July brought transformative AI integrations, team bonding tools, and deep productivity enhancements to SoWork. We launched the official SoWork Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Claude and ChatGPT, introduced in-office Arcade Games with the return of Tank Wars, and added active app tracking to help remote teams coordinate focus time.

🚀 Key Highlights

• SoWork MCP Server for AI: Premium customers can now connect SoWork directly to Claude or ChatGPT. Ask AI assistants to search meeting summaries, check who is online, read recent chat activity, or update your status. Set it up under Settings > Integrations.

• In-Office Arcade Games & Tank Wars: Launch arcade games directly from the "Play a Game" button in the meeting toolbar. Enjoy 15 playable titles, including the return of Tank Wars with multiplayer lobbies and health bar displays.

• Active App Focus Sharing: Opt in to share which desktop application you are actively focused on (e.g., VS Code, Figma, Photoshop, Docker) via a small icon next to your name. Track your personal focus time through dedicated analytics.

• Meeting Library Search & Saved Chats: Search meeting summaries by phrase across your entire library. Meeting chats are now saved alongside recordings and transcripts, allowing you to jump directly to specific timestamps.

• Pomodoro Timers & Coworking Sessions: Premium teams can now run structured focus sprints or Pomodoro timers during individual deep work or group coworking sessions.

📊 Platform & Interface Refinements

• Dashboard Mode for Everyone: Expand the Home tab into Dashboard Mode for a quick, glanceable overview of ongoing meetings and participant locations across your office.

• Settings Page Makeover: Enjoy a two-column profile layout, section headings, a month/day birthday picker, and instant settings search via the Ctrl+K or Cmd+K command palette.

• Multiple Collaboration Hours: Configure multiple collaboration blocks per day. View all active blocks directly on your Home Tab.

• Sleeker Authentication & AV Check: Experience a redesigned, minimal entry flow for authentication screens and audio/video pre-checks.

🛠️ Product, Mobile & UX Fixes

• Mobile App Upgrades: Mobile users on iOS and Android can now share their screens, swipe up in meetings to access chat, update text statuses, and view complete working hours and birthdays on teammate profiles.

• Customizable Home Sidebar: Drag, reorder, and collapse sidebar sections (Collaboration Hours, Meetings, Online, Offline) to customize your layout.

• Multi-User Whiteboard Drawing: Fixed a canvas bug so multiple teammates can draw on the meeting whiteboard simultaneously without interrupting each other's strokes.

• Camera Privacy Fix: Resolved an issue on the Desktop App to ensure camera hardware is fully released and indicator lights turn off immediately when video is disabled.

• Timezone Birthday Sync: Fixed birthday displays so floating dates resolve in the account owner's local timezone, ensuring teammates across different regions see the correct day.

Vish and the SoWork Team