2026

SiftAdded

A review tells you when its review agent stopped, or when the change it was reviewing closed partway through.

SiftFixed

When a review agent stops, its work is handed back so another one can pick it up.

SiftChanged

When a change is closed or merged, its review offers Archive instead of Re-run.

SiftChanged

While a review runs, its live view describes what the AI is thinking.

CaliperChanged

Every report now leaves out your own team's visits.

CaliperAdded

Each funnel step can be narrowed to visitors from a particular source or on a particular page.

SiftFixed

Watching a review as it runs reconnects on its own without missing anything.

SiftFixed

Sift sees all of your review agents, however many you have.

AccountAdded

Added Support: ask for help from any product's account menu.

AccountAdded

Your account's Support section shows proposals, quotes and invoices.

AccountChanged

Choosing what a connected app can do is now one list, by name, with admin-only abilities marked.

SiftAdded

A review shows which tool and AI model actually ran it.

SiftAdded

The review agent picks the right tool for each piece of work.

CaliperAdded

Claude can now create funnels, feature switches, experiments and campaigns in Caliper.

AccountChanged

Signing in looks the same on every Whittle Labs site.

AccountSecurity

Signing out signs you out everywhere at once.

PlotterChanged

Each round in a day now counts according to its place in the day.

SiftAdded

Sift can now review with Codex or GitHub Copilot, as well as Claude Code.

SiftAdded

You pick a review's AI model and effort from what your review agents can actually run.

SiftChanged

Every Whittle Labs product has a refreshed look.

SiftChanged

Reworked the guided tour, the standards library and the Overview.

AccountSecurity

Sensitive information is no longer stored as plain text.

PlotterAdded

Added two counting tools, n+1 and Move n.

PlotterAdded

Added practice rounds, step-by-step playback of a solution, and a playground, and fixed the first game.

CaliperAdded

Caliper shows unique visitors, a list of visitors, and the path one visitor took.

AccountAdded

Apps that sign in a simpler way can now connect too.

AccountAdded

AI apps can set themselves up when they connect, and you can limit a connection to only reading, product by product.

CaliperAdded

Caliper campaigns can be archived, and their old links lead to a page that says so.

CaliperAdded

You can share a campaign's results with a public link.

PlotterChanged

Plotter asks before resetting, explains each move, tidies its solutions, and gives each day its own window.

SiftFixed

Fixed a problem where a comment's label reset after you chose it.

PlotterChanged

Your share is now a little chart of the day's rounds.

PlotterChanged

The bars in your share are easier to tell apart.

PlotterAdded

Launched Plotter, a daily puzzle, at plotter.gg.

whittlelabs.comChanged

Notes from the Bench moved to Galley, our publishing service; every link still works.

AccountAdded

Billing lets you resume a plan that's set to end, and tells you what went wrong when a payment fails.

AccountChanged

Your account opens on your account details; your products have their own page.

SiftChanged

Tidied the payment step on Sift's plans page.

whittlelabs.comChanged

Rewrote the About page.

AccountChanged

Connected apps moved from Sift's settings to your account.

AccountSecurity

An access key stops working when its owner loses access.

AccountSecurity

Each connected app now has access that works only for that connection.

AccountChanged

Only subscribers can create new access keys.

AccountAdded

Added a Whittle Labs account: sign in once for every product.

AccountAdded

Your account has a home page with your products, devices and recent activity.

AccountChanged

Your profile, security and access key settings moved from Sift to your account.

AccountChanged

Billing moved to your account.

AccountAdded

See your organizations and accept invitations from your account.

AccountAdded

You can delete your account yourself.

CaliperAdded

Claude can now read your Caliper reports.

SiftChanged

Some of Sift's pages hold a steadier layout.

SiftAdded

Claude can now start, edit and publish Sift reviews.

SiftAdded

Claude sees whether a change is still open, and can check again before publishing.

SiftChanged

You can watch a review as it runs.

SiftAdded

Claude can now list and read your Sift reviews and their findings.

AccountAdded

You choose which parts of your account each connected app can reach, and the approval page lists them.

SiftChanged

Publishing a review to GitHub is now a permission you grant on its own.

whittlelabs.comChanged

Reorganized the topics on Notes from the Bench; links to old topics still work.

SiftSecurity

Code under review can no longer change how Sift reviews it, and reviews Sift runs for you only read the project being reviewed.

SiftSecurity

A review ignores your personal Claude Code settings unless you choose to use them.

SiftChanged

A review can always read and search the project's files, whatever else you've allowed.

AccountAdded

You can update your card, which also pays anything that's overdue.

SiftFixed

Changing plans shows what you'll pay at renewal.

SiftFixed

Fixed a stray heading on some of Sift's pages.

AccountAdded

You can turn on two-step sign-in with an authenticator app, with backup codes you can replace.

AccountAdded

Access keys for connecting your own tools can be limited to just what you choose.

AccountSecurity

Changing your password signs you out everywhere else, and Sift spots and refuses a stolen sign-in.

AccountSecurity

Sign-in codes sent by email are limited, so they can't be tried over and over.

AccountSecurity

Sensitive sign-in information is stored encrypted.

SiftAdded

Added a page explaining how Sift handles your code.

SiftSecurity

Deleting a review also deletes everything Sift drafted for it.

whittlelabs.comChanged

Notes load faster, show their topics, and make subscribing easier to find; the AI;DR column says which AI model wrote it.

AccountSecurity

You stay signed in for up to 30 days, then sign in again.

AccountSecurity

Two-step sign-in allows only a few wrong guesses, and each code works only once.

AccountSecurity

If you use two-step sign-in, it is asked for however you sign in.

