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Stride v2026.10.13 · d49f3c9

October 12, 2026

Added

  • Agent session history now distinguishes scheduled and manual sessions and shows the latest activity time.

October 11, 2026

Added

  • Feature pages are simpler, and the Claude and Google AI Overviews tracker pages are now live.
  • New feature pages for topics, the knowledge base, analytics and AI crawler logs.
  • New feature pages for AI readiness, content gaps, Reddit community signals, client reports and the ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity trackers.

Fixed

  • Scan reports now describe the negative-answer excerpt accurately, and the report branding toggle names your agency.
  • Pricing and help now say AI Overviews on Grow cover the first 15 questions you add, and what white-label branding covers.

October 10, 2026

Added

  • New AI traffic page on strideftw.com showing the visits and sales AI tools send you.
  • Most dashboard pages now have a short "How this works" video, opened from the play icon next to the page title.
  • Eight new feature pages on strideftw.com covering actions, competitors, AI visibility, sources, brand accuracy, content and the Agent.
  • New Prompt tracking page on strideftw.com, plus a free 7-day trial button across the site.
  • New accounts get a short guided tour of Stride, and anyone can replay it from Help in the account menu.
  • Starter now includes Content Gap and 3 content drafts a week, with credit packs to keep drafting whenever you need more.

Fixed

  • Removing a team member or a tracked competitor now asks you to confirm first.
  • Fixed several dashboard links and labels that led nowhere, including Finish setup, Scheduled runs and Community Signals drafts.
  • Unsubscribe links in Stride emails now work without signing in.

October 9, 2026

Added

  • Choose your own text and icon color for branded accent backgrounds, with a live contrast preview.
  • Actions now opens with a This week panel showing your recommended actions and any agent suggestions waiting for your approval.

October 8, 2026

Added

  • Topics now has a map showing which brand leads each of your tracked topics across AI engines.

October 7, 2026

Added

  • The How it works page now opens with a 52-second demo of Stride finding the gap and drafting the fix.
  • Starter, Grow and Scale now start with a 7-day free trial; cancel before day 7 and you pay nothing.
  • Actions can now suggest third-party sites where AI keeps finding your competitors, like review directories and communities.
  • Suggested third-party sources skip competitors' own pages, and you can mark one "Not a fit" so Stride suggests another.
  • The free audit PDF now explains how much better AI visitors convert instead of showing an estimate.
  • Connector settings now distinguish permission status, descriptions and scope details, with clearer headings and spacing.
  • Shopify now opens directly to compact connector settings, with clearer access controls and connection management.
  • Connect AI assistants to Shopify content with merchant-approved access and optional content updates.

Fixed

  • The dashboard visibility card keeps its standard dark look whether your score rises or falls.
  • Your brand's voice rules and writing samples now shape optimized pages and action-item drafts, not only new pages.
  • Outreach suggestions from the Agent now open with the publisher details and buttons to mark them done or close them.
  • Share of Voice now means the same thing on every page and report; the per-answer rate is now called Mention rate.

October 6, 2026

Added

  • The free audit PDF now shows your AI click value estimate, or a worked example for your type of business.
  • The free AI visibility audit report has a new design, with an A–F grade, clearer next steps and a value calculator for your business.
  • Your agency branding now applies across the app, site setup and client reports, with settings under Agency.

Fixed

  • The free audit report's value calculator now uses wording for your type of business in more reports, and its figures add up exactly.

October 5, 2026

Added

  • The downloadable audit PDF now matches the new report design.
  • The free audit's fixes are now written in plain language, with what to do and why.
  • Brand now links straight to your Knowledge Base, facts, personas and competitors; Commerce moved under Visibility.
  • The audit report leads with a clear verdict, links each finding to its fix, and calculates AI click value from your own numbers.
  • The free AI visibility audit has a clearer report: who AI recommends instead of you, the real answers, and what to fix first.
  • The dashboard's Impact row now always shows all four boxes, with zeros where nothing has been measured yet.
  • New sites now show setup progress and next steps inside the dashboard's existing cards, and the headline names the site you're viewing.
  • Your account page now shows how many credits carried over from earlier months and when they expire.

Fixed

  • The audit report uses the full page width, shows brand icons, and lets you enter your own numbers in the AI click value calculator.
  • Adding an action item from a chat now completes instead of staying on Adding.
  • Content recommendations check existing pages and work before suggesting a new draft.

October 3, 2026

Added

  • Account menu credit bars now show how many credits you have left, including any carried over from earlier months.
  • Your account menu now shows this month's scan, content and chat credits with progress bars and the date they reset.
  • Unused content drafts and GEO AI Chat credits now carry over for three months, with a reminder before any expire.
  • Agencies see each client's monthly cost on Manage accounts, actions in one menu, and the full monthly total on the billing page.
  • Agency account transfers now show a clear sign-in step when the client opens the link from a different login.
  • Agencies can transfer a client site to the client as their own Stride account, history included.
  • Agency accounts can invite employees for all or chosen sites and share client sites with clients as view only or edit.

Fixed

  • Dialogs opened from the agency client list are left aligned again.
  • People invited to a Stride account can sign in from their invite link even before they have a login.
  • Clients opening an account transfer link for the first time are taken straight to creating their login.
  • Security and reliability improvements.

October 2, 2026

Added

  • Removing a client now tells you if it still has unused credit packs that will be lost.
  • Analytics cards now open short guides that explain what each number counts, using your own data.
  • Help guides now explain AI visitor conversions, the answer-to-visit table, Top pages counts and prompt table columns.
  • Five new short guides explain effort levels, In Progress labels, citation position, cited page kinds and pages that mention you.
  • New explainers on the Topics, Prompts, Offsite and Competitive pages show how each number is counted, using your own data.
  • Home has new explainers for crawl access, Reddit/YouTube/LinkedIn citations, the value of AI visits and engine standing.
  • Analytics now has short explainers for AI visits, AI crawler requests and how each data source is counted.
  • Create now also removes unsupported claims about your brand's age or standing and padding in press releases.
  • Create now fixes clear content-type slips after writing, such as extra length or unsupported rival claims, and shows what it fixed.
  • Create now writes each content type to its own conventions, and you can set brand rules and tag sources as voice or facts.
  • Cards across Stride now have a question-mark guide that explains what each number means and how it's calculated, using your own data.

Improved

  • Home and Actions load faster on large sites.

Fixed

  • Fixed a rare case where an action's saved evidence could read as empty.
  • Pricing and help pages now describe Agency client plans, white-label and prorated charges the way billing works.
  • A client seat or add-on is only added once its charge succeeds, and delayed bank payments for credit packs are now credited.
  • Paused accounts now see billing guidance instead of upgrade prompts, and client seats no longer see Agency plan controls.
  • Agency client rows that fail setup now offer Retry setup, and re-adding a client after a failed attempt works without reloading.
  • Automatic fixes after writing now try a second time when the first edit falls short.
  • Approving an optimization proposal twice no longer charges twice, and paused accounts no longer run automatic research or syncs.
  • Proof of work on Analytics now uses the same Waiting and Can't tell labels as Actions, with the reason shown.
  • The Analytics traffic value estimate now shows a true monthly figure that matches the Dashboard.
  • Top pages now counts AI visits from the same 15 assistants and recent complete days as the rest of Analytics.
  • The Google AI Overviews chart now places each search in exactly one part, so mentioned-but-not-cited counts are accurate.
  • The Brand mentions column on Prompts now counts answers naming each brand, with linked sites listed separately.
  • Home's In Progress card now says Can't tell, with the reason, when a shipped change's check failed.
  • Create now reliably trims background padding from press releases while keeping your About paragraph.
  • Create no longer leaves dangling references after a fix, and interviews are described only as you describe them.
  • Home's estimated revenue from AI visits now uses the same AI visit count as the rest of the dashboard.
  • Security and reliability improvements.
  • Create keeps press releases to the news, and interviews refer to the interviewee by name unless you give a pronoun.
  • The Manage accounts page no longer warns about a removed client still being billed when no client was removed.
  • Removing a client site no longer reports an error when the removal succeeded, and client add-on changes no longer time out.
  • Add-ons can no longer be bought twice, and upgrading stops billing add-ons your new plan includes.
  • Plan limits now hold when several changes arrive at once, and failed AI requests no longer use up credits.
  • Prompt scan labels now match what each scan checks, including which prompts get daily priority checks.
  • Commerce readiness now counts gaps across every synced product and shows how many are listed when the list is long.
  • The "First citation achieved" banner now appears when AI answers first cite your site after a scan with none.
  • Interviews, press releases and product comparisons now stick more closely to the material you supply.
  • Paused accounts can no longer be billed for new clients or add-ons until billing is resolved.

October 1, 2026

Added

  • Analytics now opens with an overview of citations, AI visits, their value and AI crawler activity.
  • AI traffic now shows what AI visits are worth, a briefing of what changed, and ranked page gaps with one-click fixes.
  • Top Pages now opens with page totals and the pages most cited by AI and most visited from AI answers.
  • New Crawler logs page shows which AI crawlers and assistants read your site, which pages, and which requests failed.
  • The AI traffic page has a new dashboard layout with visits by assistant, top pages, locations, devices and browsers, and a page filter.
  • New content plans now start with the competitor pages AI engines cite for that question already selected.
  • Choose an audience and a separate writing perspective, and follow content generation directly in the editor.
  • Optimize now compares each competitor page with your page and lists what yours is missing and what to change.
  • Drafts now use the full analysis of competitor pages, including what each does well and what it misses.
  • Competitor gap actions now say which competitor page AI cites, what kind of page it is, and what to change.
  • Create and Optimize now start with the competitor pages behind an action already selected for research.
  • New AI traffic page shows which AI assistants send you visitors, where they land, and whether they convert.

