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July 19, 2026
Improved
A lighter homepage that moves as you scroll
The top navigation is now three separate floating pieces — the logo, the links, and the two buttons — instead of one long bar stretched across the screen.
Text and cards fade in as they come into view, in both scroll directions, so the page feels alive rather than static.
The "Why Mailient" and "Meet Arcus" sections were paragraphs of solid prose. They are now a few short lines you can take in at a glance — the argument is the same, the reading is not.
The morning payoff figures are now proper cards with icons instead of loose text.
The quick-access bar is back at the bottom of the homepage.
July 18, 2026
New
Give a friend a free month — and get one back
Anyone you invite now gets a full free month of Mailient instead of the 3-day trial. When they stay on as a customer, a free month is added to your account automatically — nothing to claim.
Open Rewards in the sidebar for your link, then "Open share screen" for the full version: a pre-written message and one tap to WhatsApp, email, X or LinkedIn. On a phone it opens your normal share sheet.
You can see how many friends have joined and how many months you have earned.
Previously invites paid out in credits, which nothing in the product could spend — so the reward was worth nothing. It is real subscription time now.
Improved
Cards and buttons have real depth now
Cards catch the light along their top edge and fade into the page, so they read as surfaces rather than flat outlines.
The three setup steps are now proper cards with lit icon tiles, and they lift as your cursor passes over them.
Section labels are genuinely translucent where there is something glowing behind them to pick up.
Improved
Every section of the site now looks like it belongs to the same site
Each section used to introduce itself differently — four label styles, three alignments, and two sections with no heading at all. They now share one header: a small labelled pill, the heading, and a single line underneath.
The demo switcher and the integrations map finally have headings, so you know what you are looking at before you look at it.
Every card on the page — pain points, statements, the before/after panels, the pricing tiers — now uses the same fill, corner radius and edge treatment.
Pricing has moved to a centred layout that matches the rest of the site, on both the homepage and the pricing page.
Fixed
The homepage no longer implies customers we do not have
A scrolling row of company names sat near the top of the homepage in a "trusted by" position. Those companies were placeholder text from the design component, not customers, and the row has been removed.
Numbers that were only ever illustrative — the morning time-savings figures and the sample inbox sweep — now say so on screen instead of reading like measured results.
Two cards styled as customer quotes are now plainly labelled as product claims, because we have no customer quotes yet.
Improved
A faster, clearer homepage
What Mailient actually does now comes before the price instead of after it, and the opening argument is a quarter of its old length.
Buttons that went nowhere now work: "Put work on autopilot" reaches pricing, and "Watch Mailient handle a real inbox" reaches the demos.
Headings follow one consistent size scale, so the page no longer shouts louder at the bottom than at the top.
The floating bottom toolbar is gone from the homepage, giving the page back the screen space it was covering.
The FAQ and the demo switcher can now be operated by keyboard and read by screen readers.
Improved
Mailient is open — no more access requests
You no longer have to request access and wait for approval. Every "Get started" button takes you straight to signup, and you are in.
The old access-request form and its approval queue are gone entirely.
July 17, 2026
Improved
One-step Google sign-in and connect
Signing up now signs you in and connects your Gmail in a single Google approval, through a verified provider — no separate login-then-connect, and no signup ceiling.
You go from the homepage straight into onboarding with Gmail already connected, ready to work.
Improved
Connecting Google is smoother and ready to scale
Signing in now asks only for your name and email; Gmail access is a separate, clearly-scoped step — so the permission screen is smaller and easier to trust.
Getting started from the homepage now drops you straight onto the Gmail-connect step right after sign-in, so setup feels like one continuous action instead of extra clicks.
Connection problems finally speak up: if a Google connect is cancelled or doesn't finish, you get a clear message instead of a silent bounce-back.
If a Google connection ever expires, the app now knows the moment it happens and shows you a clear "reconnect" prompt — instead of quietly failing the next time Arcus tries to act.
Behind the scenes, the Google connection can now run through a verified provider, which removes the old signup ceiling — the app is ready to onboard far more people without hitting a wall.
