v0.40.0
July 11, 2026
The Saving Challenge is born: FlowSharp closes the loop "measure → automate → prove the savings". You can freeze a certified snapshot of a process’s costs (the baseline), attach a success-fee contract to it and see every month how much you are saving your client — with the fee already computed, an Excel export ready for accounting and every parameter tracked. It is the first premium feature with per-client activation. Contains a database migration.
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Feature
Certified cost baseline
Snapshot what a process costs, before improving it. From a process map’s settings the Admin picks an observation window (30/60/90 days or free dates): the system proposes the cost per item of each measured flow and the monthly cost of estimated manual work, flagging unreliable data (low volumes, tasks without a cost). Every proposed value can be corrected by hand, but only by stating the reason: corrections stay on record (who, when, why, original and corrected value). Then you freeze: from that moment the baseline is immutable — freezing again creates a new version and archives the previous one.
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Feature
Saving Challenge: the shared-savings contract
The contract lives in the product. A Challenge attaches to a frozen baseline and defines its terms: duration in months, success fee %, agreed recurring costs and an optional minimum fee. It is activated with an explicit gesture (the equivalent of a signature) and from then on the parameters are locked: renegotiations become amendments with an effective date, never silent edits. Every night FlowSharp computes the month’s row: real volume × baseline cost, minus measured operating cost, AI costs and recurring costs = net saving, from which the accrued fee (never negative, minimum fee honoured). Closed months are consolidated and never change; measured and estimated savings always stay separate. A draft Challenge shows past months "as if it were active" — the pre-signature sales tool — and a one-click Excel export delivers three sheets: Contract, Monthly detail (every column of the formula, recomputable by the client) and Per-flow detail. If a baseline flow is archived or deleted, the Challenge flags it: computation continues, but the contractual perimeter needs review.
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Feature
First premium feature with per-client activation
Premium now actually switches on. The Saving Challenge is enabled per client by the SuperAdmin (Platform page): without activation the feature does not appear and the APIs answer "premium feature not enabled". It is the socket the Store Portal licensing will plug into. A new "Saving" menu entry (Admin only, with the premium badge) lists the challenges and opens the detail with the monthly dashboard, cumulative totals and contract actions.