Fixed

  • Blocking AI training bots no longer lowers your Crawl & indexability score; only answer bots count.
  • Stride now calls each piece of work an action everywhere, instead of a workbench.
  • Action Items, the proof timeline and each action's outcome bar now use the same plain status labels.
  • Crawler access now separates AI answer bots from training bots and notes that robots.txt can't see firewall or CDN blocks.
  • Brand Sentiment now reads the same everywhere: the tone of AI answers that name you, once at least 10 are rated.
  • Agency client sites added or upgraded mid-month now get monthly allowances prorated to the rest of the month.
  • AI visit counts on the Dashboard and Analytics now match, comparing equal periods of complete days.
  • Topic leads now count a tracked competitor when its site is cited, the same way you're counted.
  • AI visit value now shows a range from your own conversion data, and real Google Analytics revenue replaces the estimate.
  • Reports no longer say you weren't mentioned when an answer named you, and citation details now follow the model you've filtered to.
  • Content profiles now rebuild after a site refresh, so new content uses your latest pages.
  • Removing a site with a long scan history and changing client plans now recover cleanly after an interrupted request.
  • After signing in or fixing an unsupported claim, Stride now returns you to the right page.
  • The writing perspective you choose when creating content is now kept and used for the draft.
  • Crawler logs from hosting log drains now record AI crawler visits.
  • Offsite Mentions now retries pages that ask Stride to slow down, so more cited pages get read.
  • Site icons under the top cited domains chart are larger and match the list beside it.
  • The top cited domains card on Citations now shows every listed domain without scrolling.
  • New pages no longer start with a stray label above the opening sentence.
  • Refresh sources now starts reliably, and cited pages are read automatically after each full scan.
  • Page Performance and AI traffic now credit your homepage and other pages listed under both www and non-www addresses.
  • Comparison setup now lists your selected competitor’s official cited pages first, making reference selection easier.
  • Comparison setup recognizes competitor name variants and clearly guides you to choose a rival and its supporting page.

September 30, 2026

Added

  • AI crawler logs can now install the Cloudflare Worker for you from a Cloudflare API token, which Stride never stores.
  • Archived results, Community Signals and Top Pages are now reachable from the sidebar and Done tab.
  • Home trend cards now chart AI visitors and estimated revenue, and engines outside your plan show as one "Add more engines" button.
  • Home share of voice shows your top five competitors and your rank; Offsite Mentions counts Reddit, YouTube and LinkedIn citations.
  • New Citations section shows every source AI cites, including YouTube and Reddit, and share of voice now counts untracked brands.

Fixed

  • Prompt opportunities show your remaining prompt slots, and Add all now shows progress and its result.
  • AI crawler log ingestion now accepts higher request rates from busy sites without dropping events.
  • The Cloudflare setup for AI crawler logs now reports only AI agent visits, so busy sites no longer drop crawler data.
  • Completed actions now show what later scans found, shipped pages are checked automatically, and the business model save is clearer.
  • Share of voice shows logos for more brands and explains your standing on hover.
  • Setup items like Google Analytics now clear from your to-do list and dashboard as soon as they are connected or marked done.

September 29, 2026

Added

  • Competitive now lists every brand AI names in your latest scan, with spelling variants combined, so you can see and track who AI recommends.
  • New sites start with the questions shoppers ask AI when they want brand recommendations.
  • Onboarding now drafts a sharper business profile and starting audiences, with a Re-analyze option on the confirm screen.

Improved

  • Deleting a site with a long history now finishes quickly instead of timing out.

Fixed

  • Onboarding shows one consistent business profile from the moment it appears.
  • New sites are read again during setup, so onboarding sees your pages.
  • New sites get a more specific business profile during onboarding.
  • Removing a client site no longer shows a timeout error or blocks re-adding the client while billing updates.
  • Competitor comparisons now recognize brand-name variants and include measured Claude answers.

September 28, 2026

Fixed

  • Your client allowances and answer history now reflect each site’s measured activity more accurately.
  • Your share-of-answer comparisons now use the same evidence for your brand and competitors.
  • Your visibility readings no longer count unrelated citations or failed AI Overview checks.
  • The Scale plan now shows Optimizer autopilot as not yet available.
  • Prepaid credits are kept in full across plan changes and month boundaries.
  • Starter accounts can create and optimize content drafts with their monthly credits.
  • Security and reliability improvements.
  • Prompts you add or approve stay eligible for scans, and you can review excluded prompts from the tracked list.
  • Tracked prompts remain visible with a not-scanned review status when they need attention.

September 27, 2026

Added

  • A cleaner, faster-to-scan app — compact action cards with filters, a Share of Voice leaderboard, and a sortable prompt table.
  • Every add-on and credit pack can now be bought on any plan, and plans show which add-ons they already include.
  • Starter now includes 5 content credits a month, Grow 25 and Scale 100.
  • Agencies can buy a pack of 25 GEO Chat credits for a single client site.

Fixed

  • A cancelled plan shows as cancelled, and deleting a site asks you to type DELETE or the site URL.
  • Deleting a client site also removes that site's plan charge from your invoice.
  • Starter now includes 10 content credits a month.
  • Google Analytics and Search Console connections are now included on every plan.
  • Plan features such as Search Console, GA4, workbenches and autopilot are now enforced per site on the server, matching the pricing page.
  • Agency client plans and add-ons now bill at the agency rate, and removing a client retries billing until it succeeds.
  • Agency client sites now have their own chat credits and add-ons, and client logins see only their own site.
  • Client sites added by an agency now go through the same setup as a new account and show live setup status on the client list.

September 26, 2026

Added

  • Your first scan starts with a broader set of buyer questions, with more suggestions ready for review.

Fixed

  • Free audits can now read more blocked homepages instead of stopping at a fetch error.

September 25, 2026

Added

  • New sites start with questions a shopper would actually ask, instead of the same line repeated for every product.
  • Create suggests related tracked questions for one draft, while Content Gap shows each question separately.
  • You can reopen a finished draft’s settings and create a new version without replacing the original.

Fixed

  • Actions now guide unfinished page and technical work before you record it as done.
  • Each client site now has its own monthly manual scan credits.
  • Client sites now use their own plan for topics and competitors, and the shared allowance warning no longer appears on agency accounts.
  • Ready content Actions now point you to the publication step before you finish the work.
  • Your linked content Action now moves to Done after your published page is verified.
  • Regenerating a comparison now separates the competitor from cited pages and guides you to missing choices.
  • You can select a named rival and cited page when regenerating comparisons, with clear guidance when evidence is missing.
  • Agent comparison briefs now keep the named rival and require cited evidence before drafting.

September 24, 2026

Added

  • Tracked prompts now have to be questions any similar business could answer, without your own buildings or admin pages.
  • Tracked prompts are written as questions a buyer would ask, and prompts past your scan slots stay listed without being scanned.
  • You can mark a prompt suggestion as not a fit, and the strongest matches stay at the top of the queue.
  • Tracked prompts and opportunities now stay limited to questions a buyer would ask an AI assistant.
  • Content, Visibility, Brand, Health, Analytics, Actions, and Agent now open from the main navigation on their own pages.

Improved

  • Home loads sections as they are ready instead of waiting for the whole page.
  • Pointing at a navigation item starts loading that page.

Fixed

  • Suggestions now keep questions a business would want to be recommended for, including related products and buying questions.
  • Suggestions now follow the business you described, including related products, and search ideas are checked the same way.
  • Suggestions now match the same product in different words, and search ideas appear only after they become real questions.
  • Removing a weak prompt no longer changes visibility results from earlier scans.
  • Agent content Actions now open editable Create or Optimize setup and link back to saved drafts.
  • You can delete a client site even when it has a measured change recorded.
  • Create Content now lets you plan related questions on one page and pick tracked prompts with citation evidence.
  • You can assign a client plan when a site already has extra prompts, and only that plan's allotment stays active.
  • Adding Agent action items now works even when a suggestion includes an invalid evidence reference.
  • GEO Chat can open Content, Actions, and the other section pages.
  • Security and reliability improvements.

September 23, 2026

Added

  • You can mark a new page published, and measurement starts when its prompt is tracked.
  • A new page now shows which readiness checks passed.
  • Run Agent now writes the new page and spends a content credit when the draft is ready.
  • Run Agent now researches a new page and holds a content credit until the draft is ready.
  • You can open a Create draft in the editor, see its steps, and publish it after adding a URL.
  • Create content now opens in the same setup window as Optimize, and running it does not use a content credit yet.
  • The Optimize list counts older drafts that are still open.
  • Conservative optimizations change only the failing sections and leave the rest of the page unchanged.
  • Balanced optimizations rewrite each section and keep the page's headings.
  • Agent actions now keep their description, evidence, and next step, and open the workbench that matches the work.
  • Proposal cards now lead with the prompt, brief, or action, and longer lists can be sorted and added together.
  • New optimizations start from the Optimize list while older drafts remain in the workbench.
  • Marking an optimization published checks the live page and starts measuring that prompt.
  • An optimization shows how many checks the page passed before the rewrite and how many it passes now.
  • You can now mark finished Optimize Content drafts as published after updating the page in your CMS.
  • Plan related questions into one focused page or coordinated content project.

Fixed

  • A mistyped website on the free audit no longer uses up the hourly limit.
  • Security and reliability improvements.
  • Empty Create drafts can be deleted from the list, and setup and the editor use the same type and status colors as Optimize.
  • The Create list now uses the same header, table, and empty state as Optimize.
  • Agent runs now finish the findings after a batch of tool calls instead of stopping on a provider error.
  • Agent evidence links now open on the app, long brief outlines are shortened, and news stays inside the requested window.
  • The Optimize list shows type and status tags, and Open in the row menu has an icon.
  • Optimize drafts can now be copied, and Differences returns reliably to the editor.
  • Optimize Content now completes bounded Knowledge Base preparation without leaving timed-out work running.

