Release Highlights - April 2026

April was all about making everyday coaching smoother. We introduced AI Coaches, gave you a place to jot notes between sessions, added career planning for your people, and polished meetings to work beautifully on phones and tablets. Here’s what’s new.

Meet AI Coaches

Your AI Assistants are now AI Coaches, a name that better reflects what they do. Beyond the rename, coaching got noticeably better: from any skill you can now jump straight into Coach or Assess, the coach remembers more of your prior observations for richer context, and the whole experience was reframed as a safe, low-pressure place to learn. Learn more in our AI Coaching overview.

Notes Between Sessions

Coaching doesn’t only happen in scheduled meetings, so now you can capture notes any time. Notes give you a lightweight place to record observations, tasks, and wins for a person in the moment, then revisit and mark them as discussed in your next session. No more losing the little things between meetings. See our Notes guide for details.

Career Plans

Help your people see where they’re headed with the new Career Plan tab on every staff profile. You can assign the specific skills you want someone to develop and keep development notes alongside them, giving both of you a shared, living picture of their growth path. More in our Career Plans guide.

Smoother, Collaborative Meetings

Meetings got a lot more polished, and more collaborative. The person being coached can now contribute to a shared agenda before and during the meeting, the observer defaults to you on new meetings, and date and time pickers sit right on the overview. Observations now start as drafts so you can capture them privately and share when you’re ready, and completed meetings hide the skills you didn’t get to so the record stays clean. See our Quick Observations guide to learn more.

Great on Every Device

Admire now works beautifully on phones and tablets. We reworked meetings, dashboards, skills grids, and list pages to adapt to narrow screens (stacking actions, hiding non-essential columns, and making buttons easier to tap) so you can coach and review on the go without fighting the layout.

Additional Updates

• Skills grids gained clearer visual hierarchy, a “hide nested” toggle, and roll-up data that surfaces results from skills nested underneath.
• You can record data on your own profile, and self-assessments now complete automatically.
• A new badge syntax lets you drop inline tags and commitments into notes and rich text.
• Paste from Markdown directly into any rich-text editor and keep your formatting.

Until Next Time

That’s a wrap for April. As always, we’d love to hear your feedback. If anything here is useful (or you wish it worked differently), let us know!