + DND), email opt-in. Each AI feature gets two switches: Run (does the scanner touch your data — Apple 5.1.2(i) load-bearing) and Notify (does it land in the brief). Run off automatically disables Notify. Dating Analysis defaults to off.

Dynamic Island — inline Stop + Quiet buttons

The expanded Dynamic Island region now carries Button-driven AppIntents for Stop and Quiet. Drive the recording from the lock screen without unlocking. Home-screen widgets continue to use widgetURL routing per the v3.0.42 cross-process race lesson; the Live Activity is the controlled in-process surface where Buttons are reliable.

Four widgets — Daily Brief, Promise Ledger, Truth Layer, plus systemLarge for recording

Daily Brief widget (Small + Medium) shows open count + headline preview. Promise Ledger widget (Medium) shows top 3 commitments by due date. Truth Layer widget (Small) shows open contradiction count and taps to the freshest one. The existing Bonfiyah recording widget gains a Large face that combines recording status with today's brief preview.

Control Center widget (iOS 18+) — Start Bonfiyah Recording

Add to Control Center, the iOS 18 Lock Screen, or the iPhone 15 Pro+ Action Button. One-tap recording start from anywhere — no app icon hunt. Reuses the same AppIntent that powers Siri ("Start recording in Bonfiyah") and Shortcuts.

Backend: 3 new tables + 2 new routers + 37 new tests

notification_brief_items + daily_brief_settings + user_ai_preferences (dialect-aware, idempotent migration). /api/v1/daily-brief (list, complete, snooze, dismiss) + /api/v1/user/ai-preferences (per-feature get/set + master settings). 17 brief-queue tests + 17 router tests + 3 wire-format-contract tests, all green.

v3.0.144

2026-05-09

The legal-readiness release. First-launch acceptance gate, admin terms surface, and admin subscriptions surface — the work App Store review requires before the v3.0 binary can ship.

Terms / Privacy / Consent acceptance gate

Full-screen blocking modal on first launch and on every ToS / Privacy / Consent version bump. Three required tick-boxes — Terms, Privacy, Biometric & Voice Consent — and an Accept-and-Continue button that's disabled until all three are checked. Each acceptance is stamped with IP, user-agent, IDFV, CloudKit user id, app + iOS version, and a tamper-evident SHA-256 hash for the legal record. Operator can roll out a new required version without a binary release; existing users are re-gated on next launch.

Admin Terms surface (owner-only)

In-app admin panel — gated behind a Keychain-backed admin token, owner-only — that surfaces aggregate acceptance stats by document and version, paginated recent-acceptances feed, the cohort of users who have not yet accepted a particular version, and the read-only required-versions snapshot. Pairs with the public-facing acceptance gate as the operator's audit-log control plane.

Admin Subscriptions surface (owner-only)

Sister panel for subscription state. Surfaces RevenueCat-backed entitlement reality side-by-side with the device's cached state, so the operator can spot drift, refunds, and state-machine bugs before users ever notice. Re-uses the admin token from Admin Terms — sign in once, both panels open.

689 iOS tests + 76 backend tests green

AcceptedTermsServiceTests + AdminSubscriptionsServiceTests added. Full suite green at submission.

v3.0.142

Website · 2026-05-08

The privilege-and-consent surface on bonfiyah.com — pricing, feature pages, and the legal use-case page now surface attorney-client privilege handling, Apple Consent Provider integration, and the consent-management toggles in plain language so prospects can read the story before they install.

/consent-explained + /features/consent

Apple Consent Provider (ACP) flow + per-recording consent affirmation explained for non-engineers.

/use-cases/legal — privilege story

How Bonfiyah handles attorney-client privileged conversations: per-recording affirmation, no third-party transcription, no training, audit log per file.

