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Roundup April 2026

April 2026: foundation shipped

April was nine days of public Nynch. Short month, by design.

We deliberately launched late, with a smaller foundation than the roadmap had originally planned. The reasoning was straightforward: ship the surfaces that matter most, watch how founding users actually use them, and let the next month’s roadmap be shaped by that rather than by our assumptions.

This is the record of what shipped between April 23 and April 30.

What went out

The first production release (April 25). Contacts, companies, deals, conversations, signals, Assist, deal rooms, the Relationship Engagement Index, and manifesto-grounded content all live. The full foundation a consultant or fractional executive needs to actually run their relationships in one workspace instead of three.

Inline charts in Assist (April 24). A workspace-shaped problem: founding users were asking Assist for quarterly views, then copying numbers into Excel to chart them. We shipped Assist’s chart rendering directly in-thread so a numerical question gets a numerical answer first and the narrative behind it second.

Demo workspace hardened (April 24). The demo is the first thing prospects see. After the first week of public launch we did a full seed-data refresh, hid the Academy for demo accounts (it referenced features demo users couldn’t actually configure), and cleared a small set of stale references that had survived from late beta.

Telegram bot reliability (April 24). A handful of founding users use Nynch primarily through Telegram. Longer requests were dying against Telegram’s response window. The bot now acknowledges within the window and processes the request in the background, with explicit error handling on every code path.

What we learned

Two things came back hard in the first nine days of founding-user feedback.

Founding users want fewer surfaces, not more features. The instinct on a new platform is to add. The instinct from founding users was the opposite: make the surfaces they already use deeper before you add new ones. Specifically, Assist. Every founding user reached for Assist first, often before opening any other view. That changed the May roadmap.

Auditability of AI claims matters more than we estimated. Reasoning cards and source links were on the post-launch roadmap. After watching founding users hesitate before acting on AI suggestions, we moved that work earlier. Trust comes from auditability, not from confident wording.

What May looks like

The Assist surface graduates from chat to a working canvas. Every artefact a consultant actually ships (a deal, a deal room, an ABM campaign, a research report, a proposal, a pursuit pack) becomes a visible workpiece on the canvas, gated for review before anything saves. Outcome-based pricing lands. LinkedIn moves inside Nynch.

If you’re reading this from outside Nynch, the link to start a workspace is below. If you’re a founding user, you already know how to reach us.

Peter O'Donoghue
Peter O'Donoghue
Founder of Nynch. Building the Relationship Capital platform for consultants and fractional executives. LinkedIn

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