Map View

We're excited to introduce Map View, a stunning new way to visualize your entire network across the globe.

Planning a trip to Paris? Moving to San Francisco? Map View makes it easier than ever to be thoughtful with your network while traveling. Instantly see all your local connections, discover who lives nearby, and plan meetups efficiently.

Powered by Apple Maps, this beautiful new visualization displays your contacts on an interactive map that stays smooth and responsive even with tens of thousands of connections. Whether you're planning your next business trip, discovering connections in a new city, or just curious about where your community lives, Map View helps you explore your relationships from a fresh perspective.

Map View is available today as a technical preview across Mac, Windows, web, and iOS — visit the People tab and select the Map view. We have lots more in store to make locations in Clay even more powerful, but we'll save that for 2025 :)

Clay's 2024 in Review

2024 was an incredible year for Clay, thanks to you! To recap, here are the highlights of what we shipped across 2,875 commits (that's 11 per day!) and 334,618 lines of code in the past 12 months:

• 🥽 The first network visualization for Apple Vision Pro and spatial computing
• 💯 Crossed 100 million contacts under management, and shipped a beautiful visualization with live data to commemorate the moment
• 📝 Notion integration (featured by the Notion team!) for managing your network in your workspace
• 🐦 X integration, the only way to search your followers and following
• 💬 WhatsApp integration for complete contact & message syncing
• 📇 2-way Address Book Sync with CardDAV support, so you always have Clay's latest info on your phone
• 🛡️ SOC 2 Type II certification as a testament to our commitment to privacy and security
• ⚡️ A brand new Zapier app on the Zapier App Store
• 📸 Gravatar for the latest avatar and social links
• 👥 Duplicate resolver, which has merged millions of duplicates behind the scenes
• 📱 Beautiful new widgets for iOS and macOS
• 🔎 Improved search with multiple new search terms and search tips
• 📞 Phone Call integration, the easiest way to remember when you spoke with someone
• 🏷️ Customizable note labels to help you organize your notes at a glance
• ⚙️ Apple Shortcuts to bring custom workflows to your Apple devices
• 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Related people to find serendipitous missed connections
• 📰 Group Highlights for a filtered view of updates for each of your groups
• 🔄 Dynamic profile refresh to make sure you always have the latest info
• ⬇️ Download groups as CSV
• ✨ Plus hundreds of other fixes and improvements

Oh - and we got a fun shoutout during Apple's WWDC Keynote AND were featured in the App Store! 😅

Thank you to our amazing community for all your support and feedback. We can't wait to show you what we have in store for 2025!

As we enter into 2025, we have so many exciting new things we can't wait to share with you.

Pronouns

We've added the ability to add personalized gender pronouns to contact profiles in Clay.

Adding pronouns to a contact's profile is simple and optional. When viewing any profile, you can add pronouns in Edit > Profile that will appear alongside their name throughout Clay. Like all information in Clay, pronouns can be updated anytime to ensure profiles stay current and accurate.

The feature is available now across iOS, Mac, Windows, and web.

In Memoriam

We're releasing a thoughtful way to remember and honor those who are no longer with us. When viewing any profile, you can now designate a contact as passed away and record their date of passing in Edit > Profile.

You can also optionally choose to receive a gentle annual memorial notification on the anniversary of their passing. These memorialized profiles remain a permanent part of Clay while being handled with appropriate care throughout the app.

Improved VoiceOver Support for iOS

We've made significant improvements to VoiceOver support in Clay for iOS, making the app more accessible for members who rely on screen readers.

This update allows for better navigation throughout the app, including enhanced support for contact cards, profile updates in the Home view, search results, and tab navigation.

These improvements include clearer labeling of navigation elements, better section descriptions, and improved interaction with core features like contact cards, buttons, and filters.

While there's always more work to do, this update represents an important step in our ongoing commitment to make Clay accessible to everyone. The enhanced VoiceOver support is available now in the latest iOS update.

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 🖥️ Present a modal when trying to add an already in-use source to a profile, particularly if the source belongs to an archived contact
• 📱 Added a restore subscription button to the profile settings pane
• 📱🖥️ Added a created search tip
• 📱 Changed the search criteria for missing birthday recommendations
• 🖥️ Updated "importing contacts" banner design for new members
• 🖥️ Adjusted vertical spacing in Edit Profile view
• 🖥️ Added placeholders to date inputs in the Edit Profile view
• 🖥️ Broadened the criteria for birthday request recommendations
• 🖥️ Adjusted note label editor so a background color is only applied when the label editor is focused
• 🖥️ Fixed a race condition when displaying notes in the timeline for newly created contacts

Clay brings in all the relevant contact info from your email, calendar, iMessage, WhatsApp, and more, but sometimes that can mean multiple phone numbers or email accounts for a person.

When adding or editing phone numbers and email addresses in Clay, you can now tag them as "work," "personal," or create custom labels that fit your needs. This helps you quickly identify the right way to reach someone, whether you're sending a business proposal or planning a social gathering. Simply click the label icon next to any email address or phone number under "Sources" to add or edit labels.