AccountAdded

Added Connections: approve Claude and other apps that connect to your account, and manage them from Sift's settings.

SiftChanged

The four plans sit side by side on wide screens.

whittlelabs.comChanged

You can subscribe from anywhere on the website.

SiftChanged

The review agent on your machine now waits, pauses, updates itself or stops cleanly when something goes wrong, instead of failing over and over.

SiftAdded

Before it starts, the review agent checks that it has everything a review needs.

SiftFixed

When signing in is busy, the review agent waits instead of failing.

SiftAdded

Added a form on the plans page to ask about a team plan.

SiftAdded

A review that could only see the changes, not the whole project, says so.

CaliperAdded

You can browse individual visits in Caliper, and the Acquisition page uses the full screen.

SiftChanged

Sift describes each piece of queued work in plain words.

whittlelabs.comChanged

The website's header and footer fit properly on a phone.

whittlelabs.comAdded

You can subscribe to Notes from the Bench by email.

whittlelabs.comAdded

Reworked the home page and added an About page.

SiftFixed

The Overview only says you're caught up when nothing at all is waiting for you.

AccountFixed

Billing emails now link to the billing page for your plan.

AccountChanged

Every email Whittle Labs sends now uses one consistent design.

SiftRemoved

Retired the previous version of the Sift app.

whittlelabs.comChanged

The website shows the new Sift's sign-up and opens the new Sift.

SiftChanged

Redesigned Sift's sign-in page.

SiftFixed

When Sift's access to GitHub expires, Sift asks you to reconnect instead of failing.

SiftAdded

The review agent on a Mac reports which files a review actually read.

SiftAdded

New accounts see a welcome Overview and a reviews page that explains what to do.

SiftFixed

Connecting the review agent to Sift finishes from either side.

SiftChanged

The plans page lines the plans up evenly and explains each one better.

SiftChanged

Launched the redesigned Sift.

SiftAdded

Added Sift's founding-member plans, with free trials and a lifetime option, and a page to choose one.

SiftAdded

You can drop a suggested fix from a finding before you publish the review.

SiftAdded

You can search your own projects when choosing one to review.

SiftAdded

A changed image is shown as a picture, not as code.

SiftFixed

Files that aren't text are no longer shown as garbled text.

SiftFixed

Sift stops publishing once a change has been merged.

SiftAdded

The review agent on your machine can check that everything is set up before it runs.

SiftFixed

Connecting the review agent to Sift works whichever side you start from.

CaliperChanged

Redesigned Caliper.

CaliperAdded

Email campaigns in Caliper can connect a reader's visit to the email they clicked.

whittlelabs.comChanged

Rewrote the home page.

whittlelabs.comChanged

Rewrote the Terms and Privacy policy in plain language.

whittlelabs.comChanged

The privacy policy now covers whittlelabs.com as well as Sift.

whittlelabs.comAdded

Added a page listing every topic, and each note shows its topics at the top.

whittlelabs.comAdded

Notes are grouped by topic, and each topic has its own page.

SiftAdded

The guided tour of a review can now publish it or run it again, and can play like a slide show.

CaliperAdded

A visitor who moves between your sites in the same project now counts as one visit, not several.

CaliperAdded

Added an Acquisition page that shows where your visitors come from.

CaliperAdded

Added engaged time, which counts the time people actually spend, apart from how long a visit lasts.

CaliperChanged

You can split reports by more things, and the list keeps growing.

CaliperAdded

Caliper now groups activity into visits, including visits from before this change.

CaliperChanged

Rebuilt the funnel builder so it works on a phone.

whittlelabs.comAdded

When you share a link to a note, it now shows a picture of its own.

CaliperAdded

Launched Caliper, to see how people use your product: analytics, funnels, experiments and feature switches.

whittlelabs.comChanged

Notes from the Bench moved from whittlelabs.com/blog to whittlelabs.com/notes.

whittlelabs.comAdded

You can follow Notes from the Bench in a feed reader, and search engines can find every note.

whittlelabs.comAdded

Added the AI;DR column, where Claude comments on each note.

SiftFixed

Reviewing on a phone works better: the review list scrolls, New review works, messages fit the screen, and a review that fails to re-run tells you why.

whittlelabs.comFixed

Fixed the links to Sift at the top and bottom of the website.

SiftSecurity

Updated a piece of software Sift relies on to close a publicly reported security issue.

SiftAdded

You can choose which AI model runs each review, and Sift tells you clearly if your account can't use the one you picked.

whittlelabs.comChanged

Launched a rebuilt whittlelabs.com.

SiftChanged

Sift no longer stops at 30,000 changed lines; it reviews changes of any size.

SiftFixed

Fixed a problem where the website's new colors accidentally changed Sift's dark look.

SiftChanged

Reviews that Sift runs for you can work longer and only stop when they go quiet, so large changes get finished.

SiftAdded

When you run a review again, you can choose which other projects it reads, just like a new review.

SiftFixed

Check for Updates now finds a new version of the review agent right away, instead of up to an hour later.

SiftAdded

The review agent on your machine can read the other projects a review asks it to look at.

SiftAdded

A review can now read other projects you choose, without changing them, to understand the code it is reviewing.

SiftAdded

You can switch the code in a review between the old version, the new version and the changes between them.

SiftChanged

A long review that is still making progress is no longer stopped for taking too long.

SiftAdded

Sift now opens on an Overview of the reviews and requests waiting for you, and you can dismiss a request you don't need.

SiftChanged

The page for your review agents shows one at a time and now fits on a phone.

SiftRemoved

The Roles page left Sift's settings; your organization's administrator now decides who can do what.