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What's new in Bumblebee

Each entry is dated the day the work was finished. Bumblebee has been running as a closed alpha for a small group of invited people since 29 October 2026, and everything below is in it.

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  1. A new askbumblebee.com

    • The website now describes what Bumblebee does today, one page for each kind of work you can hand it.
    • There is a set of free follow-up email templates, usable without an account.
    • Privacy, terms and cookie policies are written for the product as it works now.

  2. Smoother pages and rules you can add yourself

    • In Memory, tapping where a fact came from opens the conversation at that message and marks it for a few seconds.
    • Pages show the outline of what is coming while they load, and a page you have already opened appears straight away.
    • Buttons say they are working as soon as you press them, then confirm when they are done or explain what went wrong.
    • In Settings you can add a rule such as "Always ask before emailing anyone outside the company" from a few plain choices, and see it read back in the words it will follow.

  3. The closed alpha opens

    • Bumblebee runs at app.askbumblebee.com for a small group of invited people.
    • Anyone can sign in with their email. If you are not invited yet, you join the waitlist and we write when a place opens.

  4. It uses the web for you

    • Ask for an errand on a website, such as downloading last month's statement from a bank portal, and your assistant does it in its own browser.
    • Tap Watch to see it work, and Take over whenever you want the controls.
    • When a site needs you to sign in, a secure form passes what you type straight to the site. Your assistant never sees or types your passwords or codes.
    • It fills in forms and stops before anything is submitted or paid for. Submitting is a step you approve by default, and paying is always yours to do.
    • A sign-in can be remembered, and a task it has done before follows the same steps, so repeat errands go faster.
    • Newsletters that only let you leave on their own website can now be unsubscribed from there, once you approve.

  5. Meeting briefs, promises and people

    • About 30 minutes before a meeting with someone from outside, you get a brief: who is coming, your last exchanges, what is open on either side, the files involved and a few points to have ready.
    • After a meeting, it offers to draft a recap with the action items and saves it in your drafts. Nothing is sent.
    • It keeps track of what you promised people and what they promised you, from the conversation, your sent mail and meeting recaps, each with where it came from.
    • When someone has not replied for a while, it offers a nudge with the draft ready.
    • Ask about a company or a person and you get their page: the people, the last emails and meetings, what is open and the files.
    • Tell it "Keep an eye on anything from the board and tell me immediately" and it shows exactly what it will watch before it starts.

  6. Your inbox and calendar

    • Connect a Google account to give your assistant your mail, calendar and contacts, and let it save the files it makes to your Drive. Outlook is not supported yet.
    • Ask "What needs me?" and it lists what is waiting on you, and why.
    • It drafts replies in your style and saves them in your Gmail drafts, each marked as routine or needing your judgement.
    • Sending is one approval card with every email shown in full. You can untick any of them, and you have ten seconds to undo.
    • "Clean up my newsletters" lists every sender on one card and unsubscribes or filters once you approve.
    • It can find an attachment someone sent, move a meeting and tell the other people, and include your calendar and waiting emails in your morning brief.

  7. Talk to it

    • Tap the microphone in the app and speak. It answers aloud in a sentence or two.
    • Talk over it and it stops at once to listen. Say "never mind" before it answers and it drops the question.
    • Spoken questions and answers appear in the same conversation as everything you type, with the full answer kept alongside what was said.

  8. Routines, briefs and suggestions

    • Say "Every Monday at 8:30, give me the pipeline summary" and you see the schedule in your own time zone before anything runs. It starts only once you set it up.
    • A morning brief can arrive at the time you choose, as one card in sections.
    • When you say you will do something by a date, it reminds you beforehand and offers to start on it.
    • If background work gets stuck on a question, it asks you on a card and carries on once you answer.
    • You decide what reaches your phone and what waits for the brief. Nothing arrives during your quiet hours except reminders you set.
    • "Pause everything you do on your own" stops routines, briefs and suggestions until you resume them.

  9. Documents, decks and spreadsheets

    • Ask for a deck, a one-pager or a spreadsheet and it is made in the background while you keep talking.
    • Files use your organisation's colours and fonts, and every slide has a preview.
    • Ask for changes ("make slide 3 punchier") and you get a new version. The earlier one is kept and still opens.
    • Each file shows where it came from: your request and the sources it used.

  10. Work that carries on while you are away

    • Ask for something that takes a while and a card shows its progress while the conversation carries on.
    • The result arrives as a reply to your original message, with where the information came from.
    • You can pause, stop or run a task again from its card.
    • "Remind me at 4 to call Rahul" goes off at 4:00 in your time zone, with Done and Snooze.
    • With notifications on, results and reminders reach you when the app is closed.

  11. Meet your assistant

    • Sign in with a code sent to your email. There is no password to remember.
    • Give your assistant a name, choose how it looks and how it sounds, and tell it what you are working on.
    • Everything happens in one continuous conversation. There is no "new chat".
    • Share documents and spreadsheets and ask questions across them.
    • It remembers the people and projects you mention. In Memory you can see what it knows, correct a fact, forget one, or pause what it learns.
    • Send another message while it is still answering and both get a reply.
    • When you forget something, earlier summaries that mention it are rewritten without it.
    • Search the whole conversation and jump to any message.
    • Add it to your phone's home screen and it opens like an app.