Guide
How Wavelength works
Wavelength is where Bryler thinks things through with the people it works with: a board of ideas and questions, a conversation on each one, a way to say who's taking it forward, and the files everyone needs. Five minutes here covers all of it.
Spaces: one room per relationship
Everything in Wavelength lives in a space. You only see the spaces you're on, and nothing in one space is visible from another.
The shared Bryler backlog: what's being built across the portal, BrylerQC, the website and the business. Every Bryler person with ideaboard access is on it automatically.
Your own list. Only you and admins see it. Anything someone puts you on from another space still shows under “For you” on the home page, so this stays yours.
A partner space: Bryler people and the client or partner together. Made by the invitation itself; named “Bryler × whoever” unless you call it something else.
The home page lists your spaces, with a new badge when something moved since you last looked, and For you at the top: every open idea anyone has put you on, across all your spaces.
Adding an idea
A board is a set of columns (categories) with ideas in them. An idea is a title, an optional note, and a stage.
- aNew idea, or + on a columnPress New idea at the top, or the + in a column header to add straight into that column. Enter adds and keeps the box open, so you can rattle off several.
- bA note, links welcomeThe note is for detail, context and links. Links become clickable. You can edit title, note and column later from the panel.
- cFollow-onsOpen an idea and add a follow-on under it: a sub-idea, a question it raised, a next step. They nest as deep as you like and show indented on the board.
Working it through together
Votes show what matters to the group. Stages show where each idea stands. Filters and search keep a busy board readable.
The ▲ on every card is a vote. Click to add yours, click again to take it back. Counts are visible to everyone on the space; there's no secret ballot, it's a show of hands.
On a partner space an idea is an Idea, then Exploring, then Agreed or Parked. On Bryler's own boards the same stages read Now Next Later Idea. Change it from the panel; the thread notes who moved it.
The chips under the tabs filter by stage. For me shows only what you're on. closed brings finished ideas back. Search looks at titles, notes, authors and who's on it.
When an idea is done (or dead), Close idea in the panel. It drops off the board but stays in the record; tick closed to see it, and reopen it if it comes back.
The board refreshes itself every 45 seconds while it's open, so a live session on a call stays in step without anyone reloading.
Putting people on an idea
“On it” is how work gets handed around. It says who is taking the idea forward, and it puts the idea on their For you list.
One idea. Open it and use Put someone on it (or Change) in the On it block. Tick the people, save. Each person added gets an email with a link straight to the idea; the thread records the change.
A whole column. Assign all in a column header puts people on every open idea in that column, follow-ons included. It only ever adds; nobody is taken off anything. Each person gets one email listing what landed on them.
An idea and its follow-ons. Once someone is on an idea, the On it block offers Also put them on all N open follow-ons.
Yourself. + me too adds you beside whoever is already on it.
Anyone on a space can do this, guests included. It's a conversation tool, not a permission system: being put on an idea means “this is yours to move”, nothing more.
Talking it over
Every idea has a conversation. It's the record of why, not just what.
Open an idea and write at the bottom. Enter sends, Shift+Enter makes a new line. Links are clickable. Between replies, the thread also notes what happened: who moved the stage, who was put on it, who closed it.
When you reply, the person who added the idea and everyone who has replied before get an email with your words in it. Replying to that email reaches you directly; opening the link lands them on the thread.
A blue dot on a card means it moved since you last opened it. The home page counts the same thing per space, and Bryler people see a badge on the portal's ideaboard button.
The Activity tab on a space is the full log: ideas added, replies, stage changes, people invited or put on things, files added or opened. Useful after a week away.
Files
Specs, decks, drawings, photos: on the idea they belong to, or on the space's Files tab.
On an idea: + Attach in the panel. On the space: the Files tab, where you can drop files onto the page. Anything in the space is visible to everyone on it and nobody else; opening a file is logged under Activity.
Up to 4 MB per file for now. Larger files and SharePoint-backed storage are on the way (see What's new). Executables are refused.
Sharing with people outside Bryler
A partner space is how a client, a marketing partner or a contractor gets in. It's made by the invitation.
- 1New spaceAny Bryler person presses + New space, names who it's with (the space becomes “Bryler × Them” unless renamed), picks a colour, and lists the emails to invite, one per line, with a name if you like:
Jane Park <jane@eaton.com>. - 2The invitationEach person gets an email from you with a one-time link. The link signs them in on its own and lands them on the space. No account to make, no password. The link works for 14 days; after that they sign in with their email and a code.
- 3What a guest seesOnly the spaces they're on. Nothing about Bryler's own boards, other clients, or the portal. Inside their space they can do everything you can: add ideas, vote, reply, put people on things, add files.
- 4Running the spaceBryler people on a space are its owners: they invite, remove, rename, change columns and settings, and archive it when it's over. Guests may invite in Settings lets the client bring in their own colleagues; it's off unless you switch it on.
Removing someone takes their access away at once, including any open session. Archiving a space hides it from everyone; nothing is deleted.
Signing in
Email and a six-digit code. That's it.
Go to wavelength.bryler.com, type the email your invitation went to, and we send a code. It works for ten minutes, once. You stay signed in on that browser for 30 days of use.
Bryler people don't need a code from the portal: the ideaboard button there opens Wavelength already signed in. Coming to Wavelength directly, use your @bryler.com address and the code arrives like anyone else's.
If an address isn't on any space, nothing is sent and the page says the same thing either way, so the sign-in form can't be used to find out who has been invited.
What's new
Every change to Wavelength, newest first. When something above works differently, it changed here first.
- Oct 30, 2026The portal ideaboard moved in: the company board is now the Bryler space, each person has their own board, and threads, assignments and read marks came across. The portal's ideaboard button opens Wavelength already signed in.
- Oct 30, 2026Putting people on ideas: the On it block, Assign all on a column, follow-on cover, the For me filter, and For you on the home page. Emails for anyone added.
- Oct 30, 2026Bryler's own boards use Now / Next / Later / Idea; partner spaces keep Idea / Exploring / Agreed / Parked.
- Oct 30, 2026This guide, and the first-visit tour prompt on the home page.
- Oct 30, 2026wavelength.bryler.com: Wavelength on its own address, with the links in email pointing there.
- Oct 29, 2026Wavelength launched: spaces made by invitation, email-and-code sign-in, boards with columns and nested ideas, votes, stages, threads with email replies, files up to 4 MB, activity log, settings and archiving.
Planned next: SharePoint-backed files (no 4 MB cap), @mentions in threads, and a canvas view for working sessions. Questions or ideas about Wavelength itself: put them on the Bryler board under Wavelength.