/pricing — privilege + consent rows added

Comparison table now spells out privilege handling and consent management at every tier.

v3.0.131 → v3.0.132

2026-05-08

ConsentManager + OwnerRecipientGrouping rewrite. The consent state machine that powers the per-recording affirmation got a cleaner separation between owner-as-recipient and recipient-only flows — fewer edge cases, cleaner test surface.

Settings + Story Playback + Team Dynamics polish

View-layer refinements across the three most-trafficked surfaces.

ConsentManager + OwnerRecipientGroupingTests

New unit-test files cover the rewritten consent and grouping logic end-to-end.

v3.0.68 → v3.0.130

Iteration · 2026-05-07 → 2026-05-09

The mass of small Pre-deploy snapshots between the Polish-Pass release and the Acceptance-Gate release. Rolled up into a single entry by intent — these were build-by-build iterations on Story Playback, Settings, and the autonomous-deploy pipeline. Per-version detail in the git log.

build-2026-05-09

BACKEND · 2026-05-09

Six backend pushes consolidated into one row. ~3,000 lines net change across the Perf-Watcher endpoint + iOS Operator panel, the CoWork outbox sync, feedback admin endpoints, and assorted hardening. Per-push detail in the git log.

Backend hardening + tests

Routers, services, and migrations under backend/. 49 new tests landed across the day.

v3.0.146 → v3.0.149

IOS · 2026-05-09

Four iOS bumps shipped on the same day, consolidated. Net change covers the accessibility-mirror brand tokens, the Report-a-Problem diagnostic bundle, and a series of operator-panel surfaces. Each bump archive landed on TestFlight separately.

UI + service refinements

View-layer polish across Settings, Speaker Insights, Story Playback, plus service-layer wiring for the Operator Hub admin surfaces.

v3.0.247

IOS · 2026-05-11

Routine release. 3 file(s) changed, +51 / -18 lines.

Iteration

Internal improvements; see commit history for details.

build-2026-05-11

BACKEND · 2026-05-11

Routine release. 2 file(s) changed, +60 / -4 lines.

Iteration

Internal improvements; see commit history for details.

v3.0.246

IOS · 2026-05-11

Routine release. 5 file(s) changed, +243 / -97 lines.

UI improvements

Refinements to in-app screens — speakers, stories, recording, or settings.

v3.0.245

IOS · 2026-05-11

Routine release. 3 file(s) changed, +34 / -8 lines.

UI improvements

Refinements to in-app screens — speakers, stories, recording, or settings.

v3.0.248

IOS · 2026-05-11

Website + iOS update. Routine release. 15 file(s) changed, +1943 / -341 lines.

IOS · 2026-05-11

Website + iOS update. Routine release. 6 file(s) changed, +68 / -22 lines.

IOS · 2026-05-11

Website + iOS update. Routine release. 8 file(s) changed, +491 / -71 lines.

Website + iOS update. Routine release. 18 file(s) changed, +7402 / -43 lines.

IOS · 2026-05-19

Website + iOS update. Routine release. 13 file(s) changed, +1237 / -20 lines.

Internal improvements; see commit history for details.

v3.0.841

IOS · 2026-05-25

Website + iOS update. Routine release. 16 file(s) changed, +4483 / -148 lines.

Refinements to in-app screens — speakers, stories, recording, or settings.

v3.0.1059

IOS · 2026-06-04

Website + iOS update. Routine release. 18 file(s) changed, +3489 / -49 lines.

UI improvements

Refinements to in-app screens — speakers, stories, recording, or settings.

Data layer updates

Story / speaker / consent model adjustments.

v3.0.1100

IOS · 2026-06-06

Website + iOS update. Routine release. 23 file(s) changed, +490 / -40 lines.

Settings was a .fullScreenCover from seven entry points (centered card on iPad, floating window on Mac). Now a single .settings AppScreen pushed onto the parent NavigationStack via a requestOpenSettings notification. Edge-to-edge on iPhone, iPad, Mac Catalyst.