Our next step is to import those labels from Apple Contacts if you already have them, and to sync labels back in our CardDAV integration. Stay tuned for those updates shortly!

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 🖥️ Bring back zoom menu options and keyboard shortcuts to zoom in, zoom out, and return to 100%
• 📱 Fix for the new iOS contact import flow, particularly if you've selected to share a subset of your Contacts with Clay
• 📱 Added featured searches and search tips to the Search view
• 📱 Added recent searches to the Search view
• 📱 Fixed the edit icon in the group detail
• 🖥️ Update "new note" and "edit" (pen) icons
• 📱 Group Reconnect cadence can now be set from the More menu in Group views, rather than needing to go into the Group edit mode
• 📱 Fixed the public profile switch that enabled/disables profile visibility
• 📱 Improved logging around auto logout, to ensure the Clay app isn't logged out prematurely or incorrectly
• 🖥️ Allow users to disconnect from ChatGPT from Clay Settings
• 🖥️ Migrated to new, themed designs for OAuth flow views and better handle signup duing OAuth flow
• 🖥️ Settings backdrop repositioned so it is no longer offset (only apparent when there is content underneath the Settings icon)
• 🖥️ Hide reminder button on read-only notes
• 🖥️ Increase contrast on chevrons on dropdowns in light mode

We have a few ease-of-use improvements that will make searching and organizing people in Clay even easier.

Advanced Search Tips, Now In-App

Finding the right person is now easier than ever with our in-app search guide. We've added a full list of our advanced search filters, so you can find the right person every time. We also added new search terms like searching within groups and notes. The search suggestions are customized based on your Clay data, so you see examples that are relevant to you.

Quick Reminders

Sometimes you just need a simple reminder to follow up. Now you can set reminders without taking a full note with our new Reminder button. Tap it to select a date and time to get notified abotu someone — perfect for those "let's catch up next month" moments.

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 🖥️ Show "Starred" group membership in the "Groups" section in contact sidebar displays
• 🖥️ Reintroduced the "Starred" badge adjacent to contact name in list views
• 🖥️ Group Reconnect cadence can now be set from the More menu in Group views, rather than needing to go into the Group edit mode
• 🖥️ Fixed key handling bug where backspacing within a modal could cause view navigation
• 🖥️ Fixed occasional issue where empty contacts were displaying in the sidebar when no contact was "selected" in the UI

We've been heads-down making progress on a long list of enhancements that make Clay faster, more intuitive, and delightful.

We've shipped 100+ refinements at all parts of our stack, some of which we're highlighting below. It's a demonstration of our commitment to quality and getting the details right.

New search terms

We've rolled out a slew of new search terms to help you find exactly who you're looking for:

• updated:>2024-10-05 finds contacts who were updated or modified before or after a certain date
• If you're on a team workspace, my connections will show you only people you know
• All operators now support negation, so you can find the inverse of a particular search. For example,
• -source:phone to find contacts for whom you don't have a phone number
• missing:name to find contacts who don't have a name
• source:facebook to find contacts with a certain type of sources (i.e. people a Facebook URL, phone number, etc.)
• sources:>3 to find contacts with a certain number of sources (i.e. people with multiple email addresses, social accounts, etc.)

Mac menubar options

We've added beautiful new menubar options to our Mac app to make common actions even easier. Easily toggle between Home, Search, People, Notes, and more. (Coming soon to Windows!)

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 🖥️ Improved group colors to add contrast across themes
• 📱 Introduced new iOS 18 widgets for note composition and network search
• 📱 Improved compatibility with iOS 18, including icon tinting and layout bugs
• 📱 Improved animation performance across login and settings
• 📱 Redesigned authentication views
• 🖥️📱 Added new sync options for Notion integration
• 📱 Improved contact data synchronization
• 📱 Enhanced widget data loading and appearance
• 🖥️📱 Begin process of optimizing images for faster loading times
• 📱 Implemented regular contact sync on app open
• 📱 Automated integration refresh after initial sync
• 🖥️📱 Corrected search sorting bug
• 📱 Fixed toolbar buttons in People and Groups views
• 📱 Enabled Group reordering
• 📱 Fixed widget crash on older iOS versions
• 🖥️📱 Fixed delayed birthday age updates
• 📱 Eliminated duplicate people in Nexus messages
• 📱 Refined pre-purchase verification
• 🖥️ Clarified sort order language
• 🖥️📱 Fix issue with parsing x.com links (vs. twitter.com)
• 🖥️📱 Fixed issue when parsing Facebook profile URLs with rare prefixes
• 🖥️ Streamlined login process with email pre-fill
• 🖥️ Accelerated Facebook integration connection process
• 🖥️📱 Added App Store as a reference source on signup
• 🖥️ Standardized sorting for specific searches
• 📱 Updated onboarding for light mode
• 📱 Updated group count display
• 📱 Improved iCloud calendar error handling
• 🖥️ Customized integrations for different app versions
• 🖥️ Adjusted Nexus feature introduction for new users
• 🖥️ Refined subscription management in onboarding
• 🖥️📱 Added a footer to daily briefs to clarify settings
• 📱 Improved loading speed for starred people
• 🖥️ Updated desktop menu actions
• 🖥️ Modified integration options for Mac App Store version
• 📱 Improved scaling on main app screen
• 🖥️ Streamlined onboarding for Mac App Store users
• 🖥️ Improved onboarding connection options
• 🖥️ Displayed note labels in contact timeline
• 📱 Adjusted activity widget layout
• 📱 Removed Nexus preview badge
• 📱 Resolved note editor tapping issue
• 🖥️ Enabled desktop app to be dragged/moved when loading upon startup
• 📱 Improved app stability monitoring

