When we started Harnyss, the pitch was simple: what if every company had an always-on executive team that never slept, never lost context, and never dropped the ball? Today, with 2.0, that vision becomes the default.
What's new in 2.0
The core of this release is a redesigned coordination layer we call the Agent Bus. Previously, agents communicated via direct task queues — a CEO Agent would hand off a goal to a CMO Agent, which would hand off sub-tasks to individual operators. The topology was a tree, and trees have a fundamental limitation: latency compounds at every layer.
With the Agent Bus, every agent publishes and subscribes to a shared event stream. The CEO Agent emits a high-level intent event. CMO, COO, and Head of Sales agents each pick up the intent, decompose it into their domain, and fan out to their operators — all simultaneously. Wall-clock time for a full-org delegation dropped from 8 seconds to under 900ms in our internal benchmarks.
In beta testing, customers running full-org workflows saw end-to-end task completion times drop by an average of 61% compared to Harnyss 1.x.
Approval flows, reimagined
One of the most-requested changes was a smarter approval system. In 1.x, every agent action above a configurable risk threshold required human sign-off — which sounds reasonable until you realize that a single campaign launch could generate 40+ approval requests in a morning. Most customers ended up turning approvals off, which defeated the purpose.
2.0 introduces approval batching and escalation policies. Low-risk actions are auto-approved within your configured guardrails. Medium-risk actions are batched into a digest and surfaced once per hour. Only genuinely high-stakes decisions — spend above threshold, external comms to key accounts, structural org changes — interrupt you immediately.
Rollout and pricing
Harnyss 2.0 is rolling out to all Pro and Enterprise customers over the next two weeks. Starter plan customers will get the Agent Bus upgrade automatically; the new approval system requires a plan that includes the Governance add-on.