🚀 Campaign Refinery Update: Claude AI Assistant Integration, Public Newsletter Platform & Compliance Hardening

We’ve launched a major platform update introducing direct AI integration with Claude, a full Public Newsletter publishing suite with custom domain support, mandatory footer compliance, upgraded unsubscribe tracking, and an overhauled Connections interface.

Here is everything new in this release:

🌟 New Features & Core Enhancements

AI Assistant Integration:

MCP connection to AI Assistant: Connect Claude (Desktop or Code) or any other AI Assistant that supports MCP connection directly to your account to build broadcasts, manage templates, execute split tests, and pull performance reports using natural conversation.

Safety & Security Controls: Sending live emails requires explicit user sign-off, operations strictly enforce existing API key permissions, rate-limiting separates read and write requests, and sub-account routing is strictly validated.

Guided Setup Interface: Access a step-by-step setup guide and quick-copy configuration details directly inside the API Keys screen.

Public Newsletter Platform:

Web Archives & Custom Domains: Turn your broadcast history into a public web newsletter using custom branding assets or host it directly on your own custom domain.

Subscriber Acquisition & Access Gating: Allow web visitors to subscribe directly with automatic tag assignment, while existing contacts can securely view gated content.

Publishing Controls: Exclude specific promotional or private broadcasts from the public feed, edit post summaries, and automatically withhold split-test broadcasts from publishing until a winner is determined.

🔗 Expanded Integrations & Deliverability

Deliverability & Compliance Hardening:

Honored Default Reply-To: Automated default reply-to assignment for broadcasts and campaigns, validated against active sending domains to maintain SPF/DKIM authentication compliance.

Google Postmaster Reporting Enhancement: Filtered out zero-volume placeholder days to prevent artificial dips on days without email activity.

Marketing Connections Overhaul:

Interface & Status Upgrade: Redesigned the Connections manager for ActiveCampaign, HubSpot, Klaviyo, Kit, and GoHighLevel with clear status strips, explicit webhook monitoring, and precise contact counts.

🐛 Bug Fixes & UI Polish

Dashboard & Reporting Fixes: Fixed an issue where selecting a 60-day filter opened a blank date picker and corrected broadcast row wrapping on 13" laptop screens.

Navigation & Formatting Polish: Reorganized the sidebar menu (moving Newsletter under Broadcasts), added smart "new" feature badges that clear permanently after visiting, unified email margin controls, and added complete Spanish and French translations.

🚀 Campaign Refinery Update: A/B Split Testing & Google Postmaster Integration

We’ve rolled out a platform update introducing built-in A/B split testing for broadcasts, dynamic countdown timers for your emails, and Google Postmaster integration for domain monitoring, alongside workflow improvements and UI polish.

Here is everything new in this release:

🌟 New Features & Core Enhancements

Split Testing (A/B Testing) Engine & Interface for broadcasts:

Smart Winner Selection: Automatically measure and declare winners based on open or click rates after a configurable testing window, or manually pick the winner using live performance breakdowns.

Safety Safeguards: Built-in sample size validation prevents tests from running on audiences too small to produce statistically reliable results.

Dynamic Countdown Timer Block:

Email Urgency Tools: Drop live countdown timers directly into email templates, supporting fixed deadlines, evergreen per-recipient timers, or timers tied to sequence stage progressions.

🔗 Expanded Integrations & Deliverability

Google Postmaster Tools Integration:

Domain Reporting: Shows reporting directly from Google Postmaster regarding your domain's health and sending reputation.

Domain Verification: To connect, simply add the record found in the optional records section of your DNS Settings to your domain, and our system will confirm it.

✨ Email Editor, Broadcasts & Sequences

Email Footer Customization: Custom style footers directly within the editor, including font size, text color, font family, and alignment options.

Workflow Flexibility:

Clone individual sequence elements to save setup time.

Searchable audience selection dropdowns and unified broadcast search fields.