Fresh off of OpenAI's exciting announcements yesterday, we're thrilled to announce a major update to Nexus, your AI-powered copilot in Clay. Nexus is now smarter, faster, and more helpful than ever at searching your network and assisting with things like drafting emails, taking notes, and much more.

Since introducing Nexus and our ChatGPT plugin, we've spoken with many members who have integrated them into their daily workflow as one of their most-used AI tools. Whether it's searching your contacts before a big meeting or drafting thoughtful follow-ups and intro emails, you've shown us how transformative an intelligent relationship copilot can be. Your feedback was instrumental in shaping this update and making Nexus even better.

Across the board, we've improved Nexus to be smarter and faster than ever:

• ⚡ 2-5X Faster Responses - Nexus now returns results 2-5x faster, so you can get the info you need without delay.
• 📝 Take Notes & Add Contacts - Jot down details about a contact right from your chat. You can even add new contacts to Clay by simply providing an email or phone number.
• 💬 Chat Away - Nexus remembers more of your conversation history, allowing for more natural and productive exchanges.
• 🙋 Get More Info & Results - Ask Nexus to elaborate on details about a contact ("tell me more about Jane") or to provide additional results to your queries ("give me 5 more results").
• 💡 More Info on Contacts - Nexus now has access to even more information about your contacts, like when you first met, to fuel its responses.
• 🍓 Improved Reasoning - Nexus is much better at understanding when someone is a fit for what you're asking for.

These changes are live now in Nexus and our ChatGPT plugin. As always, no data is processed or sent to third parties unless you explicitly use Nexus — you can learn more in our Library here.

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 🖥️ Fixed a bug with Notion contacts sync
• 🖥️ Fixed an issue where Home feed updates from the past would be inserted without being marked as read
• 🖥️ Improved CardDAV performance

Apple Shortcuts

We're excited to announce that Clay now integrates seamlessly with Apple Shortcuts, bringing the power of automation to your relationship management. This integration allows you to create custom workflows that incorporate Clay's features into your daily routines, making it easier than ever to stay connected and organized.

With the new Clay actions in Shortcuts, you can now automate tasks like composing notes, creating contacts, opening specific notes, and performing searches within Clay. For example, you could create a shortcut that automatically composes a note in Clay after a calendar event, ensuring you never forget to jot down important details from your meetings. Or set up a shortcut to quickly search for contacts in a specific group before an event, giving you instant access to the information you need.

The available actions include Compose Note, Create Contact, Open Note, and Search. These versatile commands open up a world of possibilities for customizing your Clay experience. We can't wait to see the creative ways you'll use these new capabilities to enhance your networking and stay more thoughtful with the people in your life.

Related People

We've redesigned and improved our Related People section so it appears on even more profiles. This powerful addition to Clay's contact cards helps you uncover hidden connections and expand your network effortlessly. When viewing a contact, you'll now see a curated list of similar profiles, giving you a broader perspective on your professional and personal circles.

Related People uses Clay's advanced algorithms to identify individuals with similar backgrounds, industries, locations, or shared connections. It's perfect for discovering potential introductions, finding candidates for job opportunities, or simply exploring the interconnected nature of your network.

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 📱 Fix crash that occurred with automatic date correction in notes
• 📱 Improved search filter UX
• 📱 Fixed a crash when clearing the home feed selection

Dynamic Profile Refresh

Our team has significantly improved the data infrastructure powering Clay which means all the profiles within your network will get updates up to 100 times faster than before.

Alongside the manual profile refresh feature we recently rolled out, Clay will now work even faster behind the scenes to go through your entire network and bring in the latest information on everyone. This will be automatically enabled for all our members starting today.

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 📱 Fixed issue with starring contacts
• 📱 Improved search filter UX
• 📱 Added note importing for Apple Contacts integration
• 📱🖥️ Enabled display of read-only notes from Apple Contacts
• 🖥️ Notion integration can now be re-synced or removed from Settings > Integrations
• 🖥️ Fixed `#` hotkey collision on the Notes index view has been resolved by using `E` to bring up the "delete note" dialog

We're excited to announce a new feature that makes it even easier to use your Clay data in other tools.

Now you can export any of your Clay groups as a CSV file with just a few clicks. This allows you to easily import your carefully curated Clay groups into other services like email marketing tools without exporting all your contacts.

To export a Group, click the "more" menu in the top right and tap "Download CSV". As always, you can export all your Clay contacts in Settings.