September 22, 2026

Added

  • Agent answers hide raw ids, stay on the brand's vertical, and still save findings when a provider fails.
  • Reference analysis opens in a clearer layout, and the workflow rail shows each step's status in color.
  • A rewrite streams into the editor as it is written, and Differences shows the page it started from.
  • You can open why a reference page gets cited, a stalled rewrite returns the credit, and you can delete a failed run.
  • Agent skills now say which data is missing, and answers render as formatted findings with links back to the prompts.
  • Run Agent now rewrites the page and spends one content credit, and shows each step as it happens.
  • Agent runs show why a proposal was rejected, finish with a findings summary, and a skill click starts a single run.
  • Skill cards are easier to scan, the chat list collapses, and skills that need crawler logs stay off the page until those logs exist.
  • Optimize runs now show each research and writing step as it happens, without writing the draft yet.
  • The Agent page has a clearer layout, a skill icon for each task, and a scheduled-runs view.
  • Save as draft and Run Agent both open the optimization editor, and page titles leave off the site name.
  • ChatGPT visibility scans now search the web and store the queries the model used.
  • Optimize Content now opens an editor for a queued page so you can edit the draft while it waits.
  • The Optimize setup now focuses the prompt and page, and keeps prompts that have not been measured out of the way.
  • Optimize Content now lets you set up a page improvement, and optimizations you already started stay available.
  • Review related questions once, confirm exact page ownership, and start the right Create or Optimize work.

Fixed

  • You can delete an unpublished optimization from the list menu.
  • Workflow steps use a plain icon colored by status, and the rail tabs read as headers.
  • The workflow list uses card rows, the title field uses the display face, and the editor text is a little smaller.
  • The workflow rail and reference analysis stay readable when the column is narrow.
  • Agent proposals ask for the fields each type actually needs, so fewer suggestions are rejected.
  • Run Agent now explains what it still needs, and app listings are labeled as products.
  • A Create draft opened on Optimize now goes to Create, and an Optimize draft opened on Create goes to the workbench.
  • Old Create and Optimize links for a classic draft now open that draft in the workbench.
  • Classic drafts on Create and Optimize now open in the workbench instead of a missing page.
  • Finished drafts show on Create or Optimize under their generated title, and an optimize task without a page is marked Needs a page.
  • Create and Optimize keep drafts for a new or existing page, while citation-gap tasks stay in Action items.
  • Improve this on a dashboard prompt now lets you optimize an existing page or create new content.
  • Content lists now warn when drafts aren't available, and a row without a saved draft asks you to upgrade before it opens.
  • When a draft is blocked, the message names a control on that screen.
  • Keyword drafts with no page are titled Create, and new pages use each planned heading once.
  • Optimize keeps the prompt, page, brief, and tone in a collapsed Adjust section at the bottom of the sidebar.
  • Title and meta edits now show in the draft fields, schema sits under the page, and a new link shows on its sentence.
  • Create and Optimize now show when a plan or this month's credits block a draft, and unstarted rows stay closed.
  • Opening a content workbench now says when the plan or this month's credits block a draft, and Generate stays off.
  • The Sources step explains that Stride pulls facts from those pages, and measured citations are pages AI engines already cited.
  • A distinct content approach opens its own draft, and Generate starts on that page.
  • Finish opens Publish and verify, suggested copy can be edited in place, and content lists keep long titles in their column.
  • Accept on an Optimize fix is the yellow button, suggested copy sits in a grey box, and each Check this line can be removed.
  • Pages that no longer exist stay off Optimize, and Dismiss removes a page from that list without deleting it.
  • The Optimize sidebar now uses short fix names, stays on screen while you scroll, and Review the fixes jumps to the first undecided fix.
  • Purchased content credits now remain available everywhere your content balance appears.
  • Content gaps now show related question sets, and content credit notices match your account balance.
  • A finished draft now says a revision needs another content credit, using the same monthly balance generation spends.
  • Optimize now says whether to edit this page, switch pages, or write a supporting page, and won't treat an uncited page as already done.
  • Choosing a distinct approach starts a new draft and leaves the original page's action unchanged.
  • Shopify page links now use your store's public domain.
  • If a reference page cannot be read, you now see which one failed and why, and you can still generate without it.
  • Spacebar now types normally in notes and onboarding fields instead of jumping focus.

September 21, 2026

Added

  • When an Optimize draft is blocked, Retry is the main button under the reason, and Generate no longer goes idle after it starts.
  • Extra shipping, return, and warranty details now show as Check this on Optimize instead of blocking the draft.
  • Edits you Accept are the copy published and checked on the live page.
  • Proposed page edits now sit in the live page with Accept, Skip, and Edit instead of a separate card stack.
  • Improving an existing page now opens in the same review workspace as your other Optimize actions.
  • Optimize now shows your live page in the editor, so each suggested fix jumps to the right section.
  • Optimize now lists the edits to accept in plain language, instead of extra Verdict and Check steps.
  • Optimize now opens with the question, how often you are cited, the page URL, and one sentence about what to fix.
  • Optimize now takes you from the page to the draft and publish without extra Verdict and Check steps.

Fixed

  • Failed drafts now show why they failed, and Go to Content brief opens the brief instead of doing nothing.
  • If draft generation cannot start, you now see the actual error instead of a generic message.
  • Generating proposed edits on an existing comparison page now starts the draft and shows the real error if something still fails.
  • The Create workbench again lists Goal, Draft, Check, and Publish — without extra setup rows.

September 20, 2026

Fixed

  • Creating and improving a page again uses the step-by-step sidebar, and Optimize stays selected while you work.

September 18, 2026

Added

  • Topics now compare your share with the leader when both readings exist.
  • Creating or improving a page now starts at Generate, with type, voice, and brief behind Adjust.
  • Optimize Goal now explains why a page needs work, without treating an empty edit as already covering the question.
  • Optimize Goal now shows what you win, how often you're cited, the page to change, and a next step.
  • Publish is a plain form with copy buttons, and related-page word counts sit inside collapsed evidence.
  • Drafts are left-aligned with a larger title, a 160-character meta counter, and clearer copy-into-your-site controls.
  • Optimize titles no longer restate the step, and Prompt and Existing page stay unmarked until you finish them.
  • Finish and back sit together at the bottom of the page, in the same size, without covering the work.
  • The Optimize help bar is easier to see, and Ask Stride is a yellow button with black text.
  • Hidden suggestions stay hidden even if a later scan rephrases their title.
  • You can hide or snooze a Create or Optimize suggestion from the list, then undo it.
  • Hiding a content suggestion now uses the same queue as Action items.
  • Drafts now arrive with the publishing checks already satisfied, instead of asking you to fix gaps Stride left in its own output.
  • Actions now walk through four steps — Goal, Draft, Check and Publish — with one combined quality panel.
  • The Action Workbench now walks through goal, assessment, draft, checks and publishing as separate steps, with help available on each one.
  • Create and Optimize tags now use distinct colors, and the tan bar sits with the filters.
  • Create and Optimize lists now show a colored status tag, and Optimize names why in one word.
  • Create and Optimize now show the same work as Action items, with a shared Planning to Complete status.
  • Pages that still need work now live in Action items, and remaining workbenches use the same intro as Create Content.
  • Drafts you start in Content now appear in Action items, including unfinished work.

Fixed

  • AI Readiness no longer warns when a check actually finished.
  • Mention rates now include answers that cite your site even if they never named you in the text.
  • Finishing a change now stays on the page, with plain next-step wording instead of internal terms.
  • Copying a draft now uses the format that matches your site, without asking you to choose.
  • Draft is easier to read, and the meta description counter now matches what search shows.
  • Ask Stride on Goal, Draft, and Publish is easier to spot when you need a hand.
  • Goal now leads with whether to change the page, and keeps the supporting checks in one place.
  • First-scan score cards that were never collected now say not measured yet, instead of a failing zero.
  • Local pages are planned from the market you confirmed, so how-to pages stop being asked for a service area.
  • New pages now open with a real answer to the question, not a warm-up paragraph.
  • Drafts that read as machine-written are now rewritten before you see them, instead of listed for you to fix.
  • An action that finds your page already covers the goal now says so and closes, instead of listing checks against an unchanged draft.
  • Drafts are no longer marked incomplete for skipping optional suggested links, or for not restructuring a page that did not need it.
  • Fixed the Publish step of an action being unavailable after a draft was ready.
  • Fixed the Publish step of an action showing internal labels and pre-filled notes that were meant for Stride, not for you.
  • The SEO check no longer passes a meta description that was auto-filled from the article's first line.
  • Content drafts now use verified claim evidence and broader factual checks.
  • Edited claim checks now stay beside the draft so each revision can be completed without scrolling back.
  • Edited claim checks can now be marked revised without reopening the original review note.
  • Claim edits now stay in place, and Record implementation opens the completion form directly.

