What’s new at CivStart

You can now link your government to the associations it actually belongs to. The list covers state municipal leagues, county associations, school boards associations, township associations, state associations of regional councils, and the national bodies, for most states.

It suggests before it lists. A township in Ohio sees the Ohio Township Association at the top, then Ohio's regional councils association, then the rest of Ohio's; a school district in Texas sees the Texas Association of School Boards. The suggestions come from the state and the kind of government already on your record, so there is nothing extra to fill in. Nothing is hidden either: the full list is one click away and there is a search box, because plenty of governments belong to something no rule would predict.

Associations now have their own page on your organization, next to Profile and Team. That is where they belong, because joining an association is the government's decision rather than one person's. Linking from there names the organization explicitly, which matters if you work with more than one government: previously the system had to pick one for you.

If an association you belong to is missing, it is worth telling us. The list is built from the directories those organizations publish, and a few of them do not publish one.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is now a microphone button in the discovery message box. Press it and speak, and what you say becomes text in the field, which you can edit before sending.

The hardest part of discovery is the very first step: describing a messy problem in your own words, from a blank box. Talking through it is easier than typing it, particularly on a phone.

If your browser does not support speech input, or you decline the microphone permission, the button stays out of the way and typing works exactly as before.