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 🖥️ Show last login method on login page to make it easier to remember how you previously logged in
• 🖥️ Sort direction now works for "Relevance" sorting in all views
• 🖥️ Home view preview that appears on nav item hover now has background properly applied in Firefox and Safari
• 🖥️ Sidebar Contact avatar rendering issues fixed in Safari by removing background blur
• 🖥️ Link underlines on Post items shown in Home are now properly aligned in Firefox and Safari
• 🖥️ Fix inaccurate sorting race condition when choosing a non-default sort option
• 🖥️ Hide multiple scrollbars in Firefox

We’re excited to partner up with our friends over at Automattic to bring the power of Gravatar to enhance all your Clay profiles.

Gravatar + Clay

With more than 200 million profiles, Gravatar is a public and open service that lets you customize and control your online profile. Set your avatar, bio, and social links, and your Gravatar profile will show up across the web — and now in Clay.

Clay will now use Gravatar as a first class resource so all your Clay profiles will have the most up to date information about your network.

Automattic has been leading the charge on making the web a better place for humanity and we at Clay share those core values. Gravatar has been powering online profiles for over 2 decades—you can edit your own Gravatar profile here!

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 🖥️ Displayed current sorting option next to sort menu icon in list views
• 🖥️ Added clickable reconnect cadence badge on contact profiles
• 🖥️ Introduced success toast when starring/unstarring contacts
• 🖥️ Highlighted "add a note/reminder/mention" button on contact profiles
• 🖥️ Reorganized action buttons in contact profile headers
• 🖥️ Include a "select all" label in the tooltip for the select-all button
• 🖥️ Update styles on sorting menu toggle display
• 🖥️ Matched "new note" button color with existing inactive notes
• 🖥️ Prevented active note from appearing behind "new note" button

We're excited to launch one of our most requested integrations for Clay ever—Notion.

Many of you use Notion as your second brain for work and personal projects. It's where ideas come to life, teams collaborate, and knowledge is stored. Now, we're bringing the power of Clay's relationship management directly into your Notion workspace.

Clay's Notion integration creates a comprehensive database of your entire network right in Notion — in just one click. Now you can reference contacts from email, calendar, LinkedIn, iMessage, WhatsApp, and more alongside all your other Notion pages and databases.

Clay keeps your contact information up-to-date in real-time, enriching profiles with beautiful avatar photos, job information, social media links, and fields like Last Contacted and Connection Strength. We've also included pre-set filters and views to help you quickly access information like upcoming birthdays or contacts by city. Customize the perfect dashboard or view for you or your team. Plus, you can use the powerful Notion AI to ask questions about your network.

Some examples of how people are already using it:

🎉 Create party guest lists
📬 Organize holiday card mailing lists
🎂 Build a birthday tracker with gift ideas
💼 Develop a team CRM for sales and marketing
👥 Manage job candidates and resumes
💰 Organize investors and mentors for fundraising

As always, all information is processed privately and securely. Clay respects your data and privacy, ensuring that your personal and professional connections remain protected.

Our Notion integration is live now across all platforms! Visit Settings to get started, and learn more at our Library page here.

We're bringing a few big improvements to our ChatGPT integration, plus a number of stability improvements and fixes to our brand new integration catalog.

ChatGPT becomes your perfect assistant

We've updated our Clay GPT with the ability to add people and notes! ChatGPT becomes the perfect assistant with Clay, and extends ChatGPT's powerful voice, photo, text, and reasoning capabilities with Clay context and information.

This means you can build even more powerful workflows, like adding business cards on the go with perfect OCR transcription:

Or add notes from a notebook after a meeting:

With everything immediately populating in Clay:

These changes are available now in the Clay GPT, and are the first of many Nexus-related releases we have coming in the next quarter.

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 📱 Added basic oauth support, redirect to the browser

• 📱 Fixed a note editor overflow issue

• 📱 Fixed the loading indicator for the Zapier info view

• 🖥️ Start page for new members is now redesigned with light and dark modes

• 🖥️ Fixed an issue where search snippets might not match the current search result

• 🖥️ Always use dark mode for "unsupported integration" modals in onboarding

We're excited to launch one of our most requested integrations for Clay ever—WhatsApp.

Many of you use WhatsApp to communicate with close colleagues, friends, and family. So much so that they brought together the cast of the popular show Modern Family to emphasize the point:

WhatsApp is increasingly where new people become professional acquaintances, and professional acquaintances become personal friends. Now you can add the most important people in your life to Clay from WhatsApp in one seamless integration.

Clay's WhatsApp integration creates profiles for your entire WhatsApp network, so you can take notes, set reminders, and search for them in Clay, alongside everyone else you know. Clay also syncs messages from WhatsApp in the Timeline for your connections, so you always know when you messaged someone. Of course, Clay will continue to enrich profiles with beautiful avatar photos, bio information, and more.

As always, all information is processed privately and securely right on your device. Clay never accesses your WhatsApp login, and never stores or reads message content.

Our WhatsApp integration is live now across Mac and Windows, with iOS coming soon.

We’re pleased to expand our commitment to privacy and security by announcing the completion of Clay's SOC 2 Type II audit.

