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Dovetail

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Velocity5.0

Customer insights platform for analyzing research, feedback, and user interviews

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Dovetail lets admins choose which connectors members can plug into the workspace.

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◆Current state
Channels 2.0 reached general availability on October 21. In November Dovetail opened itself to outside assistants: Claude and ChatGPT can co-author docs, agents can be managed from MCP clients such as Claude and Cursor, and Jira roadmap items can pull in Dovetail evidence. On November 12 it added the matching control: workspace admins decide which connectors members may use.
◆Where it's heading
Dovetail is turning its research repository into a source that other tools and assistants read and write, rather than a place people must visit. The admin connector controls show the cost of that openness: each new integration needs a security gate before larger customers will turn it on.
◆Prediction
With connectors now gated by admins, expect more connectors and MCP actions to ship behind the same controls, plus audit detail on what connected tools did.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Admin controls for connector compliance

    Admins can now limit members to approved connectors. It is the governance step that November's Claude, ChatGPT and MCP integrations needed before security teams will allow them.

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  2. 4d ago

    Manage agents from your favorite LLM

    Dovetail agents can now be created, edited and queried from Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients without opening Dovetail. It extends the agent work outward, following the activity log released days earlier.

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  3. 4d ago

    Enrich your Jira roadmap with Dovetail data

    Ideas and evidence from Channels, or Docs, can now be attached to existing Jira roadmap items in one click. It pushes customer research into the tool engineering already plans in.

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  4. 4d ago

    See your Workspace Sources activity in every Channel

    Channels now show which workspace sources feed them, when each last synced, what is being analysed and when the next sync runs, plus a data usage view. Operational visibility for the ingestion behind Channels.

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  5. 5d ago

    Chat answers from Dovetail help docs

    Dovetail's Chat now answers questions about using the product from its help docs. It extends the assistant that moved beside the work in October into support, so users don't have to leave for the help center.

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  6. 8d ago

    Co-author docs with Claude and ChatGPT

    Claude and ChatGPT can now read, add, rewrite and format Dovetail docs from the conversation. It brings outside assistants into the research workspace rather than keeping AI inside Dovetail's own Chat.

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