AI Assistant Framework & EPMS Guided Setup System

🚀 New Features

• Comprehensive AI Assistant Framework: Launched a multi-stage AI assistant system with domain-specific agents for tasks, scheduling, forms, and database operations—providing intelligent conversation handling, context-aware responses, and specialized assistance for different business functions with advanced reasoning capabilities and memory management for enhanced user productivity.

• EPMS Guided Setup Wizard: Introduced a complete setup wizard for Employee Performance Management System configuration with step-by-step guidance, template selection, and automated data generation—enabling organizations to quickly deploy performance management with pre-configured templates, user permissions, and module settings tailored to their specific needs and industry requirements.

• Internal Recruiting AI MVP: Added intelligent internal recruiting capabilities with AI-powered career development guidance, skills matching, and internal job discovery—helping employees identify growth opportunities, assess promotion readiness, and navigate internal career paths while providing managers with succession planning and talent development insights.

• Template Studio with AI Creator: Implemented an advanced template creation interface with AI-powered assistance for building custom forms, workflows, and business processes—enabling users to describe their needs in natural language and receive intelligent suggestions for template structure, field types, and workflow logic.

• Advanced Vector Search and Embedding Framework: Integrated comprehensive vector search capabilities across help articles, task templates, and knowledge base content—providing semantic search functionality, intelligent content recommendations, and AI-powered content discovery that understands user intent beyond keyword matching.

🔧 Improvements

• Enhanced Ask AI Interface with Conversation History: Redesigned the AI assistant interface with paginated conversation history, improved message rendering, and typewriter effects—providing better user experience with persistent conversation context, faster response display, and more intuitive interaction patterns.

• Marketplace App Sort Order Management: Added business-level control over marketplace app ordering in navigation with drag-and-drop interface—allowing administrators to customize app priority and organization based on their team's workflow preferences and most frequently used applications.

• Mobile-First EPMS Dashboard Redesign: Optimized all EPMS dashboards for mobile devices with responsive layouts, touch-friendly controls, and streamlined navigation—ensuring full performance management functionality is accessible and usable on smartphones and tablets for on-the-go management.

• PostgreSQL JSONB Migration for Performance: Converted all JSON columns to JSONB format for improved query performance and advanced JSON operations—providing faster search capabilities, better indexing support, and enhanced data manipulation for complex configuration and analytics features.

• Enhanced Performance Review Workflow: Improved performance review processes with structured SMART goals integration, workflow progress tracking, and automated email notifications—streamlining review cycles, ensuring consistent goal setting, and providing clear visibility into review completion status.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolved EPMS Setup Wizard Navigation Issues: Fixed sequential progression enforcement, duplicate draft prevention, and Turbo navigation conflicts—ensuring reliable wizard completion, preventing data loss during setup, and maintaining consistent state throughout the configuration process.

• Corrected AI Assistant Memory Management: Fixed conversation context handling, intent classification accuracy, and response consistency—ensuring AI assistants maintain proper conversation history, understand user context correctly, and provide relevant responses across extended interactions.

• Enhanced Marketplace App Integration: Resolved N+1 query issues, sidebar rendering problems, and app dependency management—improving page load performance, ensuring consistent navigation display, and maintaining proper app relationships and access controls.

• Fixed Performance Review Rating Calculations: Corrected rating category handling, self-assessment completion tracking, and goal integration—ensuring accurate performance calculations, proper workflow progression, and reliable data integrity across all review components.

• Improved Help Article Search and Indexing: Enhanced search functionality, embedding generation, and content ranking—providing more accurate search results, faster content discovery, and better relevance scoring for help articles and documentation.

🎯 What This Means for You

• Intelligent Workforce Management with AI Assistance: The new AI assistant framework provides sophisticated support across all business functions—enabling natural language interaction with your workforce management system, intelligent task assistance, and context-aware guidance that adapts to your specific business needs and user roles.

• Streamlined Performance Management Deployment: The EPMS guided setup wizard dramatically reduces implementation time and complexity—allowing organizations to deploy comprehensive performance management systems quickly with industry-proven templates, automated configuration, and step-by-step guidance that ensures best practices.

• Enhanced Career Development and Internal Mobility: Internal recruiting AI capabilities provide employees with intelligent career guidance and managers with succession planning tools—supporting talent retention, internal promotion opportunities, and strategic workforce development through data-driven insights and personalized recommendations.