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Pipeline Builder Update

The updated Pipeline Builder delivers a more intuitive and efficient workflow by bringing all automation tools into a single, streamlined interface. With a continuous stage view, easily accessible stage actions, and a dedicated sidebar for editing settings, users can build and manage automations faster with fewer clicks. The ability to edit direct messages directly within the builder, quickly access email and SMS actions, reorder automation steps through drag-and-drop, and configure stage triggers in one place significantly improves productivity. Overall, this redesign simplifies pipeline management, enhances visibility across the automation flow, and provides a smoother experience when creating or updating pipelines.


July 7, 2026 - Platform, Improvment





Monitor Automations in the Automation Logs

The new Automation Logs page gives you complete visibility into your automation performance, making it easier to monitor activity, troubleshoot issues, and optimize results. With powerful search and filtering options, sortable logs, and detailed records for every automation run, you can quickly find the information you need and identify problems at the lead level. Direct access to pipeline-specific logs and lead social profiles streamlines investigation and follow-up, while performance metrics such as processed leads and completion rates help you measure automation effectiveness. Overall, this feature saves time, improves transparency, and empowers you to manage your automations with greater confidence and efficiency.


July 2, 2026 - Platform, Improvment




Automated Imports: Instagram Import from Hashtag Search

Recurring automated lead imports from Instagram hashtag searches help businesses maintain a steady flow of fresh, relevant prospects without requiring manual effort. By automatically importing new profiles from selected hashtags on a scheduled basis, teams can stay aligned with emerging trends, discover potential customers as they become active, and ensure their pipelines remain populated with qualified leads. This automation enables more consistent prospecting, increases efficiency, and helps sales and marketing teams focus on engaging prospects rather than searching for them.


June 18, 2026 - Platform, Extension, New Feature





Automated Imports: Facebook Import from Comments

This feature helps keep your pipeline continuously enriched with fresh, relevant prospects by automatically importing profiles that engage with Facebook content through comments. By scheduling recurring imports and applying filters such as keywords and mutual connections, teams can consistently identify and capture high-intent leads without manual effort. The ability to route imported profiles directly into specific pipelines and stages streamlines lead management, while duplicate prevention ensures data remains clean and organized. Overall, this feature saves time, improves prospect discovery, and enables a more systematic approach to monitoring and engaging audiences interested in competitors, industry influencers, or other strategically relevant profiles.


June 10, 2026 - Platform, Extension, New Feature






Automated Imports: Facebook Import from Likes

This feature enables users to automatically collect and schedule lead profiles from the people who react to the latest posts of any Facebook profile or page. By transforming organic social engagement into a continuous lead-generation process, businesses can identify and capture highly relevant prospects without manual effort. Rather than spending time reviewing post reactions one by one, users can monitor competitors, industry leaders, or niche pages and automatically import engaged audiences directly into their CRM. With real-time progress tracking, advanced filtering options, and support for multiple concurrent automations, this feature eliminates hours of repetitive data entry while keeping the sales pipeline consistently filled with warm, highly targeted leads.


June 4, 2026 - Platform, Extension, New Feature





Automated Imports: LinkedIn Import from Search Results

Scheduled automation for importing profiles from LinkedIn and Sales Navigator search results helps businesses save time, improve efficiency, and keep their lead pipeline consistently updated. By automatically importing new profiles based on predefined search filters, teams can eliminate repetitive manual work, reduce the risk of missing valuable leads, and ensure a steady flow of fresh prospects into their sales pipeline. Users can take advantage of LinkedIn and Sales Navigator filters to create highly targeted searches, allowing pipelines to be periodically fed with new and relevant leads automatically.


May 28, 2026 - Platform, Extension, New Feature





Automated Imports: Instagram: Import Profile Folllowers

This feature helps streamline lead generation by automatically importing new followers from any Instagram profile directly into your pipeline on a recurring schedule. It saves time by eliminating manual imports, ensures your database stays continuously updated with fresh leads, and helps businesses consistently discover potential customers from competitors or industry-related profiles.


May 20, 2026 - Platform, Extension, New Feature






Automated Imports: Facebook Import Group Members

This feature automatically feeds your pipeline with new leads from Facebook groups, eliminating repetitive manual imports and reducing time spent browsing the social platform. Members can schedule recurring imports from multiple groups, apply filters like things in common, keywords or mutual friends, and automatically organize leads into the right pipeline and stage. By continuously importing profiles from competitor communities, industry groups, and niche audiences relevant to your market, the automation keeps a steady flow of targeted leads entering your pipeline automatically and on schedule.


May 14, 2026 - Platform, Extension, New Feature



Webhook Logs

This feature update makes webhook management more straightforward and transparent by giving users clear access to execution logs. Instead of relying on assumptions, you can review each webhook’s activity, check its status, and see the data involved in every request. Having up to four weeks of history available also makes it easier to track patterns or investigate issues over time. Overall, it helps simplify troubleshooting, improves visibility into integrations, and reduces the time needed to understand what’s happening behind the scenes.


April 30, 2026 - Platform, Improvement




Instagram Followers Import Update

This feature update makes importing Instagram followers faster and more efficient by allowing the entire process to be completed in one step, with automation handling the import from start to finish. It also eliminates the need for long scrolling before selecting import options, making the workflow smoother and more user-friendly. Additionally, you can import follower lists from your own profile or any other profile relevant to your business, giving you greater flexibility and reach. Overall, this update saves time, reduces effort, and provides a more scalable way to manage large volumes of profiles.


