Changelog
What's New
We ship new features every week. Here's what we've been building to help you get found by AI and search engines.
Marketing Site Redesign
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new Premium visual redesign — Instrument Serif + Plus Jakarta Sans typography, warm gold (#D4A853) palette replacing orange, scroll-triggered reveal animations throughout
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new Browser frame mockups — hero and template gallery now show real template screenshots in realistic browser chrome instead of abstract previews
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new Bento grid "What One Conversation Builds" section with asymmetric 2-column spanning cards for visual variety
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new Sticky sidebar scroll effect on SEO pitch section — heading stays fixed while feature cards scroll alongside
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improved Navbar — serif text-only logo, gradient accent line, pill-shaped CTA button
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improved Template gallery — real screenshots in browser frames replacing flat color-strip cards, horizontal scroll with larger 320px cards
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improved All secondary pages polished — How It Works (gradient timeline), Pricing (serif price numbers, gradient borders), About (editorial pull quote), Switch (connecting step lines)
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improved Homepage hero — asymmetric 2-column layout with browser mockup, floating glass stat cards, gradient orb backgrounds
Listing Experience
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new Interactive image gallery on listing pages — bento grid layout (1 large + 4 small), full-screen lightbox modal, left/right keyboard navigation, thumbnail strip, "+X more" overlay
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new "View all photos" button — floating action button in gallery grid corner opens full lightbox
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new Dynamic price filters — min/max price dropdowns now auto-adjust to each site's actual listing prices instead of a hardcoded $5M ceiling
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improved Mobile gallery — single hero image with photo counter badge, tap to open full lightbox
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fixed Listing creation failing with "malformed array literal" error — features and photos arrays now saved correctly to PostgreSQL
Surveys & Service Pages
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improved Surveys now require an answer before advancing — Next and Submit buttons are disabled until the user responds, preventing empty submissions
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improved Scored quizzes with no meaningful responses show a friendly "Not Enough Responses" message instead of a misleading 0% match
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new Service page hero images — upload a fullwidth background photo to replace the solid color header, via dashboard or AI editor
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new AI editor can now update service pages — set hero images, headlines, subtitles, and other fields through the chat editor
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improved Dashboard service pages — expandable cards with hero image uploader, editable headline and subtitle fields
AI Discoverability
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fixed AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude) were blocked from crawling areaauthority.io and all client sites — Cloudflare proxy disabled on all DNS records so AI crawlers reach the server directly
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improved All 17 client subdomains updated to DNS-only mode for consistent AI crawler access
Modular Templates
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new Modular section-based template system — replaced monolithic HTML generation with 15 composable section modules (4 hero, 3 about, 3 services, 3 testimonials, 3 listings, 3 contact variants)
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new Structurally unique layouts — each design profile's componentVariants and sectionOrder produce genuinely different page structures, not just color swaps
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improved Template rendering under 6ms per profile with 66-78KB output — fast enough for real-time previews
Design Profiles
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new 6 curated design profiles — Editorial, Bold, Modern, Coastal, Luxury, and Minimal. Every new site now gets a genuinely distinct look with different hero styles, font pairings, component layouts, and section ordering
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improved Onboarding previews — the 3 design options now show maximally different profiles (light editorial vs dark dramatic vs modern centered) instead of minor color swaps
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improved Redesign tool — "redesign my site" in the AI editor now cycles through design profiles for instant, visually distinct results. Supports style hints like "coastal" or "minimal"
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improved All existing sites backfilled with design profiles — every site now has unique component variants, fonts, and section ordering instead of identical defaults
Marketing Copy Overhaul
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improved Complete messaging overhaul — repositioned from "AI site builder" to "content engine and verified lead generation machine" across all marketing pages
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improved Homepage hero — new headline: "We Turn One 5-Minute Conversation Into Your Entire Content Engine" with content-engine-first messaging
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new Homepage pricing preview — compact Pro/Growth/Complete cards with key features so visitors can see pricing without leaving the page
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new "AI-Powered. Human-Backed." section — three cards highlighting real strategists, your voice, and ongoing support
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new "What One Conversation Builds" section — six platform capability cards (Website, Blog, Communities, Video, Surveys, CRM)
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improved Stats bar — now shows $600-$1,000 SEO value, Verified Leads, and ~5 Min launch time
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improved SEO section reframed — "ChatGPT Doesn't Recommend Pretty Websites. It Recommends Structured Content."
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improved Pricing page — headline "Choose How You Dominate Your Market", plan descriptions reframed (Growth = content engine, Complete = lead generation machine)
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new Three new pricing FAQs — "How is this different?", "Is everything AI-generated?", "What are verified leads?"