September 17, 2026

Added

  • Create and Optimize are separate work lists again, with a step-by-step setup and a Knowledge Base for brand facts and personas.
  • New drafts are checked so they answer the question up front, and local searches get service-area sections.
  • Action items now say when work appears, when the next scan measures it, and to paste drafts onto your site.
  • Your first scan now says AI did not name you yet — that is the starting line, not a failing grade.
  • After your first scan, the dashboard points at what to fix instead of asking you to connect Analytics.
  • Content setup and Knowledge Base now lead with the question and your brand facts.
  • Content to-dos in Actions now open the draft, not a second list.
  • Content is one studio now — Stride opens a new page or an existing one from the buyer question.
  • Cited sources are labelled as research, not links on your page.
  • Pick a buyer question and generate — format and brief stay optional under Adjust the draft.
  • Drafts now use your saved brand voice even when you skip the extra setup steps.
  • Content setup hides unused extras so the path to a draft is shorter.
  • Action items is easier to scan, with clearer next steps and plain-language status.
  • Action items now leads with Next Up, quieter filters, and less jargon on queue cards.

Fixed

  • Claim editing now stays active while review notes clear, so you can make uninterrupted text changes.
  • Claim review now highlights affected passages and lets you edit or keep each passage.
  • Home cards now share one title size, hatch share bars, engine deltas, and a Search Console click trend.
  • Claim review now keeps drafts in one reading column and restores Workflow, GEO, and SEO beside numbered notes.
  • Draft review notes now appear beside the wording they assess, with compact controls to expand or edit each passage.
  • Complete drafts with repairable review notes now open directly for editing instead of requiring regeneration.

September 16, 2026

Added

  • Dashboard Topics now shows your standing, and Ask Stride is easier to scan.
  • Stride now uses Geist for interface type and Heroicons for icons.
  • The dashboard hero, Ask Stride, and engine overview are clearer and less crowded.
  • The dashboard now notes which scan you're reading as a single line at the bottom, instead of a full card.
  • Dashboard Impact now shows only the metrics that have real data — or a connect prompt when Analytics or Search Console is missing.
  • Coverage on the dashboard no longer repeats the same engine count three times — the hero rings and Coverage section carry that story.
  • Topics on the dashboard now compare you with the leading brand on shared bars, without jargon like shapes or pts.
  • You can now ask Stride in a full-width card under your to-do list, with suggested questions you can scroll through.
  • Recent wins now sit in the dashboard sidebar under the Visibility Index, beside Get expert help.
  • Your next fixes now stand out as the main column on the dashboard board, with the first item highlighted in the list.
  • The dashboard hero now leads with standing and one action, without repeating the same next-move sentence.
  • Add optional draft direction to steer content framing while preserving source-backed product facts.
  • Create tailored audience personas from onboarding or a short Knowledge Base brief.

Fixed

  • AI visibility now uses four standings: Growing, Contending, Leading, and Owned.
  • Home and AI Engine Overview now share the same standings: Just starting, Growing, Contending, Leading, and Owned.
  • Standing labels now match measured mention bands, so 4% reads as just starting, and Brand Sentiment says how AI thinks of you.
  • Engine coverage bars now show a readable rainbow fill, and prompt rows mark when an answer cited your site.
  • Home cards use clearer Title Case names, the top action stays inside its card, and the hero no longer shows a Visibility label.
  • Home action rows now lead with the verb, Topics bars are easier to read, and Citations opens Top Pages.
  • Home now uses Prompt Coverage and plainer labels, shows Topics as share of voice, and thickens the hero engine rings.
  • Ask Stride on Home now has a taller input, a plain star, and a black send button.
  • Home now uses shorter Visibility and Citations labels, a tighter hero, and Topics as your share of voice.
  • The dashboard hero action now stays visible under the engine rings.
  • Content drafts no longer fail as a technical error when a generic question mentions your brand.
  • Claim-only review findings now open the editable draft instead of asking customers to regenerate again.
  • Knowledge Base refreshes now preserve manually entered evidence while replacing stale extracted facts.
  • Workbench now replaces stale Knowledge Base evidence without duplicating generated claims.
  • The home dashboard now notes a dated full-scan reading in a quiet card at the bottom instead of a warning banner.
  • Workbench now preserves documented product limitations when grounding generated content.
  • Upgrading to Agency now lets you assign a plan to each site even if an older complimentary plan was still on the account.
  • Content review now ignores ordinary navigation links without weakening detection of standalone product claims.
  • Content review no longer mistakes ordinary support-page links for unsupported product claims.
  • Draft repair now preserves verified profile facts unless a supported-claims retry explicitly enters strict evidence mode.
  • Proactive drafts now retry against approved evidence and give honest guidance when a claim still needs support.
  • Proactive drafts now use confirmed plans and ask for exact missing product facts when evidence runs short.
  • Content drafts now retry incomplete publication checks before asking you to revise evidence or direction.
  • Content drafts now recover from incomplete publication checks without discarding a valid earlier assessment.
  • Onboarding profile fields stay focused while you type, and sit on a white card with clearer borders.
  • Content generation now avoids unnecessary retries when another run has already prepared Knowledge Base facts.
  • Content generation now waits for retrieved Knowledge Base facts without blocking drafts on large-source background work.
  • Review drafts and important alerts now appear in Fix these next, ranked with your other next actions.
  • Team invite requests now complete reliably instead of stalling.
  • Content generation now processes Knowledge Base evidence safely without overloading large sources.
  • Content drafts now use all approved Knowledge Base claims while keeping general editorial guidance intact.
  • Content drafts now keep safe direction while filtering unsupported evidence claims.
  • Content drafts now honor Knowledge Base facts and limitations during planning and review.
  • Content Agents can now save their plan and start draft generation from the Workbench.
  • Fix these next now describes whether the current action is ready, underway, or awaiting review.
  • Fix these next now distinguishes an empty queue from a single featured action.
  • The dashboard now keeps Fix these next visible when there are no queued fixes.
  • Free audit setup now counts each customer search line once, including searches containing commas.

September 15, 2026

Added

  • You can now assign Starter, Grow, or Scale to each Agency site from Manage sites, and home keeps four gauges in the main row.
  • Unsupported claim recovery now guides source upload, waits for Ready, and returns you to the original draft with the next step.

Fixed

  • Returning to Plan now keeps the same setup layout and restores your saved choices for editing.
  • New-feature drafts no longer stop as overlapping when related pages lack the planned reader outcome.
  • Blocked drafts now name safe claim details, link product evidence, open Plan correctly, and keep the generation record visible.
  • Blocked drafts now lead with one recovery action while keeping alternate routes and run details available on demand.
  • Blocked drafts now open brief, plan, and closure options without requiring another unchanged generation.
  • Content creation now offers brief, plan, or closure paths when a source-limited draft still cannot pass review.
  • Dashboard results now stay visible while prompt changes wait for the next full scan.

September 14, 2026

Added

  • Create and track buyer questions for new services or features directly from Content setup.
  • Content drafts now verify distinctness, page-role fit, and claim support before saving.
  • New content briefs now reserve distinct coverage against related site pages before drafting.

Fixed

  • Unsupported-claim recovery now clearly presents a concise retry action.
  • Content retries now stay on-topic, hide internal QA dumps, and show the latest failure trace.
  • Content generation now recovers when a related-page check is cut short instead of returning the same retry screen.
  • Content drafts now explain interrupted related-page checks and let customers retry without changing their evidence.
  • Prompt research now makes clear that customers can start with an offering instead of a finished question.
  • Search and AI page readings now use clearer yellow progress fills.
  • Workbench plans no longer loop when a rejected page overlaps a new content route.
  • Content recovery now recommends existing pages first and only offers prechecked, distinct content routes.

September 13, 2026

Fixed

  • Page-fit recommendations now switch reliably and present a clearer next step.
  • Content Workbenches now show required page choices clearly and keep version controls with the draft review.
  • Section edits now have a simpler review path with live verification and a clear manual fallback.
  • Section reviews now require clear Accept or Skip choices before you record a published change.
  • Section edit reviews now save reliably and clearly guide you from review through publishing.
  • Legacy saved drafts can now be marked deployed without losing their workbench history.
  • Marking a saved draft as deployed now reliably completes the action.
  • Saved drafts now always unlock the Mark done form after refresh.
  • Completed drafts now open the Mark done form reliably without showing a stale blocker.
  • AI Difficulty now uses green for easier prompts and red for harder prompts.

September 12, 2026

Added

  • Archive finished proof from Actions and restore it later without losing measurement history.
  • Actions now separates measurable work from unavailable comparisons and adds compact visual cues to watched signals.

Fixed

  • Proof archiving now protects active observation windows and keeps historical evidence reviewable.
  • Watching now keeps scan progress visible and safely ignores invalid stored metrics.
  • Watching now shows measured signal magnitude when structured scan data is available.
  • Watching now shows comparable-scan progress directly from saved observations.

September 11, 2026

Added

  • Page Performance now uses subtle comparison bars to make standout clicks, impressions, citations, and AI sessions easier to scan.
  • See page-level search, AI citation, session, and crawler readings in Analytics.
  • Shipped Actions now separate evidence tracking from collapsible completed history.
  • Actions now highlights one trusted next commitment and keeps recent proof visible.

Fixed

  • Page Performance comparison bars now keep a consistent scale across every page of filtered results.
  • Page Performance now preserves distinct page URLs and separates measured crawler zeroes from unavailable data.
  • Page Performance now separates crawler activity from user-triggered fetches and withholds missing source readings.
  • Actions now keeps every active evidence-tracking row visible in Done.
  • Active Projects now stay visible when the Actions queue is filtered, without duplicating them in board columns.
  • Active Projects now stay visible above the Actions queue with their exact next workstream.
  • Active Projects now show their next workstream in one focused card without a duplicate banner.
  • Actions now separates your next workstream from its Project overview and keeps proof scope readable.
  • Actions now shows exactly which Project workstream opens next and why.
  • Projects now preserve every saved workstream during membership reconciliation.

September 10, 2026

Added

  • Review competitors found in recent scans and add them to tracking from Competitive intelligence.
  • Topic coverage now shows indexed page titles and lets you connect an existing page to any buyer question.
  • Topics now connect each buyer question to confirmed content and let you review suggested page matches.

