What's New

Changelog

Protocol ships fast. Here's everything that's been added, improved, and integrated. Updated weekly.

May 2026

Feature✦ Highlight

Onboarding quiz

New visitors can now answer a few questions about their goals, wearables, and health focus before signing up. The quiz lives at /start and is linked from the homepage. A better first step into Protocol.

April 2026

Improvement

Featured article in daily email

Your daily brief now includes a recommended Protocol article matched to what you're working on. One more reason to open the email.

Feature

Biomarkers + coach

Your coach now has full context on your lab results. Ask it what your out-of-range markers mean, what to prioritize, or what your numbers suggest about your training and recovery. Biomarker-specific suggested questions included.

Feature✦ Highlight

Biomarkers

Upload a PDF from Function Health (or any standard lab panel) and see all your markers in one place — status-coded optimal, sufficient, or out of range, with trend sparklines over time, category filters, and a summary on your home screen.

Improvement

Food search improvements

Product thumbnails now show in food search results, search quality and speed improved, and the language throughout nutrition logging is cleaner.

Improvement

Intentions improvements

AM/PM auto-flip when setting times, full day names in recurring schedules, hover tooltip showing which days are selected, and a dot menu with calendar export and delete on each intention.

Integration

Open Food Facts integration

Real food search with typeahead when logging meals. Macros are auto-populated from the Open Food Facts database so logging is faster and more accurate.

Feature

Supplement Finder

The Supplement Finder has moved to /calculators/supplement-finder and been relaunched as a proper guided flow. Four intake steps narrow your profile, then results show category pills and collapsible breakdowns with symptoms per category. The /calculators page is now called Health Tools.

Feature

Intentions via coach

Create, deactivate, or review your active intentions in conversation with your coach. Ask what intentions are active and your coach will pull them up.

Feature

Editable supplement stack

Add, remove, and manage your personal supplement stack. No more hardcoded defaults — your stack is yours to configure.

Feature✦ Highlight

Manual-only mode

No wearable? No problem. Fully track goals and use Protocol without a device connected. Workouts, meals, hydration, and supplements all work in manual mode.

Improvement

Onboarding redesign

New connect-first flow puts device setup front and center. Goal locking filters available goals based on what device you have — or lets you go fully manual if you have none.

Feature

Body weight and body comp logging

Log weight and body composition via coach chat or directly from the expanded metric cards on your Today tab. Source preference is saved per metric.

Feature

Hydration tracking upgrade

Hydration is now tracked end-to-end. Log water intake from the FAB and see your progress update instantly on the scorecard tile. Hydration data now flows into your daily email brief and coach context so every part of Protocol knows where you stand.

Feature

OTP login

An 8-digit passcode delivered via branded Protocol email is now available as a PWA-friendly alternative to magic links.

Feature✦ Highlight

Implementation intentions

Build scheduled or reactive if-then plans, view them on your Today tab, and get them surfaced in your daily email. Google Calendar sync included so your intentions live alongside your schedule.

Feature

Coach voice input

Talk to your coach hands-free. Voice is transcribed and submitted automatically so you can log meals, workouts, and more without typing.

Feature

Manual workout logging

Log workouts via coach chat or the FAB. The new Workout Log page shows all sessions from Protocol Fit, Oura, and WHOOP in one place.

Feature✦ Highlight

First Sync Insights Email

After your first real data sync, Protocol sends a one-time email revealing your 60-day baseline patterns. Includes an AI narrative, metric cards, and personalized feedback the moment your data lands.

Feature

Streak and milestone celebrations

Hit a streak milestone and Protocol marks it with a toast and modal. Celebrations fire across all tracked goal types, including dietary calories, so no win goes unrecognized.

Improvement

Daily email: action-oriented coach section

The coach block in the daily email is rewritten around action. It drops the redundant focus headline and shows up to three concrete action bullets, each addressing a different lever. Less overlap with the narrative, more signal per email.

Feature

Onboarding redesign

Oura and WHOOP OAuth now happens during onboarding, so your dashboard has real data from day one. The Set Targets step has been removed to get you to your first sync faster.

