Nexus, Superpowered

We're excited to introduce a significantly upgraded version of Nexus, Clay's AI navigator for your network.

• Deep thinking: Nexus now spends more time pondering complex questions, which leads to much better answers.
• Expanded actions: Nexus now has full access to all of Clay's functionality—creating and updating contacts, adding notes, managing groups, and finding duplicates.
• Web search: Nexus has access to web search to find supplemental info about the people you know, so you always have the latest news and updates about people.
• References: When Nexus cites online sources, it provides references so you can see where the information came from.
• Context about your day: Nexus now understands more about your day. It knows your upcoming meetings, who you've talked to recently, and how you've organized your network.

This means you can now tell Nexus "my meeting with Bob went well, remind me to follow up in 3 weeks" and Nexus will find the right Bob, add a note, and set the reminder—just like a great assistant with access to your calendar would.

You can also say something like "find me PhDs from top research labs" and Nexus will run multiple searches in parallel, aggregate the results, and reason about which ones are from top labs.

Or try "help me clean up and organize my contacts" and Nexus will walk you through creating groups, archiving people, and merging duplicates.

We welcome any feedback directly to Nexus in chat or just reply to this e-mail.

Clay MCP

We've also improved Clay's MCP, making it easier than ever to connect Clay to your favorite AI assistant. Go to App Menu > Settings > Integrations > MCP and follow the instructions to connect Clay to Claude, ChatGPT, or third-party tools like Raycast and Poke via Smithery.

Exclusive Partnership with Never Eat Alone Author Keith Ferrazzi's Training Program

Clay is even more powerful with the right strategies and weekly habits behind it. That’s why we’re excited to partner with the team at Beyond Connections, for a nine-week immersive networking training that uses Clay at its core.

It's a new year and the perfect time to put in place a new system and rhythm for 2026! And what better teacher than Keith Ferrazzi, who has studied relationships & networks for the last 20 years and has written four bestsellers including the NYTimes #1 bestseller Never Eat Alone.

What’s unique about Beyond Connections is that you’re learning and applying those learnings within a supportive community. So you get to see what others do and how they set up Clay to work within their specific lives. Beyond Connections is a curated community of high-quality professionals like you who participate from over 40 countries. The training is broader than just managing relationship data and includes things like winning mindsets and event strategies that help you get the most value out of your network.

The next cohort launches the first week of February. Book a call with their team and say you’re a Clay user to get a $500 discount to the program investment. Hear what Beyond Connection CEO and lead program designer has to say about Clay!

Learn more here.

Redesigned Add Person View

We've completely redesigned how you add people to Clay, making it faster and more intuitive than ever. You can now add multiple sources of information at once, like social profiles and notes. This is especially powerful when you're on-the-go: quickly add a person you met at a conference, complete with their Twitter handle and the key points from your conversation, all before your next meeting.

We also added streamlined flows for adding a note or a reminder in just a few taps. And we optimized every interaction to be snappy and responsive, because we know these moments of connection often happen when you're busiest. The new Add Person experience is rolling out across Mac, Windows, iOS, and web today.

Upcoming

Many of you have told us that Home is perfect for catching up on what's happening today, but you also want to see what's coming up so you can plan ahead. Whether it's a meaningful birthday, an important reminder, or a momentous event on the horizon, staying prepared helps you be thoughtful when it matters most.

Now, in the Home view on both desktop and iOS, you can scroll up to see all your upcoming birthdays, events, and reminders for the next 30 days. Get a complete view of what's ahead so you can prepare the perfect gift, schedule that coffee meeting, or simply reach out at just the right moment. Combined with Clay's existing Home feed, you now have the most comprehensive view of your network—both what's happened this week and what's coming up next.

Upcoming is available now across Mac, Windows, iOS, and web.

Our team is excited to announce some beautiful new updates to our apps across iOS and iPadOS.

iOS 26 and Liquid Glass

We're thrilled to introduce a complete visual refresh built on Apple's new Liquid Glass design language. This translucent material brings depth and dimensionality to every interaction, making Clay feel more alive and responsive as you browse your network. From contact cards that subtly reflect your profile photos to navigation that dynamically adapts as you scroll, every element now has a sense of fluidity that makes staying thoughtful with your relationships even more delightful.