Fixed

  • Potential competitors now filters tracked brand variants and lets you hide irrelevant scan mentions.
  • Linked Topic pages now appear immediately without requiring a manual refresh.
  • Shopify connections now use a read-only, Shopify-authorized installation flow.
  • Topic content coverage is easier to scan, with each buyer question aligned to its connected pages and next action.

September 9, 2026

Added

  • Free audits now tailor geography to each business model while preserving customer-written locations.

Fixed

  • Your free audit now keeps business summaries complete and refreshes customer searches instantly when you change topics.
  • Workbenches can now reuse an existing live page URL and continue to completion.

September 8, 2026

Added

  • Get from signup or a free audit to your first measured results through one faster onboarding flow.
  • Prompt details now connect content and shipped changes to comparable mention and citation readings.

Fixed

  • Site Settings now opens for the site selected from Manage Sites.
  • Setup connections now stay in Actions until each service is connected and healthy.
  • Store guidance now reflects read-only analysis and merchant-reviewed fixes.
  • Your business description during setup now shows in full instead of getting cut off mid-sentence.
  • Workbench plans now refresh stale evidence and show save errors.
  • Scan reports now explain brand portrayal and reject unverified mentions.

September 7, 2026

Added

  • Admins can now suspend customer access and activity without changing billing or deleting account data.
  • Projects now appear as one card in Actions, keeping their individual workstreams organized inside the project.

Fixed

  • You can add suggested prompts from Opportunities to tracking again.
  • You can sign out from Choose an account and open every workspace that login belongs to.
  • Credit and site add-on changes now finish without waiting for the full customer list to reload.
  • Draft version controls now stay at the top while the completion action remains fixed and visible.
  • Comparison briefs can now use prompt-specific competitors found in live answer research.
  • Content plans now distinguish specific formats and let you keep a separate new-page route after reviewing overlap.
  • Workbench plans now show clear route recovery and keep Save and Continue together in the fixed action bar.
  • Workbench completion now keeps Mark as applied primary and Back to worklist secondary.

September 6, 2026

Added

  • Duplicate-topic draft blocks now offer the existing page or a distinct supporting article before generation.
  • The content index now lives in the Knowledge Base under Site pages.

Fixed

  • Supporting article suggestions now return to a complete Plan instead of reopening an incomplete draft.
  • Content Gap drafts now retain their scan evidence and offer an in-place refresh when it expires.
  • Sitemap refresh now finds every page even when the sitemap lives on www and the site was added without it.
  • Content gaps now open a complete Workbench plan instead of a limited format picker.

September 5, 2026

Fixed

  • Generate draft on the last content setup step now starts a review draft instead of doing nothing.
  • Connecting Google Analytics now shows a simple how-to, and the optimization brief no longer covers the yellow action bar.
  • Confirming a new page's live URL now keeps its draft attached and ready to complete.

September 4, 2026

Added

  • The agencies page now explains how each client plan works, and you pick those when you sign up.
  • Agency is now a white-label wrapper: you pick a Starter, Grow, or Scale plan for each client on one monthly invoice.
  • AI Readiness now validates detected commerce protocol metadata without treating optional standards as requirements.
  • Technical Workbenches now organize implementation steps, references, and starter files in a clearer responsive layout.
  • Free audits now explain your business more clearly and lead with purchase-ready customer questions.
  • Free audits now confirm how your business works and use corrections to build more relevant buyer questions.

Fixed

  • You can now invite a teammate from Site setup or from Account under Team access.
  • You can now invite a teammate or agency from Account without giving them billing access.
  • Scheduled scans use less model thinking and recover more reliably when a batch job is submitted.
  • AI Readiness workbenches now surface failing live checks before measurement so delivery and verification stay aligned.
  • Completed AI Readiness fixes no longer reappear in Fix these next while their results are being measured.
  • Workbench delivery records now prefill the current local date and time.
  • Dashboard setup and last-scan details now remain accurate when visibility metrics await a fresh baseline.
  • Dashboard Coverage now stays aligned with the complete visibility baseline after Topic-only checks.
  • Topic-only scans no longer replace or hide the complete dashboard visibility baseline.
  • Dashboard baselines stay visible when added or over-limit prompts await a later full scan.
  • Sitemap checks now validate public XML when a CDN rejects the crawler-labelled request.
  • Dashboard metrics now wait for a fresh full scan when tracked prompts change.
  • Sitemap verification now distinguishes invalid files from server-side retrieval failures.
  • Failed AI Readiness scans can retry after a five-minute safety cooldown without waiting for the full plan cadence.
  • Failed AI Readiness scans now show no misleading score and can be retried immediately after site access is restored.
  • Dashboard browser tabs now show the active screen and site name.
  • Onboarding topics now carry into Opportunities, and AI Readiness starts automatically with safer blocked-page results.
  • Onboarding now keeps recommendations in flow and generates cleaner unbranded buyer prompts.
  • Free audits can now recover when a site blocks Stride’s direct homepage request.
  • Connect setup now uses a straightforward headline and a square Search Console icon.
  • Blocked sites now stay on manual setup when Stride cannot read them directly.
  • AI Readiness now verifies that optional Link headers lead to usable public resources.
  • Free audits now distinguish crawl failures from rate limits and provide clearer recovery guidance.
  • Free audits now show when a site could not be read and offer an explicit manual setup path.
  • Free audits now preserve richer site analysis and keep informational questions behind buyer-ready searches.
  • Free audits now use clearer business summaries and a more varied set of purchase-ready customer questions.
  • Security and reliability improvements.
  • AI Readiness now validates optional technical groundwork without penalizing sites that do not need it.
  • Starter profiles now avoid suggesting your own brand as a competitor and recover more reliably from provider fallbacks.
  • Starter profile inference now retries malformed model responses instead of falling back to generic prompts.
  • Starter scans now use richer first-party evidence to identify your business, products, and differentiators more accurately.
  • Competitor URL fields no longer reset while you type https://.
  • Website URL fields no longer reset while you type https://.
  • Onboarding now reloads the exact current prompt set when a review becomes stale.
  • Onboarding now refreshes prompt ideas if they change while you are reviewing them.

September 3, 2026

Added

  • AI Readiness now validates robots and sitemap files while recognizing valid wildcard crawler policies.
  • AI Readiness now checks whether your site can serve clean Markdown to AI agents without affecting your score.
  • AI Readiness now detects content-use preferences in robots.txt and guides you through fixing missing declarations.
  • Shopify-connected sites recover expired connections automatically and the content index now counts the latest Shopify sync as fresh.
  • Generated draft headings now use sans serif type while page titles retain their editorial serif style.
  • Action Workbenches now present objectives, evidence, and expected outcomes in one consistent dark header.
  • Content setup now keeps step headings on the timeline and frames only the open step’s controls.
  • Content setup now combines progress, status, and editable steps in one connected timeline.
  • Content setup now guides you one section at a time while keeping completed and optional details easy to review.
  • Action Workbench planning now matches Create Content for type, length, voice, evidence, and brief setup.

Fixed

  • Starter prompts on confirm now match the business we found, not a category guessed from your site name.
  • Site review now recommends Search Console and Analytics, not Google Business Profile.
  • After you add a site, review now looks like Stride and starts from a clearer reading of your business.
  • Sign-up no longer asks whether you are an agency or a brand.
  • Annual plans chosen on the website now continue into checkout.
  • Email sign-up codes now work the same way as the link in that message.
  • After you create an account, you go straight to checkout for the plan you picked, then set up your site.
  • Signing in with an email link now continues into setup instead of bouncing you back to the login screen.
  • Starter prompts now automatically refresh when you change your business profile.
  • Confirmed starter prompts now exactly match the set reviewed before your baseline scan.
  • Starter prompts now reliably reflect your confirmed business profile.
  • You can now correct detected products and services and rebuild starter prompts before your first scan.
  • Saving your storefront content selection no longer gets stuck after granting new permissions.
  • Shopify catalog updates now arrive through Shopify's current GraphQL webhook standard, with a simpler one-step store connection.
  • Shopify connections now renew their access automatically instead of asking you to reconnect after token expiry.
  • Knowledge Base sources used by a draft now appear in the Research agent steps instead of a separate banner.
  • Fixed an issue where Knowledge Base documents were not used when generating Workbench content.
  • Topic charts and conclusion actions now fit small screens cleanly.
  • Workbench route picks now show Stride's assessment as a clear create-or-attach choice, with reset and reassess controls together.
  • Action Workbenches now keep the dark header while loading and round the work area consistently.

September 2, 2026

Fixed

  • Knowledge source drawers now show parsed, formatted content expanded by default when it is available.
  • Knowledge uploads now explain background processing, and dashboard overlays use one consistent blurred treatment.
  • Content drafts now stay on one setup page and recover safely when an objective is already covered.
  • Your selected content length now guides generation, repair, and review without conflicting with inferred site depth.

September 1, 2026

Added

  • Create and Optimize Content empty screens now match, with clearer titles and buttons.
  • Create Content is clearer to scan, with a guided one-step draft setup.
  • Knowledge Base is clearer about what Stride knows, with denser cards and empty states.
  • Dashboard work now stays prioritized across Actions, reviews, scans, and content workflows.

Fixed

  • Analytics and brand integrity cards render with their full intended styling again.