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improved How It Works — Step 2 now "AI Builds Your Content Engine", Step 4 now "Grow Your Authority" with 6 dashboard capability cards
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improved About page — "The Content Engine for Every Agent" with human service paragraph and reframed differentiator cards
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improved Switch page — content engine framing, verified lead capture in the "After" comparison
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improved Meta description and JSON-LD updated site-wide to include content engine, lead generation, and content marketing positioning
Content Editability
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new Clickable service cards — service sections now link directly to full GEO-optimized service pages. Click "Luxury Residential Sales" and land on a detailed page instead of a dead end
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new Auto-created service pages — during onboarding, a dedicated service page with AI-generated content is created for each of your services automatically
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new Customizable CTA buttons — choose which services appear as homepage buttons, change labels, reorder, or add new ones through the AI editor
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new Selectable service icons — 12 icon options (home, key, chart, shield, handshake, search, building, dollar, map, heart, star, users) assignable per service via AI chat
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new Testimonial management — add, edit, and remove testimonials through the AI editor. Replace AI-generated testimonials with real client quotes
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new Service reordering — tell the AI "put Home Valuation first" and your services rearrange instantly
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new Configurable footer services — choose which services appear in your footer, with clickable links to service pages
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new Component variants — 5 layout options per section: Services (dark/light/minimal), About (classic/centered/reversed), Testimonials (featured/carousel/grid), Contact (split/stacked/card), Listings (cards/list/compact)
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improved AI editor now supports 18+ capabilities including layout changes, CTA customization, trust stats editing, and full component variant switching
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improved Theme redesigns now include component variant selection for more distinct design options
Scored Quizzes
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new Scored quiz system — create interactive quizzes like "Which Neighbourhood Is Your Perfect Match?" with weighted scoring, personalized AI results, and social sharing
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new AI quiz generation — tell the edit chat to "create a neighbourhood quiz" and get a complete scored quiz with 8-12 questions, 3-5 outcomes, and full scoring in seconds
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new Conversational quiz builder — the AI asks about your target audience, preferred outcomes, and tone before generating, so every quiz is tailored to your market
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new Quiz results page — top match with percentage, AI-personalized summary, highlights, runner-up matches, and call-to-action
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new Social sharing — shareable results links with full OG meta for Facebook, Twitter/X, and link copying. Results pages show "Take the Quiz" CTA for viral spread
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new Dashboard quiz management — type toggle (Basic Survey vs Scored Quiz), outcomes editor, scoring matrix, settings panel, AI generate button
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new Quiz responses tracking — view top results, percentages, and AI summaries for each quiz taker in the dashboard
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improved Survey list page — visual distinction between quizzes (sparkle icon) and surveys (clipboard icon) with outcome counts
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improved Edit chat — 15th tool: manage_survey with list, generate, create, update, remove actions. Post-generation refinement conversation included
Platform
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new Complete Open Graph and social sharing metadata on every page — Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn previews now show page-specific titles, descriptions, and images
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new Smarter onboarding chat — faster, more direct "Competent Co-Pilot" tone that gets your site built in 3 minutes, not 10
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new Automatic image import — headshots, logos, and property photos from your existing website are now downloaded and applied to your new site
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improved Performance optimization — gzip compression, static asset caching, and nginx tuning for faster page loads
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fixed Privacy toggle now takes effect within 30 seconds instead of up to 5 minutes
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fixed Duplicate greeting message in onboarding chat
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fixed Uploaded images now served with correct content types for social media previews
Content & SEO
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new Community/Neighbourhood SEO engine — AI generates rich content for each community: article sections, expert quotes, statistics, FAQ, and location guides
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new Community pages with full SEO rendering — statistics grid, expert quote cards, location icons, FAQ accordions, and Place + FAQPage JSON-LD schema
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new Community photos — upload hero images and photo galleries for each neighbourhood page
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new Edit chat expansion — 14 AI tools including manage_community, manage_service_page, manage_team, manage_awards, manage_brokerage, import_wordpress
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new WordPress import via chat — say "import my WordPress blog" and articles are migrated automatically
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new Lead email notifications — agents get instant email when a new contact form submission arrives
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improved Dashboard overview — SEO health progress bars, recent leads with unread dots, 5 stat cards
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improved Blog dashboard — inline sectioned forms, PhotoUploader for featured images, SEO settings panel
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improved Listings dashboard — drag-drop photo uploads, pill tag features, SeoPanel per listing
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improved Videos dashboard — expandable cards with transcript editing, SEO optimization button
Design & Billing
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new Instant design previews — 3 template-based options (Light & Editorial, Dark & Dramatic, Bold & Vibrant) generated in under 1 second instead of 100+ seconds
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new Stripe billing integration — Pro ($149/mo), Growth ($229/mo), Complete ($299/mo), Agency ($499/mo) with 14-day free trial
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new Agency plan — manage up to 10 sites from one account with site switcher in dashboard
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new Custom domains — connect your own domain with automatic SSL and DNS verification
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new Help center — 6 guides covering getting started, custom domains, listings, blog content, and billing
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improved v4 template — Instrument Serif + Figtree, light editorial theme with luxury real estate magazine aesthetic
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improved Preview toolbar — navigate between designs, select directly from preview, mobile-responsive bar
Platform Launch
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new Next.js platform — multi-tenant dynamic rendering replaces static HTML sites. Faster, themeable, SEO-optimized
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new Theme system — primary/secondary colors, font pairs, hero styles, and layout order all customizable per site
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new AI content optimization — Claude Sonnet generates SEO-rich content for articles, listings, and videos with FAQ, statistics, expert quotes, and citation snippets
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new Blog system — write, publish, and SEO-optimize articles with AI. Auto-seeds 3 market-relevant articles on site creation
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new YouTube sync — import videos by channel URL, auto-fetch transcripts, AI-generate SEO content per video
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new Newsletter campaigns — compose and send to site subscribers (Growth+ plans)
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new CRM contacts — manage leads with status tracking, notes, and source attribution (Complete plans)
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new Magic link authentication — passwordless login via email, JWT sessions, cross-subdomain cookies
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new Dashboard — 14-tab control panel: Overview, Edit Site, Site Info, Listings, Blog, Videos, Communities, Service Pages, Images, CRM, Newsletter, Domain, Billing, Create Site
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new AI Edit Chat — conversational site editor with 14 tools for updating content, managing listings, redesigning themes, and more
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new llms.txt — AI-discoverable site content with citation guidelines, structured FAQ, and enriched metadata for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude
Foundation
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new AI onboarding chat — conversational intake with Claude that gathers agent info and generates a personalized website in minutes
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new Website analyzer — paste your URL and we import your branding, bio, listings, and photos automatically
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new Automatic DNS provisioning — Cloudflare DNS records created instantly for new subdomains
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new Wildcard SSL — all *.areaauthority.io subdomains secured automatically
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