Buttons, switches, and controls now feature real-time rendering that responds to your touch with specular highlights. The tab bar gracefully transforms as you navigate between Home, People, and Groups, creating a cohesive experience that feels right at home on your iPhone or iPad. On Mac, we've shipped an update that makes Clay even more performant on macOS Tahoe.

This isn't just a fresh coat of paint — it's a foundation for Clay's future. Liquid Glass intelligently adapts between light and dark modes, ensures better readability across all your devices, and makes important information stand out when you need it most. Whether you're quickly checking someone's profile before a meeting or diving deep into your relationship history, Clay now feels faster, clearer, and more intuitive than ever. Our updates are live across iOS and iPadOS, and are pending Mac App Store review.

Activity View

We've introduced a new Activity view that keeps you informed about what's happening behind the scenes in Clay. This dedicated space shows you when new contacts are imported from your connected accounts, alerts you to possible duplicates that need merging, and flags any integration issues that require your attention.

Contacts Improvements

Clay now properly syncs birthdays without years, supports professional titles, middle names, suffixes, and nicknames, and includes address labels to distinguish between home and work locations. These updates ensure your Clay profiles capture the full richness of how you actually know people, and sync fully two-way to the native Contacts app when using our Address Book integration.

We've also added a better way to organize people in Clay when using Groups. Clay now shows a confirmation step whenever you try to archive contacts who belong to groups — whether you're archiving one person or selecting multiple contacts at once. This lets you easily organize people into Groups, and then Archive everyone else so you can focus on a select few relationships.

Exclusive Partnership with Never Eat Alone Author Keith Ferrazzi's Training Program

We've heard from many of you that you want to take your relationships to the next level. That's why we're thrilled to partner with Keith Ferrazzi—who quite literally wrote the book on building meaningful relationships—to bring you the tools, strategies, and guidance to make it happen.

Beyond Connections is a 9-week training course to learn the strategies and systems you need to build a world class network. This exclusive program is based on the work of #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi. Through a combination of weekly content & tools, coach-led workshops, mastermind learning and 1:1 coaching, they'll give you the exact tools and systems to build the network you need to achieve your goals.

If you’re a Clay member and want to learn how to get even more out of it, this is for you. In the program, you'll work directly with Clay to set up your system.

There are only a few weeks left to apply for the next cohort beginning October. If interested, all you have to do next is fill out a quick application and schedule a call with their team to make sure it's the right fit for you. Learn more here!

Clay comes to Gmail

Email is where so many of our personal and professional relationships live and grow. Now, when you're reading an email thread, Clay seamlessly appears alongside Gmail, showing you rich context about everyone in the conversation. See their full profile, work history, recent interactions, and any notes you've taken—all without leaving your inbox.

But viewing information is just the beginning. If someone isn't already in Clay, you can add them in one click. You can also take notes about your conversation right from Gmail, and those notes instantly sync to Clay. Add people to Groups directly from your inbox, making it effortless to organize contacts as you communicate with them.

Our updated browser extension is available now across Chrome (and other Chrome-based browsers), Safari, Firefox, and Edge.

Enterprise SSO

Single Sign-On (SSO) is now available for Clay Enterprise customers. This enables teams to streamline access management as they onboard to Clay.

With SSO, your team can sign into Clay using your existing identity provider, making it easier than ever to get everyone onboarded while ensuring your IT team maintains control over access. Whether you use Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, or another SAML-based provider, Clay seamlessly integrates with your existing authentication infrastructure. This means no more manually adding and removing new team members, with full compliance with your organization's security policies.

SSO is available now for all Clay Enterprise customers. If you're interested in enabling SSO for your team, please reach out to us at care@clay.earth and we'll work with you to get everything configured.