The SOC 2 information security audit provides an objective external assessment and report on Clay's security practices. It assures you that your Clay account adheres to the highest availability and security standards.

These important measures enable us to provide products to more customers, including those in financial services, healthcare, and other regulated industries.

The evaluation is based on five Trust Services Criteria developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA):

• Security: ensuring information is shielded from unauthorized access and other vulnerabilities
• Availability: maintaining consistent uptime and accessibility of services
• Processing Integrity: ensuring systems operate as intended
• Confidentiality: protecting confidential information by limiting access, use, and storage
• Privacy: safeguarding personal information against unauthorized access

Following an extensive review process, Clay's certifications were granted without exceptions or qualified opinions by a certified independent auditor, reinforcing our comprehensive commitment to safeguards throughout the company.

If a SOC2 was a requirement to use Clay with your work accounts or within your organization, please email us!

One more thing...

Clay got a fun shoutout during the main Apple Keynote (WWDC) this week! We’re thankful that we can celebrate this milestone because of you.

Fresh off our Address Book release last week, we're excited to introduce the Clay Integrations Catalog.

Since we started Clay, our goal was to help you get your network into your favorite tools. Clay now has integrations with the top communications and productivity apps globally, and we're just getting started. (What's app next? Stay tuned 😉)

Our new Integrations Catalog centralizes information on all of the products and services Clay supports. Import people from social media, connect Clay to Zapier, add your people to your address book — and so much more.

This beautiful new catalog will allow all of you to see what we’re working on in realtime and request any integrations you might want to see us support.

Finally, we’ve redesigned the Integrations section in Settings to show sync status more clearly and share more info about all of our supported integrations.

We're giving you an early preview at 2-way native address book syncing. This is powered by our brand-new sync engine which will also power several exciting upcoming features.

Introducing 2-way Address Book Sync

Many Clay members now use Clay as their primary address book, but our goal has always been to give you access to those relationships where you need them the most. Today, we're excited to introduce a big first step in that vision.

Now, you can add Clay to your phone or computer as a secondary address book, so your entire network is displayed seamlessly alongside your other contacts. This means:

• New contacts you add on your phone or computer will immediately be added to Clay
• Changes you make in Clay will display on your phone, computer, or other applications

Getting Started

To get started, go to Settings > Integrations > Integrate Clay with Other Services. You'll see a special email address and password for your new Clay address book. You can then add that account as a new address book on your phone, computer, or any service that allows for external CardDAV connections. For more details, visit our Library page here.

Clay now works anywhere CardDAV is supported, including operating systems like Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android; address books like Apple Contacts and Outlook; and third party apps like Raycast and Alfred.

This enables a whole set of powerful new workflows with Clay:

Siri gets superpowers

After adding Clay to your phone, anyone in Clay will be available to Siri and the rest of the Apple ecosystem— so you can call, text, or email someone with CarPlay, for example.

Avatars for everyone

Clay will sync avatars for everyone to your phone or laptop, so as many contacts as possible will display beautifully with the person's latest photo.

Bi-directional notes

Adding notes to someone on your address book will now show up in Clay, so you can jot down how you know someone when adding their contact information anywhere.

Deeper OS-level integrations

By having Clay contacts in your system address book, Clay contacts can be used across the operating system. Many email apps use the system address book for autocomplete, for example. And third party apps like Raycast, Alfred, etc. will be able to search on your contacts automatically.

A unified social graph (finally)

If you've ever wanted to have everyone you know across all major platforms in one place you can now easily look up all your relationships across Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

ℹ️ FAQs

What happens to my existing phone contacts? Because it's a separate address book, Clay never modifies your other contacts. We've heard horror stories of other apps editing or deleting contacts by mistake, and that will never happen with Clay.

Does this support every field type? 2-way sync works with all fields Clay supports today, including things like avatars, birthdays, and notes. We're working to expand support to custom field types and ensure that all operations (create, edit, and delete) work across each field.

How long will it take to set up? Once you generate a password, you can add it to your phone or computer immediately. It may take several minutes for contacts to process and begin showing up, depending on how many people you have in Clay.

What does this new sync engine enable? Clay will soon be able to sync your entire network anywhere you might want it. In a nutshell, this will allow us to become the people layer in any workflow you can dream up. We're excited to share more soon!

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 📱 Added LinkedIn profile importing
• 📱 Fixed an issue with the reminder picker when composing a new note
• 📱 Added a tap gesture to the contact import avatars
• 📱 Fixed a timeline fetch crash
• 📱 Tab title change: Profile Settings -> Manage Profile
• 🖥️ Contact caching improvements. We're now respecting the `@timestamp` value for contact data more comprehensively
• 🖥️ Don't render contact action icons for rows rendered in the Home preview
• 🖥️ Ensure there is no "selected contact" gap between when a contact is hovered in a list view and when that contact's profile loads after a click on the contact's row
• 🖥️ Make entire Group title "input/" clickable in Mac desktop app
• 🖥️ Force dark mode on all onboarding modals

🏷️ Introducing Note Labels

Many of you are voracious notetakers and wanted more control over the note experience. Now you can choose from a delightful set of icons and colors to craft the perfect label for your notes. This greatly improves the browsing experience throughout Clay:

They appear beautifully in the Notes view as well, making it easy to skim the notes you've taken and what they're about:

Use note labels to remember someone's favorite foods, where you met them, or what gifts you've given them. You can also use note labels as a custom moment when you interact with someone outside of Clay.