🛠️ Contacts, Tags & Administration

Contact & Tag Insights: Display contact counts on individual tags, export dedicated reports for cleaned/removed contacts, and cancel single or bulk pending jobs directly inside a contact's profile.

🐛 Bug Fixes & UI Polish

UI & Navigation Polish: Corrected field alignment on the import mapping screen, improved button contrast on export actions, and refined responsive layouts across domain-health screens, Rename broadcasts even after they have been sent.

🚀 Campaign Refinery Update: New Integrations, Contact Hygiene & QoL Improvements

We’ve just rolled out a fresh batch of updates designed to give you better control over your contact lists, expand your integration options, and make navigating the platform smoother.

Here is everything new in this release:

🌟 Major New Capability: Domain Health & Deliverability Monitoring

Domain Health & Deliverability Monitoring: We have introduced significant new tooling to keep your sending infrastructure healthy. This includes active monitoring for DNS records, processing for inbox-provider compliance reports (DMARC). (Note: This is accessible to accounts that invite us to view their domain via Google Postmaster tools).

🔗 Expanded Integrations & Platform Access

GoHighLevel Integration: Added as a fully supported marketing platform, with automatic ongoing contact syncing.

Integration Requests: You can now request integrations for platforms we don't yet support directly from the UI so we can capture that demand.

Developer Webhooks: Added webhook management and a more reliable delivery system for list-cleaning results. When a bulk clean finishes (or fails), we now notify your system with automatic retries instead of a single best-effort attempt.

🛠️ Contact Hygiene & Cost Control

Auto-Unsubscribe for Inactive Contacts: Contacts who are no longer being emailed at all are quietly unsubscribed so they stop consuming your list limits. This runs safely at scale with built-in guardrails (it won't touch a paused account's whole list).

Domain-Based Suppression: You can now add domain-based suppression lists to block entire domains, not just individual email addresses.

✨ Broadcasts & Email Editor

Broadcast Search: Added search to the broadcast list so you can easily find broadcasts by the message name.

Editor Personalization: Added a per-email identifier and countdown timers on campaign links, plus unified and improved unsubscribe handling across the board.

🎨 Platform Improvements

General Polish: Resolved a startup error right after login, fixed dark-mode chart styling issues, corrected chart hover tooltips, and added clearer validation when creating a form with a name that is already taken.

🚀 Campaign Refinery Update: Affiliate Upgrades & QoL Improvements

Here is everything new in this release:

🤝 Affiliate & Partner Enhancements

Deep-Dive Performance Data: Added granular affiliate performance data across broadcasts, campaigns, and sequences. This includes a dedicated performance view (visibility restricted to appropriate user roles).

Link Builder Expansion: Expanded the affiliate link builder with more customization options.

✉️ Email Editor & Developer Tools

HTML Custom Fields: Customers building custom HTML emails will now see a handy, accessible list of available personalized custom fields directly inside the editor.

API Documentation: Public API documentation made clearer and easier to navigate for development needs.

💳 Billing & Account Management

Improved Credit Reporting: Upgraded how account credits are reported and tracked, providing much better clarity, especially for agency accounts managing sub-users.

Auto Top-Up UI: Added a clearer auto top-up indicator so you always know your status at a glance.

Quick Buy: Added a fast "Buy Credits" button in the main header and navigation menu.

✨ Usability Polish & Quality of Life

Searchable Time zones: Time zone selections in both Profile and General Settings are now fully searchable.

🚀 New Features

Live Stats Engine: Broadcast and campaign numbers now update in real-time. Our new background service automatically refreshes your stats so you can watch your results roll in without ever having to reload the page.

✨ User Experience (UX) Enhancements

Flexible Unsubscribe Controls: You now have independent control over your unsubscribe behaviors. You can separately toggle the native "one-click" unsubscribe button shown by mailbox providers at the top of the inbox and the visible unsubscribe line inside the email body.