Fixes and improvements

• 🖥️ Added new search terms for Twitter and Instagram follower/following/mutuals
• 🖥️ Added search term for profiles that have been enriched by Aura
• 🖥️ Show disabled "refresh profile" button along with a feature callout directing users to use iOS or desktop
• 🖥️ When validating CSV imports, only show unsupported header warnings for columns that have some cells with values
• 🖥️ Fixed Group Highlights view display
• 🖥️ Fixed floating sidebar and expanded app menu containers extending beyond the bottom of the window in the Windows desktop client

Our team has been working hard to make Clay even faster and more intuitive. Here is the latest!

🏠 Home Updates

We've added an indicator to the Home feed to indicate when new items are available. This makes loading new updates much more smooth, and keeps existing updates on screen so you can read them before loading new ones.

🗓️ iCloud Calendar Picker

For those of you connecting iCloud calendars on iOS, we've added a calendar picker so you can choose which calendars get synced to Clay.

✨ Fixes and improvements

We also fixed a number of small papercuts:

• 🖥️📱 Fixed multiple issues with our WhatsApp integration, particularly for members with large accounts
• 🖥️📱 Allow avatar photos to be deselected, so you can choose to display Clay's default initials avatar instead of a photo
• 📱 Fixed the top culprits of iOS crashes, including a few for the upcoming iOS 26
• 🖥️📱 Fixed an issue where birthdays with no year would show an age
• 🖥️📱 Fixed locations that displayed the country field multiple times (e.g. "United States, United States")
• 🖥️📱 Improved load times for map images on profiles
• 🖥️ Show a "save or discard" confirmation modal when clicking away from an "Add to Group" modal with unsaved changes
• 🖥️ Fixed various issues with cancellation flow, and added a link to the Library for more info
• 🖥️ Use a blue cursor color in all text inputs across web and desktop
• 🖥️ Fixed display issues in Windows app UI
• 🖥️ Ensure that font descenders on person names are fully visible in sidebar headers

Instagram is where personal and professional worlds collide. It's where your colleague shares their weekend pottery class and your old college roommate announces their engagement. With billions of users sharing life's most visual moments, Instagram has become essential to how we maintain and deepen our relationships. Now you can bring your entire Instagram network into Clay with one seamless integration.

Clay's Instagram integration lets you import your connections exactly how you want—choose from people you follow, your followers, mutual connections, or everyone. Once imported, Clay enriches these profiles with beautiful avatars, bio information, and more, making them fully searchable alongside your other contacts.

Clay will also surface high-signal Instagram posts directly in your Home feed, so you never miss important life updates, career milestones, or big announcements from the people who matter most.

Our Instagram integration is live now across Mac, Windows, web, and iOS!

Aura Enrichment

Introducing Aura, a premium enrichment add-on designed for teams and professionals who need more frequent updates on their network. Building on Clay's automatic profile enrichment, Aura gives you complete control over how often contact information refreshes across your workspace. Whether managing key accounts, tracking job changes, or maintaining relationships with a large network, Aura ensures you always have the most accurate and timely information.

With Aura, you can customize refresh schedules based on their importance to your business — choose monthly or quarterly updates for active prospects, or annual updates for your broader network. Clay automatically handles these updates in the background, refreshing profile data, work history, social links, and contact details according to your preferences.

We've worked to make Aura the most cost-effective and comprehensive enrichment available — offering exceptional value with 70% savings compared to other providers, with a 2-3x higher match rate. And as always, all information is processed privately and securely. Clay never uses your data for advertising, maintaining the same privacy-first approach that's core to every Clay feature.

Aura is available today for members on our Teams and Enterprise plans, ensuring entire teams stay synchronized with the latest information about their collective network. Visit App Menu > Settings > Profile to get started. Pro members can upgrade to Teams to unlock Aura's powerful refresh capabilities and take advantage of collaborative features. Learn more about Aura and how to configure it in this Clay Library article.

