What we’re shipping next
The next wave of features is focused on reducing admin, improving visibility, and helping your team move faster.
This next wave includes:
Meeting Notes
Meeting Notes brings every project conversation into one place.
Record meetings live from desktop or mobile inside Programa, or upload recordings and transcripts from external tools or voice memos. Programa then turns them into structured project summaries with decisions, action items, and open questions attached directly to the project.
Instead of hunting through folders, recordings, and email threads weeks later, every meeting stays connected to the work it relates to.
Automated Time Tracking
Our Time Tracking functionality is receiving a major upgrade.
A new global timer now follows designers between projects throughout the workday, automatically allocating time based on the projects they actively work in.
More flexible time logging, clearer grouping and filtering, project totals, and team reporting also help studios better understand where project time is actually being spent.
Designed around the reality of modern studio workflows, the new Time Tracking experience reduces manual admin while improving operational visibility across projects and teams.
Studio Pulse improvements
TBC.
Invoicing and payment workflow improvements
We’re also building a new financial reporting layer for Programa.
Budgets that actually keep up. Integrated with your Programa schedules, project management, and invoicing, your budget automatically stays up-to-date across the life of every project. When a client switches to a new selection, the price of the product they love flows straight into your numbers.
Adjust markups, margins, and tax against your Schedule products to see profitability shift in real time and watch project budgets roll up into studio-wide financial reporting for a clear view of your cash flow. More details coming soon as this feature moves closer to release.
Client communication improvements
TBC.
Schedule workflow improvements
Schedules remain at the center of the Programa workflow, and we’re continuing to expand what they can do.
Upcoming updates will introduce more flexible ways to create, manage, share, and structure schedules around the way different studios work, with deeper connections across procurement, presentations, financial reporting, and 3D workflows.
The goal remains the same: a connected source of truth for project specifications across the entire studio.
A connected supplier and quoting workflow
We’re continuing to close the gap between designers and suppliers inside Programa.
Invite trusted suppliers directly into your projects so product information, pricing, lead times, specifications, and quotes flow straight into the schedules and workflows your team is already using. Instead of managing long email chains and disconnected documents, quoting and procurement stay connected from first specification through to final order.
The result is faster turnaround times, cleaner project records, and a more connected workflow between studios and suppliers.
These features represent an important shift in what Programa is becoming. Programa is increasingly moving from a place where your team stores and organises information into a platform that helps your team do the work.
That means surfacing what matters. Helping your team see what needs action. Reducing repetitive admin. Connecting the dots across projects, clients, suppliers, and internal workflows.
