11 February, 2026 - Last week in TI
- Rahul Subramaniam
- Releases
- February 11, 2026
Marauders Map: Facing Direction, Facial Recognition & Mouth-Movement Conversation Detection
Marauders Map now identifies people by name using facial recognition, displays real-time facing direction on the floorplan, and improves conversation detection accuracy with per-person mouth movement tracking.
- Facing Direction Detection - Uses YOLO11-pose body keypoints (shoulders, hips, nose, ears) to estimate which direction each person is facing, rendered as a directional line on the floorplan with confidence gating to prevent flickering.
- Facial Recognition - Identifies known people in real-time using InsightFace ArcFace embeddings, track-based caching, and two-tier face quality filtering.
- Mouth Movement Conversation Detection - MediaPipe Face Landmarker tracks mouth width variance per person over a sliding window to detect who is actually speaking, replacing noisy room-level audio with spatially precise per-person speech detection (30% weight in interaction scoring).
EduPaid v2.18.0: ESA Automation Logs & Admin Portal Enhancements
New ESA Automation Logs provide visibility into ESA fund intake processing with real-time monitoring, error tracking, and streamlined tools for admins to identify and fix issues efficiently.
- ESA automation logs with real-time monitoring: New admin portal feature provides visibility into ESA fund intake processing with real-time status monitoring, easy error tracking to identify failed ESA automation attempts, enabling better admin oversight and faster issue resolution.
- Parent info correction for failed records: Admins can now update parent name and email for failed ESA records directly from the portal, ensuring data accuracy and successful ESA fund processing without external tools or manual workarounds.
Athena Accelerator: Curriculum-Aligned Language & In-Session Glossary
This release introduces a vocabulary-aware question system that ensures students only encounter mathematical terms after they’ve been formally introduced in the curriculum, along with a new in-session glossary to support learners as they progress.
- Curriculum-Aligned Vocabulary – Athena now tracks when mathematical terms like quotient, denominator, or variable are introduced in the curriculum and ensures questions never use terminology before students have learned it. Every generated question is checked against a vocabulary allowlist for the student’s current skill level, so learners are never confused by unfamiliar jargon. This spans main questions, scaffolding steps, and repair sets—covering the entire learning interaction.
- “Terms You Should Know” Glossary – Students now see a contextual glossary panel during practice sessions showing up to five relevant mathematical terms for the skill they’re working on. Each term includes a student-friendly definition tied to where it was first taught in the curriculum, reinforcing vocabulary as students progress.
- New Landing Experience – A redesigned public landing page provides a clearer introduction to Athena for new families and educators, making it easier to understand the platform before signing up.
Athena Applets: Strong Quality Metrics & Multi-Grade Expansion
49 new lessons generated, 3 lessons approved this week. Total review time was 42.6 minutes (3.9 minutes per iteration), and the current review queue holds 128 lessons.
- Production output – 49 new lessons generated and 3 lessons approved this week (2 with interactions).
- Efficient iteration cycle – 11 total iterations completed in the past 7 days (8 feedback rounds, 3 approvals) with an average of 6.1 comments per lesson (55 total comments).
- Multi-grade coverage – Lessons approved in Grade 3 (3 lessons), with a review queue of 128 lessons ready for validation (Grade 3: 59, Grade 4: 3, Grade 5: 0, Grade 6: 62, Grade 7: 4).
- Review time insights – Average review time of 3.9 minutes per iteration (total 42.6 minutes).
- Complete lesson catalog – See the full list of all uploaded lessons across grades in this lesson catalog with direct links to each lesson.
EduLLM v1.2.4: Improvements on ELA and Math Grade 4
EduLLM has improved pass rates for ELA and Math Grade 4.
- ELA: We have cross 95% for grades 6-8 on benchmark tests. Making it the best performing ELA generator for these grades.
- Math Grade 4: We have improved the pass rate for Math Grade 4 from 82% to 87%.
BrainTrust: Unified Access Control, Multi-Agent Orchestration & Real Estate Analysis Optimization
BrainTrust simplifies agent permission management with a unified access control system, introduces orchestration prompts for smarter multi-agent task routing, and dramatically scales real estate analysis with concurrent Claude processing.
- Unified Access Control Panel – Completely redesigned agent access management replacing the previous allowlist + contributors system with a single, intuitive access control interface. Admins can now easily see and manage who has access to which agents, making permission management straightforward and reducing confusion around agent visibility and usage rights.
- Multi-Agent Orchestration Prompts – New capability to set orchestration prompts in spaces with multiple agents, giving you precise control over which agents are selected for specific tasks. This eliminates guesswork in multi-agent environments and ensures the right agent handles the right job, improving efficiency and reducing misdirected requests in collaborative agent spaces.
- High-Scale Real Estate Analysis – Major performance optimization enables processing thousands of property listings with around 50 concurrent Claude instances. This scaling improvement transforms real estate analysis from a slow, sequential process into a high-throughput pipeline capable of analyzing large volumes of properties efficiently.
Incept Bench
Incept Bench now provides a complete dashboard where you can run your generator endpoint on a dataset and benchmark your generator against all other available generators, making evaluation and comparison seamless in one place.
- Version 2.3.3 Released – Added support for versioning in curriculum API, now more strictly follows curriculum metadata, and includes improvements in image evaluation.
- Benchmark Dashboard Enhancements – Users can now select InceptBench version and dataset for benchmarking, queue multiple runs on the fly with cancel functionality, and test generator endpoints with a single request before running full benchmarks.
- Run Management Features – Added ability to re-run failed requests for any run, and re-run entire runs on different InceptBench versions for easy version comparison and troubleshooting.
Alpha Communities: Live in 2 Cities, Redesigned UI, Performance & Platform Hardening
Alpha Communities has launched with real customers in 2 cities, featuring a redesigned homepage and community experience, outsourced events to Luma, dramatic performance improvements cutting load times from 3–5s down to ~1s, extensive platform hardening, and infrastructure migrations to customer accounts. Next week: HubSpot integration and cleanup.
- Launched in 2 cities with real customers – Alpha Communities is now live and serving actual families in 2 cities, marking the transition from development to production with paying customers actively using the platform.
- UI overhaul – Home, Community & Content – Homepage views (Explorer, Enrolled, Insider) rebuilt with a new Apple HIG-inspired light color scheme, redesigned progress bar with dynamic per-circle founding goals, streamlined ‘Families to Meet’ with inline chat buttons, refreshed community pages with visibility and layout fixes, and content library improvements including tag priority ordering, compact text cards, slug-based URLs, and new refund policy content.
- Events – Outsourced to Luma – Event management transitioned to Luma for a more robust and scalable events experience, replacing the in-house events system.
- Performance optimizations – 3–5s down to ~1s – Page load times reduced from 3–5 seconds to approximately 1 second through centralized and optimized user loading, chat initialization performance improvements (edge function replaced with single RPC call), and overall architecture streamlining.
- Platform hardening – Extensive bug fixes and stability improvements including Google sign-in fix, forgot password flow, address autocomplete validation (only valid addresses accepted), approximate location for privacy, child data handling fixes, profile page overhaul, unread message badge counters for chat, payment receipt email templates with Alpha branding, referral-to-invite rebrand, PostHog error handling, XState share state machine with test coverage, and community visibility and UI overlap fixes across all views.
- Infrastructure migrations to customer accounts – Backend infrastructure migrated to customer-owned accounts with configurable edge function regions and auth system hardening.
- Next week: HubSpot integration & cleanup – Upcoming work focuses on HubSpot CRM integration and codebase cleanup.