New
Big tasks never get cut off anymore
Arcus now gets a 5-minute working window per pass (up from ~1 minute) — and when a task genuinely needs more, it automatically continues in a fresh pass, carrying over everything it already did. No more "the response got cut off before the summary came back."
You see it happen naturally in the chat: the first pass shows its steps and says it's continuing, the next pass picks up exactly where it stopped and delivers the complete answer. Small tasks are exactly as fast as before.
Scheduled agents get the same 5-minute window, so deep inbox sweeps can actually finish and deliver their reports.
Fixed
Scheduled agents finish their runs again
Daily agents had been dying mid-run for days with "cut short by the serverless time limit" — every morning, the same error. Root cause found: on slow AI-provider days, one stalled model could quietly eat several times its time budget, so the run got killed before it could finish and deliver.
Every AI call inside a scheduled run is now hard-capped by the actual time remaining, so runs wrap up cleanly — they do the work that fits, write the report, and deliver it, instead of dying silently.
Improved
Plan documents look like real strategy docs now
Asking Arcus to plan something big used to produce a thin page whose Steps section could show raw code instead of steps. Fixed at every layer: steps now render as numbered rows with descriptions, timelines and success metrics lay out as proper tables, and even a malformed plan gets repaired into readable steps instead of showing JSON.
Plans are also held to a much higher bar: objective, where things stand, 6–12 concrete steps, timeline, measurable success metrics, risks with mitigations, and the expected output — grounded in what you actually said, never invented numbers.
Fixed
FAQ answers show up again
Opening a question on the homepage FAQ could leave the answer area blank — the words were there, just stuck invisible mid-reveal. Answers now always appear the moment a question opens.
July 16, 2026
Fixed
The website finally behaves on your phone
The homepage on mobile had real problems: the partner-logo strip was a blurry smear, the product demo clips were cropped down to an unreadable sliver, and sections floated in long stretches of empty black. All fixed — logos focus as they pass the center of your screen, demo videos show the full frame, and the page flows section to section without the dead space.
Also fixed a hidden bug that made every visit load the page twice — the site now paints once, faster, on every device.
And the headline says what we mean: "You run your company, We run your inbox."
Improved
The website is dramatically faster and smoother
Several readers told us the homepage stuttered while scrolling — they were right. Under the hood, half a dozen background effects kept re-rendering the entire page many times per second, even for parts of the page you weren't looking at.
Every animation now runs only while it's actually on your screen, videos pause themselves when you scroll past them, and section reveals play once instead of replaying on every scroll. Scrolling should feel smooth now, and the page uses far less battery on laptops and phones.
Nothing visual was removed — same design, same motion, a fraction of the work.
Improved
The home feed goes liquid glass
Your daily briefing now wears the new liquid-glass look — cards, the Today/Inbox switcher, and the refresh control are real glass: light bends at their edges and the feed refracts through them as you scroll.
The tab switcher floats over the feed instead of sitting on a solid bar, and the sidebar is frosted so the page reads as one continuous surface.
Works in light and dark, and respects reduced-motion settings.
New
Edit and re-send your messages — and flip between answers
Every message you send now has an Edit button. Change the wording and send — Arcus answers the new version, and you can slide between the old and new answers with the ‹ › arrows, just like the big AI chats.
A Copy button sits right under each message.
Long messages collapse to a few lines with a "Show more" toggle, so a big paste doesn't take over the screen — tap to expand, tap again for "Show less".
Fixed
The home-screen Refresh button now shows it's working
Tapping "Refresh" on your daily briefing kicks off a fresh read of your inbox and calendar — but it used to give no sign it had started, so it looked like nothing happened. Now the button spins and reads "Refreshing…" the moment you tap it, then settles back to "just now" when the new briefing lands.
Your current briefing stays on screen the whole time — the refresh happens quietly in the background instead of blanking the page.
Fixed
Outreach now writes the actual emails, cleanly
Outreach could get stuck researching and then hand back a written-out "here's my approach for each person" summary instead of real, send-ready emails. Fixed — it now writes the finished emails for everyone, shows them in a tracker, samples a few in chat, and takes your one approval before anything goes out.
