Release Notes

Sprint 16 hardened the campaign launch pipeline end-to-end, improved targeting generation and prefill correctness, expanded validation and error visibility, addressed DB connection pool exhaustion, and migrated observability to Better Stack.

Shipped

• Campaign launch pipeline hardening — improved launch workflow orchestration, platform sync behavior, and reduced failures due to payload size and timeouts. Complete
  • Campaign launch workflow: schedule + submit + platform sync status
  • Payload size validation and error handling (base64 images, CTA validation, concurrency fix)
  • Split media uploads into separate membrane calls for LinkedIn/Meta (50s timeout fix)
  • Fixed Membrane lead form action duplicates and Google/Meta/LinkedIn launch errors
  • Fixed concurrency exception on campaign relaunch (stale entity in ambient UoW)
• Targeting generation and prefill correctness — fixed "targeting not prefilled" for Meta and LinkedIn and improved shared settings generation robustness. Complete
  • Fixed targeting not pre-filled for Meta
  • Fixed LinkedIn targeting failed to pre-fill
• Validation and error visibility — improved platform validation coverage and made nested validation errors visible in the campaign builder. Complete
  • Fixed lead form validators: missing limits for LinkedIn/Meta description, headline, thankYou fields
  • Surfaced nested shared lead-form validation errors in campaign builder
  • Surfaced specific platform validation errors instead of generic friendly messages
• Infrastructure and performance — addressed DB connection pool exhaustion and migrated observability stack to Better Stack. Complete
  • Capped Hangfire workers + added concurrency limits to all background jobs to fix DB connection pool exhaustion
  • Replaced NewRelic with BetterStack observability
• UX polish — standardized tag/status design style and improved table interactions and responsiveness. Complete
  • Standardized all tags and statuses to use semi-translucent design style
  • Fixed table expand/collapse animation, set minimum width for campaign name column

Fixes

• Multiple Marker.io-reported issues resolved across compliance freshness, business name inclusion, landing page URL editability, and icon/state correctness

Known Issues & Deferred

• Items that started during Sprint 16 generally finished; any remaining gaps would be items with no activity logged during the week

Sprint 15 focused on hardening campaign launch and targeting for LinkedIn and Meta, strengthening compliance and concurrency robustness, advancing Lead IQ list and ingestion workflows, and adding production observability with Heap.

Shipped

• Campaign launch and targeting hardening (LinkedIn & Meta) — fixed multiple urgent LinkedIn launch and configuration issues and improved Meta campaign correctness and creative constraints. Complete
  • Removed/rewired invalid LinkedIn bid type handling
  • Corrected LinkedIn default bidding strategy to "Maximum Delivery"
  • Fixed missing location targeting and industry targeting translation for LinkedIn
  • Addressed launch failures caused by account approval constraints
  • Increased character limits and aligned validation across stack for Meta
  • Improved audience-interest relevance and cross-platform insights pipeline for Meta
• Compliance and concurrency robustness — hardened compliance summary workflow and related concurrency behavior with shorter-lived unit-of-work patterns, better retry and error messaging. Complete
  • Fixed compliance summary failure on Campaign Builder final stage
  • Added ability for compliance officer actions to override system behavior when checks are running
• Dashboards and UX polish — major progress on Lead IQ list/ingestion workflow and improved chart styling for brand consistency. Complete
  • Lead IQ: ingestion + Lead List with filters, search, export, and actions
  • Updated color palette for charts and highlights to match Vast Assembly logo colors
• Observability and analytics — correctly configured Heap in production to ensure accurate analytics tracking. Complete
  • Heap.io code snippet added to production with correct prod app ID

Fixes

• Resolved multiple Marker.io issues across navigation, uploads, compliance views, and reporting lists
• Improved notification behavior and logging reliability for UI notifications

Known Issues & Deferred

• Some new platform-level refactors were created near the end of the sprint and may have remained in backlog (e.g., move targeting to platform shared settings for LinkedIn + Meta)

Sprint 14 focused on completing the RIA dashboard, improving onboarding and ICP UX, hardening platform reliability, and resolving production bugs reported through Marker.io.

Shipped

• RIA Dashboard delivery — completed the RIA dashboard implementation and closed out related widget work, including KPI cards, funnel visualization, compliance health, and welcome header personalization. Complete
  • KPI cards, funnel visualization, compliance health, and welcome header personalization
  • Feature-flagged dashboard widgets brought to completion as part of the dashboard finishing pass
• ICP and onboarding UX improvements — improved onboarding flow behavior and reduced confusing actions on ICP cards until integrations are complete. Complete
  • Re-ordered settings navigation to improve clarity and flow, moving ICPs ahead of Integrations
  • Improved defaults and ergonomics in campaign creation (e.g., defaulting landing page URLs when missing)
  • Improved menu ordering for smoother navigation
• Platform reliability and background processing — completed previously aging work on campaign metrics sync and campaign status polling, closing out long-running in-progress items and reducing production risk. Complete
  • Campaign metrics sync and campaign status polling closed out
  • Collapsible sections in later steps of the campaign builder UX
• Production bug fixes (Marker.io driven) — resolved key onboarding and generation issues including "duplicate AI onboarding agent" and "marketing angles generation failed" with root cause tied to operational capacity changes. Complete
  • Added follow-up fixes to reduce recurrence of generation failures

Fixes

• Addressed multiple generation and session reliability issues tied to campaign angle/theme generation failures
• Improved brand color extraction behavior to avoid incorrect theme overrides

Known Issues & Deferred

• Several analytics and insight-oriented UI tasks (Target Niche, Channel Mix, Row as a Budget, optional campaign builder UX explorations) remained unassigned or without delivery movement during the sprint window

Core capabilities shipped