In The Whistleblower, choosing "Walk them out of the building" now also makes one of your assets Litigious (it applies 1 Scandal to the rival each time it acts, or once at battle start on an asset that never acts), on top of the Heat and Morale hit. Every answer in every dilemma now gives you something.

From Year 3, JB the finfluencer is back with a financial literacy check: is your house an asset or a liability? Call it an asset and he mocks you while handing you a random Property. Give his answer for 30 Funding, or ask him the same question about his rented Lamborghini.

JB the finfluencer now has three more street-corner quizzes, and every answer pays something:

• The 4 AM Club (from Year 2): what time do you wake up? Sleep until seven and an asset of your choice goes Unionized while Morale rises. Join the 4:30 club for Hustle Culture at a cost to Morale. Or ask when *he* wakes up, for 3 XP.
• Good Debt (from Year 3): do you use your own money? Paying cash earns 25 Valuation. Levering up earns 50 Funding and makes one of your assets Leveraged. Asking who paid for the Lamborghini earns 3 XP.
• Seven Streams (from Year 4): how many streams of income do you have? One gets you 35 Funding, seven gets you a random small Scheme, and asking about his gets you a Blockchain-Enabled asset.

Stonks (Rare, 1 slot): Profit 1, then doubles its own Profit every time it acts. Upgrades make it act faster: 5s, 4s, 3s, then 2s at the top Tier. It starts at a penny and goes to the moon if the fight lasts. Find it at the Venture Floor and the Night Shift.

From Year 2, JB the finfluencer may stop you with a bonus round, The Penny Problem: a penny that doubles every day for a month, or a million dollars today? Take the penny and he hands you Stonks.

Each upcoming founder gets a dozen or more Policies of their own: rent that compounds and lockouts that pay for Elias, a hotter line and critics' stars for Hana, a wardrobe that pays when it's worn for Marcy, and preventions and leaks for Lydia. Like their cards, their Policies only turn up in their own runs.

Leaving your first fight from the outcome screen's own buttons, or by pressing Space, didn't record that you'd been briefed, so the walkthrough played again on later battles, skirmishes included. It now counts as done once your first fight reaches a result, however you leave it.

Abandoning a run from the pause menu filed it on the live feed as a finished, liquidated company. Only runs that end in Domination or Bankruptcy are posted now, and abandoned runs already filed that way have been taken off the feed.

The incorporation certificate now arrives with its founding team, full funding amount, signatures, and notary seal already on the paper. Only the INCORPORATED ink impression appears when the wooden stamp lands. The action panel becomes ready as soon as the paper settles.

A bonus to a "for each" number now shows in the card's own text. A Patented Warehouse District used to read "Gain 15 Moat for each asset you have with Stock", with Patented's extra 15 nowhere on it; it now reads "…with Stock, plus 15." The same goes for a bonus from a policy, your CEO or a neighbouring card, such as Sous Chef's +20 Profit on Tasting Menu, which used to show up nowhere. A percentage bonus scales the "for each" number when it comes out whole, and shows beside it when it doesn't: "15 (+25%)".

Cards that describe one hit in one sentence now land as one hit: War Chest, Food Critic, Tech Support Scam, Commission Structure, Collections Agent, Hostile Takeover, Licensing Deal, Loophole Lawyer, FOIA Request, Ad Network, Debt Spiral, Dining Room, Smart Toaster and Fire Marshal. Each used to land as two hits, so a flat bonus such as Offshore's +10 Loss counted twice, and the "for each" half still paid it with nothing to count. Reactions to Loss, such as Commission Structure's, now see one hit from these cards instead of two.

Enlarged grant reward cards now appear above the tray and game header instead of being clipped by the scrolling reward area.

Every scrolling panel now has the same slim brass scrollbar, in place of the grey bar with arrows: the dossier, dilemmas, briefings, the shop, Settings, the pause menu and the Company Index. The thumb widens when your pointer is on it and brightens while you drag it. On the cream paper of a grant memo it's drawn in ink so it stays visible.