The pitch now comes from what you actually told it, personalized per person, instead of a generic stand-in line.
Cleaned up a stream of internal progress chatter ("creating 5 searches now, 4 of 5 done…") that was leaking into the conversation. You'll only see meaningful progress now, like drafts being written.
New
Meet the outreach capability — right from the chat
A "New" pill on the Arcus home screen introduces cold outreach. Tap it for a short animated walkthrough of the whole flow — intake, research, drafting, your approval, and the paced send — then one tap on "Start outreach".
Starting now drops you straight into the flow: Arcus immediately asks for your list and your pitch, in a fast, friendly reply. (The earlier version could stall here; that's fixed — it answers in a second and never times out.)
There's no new tab or setup to hunt for. Outreach lives inside the same chat and agents you already use. Seen it already? Dismiss the pill and it won't come back.
Fixed
Drafting replies to several emails no longer times out
Asking Arcus to "draft replies to the 5 emails waiting on me" used to grind past the time limit and come back with an apology and nothing to show. Now it reads all the threads together, writes every reply in one pass, and shows them instantly.
Each reply lands as its own card in the chat: recipient, subject, and a voice-match score. Click one to open it, tweak the wording, and send. Five emails means five cards you can work through in seconds.
Send goes straight to the recipient in the right thread, not just to your Drafts folder. Anything you don't send stays saved as a draft.
Improved
Outreach that finds your leads, sounds human, and shows its work
Point Arcus at your contacts wherever they live: attach a CSV, paste a list, or just say "email everyone in my Leads database in Notion" and it reads the real rows itself. If it can't find valid addresses, it tells you exactly where it looked instead of guessing.
Every email now reads like a real person typed it: no em-dashes, no "I hope this email finds you well", no AI throat-clearing. Plain, direct, in your voice.
Before it asks for your approval, Arcus opens a live tracker you can watch: every lead with its research hook, status, and send time, updating as the batch moves from drafted to queued to sent.
One request does the whole job. Arcus plans and executes in the same turn: pulls the leads, researches each person, drafts, opens the tracker, asks once, and schedules the send. Ask for a watcher and it deploys a background agent that keeps working at a safe ~40 emails a day.
Fixed
Cal.com connects cleanly
Connecting Cal.com from the integrations panel used to bounce you to a broken Cal.com login page. Cal.com now connects the right way — paste your API key inline and you're done, no dead-end redirect.
July 14, 2026
Improved
A cleaner live view while Arcus works
One thinking indicator, one place — the live "thinking" shimmer no longer shows up twice, and execution steps live only inside the collapsible steps box on the reply.
The steps box now starts closed and quietly shows what's running in its header; it opens itself only when a real multi-step task is underway, in a fixed-width, pure black-and-white design.
Thoughts now sit under the executor box as a quiet trace instead of reading like the reply itself, and the blinking bar that could get stuck under a reply is gone.
Stray model artifacts (a lone "False" line) no longer leak into the chat.
When Arcus asks a clarifying question, it now suggests the most likely answers as tappable choices — its best guess comes preselected, so one tap answers it. Your reply lands in the chat as a clean answer, not a form transcript.
A question from Arcus now reads like a normal message in the conversation — no more empty reply above the question card.
Fixed
Chat stays put, one loader, no email dumps
Sending a follow-up message no longer risks bouncing you back to the start screen mid-reply (the bug that forced a refresh and burned a second run).
The thinking indicator is truly singular now — the placeholder "Thinking..." line that doubled it is gone; only real reasoning shows under the header.
While drafting or triaging, Arcus references an email in a line or two instead of pasting the whole thing — full bodies only when you ask to see them.
Fixed
Replies are fast again
A model-provider quirk was silently eating the response budget on "thinking", which made normal replies crawl to ~50 seconds and sometimes come back blank. Arcus now tells that model family to answer directly — replies land in seconds again.
When a model is having a bad day, Arcus now steps around it once instead of re-trying the same failure on every backup key.
New
Arcus can decide to plan before it acts
When a request mid-conversation turns out to be big, multi-phase, or risky, Arcus now switches itself into plan mode and shows you a reviewable plan before touching anything.
