What’s new at CivStart

Product launches, platform improvements, and the smaller fixes worth knowing about, across Clarity AI, GovFit, and the government portal.

Website

Trust and About are in the main navigation

Both pages are now one click from anywhere, and the logo takes you home.

Trust and About are now in the top navigation. Both answer questions people were asking before they would sign up, and both were previously reachable only from the footer.

Home has been removed from the navigation. The logo does that job, as it does on nearly every site.

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Pratap Singh
Gov Portal

You can no longer create a duplicate of your own organization

Government Type and State are proper lists, and the form stops you before you create a second copy.

Creating an organization when you already belong to one no longer produces a second copy of it.

The form previously prefilled your existing government's details, so changing a single field and saving created a near-identical duplicate rather than editing what was there. If you were an admin of an organization, this was easy to do by accident.

Government Type and State are now proper lists rather than free text, so the same government cannot be recorded three different ways depending on who typed it.

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Pratap Singh
GovFit

Open a challenge from Fit Finder results

Challenges in your results are now clickable.

After running Fit Finder, you can click any challenge in your results to open its full details.

Previously the results told you a match existed but gave you no way to read the challenge behind it, which is the part you need in order to decide whether it is worth pursuing.

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Bijo Mathew Jose
GovFit

The weekly digest goes to the account owner

Fixed a case where the digest reached admins but not the owner of the account.

The weekly signal digest now goes to the account owner.

For some accounts it was going to admins instead, which meant the person responsible for the account was not receiving the summary of what had come in that week, while colleagues were. If you have been wondering why your digest stopped arriving, this was why.

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Bijo Mathew Jose
GovFit

See what is coming before it lands

Signals still inside the freshness window now appear at the top of All Data.

The top of the All Data panel now shows incoming signals: the ones already in the pipeline but not yet released to your tier.

If you are on Basic or Pro, this tells you new data is on its way and roughly what it covers, so a quiet week reads as a quiet week rather than as a product that has stopped working. It also shows plainly what an upgrade gets you, instead of asking you to take our word for it.

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Bijo Mathew Jose
Trust

Legal documents read the same everywhere

Consistent formatting across the public legal pages, and Terms reachable from inside the app.

The public legal pages, Terms, Clarity Terms, Privacy, and Community Guidelines, now render consistently. The same document previously read differently depending on where you opened it.

If you are signed in, the terms that apply to you are linked from within the app, so you do not have to leave and hunt for them on the marketing site.

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Bijo Mathew Jose