April 23, 2026 - Extension, Improvement




Check for Social Profile Updates in Pipeline View

This feature simplifies your workflow by letting you check social platform updates directly within the pipeline before running stage automations. You can stay focused, work with up-to-date information, and repeatedly check for new activity to respond faster and keep leads moving. Updates are automatically reflected in your pipeline leads, ensuring they stay accurate and progress to the right stages. This is especially useful for users who prefer to run automations directly from the pipeline view, saving time and creating a smoother, more efficient process.


April 15, 2026 - Platform, Extension, Improvement




Extension Update: Automation Queue and Background Automations

Automations just got a major upgrade. No more keeping the Queue page open, simply keep your browser running while automations work seamlessly in the background, even across multiple desktops or spaces. Prefer more control? You can keep them visible at any time to see exactly what’s happening. Easily open the extension window to check details or stop a run whenever you need. Plus, the improved settings navigation makes accessing new features and existing options faster and more intuitive than ever.


April 7, 2026 - Platform, Extension, Improvement




Facebook Group Import Update

The updated Facebook Group Members import feature is now fully automated. No more need to scroll through all profiles before choosing options—users can now set everything at the start, including how many profiles to import, keyword filters, and a mutual friends option. Then, simply let the process run (ideal for large imports) while the system scrolls, collects, and imports members continuously until all process is completed. Facebook group leads are highly valuable because they come from engaged, interest-based communities, making them more likely to convert into meaningful connections or customers.


March 27, 2026 - Extension, Improvement




Manage Not Completed Actions in Automations

This feature lets you define what happens if a lead does not complete a required action in an automation. Instead of leaving the process stalled, you can set the number of retry attempts, update the lead’s status, or move the lead to another stage for follow-up or re-engagement. This helps keep automations efficient and ensures inactive or unresponsive leads are managed in a structured way.


March 19, 2026 - Platform, New Feature




Pipeline View Logs

Displaying automation run logs within each pipeline stage, including detailed results for every lead and action, improves visibility and control over automated workflows. Users can see exactly what happened to each lead at every step, making it easier to monitor performance, verify actions, and quickly identify issues when something doesn’t work as expected. This level of detail enhances traceability and helps teams ensure automations are running correctly and consistently.


March 13, 2026 - Platform, Improvement




Pipeline Activity Report Webhook

The Pipeline Activity Report Webhook automatically sends pipeline data to an external platform, offering key benefits for teams managing integrations and analytics. By delivering data on a scheduled basis, it removes the need for manual exports and reduces operational overhead. Analytics tools, CRMs, and monitoring platforms stay synchronized with pipeline activity, enabling faster insights, automated workflows, and more accurate reporting. Overall, it improves transparency, streamlines data sharing, and supports more timely, data-driven decisions.


March 5, 2026 - Platform, New Feature




Instagram: Unsend Last Message Automation Action

On Instagram, the ability to unsend a message and immediately follow up with a new one creates a subtle but powerful advantage in sales and lead prospecting. It allows you to correct weak or overly sales-driven openers, refine your positioning in real time, and strategically create curiosity when a prospect sees that a message was removed. This feature helps outreach feel more human and less scripted, while also giving you the flexibility to test different hooks without being locked into a poor first impression. Used thoughtfully, it increases engagement, protects your brand perception, and improves response rates in cold DM conversations.


February 25, 2026 - Platform, New Feature




Facebook Reels Comments Import and Auto-Reply support

Engaging with Facebook Reels helps businesses reach larger audiences, boost brand awareness, and attract new customers because Facebook actively boosts Reels in its algorithm, often showing them to people beyond your existing followers. Using the comments import feature allows companies to automatically collect leads from user interactions, while the auto-reply feature instantly responds to comments with information or offers. Together, these tools save time, increase engagement, and create an efficient, automated lead-generation system.


February 12, 2026 - Extension, Improvement




Facebook Send Birthday Messages

Birthday-message automation adds a natural touchpoint to your sales pipeline without extra manual work. It helps keep relationships warm, maintains regular engagement, and keeps your brand present in a positive, non-intrusive way. These small, timely interactions can improve recall, build goodwill, and create more opportunities for follow-ups, all while saving time and ensuring no important date is missed.


February 4, 2026 - Platform, New Feature




Filter Leads By Friends, Connections And Followers

Filtering leads by the number of friends, connections, or followers helps you focus on prospects with the right level of reach and credibility for your goals. It allows you to quickly identify highly influential leads for partnerships or promotions, while also filtering out accounts that may be inactive, low-quality, or unlikely to convert. By narrowing your list to leads that meet clear engagement criteria, you save time, improve targeting accuracy, and ensure your outreach efforts are directed toward people who are more likely to deliver meaningful results.


January 23, 2026 - Platform, Improvement




YouTube Auto-Reply to Comments

This new auto-reply feature for comments on YouTube enhances a two-step post strategy by transforming engagement into measurable growth. In the first step, the video encourages viewers to comment; in the second step, automated replies instantly respond with targeted messages, links, or calls to action. YouTube profiles of commenters can be imported directly into a pipeline, enabling structured tracking and follow-up, and their channels can be automatically subscribed to, helping build reciprocal relationships and strengthen community growth. This combination increases comment activity (supporting YouTube’s algorithm), ensures fast and consistent engagement, reduces manual workload, and smoothly guides viewers from interaction to long-term connection or conversion.


January 15, 2026 - Extension, New Feature




Post Feature in Facebook Professional Dashboard

Our post features are now integrated with the Facebook Professional Dashboard. The dashboard helps you identify your most engaged posts and track their sales value, making it easier to focus on high-performing content, optimize your strategy, and convert engagement into revenue. With the import tools and auto-reply feature, you can integrate your data and import leads directly into your pipeline from your most engaged and high–sales-value posts.


January 9, 2026 - Extension, Improvement

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