August 31, 2026

Added

  • Content Gap is easier to scan — standing leads the page, and measured gaps sit in a clearer table.
  • Topics now shows clearer standing charts and expandable topic details.
  • Prompts is easier to scan — tracked questions sit in a tighter table, and opportunities now live in a clear card you can add from.
  • Competitive now leads with a clear standing summary and expandable rival breakdowns so you can see where to focus next.
  • AI Readiness is clearer — crawl standing, readiness areas, and passing checks are easier to scan.
  • Commerce now shows clearer catalog gaps and lets you ignore gaps or shopper prompts.
  • Brand Integrity is clearer — flagged claims, engines, and verified claims are easier to scan.
  • Analytics opens with a clearer overview card, not a dark hero.
  • Topic progress now ranks the top brands in each topic.
  • Analytics KPI cards now match the home dashboard gauges.
  • Visibility analytics charts now match the rest of the dashboard.
  • Visibility analytics now keeps competitor share in its own card and brands the answer map with each engine’s logo and color.
  • Analytics now charts Google AI Overviews as a share donut and tightens chart colors for clearer trends.
  • Estimated AI traffic value now shows a monthly dollar range assuming AI visitors convert 3–7× your sitewide rate.
  • Analytics now shows more scan standing metrics in a balanced two-column layout.
  • Analytics is now a clearer visibility dashboard — charts first, empty cards out of the way.
  • Site setup is leaner — five tabs, referrals on Account, and a clearer how referrals work accordion.
  • Scan history is cleaner — focus on past runs, with quieter empty states.
  • Plan & billing now shows clearer usage meters, pack selectors, and upgrade actions.
  • Create Content now opens on your ongoing drafts — start a new one with the New draft button.
  • Topic cards now show mention-share dials and clearer prompt evidence for every AI engine.
  • Prompts now show an evidence-based Value grade alongside Volume and AI Difficulty.
  • Scale now includes Grok in every scan, matching Agency's five-engine coverage.
  • Dashboard coverage and impact cards now make engine standing, competitive pulse, and next steps easier to read.

Fixed

  • Analytics Diagnostics, sessions, and Community cards are clearer.
  • Topic progress is clearer with share bars and a Leading tag.
  • Answer map now shows mentions in a lighter engine color.
  • Site setup loads more reliably and uses clearer section titles.
  • Percentage dials now keep their values close to the ring and align more clearly with measured content gaps.
  • Fixed stuck scans - failed provider batches now close out cleanly instead of leaving scans pending forever.

August 30, 2026

Added

  • Page Health beta adds URL health, lab performance, content, link, and SEO diagnostics for every account.
  • The Content Gap page now opens with the same dark banner and dial readings as your dashboard.
  • Knowledge Base now separates brand, competitor, and internal sources while automatically holding outdated facts from drafts.
  • The update notice shows a spinner and blocks the page while refreshing, and detail drawers now sit on a subtle dark glass backdrop.
  • Prompts are easier to scan, drawers separate clearly, and the new Prompt Explorer suggests prompts from Search Console, a seed, or a page.
  • The Content Agents list is denser and easier to scan, while failure and proof details stay visible.
  • Creating a new content agent now shares the same clear, compact setup view as optimizing one.

Fixed

  • Agent activity panels now always show rejected request counts, and insight headlines only highlight genuine visibility gains.
  • Prompt Explorer now explains connection and availability errors in plain language.

August 29, 2026

Added

  • Track AI crawler and agent visits by connecting your CDN or server logs (Scale and Agency beta).
  • Optimize Content setup now has clearer steps and persistent actions.
  • Content optimization setup is clearer, more compact, and keeps the dashboard visible behind focused panels.
  • You can now track each content optimization from active work through measurement and evaluation.

Fixed

  • Content optimization now handles pages that need no defensible edits without showing a provider error.
  • Dashboard stays light-only and surfaces the gaps that still need work under the hero.

August 28, 2026

Added

  • Prompt Tracking gets a denser workspace: type and intent summaries, per-prompt sentiment, engine evidence, and clearer improve actions.
  • Add a Knowledge Base source library — upload pages, files, or notes and Content Agents ground new drafts in them automatically.
  • Content drafts now show editable metadata, readiness checks, and the research workflow behind each version.
  • Stride now lets you refresh when a new app version is ready.

August 27, 2026

Added

  • Your dashboard always shows four score cards now, and tags across the app use the Stride palette.
  • Your key scores now sit together in a row under the dashboard summary.
  • Foundation scores now each get their own card, and settled ones step aside once you have seen them land.
  • The dashboard cards now share one layout, with icons and effort tags on every item.
  • Your dashboard now shows what to fix next, the topics you track, and work in progress side by side under the summary.
  • The dashboard side column is redesigned, with Visibility Index and Presence now on their own cards.
  • The dashboard hero now names its engine coverage row and reads as one panel instead of two.
  • The Ask Stride box on your dashboard is easier to spot, and each suggested question now carries an icon.
  • Content workflows now offer richer selectors, clearer gap evidence, and guided next steps.
  • Create and optimize evidence-backed content with review-required Content Agents.
  • Your dashboard now shows Index and Presence in the hero, a Foundation rail, and labeled competitive traffic.
  • Visibility Index and Presence now sit in a card beside the dashboard, and the visibility ticks are rounded.
  • Visibility Index and Presence now sit in a card beside a taller Ask field, and the visibility track is 100 ticks.

Fixed

  • Ask Stride is back in the hero’s right rail, and Index and Presence sit in the Scores card.
  • Your top fix now appears once in the hero; Up next lists the rest of the queue.
  • The app version now sits at the bottom of the page as a small version mark.
  • The visibility stand no longer wraps early, and Index and Presence now use the same type size.

August 26, 2026

Added

  • Ask Stride now sits in the visibility overview's right column instead of a bar under the card.
  • Your visibility overview now puts the next move beside larger engine scores, with a clearer stand.
  • Your visibility overview now shows a progress track, engine mention rings, and a clearer next move.
  • Onboarding now guides setup more clearly and prevents duplicate scans while your first results are processing.
  • Your dashboard now leads with a visibility hero, lighter Coverage, quieter Site health, and measured AI-referred sessions.
  • The dashboard opens on your visibility hero again, with alerts in Needs your review and Ask Stride back in the sidebar.
  • Dashboard paper, text, and highlights now use the cream, dark ink, and beige from the palette.
  • Alerts sit in the sidebar as titles you can open, and the dashboard home has a welcome with a larger Ask Stride box.
  • You can see last scan to next scan, Coverage tables sit inside the band, and Grok bars stay visible.
  • Coverage now opens on the page, with a prompt table for each engine.
  • The dashboard sidebar is white, the yellow bar is gone, and alerts sit on the page.
  • The dashboard again shows what to do next, in plainer language.
  • Your dashboard now uses each engine's real colors, spells out site-health results, and keeps one clear next step.

Fixed

  • The visibility track is one continuous bar again, with labels that fit and a clearer Ask Stride field.
  • The dashboard now loads correctly when Ask Stride suggestions are prepared.
  • Engine details now keep the highest-citation prompts you are missing.

August 25, 2026

Added

  • Your dashboard now leads with how visible you are and the single most useful next step, with less repeated copy.

Fixed

  • Workbench fact checks now recover from blocked owner-site pages and explain the next step.
  • Source opportunities now exclude competitor and product sites that cannot accept legitimate contributions.

August 24, 2026

Added

  • Product catalog diagnostics now retain variant-level details for future shopping readiness checks.

Fixed

  • Competitor evidence now stays within the configured product path instead of mixing in sibling products.
  • Audit reports now keep domain-based brand names distinct from ordinary words when selecting competitors.

August 22, 2026

Added

  • Stride now automatically checks official pages when a draft names an unsupported capability.

Fixed

  • Scan reports now explain in plain language why a prompt could not be measured, and confirm it was not counted against your rates.
  • Scan reports now explain why individual prompts failed, including the provider's own error.
  • A scan whose provider batch stumbles on one prompt now finishes the remaining prompts instead of stalling.
  • Mark done now opens the deployment confirmation step reliably.
  • Stride reliably detects unsupported capabilities and starts official-source research.

August 21, 2026

Added

  • The dashboard visibility card has a new look, and own-site citations now show how many answers returned any sources.

Fixed

  • Scan failures now always record why they happened, and deleting a prompt mid-scan no longer disrupts the running scan.
  • Content recovery now explains that Stride checks official pages for you.
  • Content recovery now makes clear that Stride checks official sources automatically.
  • Content repair now uses the same verified evidence limits as initial drafting.
  • Verified-content drafts now isolate product facts to approved evidence.
  • Verified-content drafts now receive only supported claim language.
  • Verified-content drafts no longer receive unsupported product terms from profile diagnostics.
  • Content drafts now exclude unsupported task details when verified evidence is required.
  • Content drafting now keeps rejected versions out of review until a fresh verified draft succeeds.
  • Draft recovery now gives clearer brand evidence guidance.
  • Draft evidence now stays closer to verified claims.
  • Drafts now rely on more tightly verified product evidence.
  • Draft comparisons now exclude unsupported evidence more reliably.
  • Draft research now avoids ambiguous legacy source evidence.
  • Draft evidence now avoids outdated multi-claim source snippets.
  • Draft evidence now excludes unsupported product comparisons.
  • Brand evidence now keeps competitor comparisons out of draft facts.
  • Brand facts now keep clearer source evidence for draft research.
  • Brand research now keeps comparison prose out of draft evidence.

August 20, 2026

Added

  • Prompt Volume and Difficulty scores now use color to flag whether each reading is good or a concern.
  • Prompts now always show an estimated Volume and Difficulty score, refined with your organic search data when available.
  • You can now verify official brand details before creating a draft.
  • Content drafts now use stronger site-specific evidence checks before writing.
  • Prompt research now includes richer first-party demand evidence and clearer opportunity reviews.

