Today we are shipping the biggest update in Closot's history. Closot 4.0 is not a feature release — it is a rethinking of what a connected workspace can be. We have rebuilt the infrastructure, redesigned the interfaces, and introduced an entirely new layer of intelligence that changes how teams plan, build, and communicate. This post walks through every major change, why we made it, and what it means for your workspace.
Redesigned databases
Databases are the backbone of how teams organize work in Closot. In 4.0, we rebuilt them with a new rendering engine that is 3x faster, supports up to 100,000 rows without pagination, and introduces formula fields that reference data across linked databases. Filtering is instant, sorting is GPU-accelerated, and grouped views now support nested sub-groups.
The biggest architectural change is that databases are now truly relational. A ticket in your engineering sprint board can reference a row in your product roadmap database, which links to a customer request in your sales pipeline. Change the status of the ticket, and the linked views update everywhere — in real time, across every teamspace that has access.
New board views: Timeline, calendar, and gallery
Boards in Closot 3.x had two views: table and kanban. In 4.0, we are launching four new views that transform how teams visualize their work.
Timeline view plots tasks on a horizontal timeline with drag-to-resize date ranges. It is designed for roadmap planning — product managers can see their entire quarter at a glance, identify gaps between milestones, and spot resource conflicts before they happen. Dependencies render as connecting lines between items, so you can trace the critical path visually.
Calendar view shows tasks, meetings, and deadlines on a day/week/month grid. Unlike a standalone calendar app, every item on the calendar is a live Closot object — click a meeting to open its meeting notes, click a task to see its full ticket with priority, labels, and linked docs. Drag items to reschedule. It syncs bidirectionally with popular calendar apps and Outlook.
Gallery view presents items as visual cards, optimized for design reviews, content pipelines, and portfolio tracking. Each card shows a preview image, status badge, and key metadata. Marketing teams have already adopted this for managing content calendars with thumbnail previews of each asset.
Every view operates on the same underlying database. Switch between kanban, timeline, calendar, gallery, and table without losing filters or grouping. Views are saved per user, so your PM sees a timeline while your engineer sees a sprint board — same data, different lens.
Enhanced sprint planning with velocity tracking
Sprint planning in Closot 4.0 is a first-class experience. Cycles (our term for sprints) now include built-in velocity tracking that charts story points completed versus planned across your last eight cycles. The planning view shows your team's historical velocity, suggested capacity for the upcoming cycle, and highlights when you are overcommitting.
During planning, drag tickets from the backlog into the active cycle. The sidebar shows a running total of points, a burndown projection based on past performance, and flags any ticket that lacks an estimate or an assignee. When the cycle closes, Closot auto-generates a cycle report with completion rate, carry-over analysis, and a breakdown by label — bugs versus features versus infrastructure.
Closot Marketplace: 500+ templates
We are launching the Closot Marketplace with over 500 community-contributed and Closot-curated templates. These are not just static page layouts — they are complete workspace blueprints that include databases, views, automations, and sample content.
Categories include sprint planning setups, OKR trackers, product launch checklists, engineering postmortem templates, design critique frameworks, sales CRM configurations, and HR onboarding sequences. Each template can be previewed before installation and customized after. The Closot AI Agent can also pull from the Marketplace when you describe what you need — tell it "set up a sprint planning workflow for a team of eight engineers" and it selects the right template, configures it for your team size, and links it to your existing databases.
Deep messaging integration
Your messaging app is where conversations happen. Closot 4.0 treats it as a first-class surface for your workspace. The Closot Agent in chat can create tickets, query project status, search your wiki, and summarize meeting notes — all without leaving your chat channel. Mention @Closot in any channel and interact with your workspace through natural language.
Beyond the agent, we support bidirectional syncing: chat threads can become Closot tickets with one click, Closot comments can post to chat channels, and status changes on your boards trigger chat notifications with rich previews. Teams that live in their messaging app no longer have to choose between their chat tool and their workspace — they work together seamlessly.
Improved dashboards with custom charts
Dashboards in 4.0 support fully custom chart types — bar, line, area, pie, scatter, and stacked — all pulling live data from any database in your workspace. Drag widgets to arrange your layout. Add text blocks for commentary. Filter by date range, assignee, label, or any custom property. Dashboards auto-refresh every 60 seconds, so your metrics are always current.
We have also added cross-database widgets. A single chart can aggregate data from your engineering sprint board, your support ticket tracker, and your product roadmap simultaneously. This is how leadership teams get a unified view without asking each team for updates.
Meeting notes with AI transcription
Meeting notes are now a dedicated object type in Closot. Connect your calendar, and Closot auto-creates a notes page for every meeting. During the meeting, the AI can transcribe in real time (with participant consent), and afterward it generates a structured summary: attendees, key discussion points, decisions made, and action items. Action items are automatically converted to tickets on the relevant board, assigned to the mentioned team member, with the meeting notes linked as context.
Every meeting note is indexed by universal search, so six months later when someone asks "when did we decide to deprecate the v2 API?" you can find the exact meeting, the exact decision, and the reasoning behind it.
Real-time collaboration engine
We replaced our collaboration infrastructure with a CRDT-based engine that supports true offline editing, instant sync, and block-level presence indicators. You can see exactly where teammates are working, and edits merge cleanly even after extended offline sessions. The technical details deserve their own post — but the user-facing result is that Closot now feels as responsive as a local application, even with fifty people editing the same page.
Closot 4.0 is available today for all workspaces. Existing customers upgrade automatically over the next two weeks. New workspaces get 4.0 by default. We have spent eighteen months building this, and we believe it represents a genuine step change in what a workspace can do for a team. Try the new board views, set up your first cycle with velocity tracking, browse the Marketplace, and let us know what you think.