May was the month Assist stopped being a chat surface and became a canvas.
That sentence was a hypothesis at the start of the month. By the end of the second week of founding-user feedback it was a roadmap. By today it’s a description of what shipped.
Twenty-two features in seventeen days. Three structural shifts inside the platform. Here’s what happened and what we learned.
The Assist Workpieces pattern
The defining shift was structural. Every artefact a consultant or fractional executive actually ships (a deal record, a deal room, an ABM campaign, a research report, a proposal, a quarterly plan, a pursuit pack, a CSV import action) became a Workpiece on the canvas.
Eight workpieces shipped this month:
- Assist Deal Drafts (May 4)
- Assist Deal Rooms (May 5)
- Assist ABM Campaigns (May 6)
- Assist Research Reports (May 7)
- Assist Pursuit Packs (May 8)
- Assist Proposal & Quarter Workpieces (May 9)
- Assist Action Workflows (May 10)
- Assist Workspaces as the foundation pattern (May 1)
Each workpiece opens beside the chat. The canvas shows the artefact taking shape. The chat is where you make the decisions that shape it. Every save and send action is gated for review. You see exactly what’s being built before anything writes.
This is the core posture: Nynch will help you build the artefact, but you ship it.
The pattern came directly from watching founding users. Within the first week of launch, the chat surface was clearly the wrong shape for the work consultants actually produce. The interim solution was the canvas. We’ll learn whether it’s also the durable solution by watching how it’s used in June.
Outcome-based pricing
The second defining release of the month was the outcome-based proposal flow (May 11).
Set a base fee. Define your upside share. Define the outcome metric in language the buyer’s CFO will recognise. Set the baseline. Add a stop clause. Nynch writes the engagement in your manifesto voice with the legal language a buyer’s finance team will actually sign.
This is the contract template most consultants have wanted to have for years. The blocker has rarely been the philosophy of outcome-based pricing. It’s been the practical legal scaffolding to do it without ending up in a contract dispute. That scaffolding now exists, parameterised to the specific shape of your engagements.
LinkedIn inside Nynch
The third structural shift: LinkedIn moved into Nynch (May 15).
For consultants and fractional executives, LinkedIn is the second CRM. Half the relationships you maintain live there. The tab-switching cost was twenty or thirty context-loss moments per day for the heavier users.
Importing LinkedIn conversations, filtering by matched contacts, reading full threads in a sidebar, and saving reusable snippets all landed in one release. Replies still happen on LinkedIn (the platform does not allow third-party tools to post on your behalf). Everything else moves into the workspace.
The AI auditability posture
Three changes landed quietly that, together, define where Nynch is heading philosophically.
Assist reasoning cards (May 3) show the context behind every routed answer.
Source links on the Morning Briefing (May 14) put receipts on every AI insight.
Engine stage views (May 17) show exactly what background work is happening and on which records.
The pattern is consistent: AI claims show their sources, by default. Trust comes from auditability, not from confident wording. This was a post-launch roadmap item we moved earlier after watching founding users hesitate before acting on opaque AI suggestions.
What else shipped
- Manifesto canvas (May 12) for editing one section of your positioning without re-reading the whole document
- Proposal wizard context prefill (May 12) so the wizard reads what you’ve already told us
- GTM Playbook on Priestley (May 13) for pitch variations and campaign rhythms built on the full KPI and Oversubscribed frameworks
- Content ops unified (May 13) collapsing briefs, drafts, and uploads into one view
- Deal Room visual refresh (May 14) for the surface your buyer actually sees
- Retainer tracking (May 15) so the renewals you’ve already won stop leaking
- Analyst Mode theme extraction (May 16) for the “what’s actually happening across my calls” question
- Workspace settings consolidation (May 16) putting BYOK, content settings, and memory in one tab
What June looks like
The semantic layer that the AI auditability posture depends on is the focus of June. Every AI claim should be backed by a canonical metric or a deterministic compute. Once that’s in place, the strategic-canvas features (QBR Prep, Team Pipeline Review, New Business Planning) can ship without inventing definitions on the fly.
Less features, more depth on the ones we already shipped.
If you’re a founding user shaping where this goes next, you already know how to reach us. If you’re reading from outside Nynch and want in, the link below opens a workspace.
