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August Update: Introducing the Rize Agent Toolset

August 11, 2026

This week, we're launching one of the biggest updates we've ever made to Rize: the Rize Agent toolset.

Rize is evolving from a time tracker into an AI operations expert that helps you understand what's happening, identify what needs attention, and keep recurring work moving automatically.

Instead of spending time checking dashboards, assembling reports, reviewing activity, and following up with your team, you can now ask Rize for answers and let it handle more of that operational work in the background.

The Rize Agent toolset helps you put more of your operations on autopilot:

  • Get immediate answers about your time, team, projects, clients, and profitability.
  • Turn recurring questions into reports that are ready whenever you need them.
  • Automate morning preparation, end-of-day reviews, team check-ins, and custom briefs.
  • Give Rize your team's context, rules, and preferences so its answers stay relevant and consistent.
  • Improve how time is assigned to clients, projects, and tasks.
  • Bring Rize insights and actions into Claude, ChatGPT, and your internal workflows.

WHAT IT CAN DO FOR YOU

New Rize Agent and chat experience

Rize Agent home with preset prompt chips and the agent composer

The Agent turns your time data into a place you can ask questions and take action. Ask what changed this week, which client took the most time, where a project stands, or what needs review before billing.

Read the Agent changelog

Reusable AI-powered reports

AI Reports template picker with starter report templates

AI Reports turn the analysis you repeat into something Rize can run for you. Use them for client profitability, team overviews, project budget checks, weekly updates, or any report you do not want to rebuild by hand.

Read the AI Reports changelog

Scheduled routines that run automatically

Rize Routine template picker with start-of-day and review templates

Routines put recurring work on a schedule. Rize can prepare your day, summarize what happened, remind you what needs cleanup, or send a team check-in without waiting for someone to remember to ask.

Read the Routines changelog

Shared AI Skills and prompts for your team

Rize shared AI Skills list in Agent settings

Shared AI Skills keep the agent consistent as your work gets more complex. Save client rules, agency reporting formats, billing preferences, or team operating notes once, then reuse them anywhere the agent works.

Read the Shared AI Skills changelog

Agent Context and Custom Tagging Instructions

Rize Agent Context settings with personal, team, and workspace guidance

Agent Context tells Rize how your freelance business, agency, or organization thinks about work. Custom tagging instructions help Rize classify clients, projects, and tasks the way your team would, so reports and timesheets need less cleanup.

Read the Agent Context changelog

Expanded API and MCP support

Rize MCP settings with Claude and ChatGPT connection options

API and MCP updates let the same agent layer work outside Rize. Claude, ChatGPT, internal tools, and custom workflows can use Rize's reports, routines, Skills, and context as part of a larger operating system for your work.

Read the API and MCP changelog

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