Product updates

September release: Deal Rooms, multilingual Astra and faster search

This month’s release brings shared Deal Rooms, Astra in 14 more languages and a rebuilt search that returns answers in under 300 milliseconds.

CXCXAstra teamSep 8, 2026 · 4 min read

Deal Rooms

Deal Rooms give buyers and sellers one shared workspace for an opportunity. Mutual action plans, proposals, security documents and meeting recaps live in one link instead of scattered email threads. Sellers see which stakeholders opened what and when, and those engagement signals feed straight into the deal timeline.

  • Mutual action plans with owners and due dates on both sides.
  • Automatic recaps posted after every meeting, ready for the seller to review first.
  • Per-stakeholder access controls and an activity view for the account team.

Multilingual Astra

Astra now understands and answers in 14 additional languages, including Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic and German. Conversations can switch languages mid-call; signals are extracted in the original language and summarised in each user’s preferred language, so global teams share one view of the customer.

Faster, grounded search

We rebuilt search on a new retrieval index. Most queries now return in under 300 milliseconds, and every answer links to the conversations, emails or records it came from. Ask “which accounts raised security concerns this quarter?” and get a list with sources, not a paragraph to trust blindly.

“Every answer Astra gives should show its working. Faster search makes that practical at scale.”

Smaller improvements

  • Calendar sync now supports shared and resource calendars.
  • Admins can set field-level retention rules per region.
  • Keyboard shortcuts across the deal view — press ? to see them.

All features are rolling out to every workspace over the next two weeks. Deal Rooms are included in Growth and Enterprise plans. As always, we’d love your feedback through the in-app help menu.

Key takeaways
01Deal Rooms bring buyers and sellers into one shared, trackable workspace.
02Astra now works in 14 more languages, including mid-call switching.
03Search answers arrive in under 300ms and always cite their sources.
CXWritten by the CXAstra teamProduct, research and customer teams

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