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 🖥️📱 50-60% faster average speeds when merging contacts, and fewer errors
• 📱 Improved note-taking from other apps using the Clay extension
• 📱 Enhanced contact photo syncing for better profile pictures
• 📱 Fixed an issue with audio notes on first use
• 📱 Various improvements to the iOS Contacts integration
• 🖥️📱 Fixed phone number imports from Zapier
• 🖥️📱 Improved profile photo quality from various sources
• 🖥️📱 Improved contact relevance scoring
• 🖥️ Email and calendar integrations now refresh properly when reconnecting
• 🖥️ Fixed contact sorting in Groups to maintain consistent order
• 🖥️ Windows users can now control Clay notifications in system settings
• 🖥️ Improved visibility of window controls in dark mode on Windows
• 🖥️ Fixed timeline date display
• 📱 Refined visual layout for activity timestamps
• 📱 Polish updates to the app menu

📡 Pathfinder

Many of you cross-reference Clay as you browse the web to check who you know at particular companies. Now, we've updated our browser extensions to automatically surface your connections based on the website you're visiting.

Whether you're researching a potential client, exploring job opportunities, or reading about a company in the news, Clay will instantly show you everyone in your network who works there—right in your browser.

For our Clay Teams and Enterprise plans, this gets even more powerful: you'll see not just your own connections, but also who your teammates know. It's never been easier to share context across your organization and find the right person to reconnect with.

This seamless integration brings the power of Clay's search directly to your browsing experience. No more switching tabs or searching manually—your network intelligence travels with you across the web, helping you discover warm connections and hidden relationships at exactly the moment you need them most.

Pathfinder is now live across Chrome, Brave, Safari, and Firefox, and Edge is awaiting app store review.

We have many more improvements to our browser extensions planned, and we’d love your feedback to help shape what comes next. Is there any workflow that you'd like to accomplish with the Clay browser extension? Send us a message at care@clay.earth.

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 📱 iOS 26 fixes and improvements
• 📱 Improved how contact photos are synced
• 📱 Fixed a crash when starting an audio note for the first time
• 📱 Fixed relative timeline date strings
• 📱 Adjusted the alignment of activity item timestamps
• 📱 Polish updates to the app menu
• 📱 Adjusted how the token refresh logout state is managed

We wanted to take a moment to share some great news! Clay has been acquired by Automattic. You may already know them as the parent company of WordPress (which powers over 40% of the internet) and other fantastic products like Beeper, Tumblr, Day One, and more.

By joining forces with Automattic, Clay will not only live on but continue to grow and improve—with our entire team remaining at the helm. This means you can look forward to even more upcoming product releases from us and a few more delightful surprises we can’t wait to tell you about soon.

In the meantime, you can read our public announcement and Automattic's announcement. We’d be thankful if you help us spread the news through our social posts on LinkedIn and X.

Building Clay has been one of the most meaningful experiences of our lives—and we’re just getting started. Most of all, we're grateful to you for trusting us with something as precious as your relationships (nearly 150 million of them to date).

You’ve helped bring Clay to life, and we can’t wait to show you what’s next!

Clay Browser Extension Preview

We're excited to roll out a preview of our new browser extension, with support for all major browsers — Chrome, Brave, Safari, Firefox, and Edge.

With just one click, you can instantly view enriched contact profiles, add notes, set reminders, and stay in sync with your network—without ever leaving the page. And on LinkedIn, profiles are autodetected so you can add new people to Clay or update their information automatically.

Whether you’re looking for someone or following up after a call, Clay is now right in your sidebar. It's perfect for anyone who lives in a browser all day.

This is just the beginning—we’re rolling out support for Gmail and all websites soon. In the meantime, we’d love your feedback to help shape what comes next. Is there any workflow that you'd like to accomplish with the Clay browser extension? Just respond to this email and let us know.

Download the extension for Chrome, Brave, Safari, Firefox, and Edge today!

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 🖥️ Updated Nexus error messaging and handling
• 🖥️ Updated search query suggestions
• 🖥️ Improved messaging for accounts that don't exist
• 🖥️ Home filters have been updated
• 🖥️ Update attributes on text inputs in order to improve the input UX in Safari

Business Card Scanning

We're excited to announce our brand new business card scanner in the Clay iOS app. It's the fastest and most accurate card scanner available anywhere — perfect for conferences, networking events, or finally tackling that pile of cards on your desk.

Simply point your camera or upload from your camera roll, and let Clay do the work. Clay instantly recognizes card boundaries and extracts key information like name, phone, email, address, and LinkedIn profile — without any manual input.