Fixed

  • Prompt Volume and Difficulty colors now fill only the scored squares instead of the whole bar.
  • Official brand research now finds usable facts for more draft types.
  • Draft research now uses cleaner first-party evidence from your official site.
  • Review page edits with clearer copy, guidance, and assessment status.

August 19, 2026

Added

  • Plan content from measured AI visibility gaps and track unmeasured buyer questions before drafting.
  • Improved running-cost reporting accuracy.
  • Opportunity prompts now show measured organic demand and AI difficulty when evidence is available.
  • Prompt Tracking now organizes questions by intent and shows evidence-based organic demand and AI difficulty.
  • You can classify and filter tracked prompts without changing measurement.
  • Improved reliability of AI usage tracking.

Fixed

  • Compare original and suggested page sections before applying changes.
  • A competitor you name is now recognised even when AI answers mention only their product, not the brand.
  • Source citations from Perplexity and other engines are captured again, so citation share reflects what the answers linked to.
  • Citation share now reports only on answers that returned sources, and the report's brand and topic sections are easier to read.
  • The questions you enter when starting an audit now lead your report instead of sitting behind generated ones.
  • Competitors in your audit are now listed once per company with their website, instead of split across product names.
  • Improved scheduled scan reliability across supported AI providers.

August 18, 2026

Added

  • Your free audit now reports what the answers said in plain counts, with no composite score standing in for them.
  • Every audit answer can now be read in full, competitor links come from the answers themselves, and sparse readings stay withheld.
  • Review content work by page, linked prompts, and monitoring state from the Act sidebar.
  • Content section edits now require a fresh source check before you record them as applied.

Fixed

  • Brand sentiment and competitor detection are working again across scans after a provider change had been silently discarding them.
  • Visibility readings no longer treat an answer we could not interpret as negative, and audits ask more questions about your main category.
  • Audits now spend more of their questions on how buyers actually search, and skip pages like gift cards that cannot show category visibility.
  • Competitor names in your audit now match how the AI answers write them, and the report names every brand it found.
  • Your audit now names the competing brands the AI answers actually put forward, not just the ones our extractor happened to label.
  • Audit figures the sample cannot support are now withheld rather than published, and only real brands appear as competitors.
  • Your free AI visibility report now names every brand the answers put forward, and every section reports the same figures.
  • AI visibility audits now report which brand each answer recommends first, and every audit link reflects the latest analysis.
  • Product description improvements now target the correct catalog page.
  • New prompt suggestions now explain their buyer value and demand evidence.
  • Product SEO descriptions now stay focused on the correct Shopify field.
  • Content now opens the exact active action for a legacy page instead of an unrelated queue.
  • Security and reliability improvements.

August 17, 2026

Added

  • Improved section-level page optimization review safeguards.

Fixed

  • Competitor website URLs are now validated before saving.
  • Settings links now open directly at the relevant setup section.
  • Workbench now matches pasted target URLs to indexed site pages.
  • Prompt coverage now clearly distinguishes tracked prompts from scan answers.
  • Canceled subscriptions now update account status more reliably.
  • Sign-in code entry now matches the configured code length.

August 14, 2026

Fixed

  • Progress chart keeps one connected line and groups legacy or same-day baseline changes into a single marker.
  • Progress history now keeps prior readings visible and clearly marks new measurement baselines.
  • Completed work now stays out of Active Work while compatible scans collect evidence.
  • Analytics now counts successful AI answers and labels citation evidence more precisely.

August 13, 2026

Added

  • Reports now distinguish measurement baselines and show measured visibility more clearly.
  • Proof now distinguishes recorded changes, live checks, comparable signals, and observed business outcomes.
  • Dashboard visibility now leads with clear measured evidence and like-for-like progress.

August 12, 2026

Added

  • Audits now lead with measured mention, citation, and competitive evidence instead of unsupported score grades.
  • Topics now show measured mention share, prompt coverage, and competitor margin instead of unsupported score bands.
  • Visibility reporting now leads with measured evidence and clearer scan cadence instead of unsupported score grades.

Fixed

  • Public pages now lead with measured visibility evidence instead of an unsupported universal score.

August 11, 2026

Fixed

  • You can review optimization proposals and defer citation-change signals without removing tracked questions.

August 10, 2026

Added

  • Visibility reporting now explains measured outcomes clearly and tracks evidence after completed actions.

Fixed

  • Actions can now close already-live technical checks without recording a deployment or attributing future movement.
  • Visibility reports now distinguish missing evidence and completed scans with clearer, consistent proof states.
  • Visibility reports now distinguish incomplete evidence and give clearer, non-duplicative action guidance.
  • Visibility reports now distinguish missing sentiment from zero results and explain prompt opportunities more clearly.
  • Visibility reporting now keeps scan comparisons consistent and describes action evidence more clearly.

August 7, 2026

Added

  • Sales reps and partners can be handed bulk free-audit report links to send from their own email platform, with conversions credited.
  • Revise a saved draft from focused feedback while keeping every earlier version available.
  • Choose where each content approach lands and get scoped page edits instead of unnecessary full rewrites.
  • You can now replace a Topic benchmark prompt without losing prior measurements.
  • You can now rename Topics without losing prompts or history, and duplicate wording variants no longer appear as opportunities.

Fixed

  • Page changes now stay inside the selected content approach and no longer appear when creating a new page.
  • Topic coverage projects now reject stale evidence and clearly explain when a full scan is required.

August 6, 2026

Added

  • Topics now flag semantically overlapping tracking areas for explicit review.
  • Topic Authority recommendations now become coordinated projects with reviewable workstreams and measurable outcomes.

Fixed

  • Topic overlap reviews now ignore related Topics that target different platforms, integrations, audiences, or product scopes.
  • Background Topic analysis now starts reliably after worker deployments.
  • Topic coverage projects now stay visible while newly added prompts await measurement.
  • Missing Topic prompts can now be added even when an older prompt was deleted.
  • Topics now guide you through overlap resolution, missing prompt setup, and project navigation.
  • Topic recommendations now open reviewable projects while background processing remains available after deployment.

August 5, 2026

Added

  • Admins can track sales reps, commissions, and payouts from attributed free audits and subscriptions.
  • Edit a competitor's name or website without removing and re-adding it.

Fixed

  • Changing where work lands no longer hides the draft you already generated.
  • Drafts stay visible on a workbench even after you change where the work lands.
  • A draft is no longer hidden when you change the content approach — it stays visible and labelled.
  • Marking an action as shipped no longer fails on workbenches with a lot of recorded evidence.
  • After a draft finishes generating you stay on it to review, instead of being moved to the final step.
  • Regenerating a draft now shows live progress instead of an empty panel.
  • Content options now name the competitor your objective is actually about.
  • Content approach options now describe your actual subject instead of drifting into AI-visibility topics.
  • Drafts now draw on the brand facts that match what the article is about, instead of whichever were stored most recently.

August 4, 2026

Added

  • You can now choose how Stride answers a prompt — a direct answer, an audience playbook, a practical guide, or a free resource.

Fixed

  • Practical guides and other non-comparison content no longer pull in competitor comparisons you didn't ask for.
  • Fixed non-price drafts being blocked by a link our own cleanup step had broken.
  • Fixed drafts being blocked by a link the automatic repair could not remove.
  • Longer drafts no longer get cut off partway through, and a draft that does hit the limit retries automatically instead of blocking.
  • Drafts with a broken link now repair themselves instead of stopping with a request to revise your brief.
  • Fixed the Plan step leaving no way to choose between updating an existing page and creating a new one.
  • The Plan step now shows a single clear toggle for whether Stride updates your existing page or creates a new one.
  • A draft blocked by review now tells you exactly which claim needs fixing instead of only that something needs revising.
  • Generated drafts are better structured — summaries lead the page, links sit in context, and broken links or tracking tags are caught.
  • Fixed an error that blocked marking a published page as done, and clarified the pricing decision when you steer a draft's format.
  • Fixed a duplicated progress box while drafting, and moved the draft's finish controls to the end of the page beside the copy buttons.

August 3, 2026

Added

  • The Action Workbench now keeps planning, drafting, delivery, and measurement in one clearer guided flow.
  • Workbench actions now show one clear journey with direct Plan and Create navigation.
  • Pricing comparisons now preserve your chosen page and explain when pricing requires a different destination.
  • You can now follow one clear plan from page selection through drafting, delivery, and measured impact.

Fixed

  • Confirmed non-price comparisons now stay free of pricing claims throughout drafting and review.
  • You can now create new content when reassessment finds no safe existing page.
  • Apple sign-in now keeps the session established during provider authorization.
  • Sign-in sessions now reach your workspace without repeated login redirects.
  • Apple sign-in and emailed sign-in links now complete reliably.
  • Apple and email sign-ins now keep you signed in after verification.
  • Sign-in codes and provider errors now guide you clearly.

July 31, 2026

Added

  • Improved sign-in, onboarding, dashboard navigation, and scan reliability.
  • Sync Shopify storefront content on demand and review each content type at a glance.
  • Choose page, collection, and blog sync permissions independently in Shopify.
  • Choose which storefront pages, articles, and collections inform your content analysis.
  • Shopify merchants can include approved storefront content in Stride analysis.