Feature

Meal log: goals inline and servings stepper

Nutrition metrics now display relative to your daily goals directly in the meal log. The meal edit modal adds a servings stepper for fast quantity adjustments without retyping.

Feature

Workout counting preference

Choose which workouts count toward your weekly goal. WHOOP and wearable workouts now correctly count alongside Oura, so your progress reflects what you actually did.

Improvement

Goal-aware coaching

The daily coach and email narrative now skip metrics you are not tracking. No more advice on data that does not exist for you.

Feature

Wearable reconnect emails

When your Oura or WHOOP connection needs re-authentication, Protocol sends an automatic email so you never miss a sync without knowing why.

Feature✦ Highlight

Zone 2 weekly goal

A new Zone 2 card tracks weekly minutes with color-coded progress bars, a coach insight, and Oura MET-based sync. Set a target and see exactly where you stand each week.

Feature

Protein goal wizard

Setting a protein goal is now guided with a two-step wizard. You can calculate a target, choose tracking source, and edit the goal cleanly without manual guesswork.

Feature

Marketing site search

Full-text search across Protocol content is now live at /search, with a Cmd+K overlay and search icon in the nav. Find protocols, learn articles, and glossary terms instantly.

Improvement

Coach uses deeper Oura and WHOOP context

Coach responses now use richer wearable context and make clearer distinctions between available and unavailable metrics, so guidance is more accurate to your connected data.

Feature

Baseline-relative HRV and resting HR goals

You can now track HRV and resting heart rate against your personal baseline instead of static thresholds, including dashboard and brief behavior that adapts while baseline is still building.

Improvement

Daily brief email upgrades

Daily emails now handle more real-world scenarios, including a clear success state when all goals are hit, better in-progress states, improved rounding, and fuller goal visibility in the scorecard.

March 2026

Feature

New calculators

Four new tools are live at /calculators: Caffeine Window Calculator, Sleep Cycle Calculator, Zone 2 Heart Rate Calculator, and Macro Calculator with full TDEE breakdown.

Feature✦ Highlight

Protocol Fit

Early access to Protocol Fit, the companion app for strength tracking, is now available. Log workouts, track personal records, and get progression guidance that connects to your recovery data in Protocol.

Milestone✦ Highlight

Premium subscription

Protocol Premium is now available. Upgrade to unlock the AI coach, daily and weekly email briefs, coaching insights, and trend analysis. Beta pricing available for early members.

Feature✦ Highlight

New Coach experience

The coach now has a dedicated chat tab with continuous conversation — no more starting fresh each time. Responses render with full formatting. A separate Reports tab holds your structured coaching analysis. Hit Enter to send on desktop.

Feature✦ Highlight

Continuous chat

All past coach conversations are now flattened into a single continuous thread with date dividers, timestamps on every message, and a load-earlier button at the top. No more isolated sessions.

Feature

Meal log management in Goals

You can now view, edit, delete, and manually add meals in the Goals > Nutrition section. Meals logged via the AI coach or manually added are all editable in one place.

Feature

Protocol Glossary expansion

Five new metabolism and nutrition terms added to the glossary, with practical food examples, range cards, and links to relevant learn articles.

Feature

Deeper coach memory across conversations

The AI coach now draws on your recent conversation history across sessions, not just the current chat thread. It remembers context, recognizes recurring themes, and builds on what it already knows about your patterns over time.

Improvement

Smarter multi-device handling

Protocol now respects your device preferences per metric. If you use WHOOP for recovery and Oura for sleep, Protocol pulls from the right source for each one, and updates instantly when you change your preference without requiring a re-sync.

Improvement

Daily and weekly email enhancements

The daily brief email is rebuilt from scratch: a 2-3 sentence AI narrative synthesis leads the email, followed by a split scorecard (sleep and recovery from last night, activity from yesterday) and a single pattern-focused coaching block. Duplicate send protection is in place. Weekly emails now include a goals nudge alongside your trend comparison.

