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

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.