For now note labels are for organization, but we have a set of enhancements coming to make them even more powerful. Note labels are available on desktop and web, and in our updated iOS app out today.

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 📱 Update minimum iOS version to 16.4
• 🖥️ Various performance improvements

🎁 Upcoming Birthdays

We've added a search term for upcoming birthdays, and display each person's birthday so you can quickly see them at a glance. We've also added a new iOS Upcoming Birthdays widget so you're always prepared for an upcoming birthday.

⌨️ Switch Groups with Keyboard Shortcuts

With our release of Group Highlights last week, many of you asked for a faster way to switch between Groups. Now you can navigate the entire sidebar on desktop and web with ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ (or control on Windows). Switch from Home to the People view, or navigate between Groups quickly.

We've also added keyboard shortcuts to toggle between the members of a Group and Group Highlights. Hit 1 to view a Group's members, or 2 to view a Group's Highlights.

👥 A Group for Everyone

Many Clay members use Groups exhaustively, and want every profile in Clay to be in at least one Group. So we added a search term for Groups, group:none, that looks for people who aren't in a Group. It's another easy way to organize everyone in Clay.

And as a reminder, you can search for people in a particular Group with the same pattern, like group:Mentors or group:"Potential hires".

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 🖥️ Updates to groups (adding and removing contacts) are no longer blocking operations, making the UX much snappier
• 🖥️ Improved status messaging for Integrations
• 🖥️ First member in a group is now properly selected when the group contacts load
• 🖥️ Group in navigation sidebar is now highlighted when app is on a /group/:id/highlights view
• 🖥️ Improved loading of Starred group
• 🖥️ Improved rendering of Home and Activity items that have special formatting
• 📱 Improved how widgets load data

👯‍♀️ Group Highlights

How it works
Groups are one of the fastest ways to organize the people you know in Clay, and today we're making them much more powerful — introducing Group Highlights.

When viewing a Group, you'll see a new tab called Highlights that shows a filtered view of the Home feed, only showing updates for people in that Group. You can filter the updates by type, just like you can in Home. Catch up on news, remember birthdays, and get reminded to reconnect, all in one place.

Group highlights are live across desktop, web, and iOS!

Cut through the noise
You can now meaningfully curate updates from specific groups and networks. This unlocks a much more focused experience within Clay, helping you cut through the noise. This update alongside our Home view allows you to understand all your relationships, across social networks, at both the macro and micro level.

Here are some suggestions from the Clay team to help you get started:

• Closest people
• Portfolio companies
• Mentors
• Potential hires
• Event attendees
• Family

🖍️ Improved Profile Highlights

We've also improved the Highlights section on each individual profile. Highlights now include social posts from Twitter and Linkedin, job changes, news articles, and more — perfect for getting up to speed before a meeting.

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 🖥️ Updates to groups (adding and removing contacts) are no longer blocking operations, making the UX much snappier
• 🖥️ Improved status messaging for Integrations
• 🖥️ Better handling of multi-stroke Korean, Chinese, and Japanese characters in form inputs
• 🖥️ Unstarring of contacts now works as expected
• 🖥️ Sorting in the Starred group now works as expected
• 📱 Added reminders and social updates to Home widgets
• 📱 Improved the loading state of the Add to Group view
• 📱 Improved cache removal when deleting an integration

We're excited to announce support for phone call logging in Clay, a first-of-its-kind integration that helps you remember when you've spoken with someone.

Over time, we've heard from many Clay members for whom phone calls are a big missing piece of their timeline. Whether you're a real estate agent making calls on the go, an investor dialing colleagues, or just a thoughtful friend wishing someone happy birthday, phone calls are an important signal for the strength of relationships.

Starting today, you can add our Phone Call integration using the Clay Mac app, similar to the existing iMessage integration. As you make calls on your iPhone, those calls will be synced to Clay and appear on a profile's timeline. Phone calls are also incorporated into scoring and Reconnect so you know who you've talked to and when you chatted. New people you dial (or who call you) will be added as profiles in Clay — and Clay will ignore people you don't have saved in Contacts, so those pesky spam calls aren't added.

For more information on the integration, you can visit our Library page.

📱 New Home Widgets

Many of you check Home daily for news and posts from your network. Now, it's even easier to see recent news at a glance.

Our new Home widgets allow you to see your upcoming meetings, news articles, birthdays, and other updates for the people you know.

And of course, the widgets work on macOS as well — and look beautiful on your desktop:

The new widgets are a great way to stay in touch with people each day! We've also refreshed all of our widgets to be more performant in the background and update more frequently. Update your iOS app to get them today.