Bottom nav on iPad/Mac home

Projects | Stories | AI brain moved from the top-left toolbar pill to a bottom controls row, matching the iPhone layout. Duplicate eye icon on iPad split-pane Stories suppressed (the LEFT-pane Projects eye was the redundant one — the RIGHT-pane Stories eye is canonical).

Active-learning ensemble path (v3.0.62 → v3.0.65)

Override storage + iOS UI + Claude scorer + cross-speaker calibration shipped across the four-build sequence ahead of this release. 76 backend tests + 689 iOS tests green.

v3.0.57

2026-05-07

Ray Dalio Pointillist Painting added to Team Dynamics. Pro AI now ships thirteen cross-recording surfaces.

Ray Dalio Pointillist Painting (Team Dynamics)

Member-by-dimension heatmap modeled on Ray Dalio's Dot Collector from Principles: Life and Work (2017). Each team member is scored on 10 facets (Originality, Big-picture, Critical Thinking, Determination, Reliability, Open-mindedness, Composure, Empathy, Assertiveness, Sociability) and matched to one of 16 PrinciplesYou archetypes — Shaper, Strategist, Mentor, Coach, Sponsor, Investigator, Counselor, Educator, Entertainer, Connector, Adventurer, Crusader, Inventor, Quarterback, Stalwart, Reformer. Built for believability-weighted team decisions: lean on the highest scorer in the column the question lives in. Inferred from conversation patterns; the official PrinciplesYou questionnaire (free, ~35 min) at principlesyou.com is the self-reported ground truth. Why the Pointillist Painting — full explainer →

v3.0.52

2026-05-07

MBTI Compatibility added to the Team Dynamics screen. Pro AI now ships twelve cross-recording surfaces.

MBTI Compatibility map (Team Dynamics)

Pair-by-pair compatibility heatmap inside Team Dynamics. Six bands from Best (92, "Natural Partners") to Difficult (28, all four dimensions opposite). MBTI letters derived from each speaker's Big Five (OCEAN) trait scores via the Costa & McCrae (1992) mapping; pair scoring uses Keirsey-Bates Please Understand Me II (1998). Insight text per pair is templated by tier — same band, same advice — so the screen reads the same across visits. Why MBTI Compatibility, the model and its limits →

v3.0.32

2026-05-07

Proactive Notifications. Bigger than the rest of the spring drop combined, because it's the first feature that reaches out to the user instead of waiting to be opened.

Proactive Notifications

Quote-driven pings for overdue promises, fresh contradictions, stale commitments, cooling topics, and absent collaborators. Three-tier system (Critical / Standard / Insights) with daily caps so notifications never become noise. Quiet hours, per-speaker mute, opt-out per tier. Every notification is a deep link to the exact story, exact section. Local notifications only — no APNs, no third-party push servers. In-app Notifications inbox for users who keep system notifications muted. Deep-dive →

v3.0

Spring 2026

The memory-layer release. Bonfiyah stops being a transcription tool and starts being a system for what your conversations mean across time.

AI Project Context

A 250–450 word executive briefing synthesised across every recording in a project. Cached per content signature; stays fresh on its own. Deep-dive →

Compatibility Analysis (Pro AI)

Pairwise scorecard combining Attachment Theory, Big Five, Gottman Four Horsemen, and Thomas-Kilmann. Hard consent gate — refuses to run without explicit two-party consent. Deep-dive →

Team Dynamics (Pro AI)

9-box matrix, team cohesion score, swap recommendations, coverage-gap analysis across N selected speakers. Saveable team analyses. Deep-dive →

Email Intelligence

Every emailed AI Summary, Speaker Insights, and Team Dynamics export now carries tappable section headings. Tap "Decisions" or a speaker name in your inbox; Bonfiyah opens to that section. Deep-dive →

Live Speaker Reassignment with Carry-Forward

Tap any "Speaker A/B/C" label during an active recording. Picker offers expected speakers, calendar attendees, Apple Contacts search, custom name. The rename carries forward in real time. Deep-dive →

Cross-Recording Voice ID — cross-recording + automatic per-utterance correction

Voices match across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and iCloud as a linked cohort. Per-utterance voice signature pass automatically splits hybrid the upstream transcription provider clusters. Deep-dive →

Project Actions + My Action Items

Action items aggregated across every story in a project (and its sub-projects), with hierarchical project tree support. "My Action Items" surface aggregates owner-scoped actions across the entire library.