Each scanned card is instantly enriched with Clay's powerful profile enhancement, adding photos, education and work history, and social information. Business cards transform from simple contact info into rich, context-filled relationships you can nurture over time. The scanner works seamlessly with Clay's existing features, so you can add notes, set reminders, or organize new contacts into groups right after scanning. There's even an automatic mode so you can batch upload many business cards in seconds.

Try it today on iOS! Just tap the plus button to add a new person, and select the card scanner icon:

📝 Activity view

We've introduced an all-new Activity view in our app menu in the top right of Clay. Activity lets you see new people added to Clay, notifies you when there are duplicates you can review, and even informs you about the latest Clay updates so you always know what's been released each week.

Activity is live across web, desktop, and iOS today.

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 🖥️ Remove horizontal scrollbar padding added to bottom of menu in desktop app
• 📱 Added support for missing contact sources
• 📱 Fixed a layout issue in message banners
• 📱 Fixed a birthdate formatting issue
• 🖥️ Account status notifications are now split out from the main Home feed and are displayed in the main app menu
• 🖥️ Use solid bg colors in sticky menu components in Firefox

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support

We're excited to announce Clay's new official support for Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP is an open standard designed to connect AI systems to various data sources and tools, simplifying how they access and use external information. We're bringing MCP capabilities to Clay, letting AI assistants like Claude work directly with your network.

Clay's MCP integration enhances Nexus and lets you use Clay alongside other tools. You can search your network, get contact details, view communication history, and help with outreach—all while keeping full control of your data.

With Clay MCP, you can now:

• Ask "Who are my contacts at Google that I haven't spoken to in 6 months?" and get immediate results
• Say "Create a note for Sarah about our coffee chat today" without opening Clay
• Request "Add all my engineering contacts to a new 'Tech Talent' group" and have it done automatically

To get started, visit our documentation to install the MCP, connect your Clay account, and add it to Claude or other MCP-compatible apps. We've also put together a quick demo on how to install and use the Clay MCP:

Make.com integration now live

Our Make integration has been approved and is now live on the Make App Store! More documentation is also available here in the Clay Library.

Nexus + The Clay Library

Speaking of the Clay Library, we've added Nexus to the Library. You can now ask questions about Clay, learn more about best practices, and more. Simply tap the icon in the bottom right to get started.

Today, we're excited to introduce Clay for iPad — the perfect companion for nurturing your relationships anywhere.

Clay's iPad app makes it delightful to stay in touch with your network wherever you are. Everyone you bring into Clay on iPad will have beautiful photos, accurate locations, and rich context about how you know them — all in an interface crafted specifically for iPad's unique capabilities.

This gives those of you who are iPad power users the powerful relationship tool you've always wanted. Keep Clay side by side with your email, notes, or calendar. Navigate effortlessly with keyboard shortcuts that feel just right on iPad's Magic Keyboard. And with widgets designed specifically for iPad's larger screen, you'll never miss an important moment to be thoughtful.

You can use Clay for iPad to:

• Reference people while writing emails in Split View
• Take notes during calls with Slide Over
• Quickly find and connect with people using keyboard shortcuts
• Add contacts and notes from anywhere with Quick Notes
• Stay on top of your network with beautiful widgets
• Switch seamlessly between iPad, iPhone, and Mac

Clay for iPad is available today on the App Store!

🖼️ Profile Photos

We've updated our iOS Contacts and WhatsApp integrations to import contact photos, ensuring you always have the latest avatars for your connections available in Clay. This brings more visual context to your relationships, and will automatically update as people change their avatars.

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 📱 Fixed some instances where file I/O loads would block the main thread
• 📱 Added a birthday confetti celebration in the profile card
• 📱🖥️ Added new Home items for new Clay members
• 🖥️ Fixed issue that could break the Home view for members with no items
• 📱 Added support for me.com Apple calendar types
• 📱 Fixed all groups showing up in the contact card

Zapier update

We've updated our Zapier integration based on many of you who use it in production workflows. We added groups and notes as optional fields to our "Create and Update Contact" action, and made the action more flexible so it can accept multiple inputs like social links and email addresses in one run. Finally, we made a separate "Update Contact" action so you can be more specific when you don't want to create new profiles from other apps that may not already exist in Clay.