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 🖥️ You can now search for full Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook profile links to find a person by contact information
• 🖥️ Handle bugs where integrations registered to the desktop app were still showing in the UI after integrations were disconnected in a different app environment
• 🖥️ UX is now further standardized between device integrations and email/calendar integrations
• 🖥️ Switch from "sign up" to "continue" on sign up buttons
• 🖥️ Remove Nexus "refresh" section from Settings

We're excited to announce our all-new duplicate resolver, which harmonizes your contacts behind the scenes with high precision and accuracy.

As we've rolled out new integrations, Clay members have more and more of their people centralized in Clay. While we've always deduplicated profiles behind the scenes, doing so with high confidence across the diverse profiles imported from places like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and iMessage required us to build an entirely new algorithm. After prototyping and testing different approaches, we're excited to leverage the latest in AI research to find duplicates more reliably and choose the best information to merge when we do.

Starting today, you can opt in to our new duplicates resolver in Settings > General > Merging, and it's automatically enabled for new members. Clay will automatically merge any duplicates it finds, and will continue to merge them as new people are added.

We've now officially partnered with Zapier to make our integration live in the App Store, which means it's easier than ever to get started and add thousands of different apps to Clay!

We know many of you have been using our Zapier triggers in beta to add data to Clay from other apps. Here are some core workflows we’ve heard that folks rely on:

• Create new contacts in Clay when rows or records are added to an Airtable database — great for using Airtable as a repository for forms, event attendees, etc.
  
  
  
  
• Add new Fathom or Otter AI call summaries as Clay notes — once your call is done and the transcript is processed, a link to the transcript will be added as a note to the participants in Clay
  
  
  
  
• Add new Notion notes to Clay — especially helpful when you have a Meeting Notes or CRM database in Notion already but want to make it fast and searchable
  
  
  
  
• Sync Salesforce, Hubspot, or Affinity leads to Clay — update contacts in Clay with their latest pipeline stage
  
  
  
  
• Import people in bulk from Google Sheets — the easiest way to get a list of people like event attendees, old address books, or exports from newsletter platforms like Substack or Mailchimp into Clay
  
  
  
  
• Build custom integrations into your company's systems — fire a webhook from your internal software (e.g. when a new user is created) and Clay can create contacts for them. The possibilities are endless!
  
  

Many of you are already using Zapier recipes to automate your workflow, and those have been upgraded to this latest version. This is the first of many upgrades we have coming to have Clay power your most important workflows.

We're excited to announce our all-new Twitter (X?) integration, making Clay the most powerful way to search your Twitter audience and get curated updates from those who matter most to you.

You can connect your Twitter account and choose to import your followers, people you follow, mutual followers, or everyone. Clay will import those people, enrich them with information, and allow you to search your Twitter audience by anything you can dream up — location, bio, interests, and more.

You'll also now receive content that Clay identifies as high-signal and worth knowing about your network — job changes, announcements, etc.

And we've brought back one of our most popular features, profile changes, so you'll see when your Twitter friends change their bio, location, or website as well.

Clay is now officially the most powerful tool for searching and organizing your Twitter network. Find Twitter followers when you're traveling to a city, look for potential candidates in your audience, and more — all automatically. This powerful new Twitter integration is available across Mac, Windows, and iOS today.

🔗 Updated Clay GPT

Clay's ChatGPT plugin has been updated and migrated over to OpenAI's new GPT library, which means you can now mention Clay in a conversation and have it respond with relationship data.

GPTs are available for all ChatGPT Plus subscribers. Just search for Clay in the GPT Store, or add it directly via this link.

⚡️ Faster Groups

Many of you have told us that you use Groups to organize your network, particularly on Teams. Now, Groups load 10-20x faster than before, even with thousands of people in a Group. These new and improved Groups are live across iOS, Mac, Windows, and web.

🗂️ Group Sorting

We've added sorting options to Groups so you can easily organize and see a list of people in each group. You can sort by name, recency, and more.

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 🖥️📱 Show contact count in People and Archive views
• 🖥️ Add a tour step to introduce the Profile icon
• 🖥️ Show the matched hashtags when searching for a hashtag
• 🖥️ Fix issues with showing a contact-level list of action icons on an import row where there were actually >1 contacts associated with the import
• 🖥️ Fix keyboard shortcuts for contacts displayed in Home
• 🖥️ Fix bug where contact Timelines wouldn't start on the correct date
• 🖥️ Fix for Timelines on merged contacts
• 🖥️ Fixed merge latency issues within the Home view
• 🖥️ Show up-to-date reminder content when displaying reminders in the Home view sidebar
• 🖥️ Improvements for displaying merged and archived contacts across the app
• 🖥️ Fix the "Delete Reminder" popup when hovering over a Reminder
• 🖥️ Fix year parsing when adding reminders in Notes
• 📱 Update the Home filter icons
• 📱 Improve integration re-sync
• 📱 Update the LinkedIn informational screen
• 📱 Improve how local integrations are managed to make them more reliable
• 🖥️ Clarify the explanation for Reconnect settings in the Settings > Home panel
• 🖥️ Clarify Reconnect settings copy
• 🖥️ Add Settings -> Profile panel to better organize settings and account details
• 🖥️ Fix automatic signin flow when coming from an email marketing signup
• 🖥️ Remove the profile edit/view actions from the menu

Here at Clay, we always believe we need to be at the cutting edge of new platforms to deliver the best product experience possible.

