What's new in DraftBay.

8 November 2026: DraftBay is open

Anyone can now start a workspace, free for 14 days with no card. Read what DraftBay does today, what it doesn't do yet, and what it costs.

3 November 2026: hand over someone's work in one step

• Hand over work. When someone leaves a project or takes on a new role, choose “Hand over work…” on them in your team list. Pick who takes over, which roles and which projects, and see exactly what moves before anything changes: their open copy (overdue first), the pages and Board items they look after, their place on scheduled team updates, and the project lead if that’s theirs.
• Replace, or add a role. “Replace” moves the roles and the open work to the new person. “Add a role” gives the new person the same role alongside the existing one, for example a second designer, and can move the open work too if you want.
• The new person gets a status email. For example, Jordan Lee is told he’s taking over from Maya Chen, what to start with (anything overdue or sent back), what’s waiting for approval, what’s ready to build and which pages are his, with links and your note. Maya gets a short note saying who took over.
• Recorded, with Undo. Every hand-over appears in your team’s Hand-overs list and in History, and can be undone for 30 days. Finished work and its history always stay with the person who did it.

1 November 2026: a Board that keeps itself up to date

• Tidy up the Board. Project leads, owners and admins can press “🧹 Tidy up the Board”. The AI checks every open question against your sitemap, copy, recent changes and your team’s answers, then shows a preview: what’s already settled, what’s a duplicate, and what still needs a decision, each with a short reason. Nothing changes until you press Apply.
• Every change is recorded. “See what changed” lists each question with its reason, and Undo reverses the whole tidy-up. Any single question can be reopened.
• Decisions needed, first. The open questions your team has to answer now sit at the top of the Board, most pressing first. Anything holding up the version you’re working on is marked “Needed for v1”.
• Questions that close themselves. When the sitemap or copy shows a question has been dealt with (for example, Brew guides and Wholesale copy are now linked to their pages), the question closes with a note saying what changed. In its daily check, the AI also closes clear-cut ones and merges repeats, showing “Asked 3 times” on the one that stays.
• The right owner, and a meaningful “High”. Questions go to the person whose project role fits: sitemap questions to whoever runs the sitemap, copy questions to the writer or approver, hand-off questions to the designer. “High” now means it holds up the current version or is overdue.

27 October 2026: pictures on pages, launch readiness, sorting, versions in the table, and tighter privacy

• Pictures and files on any page. Add a picture, file or link (OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox) to a sitemap page from the map, the table or right on the Board. Your designer sees them in their work list and in the exports.
• Launch readiness on the Board. Pick a website version (v1, v2… or All) and see how many of its pages have approved copy, counted by page, plus a “Blocking” list: pages with no copy, copy waiting for approval, two pieces of copy on one page, pages with no address, and removed pages whose old address isn’t forwarded.
• Ask AI stays inside the project. With a project open, the assistant works only from that project’s pages, copy and Board, and what it learns stays with that project.
• Fewer repeat questions on the Board. The AI skips questions it has already asked and keeps at most 15 open per project.
• Fixed: adding copy and uploading files in Copy Review. From 19 to 27 October, “New copy”, new versions and comment attachments could fail to open. That’s fixed.
• Sort the sitemap your way. In the table view, click a column header (Page, URL, Status, Version or Copy) to sort. Click again to reverse it, and a third time to go back to menu order. On the map, use the new “Sort” menu in the toolbar.
• Sorting is a view only. Pages are sorted within each section, and your menu order never changes. While a view is sorted, dragging and the ↑/↓ buttons are off, and “↺ Menu order” switches back.
• A Version column in the table. Each page shows its website version (v1, v2…) in the same colours as the map. Project admins and workspace owners click it to move a page, or its section, to another version.
• A wider table, so page names aren't cut off.
• Ask AI starts fresh in each project. Switch project or workspace and the conversation starts again, so nothing from one project is carried into another.
• Sign out once, signed out everywhere. Signing out in one browser tab now signs out your other DraftBay tabs too, which matters on a shared computer.
• Adding a teammate whose email can't be added now shows one plain message, without saying whether that address uses DraftBay elsewhere.
• Your billing stays yours. Only your workspace's owners and admins can open its billing page. DraftBay support can't.

See them in context on the features page, or try the click-through demo.

19 October 2026: file downloads you can trust

• Files download as the real file, under the name they were uploaded with.
• Uploads check the file first. An empty file, or a web page saved as a .docx (often a sign-in or loading page), is refused with a clear message, so it never replaces real copy.
• A note under Microsoft 365 links. SharePoint and OneDrive documents open only for people they're shared with, so DraftBay reminds you to share the file or upload it instead.

7 October 2026: version-pinned approval, designer hand-off, team update emails, Ask AI on the sitemap, comments and menu order

• Approval is pinned to the version you approved. A new version needs approving again. If your designer already has the copy, it shows as “Being revised”, then “Ready for re-approval”. They keep building from the approved version until then. For a linked live document, upload the final file to lock its exact text.
• Hand off to your designer. Send approved copy to the project's designer in one step. They get a “Your work” list (to build, on hold, built) and press “Mark built” when a page is on the site.
• Comments and @mentions. Talk about any piece of copy or sitemap page in a thread. Type @ to bring someone in; they're told in DraftBay and by email, with a link straight back to the comment. You can only @mention people who can already see it.
• Page order is your menu order. Move pages to the top, up, down or to the bottom, move them under another page, or arrange a section A→Z, by version or by status (with undo).
• Safer deletes and moves. Deleting or moving a page asks what to do with the pages under it; when you delete, they move up a level by default.
• “Export for designer” now shows each page’s website version (what launches first and what comes later).
• Send the team an update. “✉️ Send an update” emails each person what changed since the last update, plus a “For you” list of what's waiting on them, with a link to their Board. See the email first and add a note.
• Or schedule it. “📅 Schedule team updates” sends it every day, on weekdays or once a week, and can skip days with no changes. It's off until you switch it on. Only people who have signed in get updates, each person can switch them off, and every email has a one-click link to stop the scheduled ones.
• Ask AI on the sitemap. The assistant knows which page you have open. Ask it to hand all approved copy to your designer, or to update sub-page addresses from the sitemap: it shows the list first, skips locked pages and keeps old addresses for redirects.
• “🚀 Hand off to designer (N)” on the sitemap toolbar. It shows how many pieces are waiting, and your designer gets one email with the list instead of one per page.
• Live updates and safer saves. Changes other people make show up without reloading. If two people change the sitemap at the same moment, nobody's change is quietly overwritten.
• Easier to read: @mentioned names are highlighted, with a “Will notify” line before you post, and cross-links between pages have their own teal colour.