Announcements

  1. Turn any tag into a quality gate

    Improvement

    Until now, only GoSmarter's own Rule Pack tags could stop a review in its tracks — anything you tagged yourself was just a label. Useful for sorting, but nothing stopped a flagged item quietly sailing through Quality Review.

    Not anymore. When you create or edit a tag, you can now set it to Block, Flag, or Audit:

    • Block tags actually hold up Approve on Order Quality Review and Mill Cert Review — the reviewer has to tick "Override block" and give a reason before it goes through
    • Flag and Audit tags show up for awareness without getting in anyone's way
    • The severity shows as a coloured symbol wherever the tag appears — on stock, certificates, orders, and in Manage Tags

    Every override gets logged, so there's always a record of who let what through and why. Because "I'm sure it's fine" isn't a compliance process.

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    PS This is scoped to Order Quality Review and Mill Cert Review only i.e. a Block tag on an inventory item or order doesn't stop anything elsewhere in the app yet (e.g. it won't block reserving stock or creating an order).

  2. New sign-in & self-serve billing - no talking to sales people required!

    Announcement

    Sign-in is faster and more secure. You can now sign in with your Google or Microsoft work account instead of managing a separate GoSmarter password so there's one less credential to remember, and it fits straight into however your team already handles SSO. Company membership and roles also now update instantly, so adding or removing a teammate's access takes effect immediately, instead of waiting for their next login like it used to.

    You can now start a trial yourself, without waiting on a sales call. New accounts get provisioned the moment you sign up meaning no manual setup on our end, no back-and-forth to get access. When you're ready to move off the trial, checkout and billing now run on Stripe: you'll see a clear breakdown of your plan and usage, get proper invoices and receipts, and can update your payment details or view billing history yourself instead of emailing us for a copy. You'll always know what you're being billed before it happens with no surprise charges, no manual invoice requests.

    Nothing changes about the plans, credits, or features you already have. This is purely about making it easier to get in and easier to pay. If you run into any issue signing in with Google/Microsoft, or anything looks off on your billing page, email support@gosmarter.ai and we'll sort it quickly.

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  3. Meet Hex 👋 your new onboarding assistant

    New Feature
    AI

    We've added an AI-powered assistant to help you set up GoSmarter faster. Hex lives in the bottom right of your screen and can:

    📄 Turn your documents into ready-to-review data

    Upload a price list, spec sheet, or existing config (PDF or image) and Hex reads it — using document intelligence to extract structured rows for things like Materials, Types, Stock Locations, Order Statuses, and more. No more retyping your reference data by hand.

    ✅ You review everything before it's saved

    Hex never writes anything to your company data on its own. Every proposal lands in a review table where you can see each suggested row, its confidence match, and edit any values inline. Accept the ones you want, uncheck the ones you don't, then hit Apply to confirm. Nothing is saved until you approve it.

    🔒 Your documents aren't kept

    Anything you upload is used only to generate the proposal and is automatically deleted within 24 hours. Hex is available now for Starter plan and above, you can configure everything with your free trial to get started quickly, and if you ever want to get Hex back, they're a toggle from your user name.

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  4. Get your CBAM certificate costs right, not roughly right

    New Feature

    If your CBAM numbers are still coming from a spreadsheet guess, a 20% miscalculation is a direct hit to your margin. Our free CBAM Import Cost Estimator calculates certificate costs for iron, steel, and aluminium shipments into the EU — enter goods category, origin country, tonnage, and declaration year, and get back the certificate cost in euros, total embedded emissions, and a full methodology breakdown. It covers 13 CN-code categories and ~60 countries with country-specific emissions defaults (Angola sintered ore isn't Turkish sintered ore), applies the correct year-based markup automatically, and exports to PDF/CSV so finance, purchasing, and compliance are all working from the same figures.

    Try it: app.gosmarter.ai/cbam-cost-estimator

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  5. Stop hunting for welding standards across ten tabs

    New Feature

    We built a free Standards Library that puts 14 major welding and structural codes — AWS, ASME, API, EN, ISO, CSA, and AS/NZS — side by side in one filterable page, instead of scattered across publisher PDFs and old bookmarks. Every entry shows scope, inspection defaults, material coverage, and prequalification stance in the same 9-field format, with direct links to the source standard so you're never working from a paraphrase. No login, no integration — just a page you can filter, bookmark, and share a link straight to the standard you need.

    Try it: app.gosmarter.ai/standards-library

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  6. Not sure which welding code applies? Answer 4 questions, find out.

    New Feature

    Picking the wrong welding code doesn't just slow a job down — it means failed inspections, reworked joints, and awkward conversations with clients. Our free Welding Code Selector runs your material, joint type, industry, and region through a deterministic rules engine (no AI guesswork) and tells you the applicable code, the reasoning behind it, inspection expectations, and whether the joint is prequalified — in under a minute. Covers 12 codes across AWS, ASME, API, EN, ISO, and CSA, with a comparison table and an auto-generated checklist for the job. If it can't map your combination with confidence, it says so rather than guessing.

    Run your next job through it before you write the WPS: app.gosmarter.ai/welding-code-selector

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  7. Better management of suppliers and customers

    Improvement

    We have improved the information capture about your organisations you deal with to enable you to better manage them. Whether it's reflecting their status in your onboarding flow or being able to get precise geo-location data for CBAM calculations, you now have more capability in your hands.

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  8. Light mode

    User experience
    Improvement

    We built the site in dark mode because it's cool (well, because it's easier on the eyes and saves a bit of energy) but we regularly discuss adding a light mode. Now we did it! This is part of an a progressive overhaul of our app's screens to make things as easy to use as possible so watch this space.

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  9. Company settings, all in one place

    Improvement
    User experience

    Company details, materials, types, stock locations, order statuses, tags and rules used to live on nine separate pages, spread across a long sidebar list. Finding the right screen meant hunting.

    They're now one workspace: Customise GoSmarter, reached from a single dashboard card and sidebar entry. Switch between tabs instead of pages — everything's still exactly where it was, just no longer scattered.

    Organisations keeps its own dedicated page, since that's where you manage your actual customers and suppliers day-to-day, rather than one-off setup.

    Old bookmarks and links still work so they'll drop you straight into the right tab.

  10. Manage your certificates

    Improvement
    Mill certificates

    When you're dealing with hundreds of mill certificates / material test reports every month, a single table of uploads can be overwhelming.

    You can now archive certificates you don't want to see normally, either one at a time or by bulk select, and we'll provide a prompt to regularly archive certificates that are more than a month old and don't have an any active stock.

    Additionally, if you upload something in error or no longer need it, you can delete them. Don't worry they're still recoverable if you accidentally delete them! You can view deleted items in the Bulk Action options.

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