These changes are live today, and existing zaps have been migrated over as well.

Make integration beta

We've also brought our integration to the next most-requested no-code platform, Make. Create new people in Clay, update their information, add notes to their profile, and move them into Groups — all automatically. And with Make, you can connect 2000+ other apps into Clay.

The Make integration is still invite-only, but you can access it via invite link here and learn more at our library page here.

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 📱 Added support for me.com Apple calendar types
• 📱 Fixed all groups showing up in the contact card
• 📱 Fixed the single contact state for the Home reconnect item
• 📱 Fixed a problem causing a non-empty activity detail view to dismiss

We're introducing an even more powerful way for you to control and eliminate duplicates from your network.

👥 Scan for duplicates anytime

Ever since we released our Duplicates Resolver, you've asked for more control in identifying and getting rid of duplicates. Our team has leveraged the latest best practices and technology to identify even more potential duplicates, and we're excited to roll out the first version of our new Duplicates view. This powerful addition gives you greater visibility and control maintaining an organized network.

The Duplicates view shows you all potential duplicate profiles we've detected across your network. You can view each suggestion, compare profiles side-by-side, and take action with just one click. Merge profiles instantly, ignore suggestions that aren't actually duplicates, or examine contact details before deciding. When enabled, Clay will continue to automatically scan your network for possible merges and notify you in the Home view whenever new suggestions are found.

We hope this new feature gives you even more peace of mind that your network is always organized and up-to-date.

🏠 New Home Settings

You can now customize more Settings in the Home view, including turning posts and social changes on or off to create the most meaningful stream of updates from your Network.

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 📱 Adjusted the contact source menu to show labels above the source
• 📱 Improved app language around birthday notifications for memorialized profiles
• 🖥️ During onboarding, you can now proceed past the "Add Connections" panel after uploading a CSV
• 🖥️ Update locally stored cache of Home feed dismissals on "dismiss all" actions
• 🖥️ Link Change feed item is now constrained to one line with ellipsis overflow, to prevent overflowing cells in the Home feed
• 🖥️ Show note box in contact profile timeline for empty notes, so the note can be removed or edited
• 🖥️ Fix behavior when archiving a profile and then rapidly navigating to other views
• 📱 Improved tap targets in Archive
• 📱 Fixed the dismiss button size on the profile edit view
• 📱 Updated the contact action menu
• 📱 Removed transparency from banner messages
• 📱 Fixed a layout issue with the group detail label
• 📱 Added a description for the Launch Note shortcut
• 📱 Fixed a display bug in Maps view

🌼 Nexus v3

Many of you rely on Nexus daily to ask questions about your network, and we've been working on a brand new and improved version based on your feedback — which is live today across web, desktop, and iOS.

Reasoning and Thinking

Nexus now incorporates step-by-step thinking that is made visible to you. It's able to answer complex queries with multiple searches of your network, and then choose the people that are most relevant as a response. Our early testing has shown a 2-3x improvement in result quality over our previous responses.

Advanced Search

Nexus now has access to all of the advanced search queries available in the standard Clay search. This, coupled with its new reasoning capabilities, means it can answer complex questions like "Who can I ask about raising my next fund?" or "I'm looking for quants who have experience in high-frequency trading" since it can search specific fields and run multiple searches in parallel.

Take Actions on Your Behalf

Nexus can now add notes to a profile and create groups of people, making it even easier to organize information in Clay.

Follow-up Questions

Finally, Nexus can now answer more follow-up questions and give additional results when asked, allowing you to have more natural conversations about multiple topics in one thread.

We're continually iterating on Nexus

We're continuing to iterate on Nexus and improve its capabilities, response times, and accuracy. Let us know what you'd like it to accomplish next!

🔎 Archive Search

You can now search your Archive to find profiles you want to restore. Simply visit the Archive and click the search icon in the top right to find someone.