Story Episodes

Episodic groupings of recurring topics. Builds narrative arcs across recordings — the project's "season."

Verbal Consent Detection

Automatic detection of recording-notification phrases in audio ("This call is being recorded for training purposes"). Auto-grants the appropriate consent state when detected.

Auto-Translation

Per-utterance language detection and translation across 30+ languages. Multilingual transcript display with the original and translated text side-by-side.

Custom Vocabulary (Word Boost)

User-supplied terms that prime transcription accuracy — industry jargon, technical terms, names that the off-the-shelf model gets wrong.

Trim, Split, and Continue Recording

Non-destructive editing of stories. Trim silence, split a recording into two, continue an existing recording.

Resplit Voice Matching

Manual per-utterance speaker reassignment for the edge cases automatic clustering misses. Pairs with the live-reassignment picker.

Branded PDF Generation

PDF exports of AI Summary, Speaker Insights (with full per-framework cards: Big Five, DISC, Belbin, Thomas-Kilmann, Predictive Index), and Team Dynamics 9-box. Defensible, brandable, with the Email Intelligence deep-link scheme baked in.

v2.x

Late 2025 — early 2026 · LifeLog360 lineage

The Pro AI release line. Pro AI as a tier was introduced; the seven foundational AI features shipped one-by-one across this series. Lineage from LifeLog360 (the predecessor app) — App Store record reset for Bonfiyah's first-time submission, but the engine work is continuous.

v2.6 — Native iPhone integration

Calendar + Contacts read access. Lock-screen Live Activity, Dynamic Island. The recording-status widget. AirPods + Bluetooth lavalier capture stability.

v2.5 — Action Items + Speaker Themes

Per-recording action item extraction with owner / deadline / source-quote. Per-person speaking-pattern themes — recurring topics, hedging signature, energy markers.

v2.4 — Story Mode + People Memory

Narrative recap engine ("Story Mode") that reads like someone was paying attention. Per-person profile pages summarising what they bring up, how they speak, what's open.

v2.3 — Pre-Brief

Calendar-aware pre-meeting briefing. 30 minutes before a meeting, a one-page brief from prior recordings with that person.

v2.2 — Truth Layer

Cross-recording contradiction detection. Catches when something said today contradicts something said weeks ago, surfaces it before the next meeting.

v2.1 — Promise Tracker

Auto-extraction of every commitment from every meeting. Card per commitment with speaker, deadline, source quote, follow-through tracking.

v2.0 — Pro AI tier introduced

Three-tier pricing structure (Free / Pro / Pro AI) shipped. Pro AI gated by subscription with a 7-day trial. The cleavage between recording-volume features (Pro) and stakes-attached AI (Pro AI) was made explicit.

v1.x

Late 2024 — mid 2025 · Foundation

The cross-recording layer. Pro tier and the speaker-library substrate that everything Pro AI depends on.

v1.5 — Multi-device sync via iCloud

Real-time sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac Catalyst. Stop a recording on one device, watch the transcript finish on another.

v1.3 — Advanced Search

Semantic + keyword search across stories, transcripts, speakers, and tags in one box.

v1.1 — Persistent speakers

Speaker profiles that survive across recordings. The library substrate that makes everything cross-recording work.

v1.0 — Foundation

On-device transcription, per-recording diarization, two-party consent management, projects + tags, the Free tier with a real 120-minutes-per-month allotment that is fully usable.

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