That said, we're excited to introduce Clay for Apple Vision Pro, which features the world's first immersive network visualization.

We got to work closely with the team at Apple on pre-release hardware in Cupertino to support a native Apple Vision Pro experience. With the power of spatial computing, you can browse, explore, and interact with the people in your life like never before.

We know not everyone will have access to Vision Pro, but the core technology we've developed will be coming to iOS, macOS, and even iPadOS soon.

📬 All-new Weekly Digest

We've redesigned our Weekly Digest to be even more informative. For those of you who plan your week on Sundays, you'll receive a summary of your upcoming meetings for the week as well as birthdays and reminders that are coming up this week. You'll also get a recap of the previous week, including any top news, Reconnect, and other updates you may have missed.

↔️ Collapsible sidebar

You can now show and hide the sidebar on desktop to get more screen real estate! Perfect for those of you who primarily navigate via keyboard shortcuts.

📶 Network Strength

Clay has always calculated network strength across your relationships, using that information to rank stories in Home and Search. Now, we've introduced an easy way to view that information at a glance.

Introducing Network Strength, which shows the strength of your relationship with a given person relative to your other relationships. It's entirely personalized to you and leverages all of your moments from all of your accounts to understand whether you're losing touch with someone.

Network strength indicators appear on a contact's profile and also in Search so you can quickly see how well you know particular people as you browse.

Network Strength is even more powerful with Teams. On a profile, the Network Strength section shows every member of your team and how well they know a given contact. In Search, the signal bars appear inline and show you the person on your team who best knows that contact, so it's easy to see who on your team manages the relationship and who you should reach out to.

Network Strength is one of the many features we'll be rolling out to give more insight and personalization in Clay in the coming year.

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 📱 Added an account import status banner
• 🖥️ Show upgrade message in sidebar preview for restricted contacts
• 🖥️ Handle import timeline item rendering
• 🖥️ Handle failed `/billing/status` request by looking at user's product to determine if they need to input payment
• 🖥️ Cache contacts fetched from the `/activity` endpoint so they show up properly in sidebar
• 🖥️ New and improved themed icon for Contacts integration
• 📱 Improved how the contact card is dismissed when archiving a person
• 📱 Fixed an issue where a lot of text would break the compose note view
• 🖥️ Reduced gradient banding and blur artifacts for gradient backgrounds. We now use images and adjust underlying backgrounds from pure black where appropriate

📜 Infinite Timeline History

You can now expand timelines to view your full history of interactions with someone! It's a magical way to revisit your relationship with a person.

Even better, when you're using Clay with a Team, you can see your interaction history across your team so you can better understand who on your team is interacting with someone.

🔎 Tag Search

You can now search for specific hashtags that you use in your Notes, making it easier for you to find particular people based on your meeting notes. On web and desktop, hashtags are also clickable so you can go directly to a search and view all people with that tag.

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 📱 Improved performance of showing Groups on a contact
• 🖥️ Improved mouse selection behavior in Search and Groups, so the currently selected row stays highlighted if you move your cursor towards the right sidebar
• 🖥️ Filter archvied contacts from Home view
• 🖥️ Only include timezone on API requests if it's present
• 🖥️ Adjust sidebar contact previews to try to prevent stray missing contact errors
• 🖥️ Fixed URL rendering in notes for URLs that contain hashtags
• 📱 Fixed tapping on Reconnect avatars in Home view
• 📱 Updated copy for new member activity items
• 🖥️ Standardized select menu behavior and styles

Nexus Improvements

We've pushed a big new update with Nexus based on lots of feedback from you.

1. Nexus should be 4-5x faster in answering most queries, and should return results in a few seconds.
2. It should also much more reliably answer queries about your entire network, which previously could fail when presented with too much context.
3. The Nexus experience in-app should be more consistent with our ChatGPT plugin experience so you can use Nexus within ChatGPT or within Clay, whichever you prefer.

We have more improvements coming, let us know what you think!

📝 Notes View on Desktop

For those of you who take lots of active notes, the Notes view is now back as a setting in desktop and web. You can find it under Settings > General > Notes — it's off by default.

🔍 Search for Groups

You may now search for contacts who belong to a particular group by using group:"group name" (without the quotation marks) making it easier to search within a group. You can also use group:none to find people who don't belong to a group.

This will allow you to much more easily organize your contacts within Clay, and is the beginning of new search and sorting options in Groups we'll be rolling out in the coming weeks.

✨ Fixes & Improvements

• 📱🖥️ Added account import banners for new users
• 📱 Improved how contact cards are dismissed when archiving someone
• 📱 Fixed an issue where lots of text would break the new note view
• 🖥️ Fixed various gradient blurring display bugs
• 🖥️ Show upgrade modal in the sidebar when hovering over locked contacts for Clay Personal members
• 🖥️ Fixed a bug when opening emails from the Timeline in Superhuman
• 🖥️ Give sized avatars a min-width to prevent squeezing