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 📱 Added an add to group button to the group detail view
• 🖥️ During onboarding, you can now proceed past the "Add Connections" panel after uploading a CSV
• 🖥️ Add warning on CSV imports that have space-separated email values instead of using a supported delimiter
• 🖥️ Stop showing empty error messages when there are window timeout errors on device integrations
• 🖥️ Switched to safer rendering of social profile changes in Home
• 🖥️ Fix a sorting regression in People view
• 🖥️ Properly handle backspace in Group view when multiple people are selected
• 🖥️ Fixed styling regression on empty state icon in People view
• 🖥️ Stop navigating to profile when clicking a news item link in Home
• 🖥️ Stop constraining the width of search result profile names when there is no matching search snippet or other data to display
• 🖥️ Fixed alignment and spacing in modal list displays that include a subtitle
• 🖥️ Revise and improve overflow handling for long lists of avatars in Home (e.g. Reconnect items)
• 🖥️ Fix display of Home feed items in the Welcome Guide
• 🖥️ Use the user's preferred nav bar width to position the Nexus button tooltip and the Home view preview
• 🖥️ Better handling of API 404 errors and improved API throttling with cached data
• 🖥️ Fixed Safari-specific display bug with Nexus query examples
• 🖥️ Fixed rendering of "now" for activity item date display
• 🖥️ "App menu" tooltip added to Udo icon
• 🖥️ Handle contact merge in Group views. When a Group contains contacts that were part of a merge, the Group membership is now updated to reflect the merge result
• 🖥️ Re-fetch Sources for a newly merged contact
• 🖥️📱 Add a locally-stored cache of Home feed item dismissals
• 🖥️ Remember row deselections made during a "select all" event in a list view that requires paginated loading of results
• 🖥️ Fix email mailto: links in cases where the browser is the default mail client
• 🖥️ Use proper tooltip for "Dismiss All" button in Home view
• 🖥️📱 Redesigned Nexus icons
• 🖥️ Reset the cached term associated with a set of search results when the results are cleared. This fixes a bug where opening a Merge modal (or similar search powered modal) can show no results when opened a second time
• 📱 Fixed editing the year field on a contact's education
• 📱 Enabled creating a contact via a manual lookup without a note
• 📱 Map view improvements for iPad
• 📱 Adjusted how alternate app icons are managed
• 📱 Improved layout on iPad Mini

🗒️ CSV Import

Starting today, you can bring large groups of people directly into Clay with our powerful new CSV Import. Many of you have existing contact lists in spreadsheets, whether they're event attendees, old address books, or exports from other platforms that can now seamlessly be imported.

CSV Import gives you complete control over how your data flows into Clay. Our CSV Import feature is live now for Pro and Teams subscribers on Mac, Windows, and web — visit Settings > Integrations > CSV to get started.

↔️ Resizable Sidebars

We've added the ability to resize both the left and right sidebars on desktop and web! Perfect for getting more screen space on small monitors, or making the sidebars larger when using Clay on a large monitor.

🔄 Two-way Source Label Sync

As promised when we launched Source Labels, we now support two-way sync on source labels from your iOS Contacts. This means any labels on phone numbers or email addresses (like work, home, iPhone, etc.) will sync to Clay successfully. Changes made in Clay will sync back to your phone if you have the CardDAV integration connected as well.

⏰ Reminders Improvements

You can now edit the default time you receive Reminders under Settings > General > Reminders. And we've also added a preference for auto-detection of reminder dates when writing notes, also under Settings > General > Reminders.

✨ Fixes and improvements

• 🖥️ Fix desktop notifications
• 🖥️ Mute audio from connected desktop integrations
• 🖥️ Prevent keyboard shortcuts menu from displaying when an input is focused
• 🖥️ Show an error on API errors when saving profile fields to prevent getting into a navigation confirmation loop
• 📱 Fixed an incorrect search tip
• 📱🖥️ Limited text input size on the email field
• 📱 Persist the search order on People view
• 🖥️ Prevent double firing of click events when a contact link nested within another clickable element is clicked, which prevents issues with back button
• 🖥️ Stop propagation of "enter" keypresses from focused modal buttons, which was causing unexpected focused button behavior

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