Fixed

  • Audit reports display more clearly.
  • Blog sidebars stay readable on long articles.
  • Project grouping now explains how actions are organized without changing your site.
  • Action card category badges now read more clearly.
  • Site change tracking now uses clearer, customer-friendly language.
  • Topic scoring details are easier to spot and expand.
  • Archived topics can now be found and restored from Topics.
  • Prompt demand now shows low click counts and clearly marks unavailable signals.
  • Action Items now show only work you can take while scans remain automatic.
  • Analytics setup links now open the relevant Business model settings.
  • Free audit recommendation-share bars now accurately reflect top-pick results.
  • Improved the consistency of free audit progress indicators.
  • Fixed a duplicate arrow on AI Readiness action buttons.
  • Prompt coverage now explains when newly tracked prompts will appear.
  • The changelog now keeps a clear path back to your dashboard.
  • Upgrade links now open the plan or add-on you need.
  • Coverage drawer action buttons now stay on one line.
  • The onboarding scan timer now reflects time spent on the scan screen.
  • Prompt filters now show only source types present in your tracked prompts.
  • Shopify content controls are clearer and sync actions stay together.
  • Client reports now exclude dashboard controls and preserve report visuals in print.
  • Client reports now print complete analytics data with descriptive PDF names.

July 30, 2026

Added

  • Topic coverage plans turn one category opportunity into coordinated actions.
  • Topic Authority gaps now appear in Actions, with complementary content recommendations when coverage can expand.

Fixed

  • Competitor tracking now requires a valid official website URL.
  • Security and reliability improvements.
  • Shopify connections now keep you on the selected site, with clearer timing during onboarding scans.
  • Improved recovery after content refreshes and clarified keyword capacity and scheduled cancellation status.
  • Scan digests now count only citations of your own pages, so an answer citing competitors no longer reads as citing you.
  • Scan reports now count only citations of your own pages, matching the rest of the dashboard.

July 29, 2026

Added

  • App businesses now get setup guidance that makes their app-store click tracking work automatically.
  • Mobile app businesses now get their store-click rate measured automatically from GA4 outbound clicks.
  • Free audits of local businesses now include locally phrased AI questions.
  • Onboarding now asks how customers convert so traffic value and guidance match your business.
  • Analytics can now value mobile-app businesses with an install-based model, and metric language matches your business type.
  • Shopify connections now use a secure, resilient app handoff.
  • You can now select and remove multiple tracked prompts at once.

Fixed

  • Action Workbench now shows a next step only when it can advance your work.
  • Dashboard action links now keep the page controls in view.
  • Onboarding now clearly shows annual billing totals and plan savings.
  • Signal drawers now clearly show when details can be expanded.
  • Agent Ready details now remain visible when opened from AI Readiness.
  • Add-ons now always bill monthly — on annual plans they get their own monthly invoice — and at-limit links point to upgrades.
  • Analytics connection tasks now appear in the correct Actions filter.
  • Fixed monthly add-ons staying active past their own renewal date.
  • Scan history now explains priority checks and when site scores update.

July 28, 2026

Added

  • Scope a competitor to one product on a shared domain, and see usage charges, minimums and custom-quoted tiers beside each rate.
  • Add-ons now show the exact charge, card, and renewal date before you confirm — plus promo codes and easy removal.
  • New Why Stride guides explain AI search visibility and lead into a free audit.
  • Free audit waits now show progress and short tips while your report builds.
  • You can now re-check a competitor's official details even when Stride already has evidence for them.
  • The workbench now tells you when a comparison page you already have covers the same matchup.
  • Pricing comparisons now state your own published prices, verified from your site the same way competitor prices are.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where buying an add-on could misread your plan tier, fixed promo-code typing, and added an in-app cancel-plan flow.
  • Re-checking an alternative now refreshes its details instead of piling up duplicates, so comparisons stay accurate over time.
  • Sign-up discount codes now apply to your plan only — add-on prices are shown and billed at list price unless you enter a code.
  • Comparisons now link a source for every alternative they name, and read prices from the pricing page itself.
  • Free audit retries after a failed start no longer burn your hourly limit as quickly.
  • Comparisons now state your own plan prices alongside competitors', with annual totals labelled correctly.
  • Free audits now wait their turn when many people run reports at once.
  • Free audits no longer fail to start when the database is briefly busy.
  • Free audits no longer get stuck loading after the report starts.
  • When a draft claims something we cannot verify about your product, Stride now names the claim.
  • Outreach invite audits can read more websites that block simple bots.
  • Free AI audits and outreach invite links work more reliably across real websites.
  • Competitor pricing now captures every plan tier, including free tiers, so comparisons start from the right rung.
  • Pricing comparisons now carry a competitor's full plan ladder, so tier-for-tier prices are compared correctly.
  • Comparison drafts can no longer state the opposite of a price or plan detail verified on a competitor's own site.
  • Competitor pricing is now read correctly from official pricing pages instead of being silently discarded.
  • Verification now always covers the competitor a comparison is about, and the draft button waits while it runs.
  • Re-running official-source verification now actually re-runs it instead of repeating the previous result.
  • Pricing comparison drafts now confirm a real published price before they run, instead of writing around figures the competitor lists.

July 27, 2026

Added

  • Updated the image shown when sharing Stride on social and chat.
  • New guides explain why choose Stride and how agencies, ecommerce, and local businesses win AI recommendations.

Fixed

  • Changing an action's angle now retires the older approach, so a guide no longer comes back written as a pricing comparison.
  • Improved dashboard score gauge alignment on wider layouts.
  • Topic cards now show how close you are on each category, not whether you own it.
  • When your site already covers a topic, the action says so up front instead of proposing a new page it would later refuse.
  • Actions that need a second scan to confirm are no longer marked urgent after a single reading.
  • Stride now indexes your full page content, so pricing tables and feature matrices are no longer invisible to page recommendations.
  • Turning an action into a pricing comparison no longer leaves the original open — it closes once the comparison ships.
  • Comparison drafts no longer claim a competitor is missing a feature without a source, and flag missing pricing evidence before you generate.
  • Fixed a case where a blocked draft could fail outright instead of showing its recovery options.
  • Comparison drafts now read pricing and feature tables from source pages, and show when that evidence was actually verified.
  • Choosing a non-price comparison now actually keeps pricing out of the next draft.
  • Comparison drafts no longer invent details about tools we have no verified facts for, and tell you up front which ones need sources.

July 26, 2026

Added

  • Topic ownership now shows on the dashboard and Analytics, and free audits include a ChatGPT topic snapshot.
  • Topic pages now show question-shape coverage, rival standing, and leadership changes over time.
  • Analytics mention rates now match Coverage, and topic leadership ignores measurement resets.
  • Mention rates now match across Coverage and Prompts, and free audits build real buyer queries from your site.

Fixed

  • Fixed an internal console build failure that blocked outreach tooling deploys.
  • Prompt and topic lists no longer hide the bottom of long pages.
  • Longer Analytics tables no longer cut off the last rows.

July 25, 2026

Added

  • Agency client PDFs now lead with standing, next actions, and clearer competitive gaps.
  • Homepage hero now types through brands, products, and more.
  • Agency plans can now build and download multi-section client PDF reports from a new Reports page.
  • Sidebar tips can now call out uncited pages and long gaps since your last sign-in.
  • The dashboard sidebar now tracks setup progress, then shows personalized tips once you're set up.

Fixed

  • Topic cards are clearer on phones, with easier-to-scan engine rows and larger controls.
  • Prompts and Topics are easier to read on phones with clearer titles and engine rows.
  • Scans interrupted near the finish line now publish their collected results and score instead of discarding them.

July 24, 2026

Added

  • A new Active work card on the dashboard lets you resume in-progress tasks and see changes still being measured.
  • Action recommendations now stay focused and safely archive when stale.

Fixed

  • Tidied the dashboard Active work card into a compact task list.
  • Fixed the dashboard score gauge not appearing on desktop screens.
  • Failed AI queries no longer count against your rates, trend comparisons stay apples-to-apples, and technical checks run weekly.
  • Choosing a fresh angle now actually shapes the draft, and new actions no longer look finished before you start them.
  • A blocked draft now tells you exactly what will fix it, including when the answer is simply to run it again.
  • Blocked content actions now always offer a way forward — retry a page that failed to load, try a different page, or close it out.
  • Switching a draft to a fresh angle now opens the writing step ready to go instead of asking you to pick a page again.
  • Visibility metrics now count only citations of your own pages and exclude empty engine answers, so rates reflect real measurements.
  • The dashboard score gauge is back on desktop and the app version now lives at the bottom of the sidebar.
  • Blocked drafts now get working fixes: research runs when offered, unverified claims can be dropped, and a fresh angle can be suggested.
  • The Actions queue no longer asks twice about the same lost citation, and completed work whose signal returns is labeled honestly.
  • Confirmed page choices stick in the content workbench, every state has one clear next step, and stuck drafts can refresh their evidence.
  • You won't be sent back to a page already ruled out for an Action.
  • Scheduled scans now show as in progress instead of an incorrect next-run time.

July 23, 2026

Added

  • The free AI visibility audit is easier for search engines to find.
  • Clearer page titles and pricing answers for search and AI assistants.
  • Improved how search engines and AI find Stride, and added analytics for audits and signups.
  • Contact page now includes a message form that emails the Stride team.
  • Added Terms, Privacy, and Contact pages on the marketing site.
  • You can now send feedback, report a bug, or ask a question from anywhere in the app, and we'll reply by email.
  • The dashboard now shows which version of Stride you're running, linked to the changelog.
  • You can now follow product updates, improvements, and fixes on the new changelog page.

Fixed

  • Audit report CTAs now say Claim 50% off instead of free trial or setup.
  • Clarified which plans are for startups/SMBs vs high-growth brands.
  • Pricing table now shows topics, clearer plan badges, and corrected allowances.
  • Adjusted yellow headline highlights to sit lower on the text.
  • Header now says Free audit with clearer spacing from Log in.
  • Screenshots now attach to bug reports reliably.
  • Improved content draft evidence handling.
  • Feedback confirmation emails now include a copy of your message and cleaner formatting.
  • Improved recovery guidance for blocked content drafts.
  • Fixed a content workflow recovery state issue.