What's new

Stride v0.1.2

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.

What's new

Stride v0.1.2

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.