Feature✦ Highlight

Coach-first dashboard

The dashboard no longer just shows your data, it tells you what it means. The Coached Today tab now leads with a Daily Brief card: a two-sentence synthesis of your day with a direct action, sitting above your metrics so the coaching layer is impossible to miss.

Feature✦ Highlight

Metric Insights

Every metric row on the dashboard now surfaces an AI-generated insight when your data is worth flagging, including low recovery trends, HRV dips, and missed protein targets. Tap the ✦ pill to expand the full story: what the pattern means, why it matters, and what to do about it.

Improvement

Overhauled Coach report

The Reports tab is redesigned as a unified coaching document. An overall summary leads the page, each section has a focused Ask CTA, and the layout matches the visual language of the rest of the coach experience.

Feature

Welcome email for new users

Everyone who signs up now gets a welcome email from Evan — what Protocol is, what to set up first, and an invitation to reply with questions. It is the first touchpoint outside the app.

Feature

Learn library expanded

New Learn pages are live covering key health topics, from how to read your wearable data to the science behind sleep architecture and recovery. The glossary is growing weekly with terms that connect to the data Protocol already tracks for you.

Milestone✦ Highlight

Protocol frameworks now live

The full Protocol library is here: Sleep, HRV, Recovery, Stress and Cortisol, Protein, Strength, Zone 2 and Cardio, Fat Loss, Whole Foods, Hydration, Daily Movement, Lab Work and Biomarkers, Temperature, and the Long Game. Each one is a deep science-backed framework built to actually change how you train and recover.

Feature✦ Highlight

Protocol Glossary

New Glossary section with searchable health and fitness terms. HRV, Slow-Wave Sleep, VO2 Max, Zone 2, and Cortisol Awakening Response are live with full definitions, mechanisms, and what your wearable is actually measuring. More terms every week.

Feature✦ Highlight

AI coach remembers your past conversations

The coach chat is now persistent. Your conversation history is saved so you can pick up where you left off, revisit past insights, and build on what the coach already knows about your patterns.

Feature

Weekly email summary

Get a weekly health brief in your inbox every Monday — week-over-week comparisons of sleep, HRV, steps, workouts, and protein, with AI-generated insights on what changed and why.

Feature✦ Highlight

Light, dark, and system theme support

Protocol now fully supports light mode, dark mode, and a system-adaptive setting that follows your OS preference. Switch anytime from settings — it updates instantly across the whole app.

Feature✦ Highlight

Trends page

A new Trends tab shows how your health metrics are moving over time. Sleep score, HRV, body weight, resting HR, protein, steps, and more — each with a 7- and 30-day view and an AI-generated insight to help you read the patterns.

Improvement

Faster performance throughout the app

Coach cards, trends insights, and sync results now load faster and without layout shifts. Data is cached smarter so navigating between tabs feels snappy.

Feature✦ Highlight

Expandable metric cards on the dashboard

Each metric row in the daily scorecard now expands to show deeper detail — sleep stage breakdown, HRV history, protein progress, body composition, and more. Tap any row to dig in.

Feature

Hydration tracking with custom logging

Track your daily water intake directly in Protocol. Log oz in any increment, set a daily goal, and watch your progress update in real time. Delete individual entries if you make a mistake.

Feature

Daily email summary

Get a daily brief delivered to your inbox each morning — your sleep score, recovery, key metrics, and an AI coaching insight. Turn it on from notification preferences in settings.

Integration✦ Highlight

WHOOP integration

WHOOP users can now connect directly via OAuth. Protocol syncs strain, recovery, and sleep data nightly — all visible in your daily scorecard alongside Oura and Apple Health.

Integration

Oura Ring integration

Direct Oura OAuth connection is live. Sleep score, readiness, HRV, resting heart rate, and body temperature deviation all sync into Protocol automatically.

February 2026

Feature✦ Highlight

AI coach launched

Protocol\'s AI coach is live. Ask it anything — what your sleep trend means, whether to train hard today, how close you are to your protein goal. It has full context on your data, not just the last message.

Milestone✦ Highlight

Protocol enters private beta

First version live. Daily scorecard, Apple Health sync, and AI coach. The foundation is in place — now we build on it.

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