What's New
Changelog
Protocol ships fast. Here's everything that's been added, improved, and integrated. Updated weekly.
June 2026
Protein goal manual entry
The protein goal wizard now includes a manual entry option, so you can skip the calculation and enter your target directly — matching the calorie wizard experience.
Edit meal in coach chat
Coach chat now supports editing an existing meal log entry. If you forgot an ingredient or made a mistake, just tell the coach and it updates the entry instead of creating a duplicate.
Calorie goal wizard improvements
The calorie setup wizard got a full overhaul: cleaner 3-step flow (basics, activity level, goal and result), corrected Mifflin-St Jeor formula, persistent TDEE profile, and a manual entry option for anyone who already knows their numbers.
AI-readable knowledge base
Protocol content is now accessible as plain text for AI tools and developers. Full-site content at /llms-full.txt, plus individual .md endpoints for every article and glossary term.
May 2026
Weekly calorie budget calculators
Two new tools in the calculators section: a weekly calorie budget that spreads your target across the week with flexible day-by-day adjustments, and a mid-week progress check that shows exactly where you stand and how to finish the week on target.
HRV + RHR Almost Tier
Baseline evaluators now recognize when you are within 2ms (HRV) or 2bpm (RHR) of your threshold. Almost shows in amber so you can see you came close without the binary hit or miss.
Sleep Retry Queue
Daily brief emails now queue a retry when sleep data is not available at send time, attempting again later in the morning rather than sending without it.
Smashed Tier
Metrics that exceed 110% of your goal now earn a Smashed badge in the app and in your daily email, shown in distinct green. Coach commentary also reflects when you have crushed a goal, not just hit it.
Ladder workout imports
Workouts logged in the Ladder app are now synced into Protocol automatically. Your weekly workout count and daily brief both reflect Ladder sessions alongside your other tracked workouts.
HRV + RHR absolute goal targets
You can now set a specific number target for HRV (for example, HRV >= 55 ms) or RHR (for example, RHR <= 58 bpm) instead of tracking relative to your baseline. The goal editor has a new mode toggle between baseline-relative and specific number. Baseline-relative stays the default and is recommended for most users.
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
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.
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.
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.
Food search improvements
Product thumbnails now show in food search results, search quality and speed improved, and the language throughout nutrition logging is cleaner.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Editable supplement stack
Add, remove, and manage your personal supplement stack. No more hardcoded defaults — your stack is yours to configure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OTP login
An 8-digit passcode delivered via branded Protocol email is now available as a PWA-friendly alternative to magic links.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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