Easier DNS Setup: Added one-click helpers that copy DNS records in the exact quoted/split format required by strict providers (like Amazon Route 53) to drastically reduce setup errors.

Test-Email Memory: Sending test campaigns just got faster. The app now remembers your previous recipient address so you don't have to retype it every time.

Interface Polish: Added a new light/dark theme toggle in the header, searchable dropdown menus for faster filtering, on-screen hints for personalization markers in the HTML editor, and a tidied-up top navigation menu.

Clearer Billing Views: Cleaned up how subscriptions and account credits are displayed on the account screen, and added support for scheduled plan changes.

🚀 New Features

In-App Feedback Widget: You can now share suggestions and feedback without leaving the product.

API Expansion: We've heavily expanded our public API documentation to give developers full programmatic control over messaging flows, allowing you to bypass the interface and automate almost everything:

Campaigns & Sequences: Take full control of multi-step automated email flows and overarching campaigns. You can now create, clone, update, and set specific outcome goals for your sequences directly through the API.

Broadcasts: Manage the entire lifecycle of an email broadcast. Create messages from scratch or templates, set your audience, attach suppression lists, schedule sends, and pull detailed delivery and engagement statistics.

Advanced Tag Actions: Programmatically set up rules to automatically tag or untag contacts based on whether they open an email, click any link, or click a specific link.

Check out the complete new capabilities at developers.campaignrefinery.com.

✨ User Experience

Bulk Action Clarity: The app now displays the exact number of contacts you have selected, making bulk actions clearer.

🛡️ Reliability & Security

API Key Management: We strengthened how API keys are handled, adding better diagnostics and clearer responses for invalid or unrecognized keys.

⚡ Performance

Smooth Chart Interactions: Dashboard chart tooltips have been streamlined for faster, lag-free interactions.

🌟 New Features & Core Enhancements

Platform & Experience

App Interface: Completely rebuilt the user interface from the ground up to deliver a faster, sleeker, and more responsive experience while laying a rock-solid foundation for future updates.

Activity Stream Overhaul: Redesigned the activity stream with a mobile-friendly card view, cleaner formatting, and new icons, backed by richer data for clearer details on broadcasts, campaigns, and forms.

Navigation & UI Polish: Refreshed the side menu with a cleaner layout, clearer credit displays, and improved mobile responsiveness, while unifying theme buttons across the app for visual consistency.

Sequence Builder: Smoothed out drag-and-drop mechanics in the sequence builder and optimized error handling for a seamless creation process.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Bulk Actions: Refined the bulk delete action to automatically clear selections and display a confirmation success message instantly upon completion.

Communications & Notifications

Broadcast & Template Control: Bundled email editor settings into broadcast templates and event emails, giving more control when sending broadcasts.

⚡ Performance & Reliability

Partner Integrations: Updated the way external partner integrations connect to our system, shifting to a cleaner and more standardized address format.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Image Resizing: Fixed an issue where resized images in emails were displaying at the wrong height, ensuring layouts no longer distort.

User Experience & Account Management

Visual Status Indicators: Inactive credentials are now clearly marked with a "Deactivated" badge in the account view, making account status easier to read at a glance.

⚡ Performance & Reliability

Faster Loading: Significantly improved the speed and efficiency of campaign and branch loading, making those sections of the system more responsive.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Security

Branch Lists: Added safeguards so deleted items will no longer ghost into branch-related lists.

User Experience & Account Management

"First Clean" Pricing Calculator: Launched a new calculator that displays competitor pricing comparisons and annual estimates directly within reports and emails.

Reporting & Communications

Broadcast Flexibility: You can now leave certain email fields blank in broadcast messages, giving the team more flexibility when sending communications.

Alert Routing: Updated alert email subject lines and redirected reports to a new, dedicated recipient address.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Formatting: Fixed minor formatting and case-sensitivity issues found during testing.