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Changelog

What we shipped, and when.

Public dev log. Every notable tool, AI feature, partnership, content sprint, and infrastructure change. Updated as we ship.

May 2026

  1. 17 MayAI

    AI Contract Reviewer — paste a contract, get cited risks in 60s

    New flagship tool. AI reads any employment contract against the Fair Work Act, NES, recent FWC + Federal Court decisions. Flags every risk with a citation and a fix. Free 1 review/day, Plus tier unlimited.

    See it →
  2. 17 MayContent

    Newsletter Issue #1 sent — 33 subscribers

    First FWM newsletter. AI launch announcement + 5 changes hitting Aussie workers May → July 2026 + what else is new at FWM. Sent via Resend. 100% delivery.

  3. 17 MayBrand

    V2 marketing hero rolled across home, /pricing, /for-business

    Gradient navy + lilac glow + clamp-sized H1 + lilac eyebrow. Same treatment on all three marketing pages so the site reads as one system. CLAUDE.md design system updated.

  4. 14 MayPartnership

    Joined Employment Hero Authorised Partner Program

    FWM is now a partner of Employment Hero (300,000+ businesses on the platform). Referral capture page live at /employment-hero, with placements across 18 tools.

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  5. 14 MayContent

    Case law library expanded to 328 published decisions

    Cases & Precedents sprint: 241 → 328 published case pages (+87 Fair Work Commission and Federal Court decisions). FCA filter widened; pipeline + commands documented.

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  6. 10 MayInfrastructure

    Site-wide canonical bug fixed

    A long-standing canonical bug in app/layout.tsx was nuking ~100 pages from search engine indexing. Fixed and redeployed. GSC re-submission scheduled.

  7. 9 MayAI

    FairWork Mate AI launched

    Public AI advisor live at /advisor. Free 2 questions/day. Plus $9.99/mo, Pro $29.99/mo, Business $499/mo with document upload. Grounded on 470+ Australian case decisions. Google Sign-In, Apple Pay, Google Pay all wired through Stripe.

    See it →
  8. 9 MayInfrastructure

    Shared @mate-network/auth package extracted

    Auth toolkit pulled out as a shared package so future Mate Network sites can drop it in. createMateAuth<TPlanId>() factory; JWT sessions via jose; bcrypt cost 12; rate limiting.

  9. 8 MayTool

    Underpayment letter generator + sham contracting self-test

    Two more SME-grade tools shipped: drafts a formal underpayment claim letter from inputs; assesses sham contracting risk against the s.357 indicators.

  10. 2 MayTool

    Workforce cost forecaster, FEG claim calculator, others

    Tool sprint: workforce cost forecaster, FEG (Fair Entitlements Guarantee) claim calculator, sham contracting self-test, restraint of trade enforceability checker. Each ships with golden-value tests and PDF/Excel export.

April 2026

  1. 23 AprTool

    Underpayment enquiry letter tool — willingness-to-pay experiment

    Plan A WTP validation tool live. Generates a polite enquiry letter to an employer about suspected underpayment. Two-week experiment to validate consumer willingness-to-pay before committing to the full Plan A buildout.

  2. 7 AprInfrastructure

    Newsletter signup live across site

    Footer + inline signups wired into Supabase email_subscribers. First subscriber: 7 April 2026.

  3. 1 AprInfrastructure

    Monumetric ads activated

    Programmatic ad layer live. First monetisation channel. Modest at current traffic; sets up for Mediavine eligibility at 50K monthly sessions.

March 2026

  1. 15 MarContent

    Recovery from Google March 2026 core update

    Site impacted by the March 2026 core update (–75% traffic during the rollout window). Recovery plan: pause new pages, fix routing issues, enrich top-ranking tools with toggles, build pre-event content for AWR + Payday Super.

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