Release on May 22, 2026

Release

Areas Affected

Finance, Subcontracts, AI Assistant

Highlights

• Finance summary data is now accessible through the AI assistant, allowing teams to ask questions about budgets and billing directly.
• AI assistant responses now include clickable links that navigate directly to the relevant area in Ernest.
• Subcontract statuses have been standardized for a more consistent experience across the platform.

What Changed

• Finance summary data is now available through the AI assistant. Users can ask questions about budget totals, billing summaries, and other financial figures, and receive accurate responses drawn from live project finance data. (Ticket)
• Subcontract statuses have been aligned to a consistent, standardized format across the platform. This improves clarity and ensures statuses appear and behave the same way regardless of where they are viewed. (Ticket)
• The AI assistant now includes deep links in its responses, allowing users to click directly through to the relevant page or record in Ernest rather than navigating there manually. (Ticket)
• Resolved intermittent connection errors that some users were experiencing when interacting with the AI assistant.
• Deployed the fix for AI assistant connection errors to production.
• Improved data reliability to prevent display errors when certain financial fields contain no value.
• Deployed finance summary data access to production.
• Added automated alerts to notify the team immediately when a deployment issue is detected.
• Made finance data functions available within the AI assistant's operating environment, enabling it to retrieve and present financial information. (PR)
• Registered finance-related capabilities with the AI assistant so it can query and return financial data in response to user questions. (PR)
• Fixed an issue where the billing summary was not loading due to an incorrect internal reference.
• Improved deployment reliability to ensure no service interruption occurs when updates are rolled out.
• Deployed the billing summary fix to production.
• Refined deployment settings to better scale health checks based on the number of active service instances.
• Deployed deployment reliability improvements to production.
• Deployed subcontract status standardization to production.
• Applied final code review adjustments to the subcontract status update.
• Deployed deep link support in AI assistant responses to production.

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Hotfixes Since Last Release

These fixes were deployed to production independently before this release — they are listed here for a complete record of what changed since the previous release.

May 19, 2026

• Fixed an issue where project phases were not loading correctly through the AI assistant. (PR)

May 17, 2026

• Completed infrastructure migration away from the previous hosting setup for the AI assistant service, improving stability. (PR)

May 16, 2026

• Enabled the AI assistant service on the new production infrastructure, completing the move to a more reliable deployment environment. (PR)

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Chores

• Sync main hotfix to qa (manual after conflict)
• enable ECS deployment circuit breaker with rollback