July 13, 2026
This Week in Slashwork
Last week's newsletter was the org chart's debut and SCIM's first real breath. This week, both of them grew up. The chart learned to move around a company instead of just picture one, and SCIM learned how to finish what it starts, not just how to begin it.
We also, almost as a side project, built you a map. It's another no-single-blockbuster week — just a stack of things that make Slashwork noticeably more useful than it was seven days ago. Here's what shipped.

🧭 The Org Chart Learns to Move Around
Two weeks ago, the org chart was a nice picture of your company. This week I put a lot of hours into making it a place you'd actually want to spend time in. Search now sorts results by where people actually sit in the hierarchy rather than just alphabetically, arrow keys move you around the chart the way your instincts expect, and there's now a one-click ‘jump to me’ button for when you've scrolled three hundred people deep and forgotten where you started.
If your company has one of those wonderfully tangled reporting loops, the chart now draws it sensibly instead of getting confused, and you can jump straight into it from anyone's profile. It also has a real home now, tucked into the left-hand navigation instead of feeling like a science project bolted onto the side of the app.
📍 Meet the People Map
New this week: an actual map of your actual team. Every office and remote location your teammates have set on their profiles now shows up as a pin you can click to see exactly who's there. It's a small feature with an outsized effect on a distributed company — sometimes the fastest way to understand who you work with is to see them laid out across an actual map of the world, rather than buried in a directory list.
👀 See Who's Caught Up, at a Glance
Chats now quietly show you how far along everyone else is. Under a message, you'll spot the faces of teammates who've read up to that point, which is genuinely useful for anything time-sensitive, and just as useful for knowing whether a follow-up nudge is worth sending. Click through for the full list, including everyone hiding behind a ‘+N,’ complete with a search box for busier chats.
Credit to Josh for building this one. It answers a question a lot of us have been silently wondering about for a while: did anyone actually see this?
🪪 Channels and Teams Get Their Own Identity
Channels and Teams have had their own names for a while, but the rest of the app didn't always act like it — creating one used to post the same generic ‘created a group’ message as everything else. Now the system message actually reflects what you made, and if you later change a group's type, that gets announced correctly too. Both also got proper icons to match, courtesy of Dave, on web and native, so a Team looks like a Team and a Channel looks like a Channel wherever you run into one.
🔐 SCIM Grows Up: Full Lifecycle Support
A couple of weeks ago, SCIM could create a user. This week, thanks to My Hoa, it can do the rest of the job too: update an existing user's details and offboard them cleanly when someone leaves. That means your identity provider — Microsoft Entra ID and its peers — can now manage a Slashwork account end to end, without anyone on your team touching an invite link or hunting down a deactivation screen.
We ran every bit of it against Microsoft's own SCIM validator along the way, so it's ready for a real IT department, not just ours.
🖼️ Custom Company Branding
Company admins can now upload a company profile picture right from the admin settings panel, instead of being stuck with initials or a generic placeholder. It's a small thing, but it's often the first thing that makes a workspace feel like yours instead of a fresh install.
⬇️ A Proper Front Door for Downloads
We built real, dedicated pages for downloading the desktop and mobile apps, courtesy of Josh, so pointing a new teammate — or your own IT team — at ‘go get Slashwork’ now leads somewhere clean and obvious instead of a link buried three settings menus deep.
🧹 Mobile Chat Cleanup
A couple of native polish items landed too: one-on-one chats on mobile no longer repeat the sender's name over every single message, matching how they've already looked on web, and editing a message that includes a photo, video, or file now behaves the way you'd expect.
That's the week: an org chart you can actually navigate, a map that puts faces to places, receipts that tell you who's caught up, and enough SCIM plumbing that an identity provider can now run a user's entire Slashwork lifecycle on its own. Not a bad seven days.