Simple asks still just get done — the switch is reserved for work that deserves your sign-off first.
July 13, 2026
New
Arcus runs your outreach — hand it a list, approve once
Paste a list or attach a CSV and say "email these 40 people about…" — Arcus researches each person, writes every email individually in your voice, and shows you samples.
One approval covers the whole batch. After your yes, emails go out paced like a human sends them — spread over days, business hours, minutes apart — so your Gmail reputation stays clean.
Before a first bulk send from a custom domain, Arcus checks your SPF/DMARC and tells you exactly what to fix if something's missing.
Ask for a watcher and Arcus sets up a scheduled agent that reads the replies, drafts responses in your voice with real openings from your calendar, nudges the silent ones once with a fresh angle, and never contacts anyone who opts out.
Nothing new to learn — it's the same chat, the same agents, now trusted with bigger jobs.
Fixed
Attachments actually reach Arcus now
CSV and text files uploaded in chat were silently invisible to the AI. Fixed — attach a contact list or notes and Arcus reads the real contents.
July 11, 2026
Improved
Answers that read like a briefing, not a wall of text
Arcus now structures substantive answers — clear sections, dividers, and a boxed "Bottom line" takeaway you can read at a glance.
The quick-ask palette (Ctrl+K) renders it all beautifully: section labels, tidy lists, callout boxes.
One-line questions still get one-line answers — no ceremony where none is needed.
Improved
A calmer, smarter chat
Simple messages get a simple reply — the processing trace now only appears when Arcus is doing real work.
While it works, you see what it's actually thinking — a live reasoning line, updating in real time.
Plan cards are fully legible in both themes, and their proposals are grounded in your real emails and events — one obvious right move stands alone instead of padded fake alternatives.
Acting on a briefing recommendation now hands the request visibly into the chat composer — you review it and hit send.
Improved
Onboarding that respects your time
The plan screen leads with what matters: "Start 3-day free trial", the real price you'll pay, and secure-checkout reassurance.
A plan + price recap sits right before checkout, with a one-click way to change your mind.
The live Arcus demo can be skipped — it finishes in the background either way.
Fixed two dead ends: returning from an abandoned checkout, and a scan that timed out, both now continue cleanly.
Fixed
Light theme, everywhere
Every surface — chat cards, the inbox intelligence report, the agents page, draft review — is now fully legible in light and dark.
Status colors, hover states, and selection indicators read correctly in both themes.
July 10, 2026
New
Watch Arcus work — a live, narrated trace
Every step shows the actual thing being done ("Scanning your inbox for unanswered investor threads"), not a bare tool name.
Web steps show their real sources. Multi-step tasks show a live phase plan that checks off as work completes.
Nothing in the trace can claim work that didn't happen — every line is grounded in what actually ran.
New
A sharper, glassier interface
An Apple-grade design pass across the app: translucent surfaces, hairline boundaries, soft depth, smooth motion.
Message bubbles, processing cards, result cards, drafts, confirmations — one consistent, premium language.
Fixed
Your briefing never comes back empty
If the AI engine is briefly busy, recommendations now degrade to accurate picks built from your real inbox — overdue promises, replies waiting, follow-ups going quiet — instead of vanishing.
Early July 2026
New
Transparent reasoning
Arcus shows how it decided, not just what it decided — the tradeoff it weighed, what it ranked above what, and why.
Your Today feed gained "Why this order?" — one tap reveals how the day was prioritized.
New
The employee suite
Confidence receipts: every pick comes with the evidence it saw ("read 47, 3 need you").
Approval mode: anything that leaves the building waits for your one-glance sign-off.
Founder memory: Arcus learns your VIPs, style, and priorities from how you work — and shows its recall.
Continuous inbox: you review progress, not a backlog — "while you were away" leads with what was handled.
Opportunity detection: quiet risks surface first, tagged "Before it slips".
Improved
Instant, warm replies
Casual messages skip the machinery entirely — Arcus answers in about a second, like a colleague texting back.
Building since day one. The log starts here — everything above shipped to production.
