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Stream

INFRA · APIS
Velocity5.0

Stream ships steady monthly polish across a wide logistics-ops surface

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◆Current state
Stream is a delivery-management and route-planning platform shipping monthly compendium releases — every month touches planning, orders, vehicles, the driver mobile app, integrations, and the public API with customer-driven improvements. The May 2026 release adds automatic per-vehicle run costing; recent months added a Clients screen, an Operations Monitor, a mobile returns/collections flow, and parking-location coordinates. Texture is mature SaaS execution, not category bets.
◆Where it's heading
Direction is breadth and depth on the existing surface, not expansion into a new category. Multi-language work recurs almost every release, pointing to a deliberate international push. The Public API gets touched nearly every month, suggesting integrations are how new logos land. Notably absent across the last ten releases: any AI or agent-integration features, which is unusual versus peer logistics tooling.
◆Prediction
Next release should follow the same monthly compendium pattern — likely deeper financial/costing reporting (run costing was May's headline so adjacent surfaces logically follow), continued mobile-app polish for drivers, more public-API endpoints, and another round of multi-language coverage. No signal the cadence or scope is about to shift.

◆Recent moves

  1. 29d ago

    Stream adds automatic run costing

    Automatic run costing arrives as a new feature, calculating total run cost from per-vehicle or per-vehicle-type configuration — the first explicit financial output surfaced on the planning surface. Other touches across planning, orders, vehicles, and the mobile app fit the monthly polish pattern.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Stream adds customer-specific webhook queues and tightens tracking security

    Customer-specific webhook queues, a new Multi order upload option, and tracking API security improvements lead a fix-heavy month. Continues the monthly polish cadence with no directional shift.

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  3. 2mo ago

    Stream broadens planning, mobile, and API surface

    A wide month touching orders, planning, mobile, vehicles, users, integrations, and the public API. The most notable additions are address-region postcode processing improvements and a runs-update upload — incremental but useful operational tools.

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  4. 4mo ago

    Stream adds mobile returns/collections and vehicle defect PDF

    The mobile app gets a new returns/collections feature for drivers, and vehicles can now generate a PDF of defect details. Removal of the legacy Order Create button is the only structural cleanup; otherwise standard monthly polish.

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  5. 5mo ago

    Stream introduces Operations Monitor screen

    A 2-part release introduces the Operations Monitor — a new screen for tracking in-progress runs and failed stops — alongside performance work, multi-language coverage, and broad fixes. Operations Monitor is the most substantive structural addition of the recent year.

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  6. 6mo ago

    Stream adds Clients screen ahead of December freeze

    A pre-freeze December release adds a new Clients management screen and a Runs Upload option in Advanced Planning. Clients getting its own first-class screen is a meaningful structural addition, paired with planning UX improvements.

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