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Changelog

What changed, in plain language. See Features for current capabilities and the roadmap for what comes next.

Since launch

Improvements added after the launch release; availability follows the controls in your workspace.

  • Ad Studio delivers clear pronunciation for Indian prices and percentages, seamless headline scene transitions, and focused voice hooks.
  • Ad Studio reliably preserves voice tracks across scene generations, maintains high pronunciation fidelity, and keeps background music beds continuous.
  • Ad Studio delivers expressive voice delivery, brand pronunciation guidance, and precise caption timing, supported by automatic backup speech.
  • Ad Studio provides short voice samples with language and gender filters, including Hinglish audio previews.
  • Ad Studio generates instrumental music matched to your brand’s vertical, featuring automatic voice ducking and dynamic closing music tails.
  • Ad Studio uses full-frame photo crops, camera moves, designed end cards and captions positioned for social placements and Indic reading.

Launch — 30 Oct 2026 (v0.2.0)

The customer-facing history included in our launch release, from core publishing through MCP and Ad Studio; features still being prepared are described as such.

  • Team owners and admins can share selected brand knowledge sources, see where they are shared, and revoke future access.
  • Sign-in and social account connection flows include enhanced URL validation and session integrity safeguards.
  • Streak rewards include scheduled posts, referral links persist across sign-in, and reminder emails respect user consent preferences.
  • Direct publishing connections are live for Facebook Pages, Instagram professional accounts, and LinkedIn personal profiles.
  • Composer checks your brief and campaign before reserving AI capacity or spending earned Sparks.
  • Uploads accept verified images and videos, signing out ends the session immediately, and failed AI assists return their reserved capacity.
  • Ad Studio asks you to confirm superlative and health claims against your own brand material before rendering.
  • Selected photos integrate seamlessly into ad scenes while preserving all manual user adjustments.
  • Ad end cards feature concise, distinct call-to-action captions and clear duration indicators.
  • Service health now reflects database, cache and AI readiness, and dismissing a feedback prompt is remembered.
  • Updated terms and privacy controls explain AI outputs, offer data export and deletion, and stop subscription renewal when you cancel.
  • Connect Claude, Claude Code, Cursor or ChatGPT by pasting the URL, choosing Connect and selecting Allow, with no client ID to enter.
  • Publishing includes automatic de-duplication safeguards to ensure posts publish exactly once.
  • Instagram Reels support videos up to 300 MB, with size checks before publishing and more time for platform processing.
  • Post publishing strictly maps each draft to its specifically selected media assets.
  • Social channel integrations maintain active connections seamlessly without requiring re-authentication.
  • Only workspace owners and admins can apply coupons.
  • Finished ads open in Composer with their cover, intended destination and AI disclosure, and scheduling shows the timezone and confirmed send time.
  • Ad Studio checks Hindi and Hinglish claims, including offers, deadlines, spelled-out quantities and Devanagari numbers.
  • Ad Studio excludes expired offers and asks you to reconfirm an inferred offer that has become stale.
  • Ad Studio delivers rapid rendering with motion footage caching, custom background music, and native iOS video playback.
  • Agent approval cards show when an action cannot run, and generated images attach to the draft they were made for.
  • Ad rendering caches identical versions for instant downloads, restores allowances on interrupted generations, and displays clear revision costs.
  • Every finished ad records its AI-generated voice, footage and animated people and shows that disclosure on the ready screen.
  • Connected assistants must wait for your approval card in VI before rendering an ad, including its cost and claims to confirm.
  • The Agent archives or deletes drafts strictly upon explicit user request.
  • Pro includes 300 AI generations and Team 900 per cycle, with flat +Ads pricing, one-cycle capacity packs and recurring Team extra seats.
  • Ad requests generate dedicated approval cards with scripts organized directly inside Ad Studio.
  • Long-running approved actions maintain continuous live progress tracking through completion.
  • Ad Studio treats a festive occasion as creative direction and takes the product itself from your brand.
  • Saved ads restore the full brief, switching brands clears old inputs, and finished videos retain their names and video previews in Composer.
  • Approved ad creation cards run the requested Ad Studio action and keep script generation in the background.
  • A short ad request can use your brand context to prepare up to three variants with sourced assumptions and offers.
  • Motion rendering allows more time for scenes to finish and reports fallback footage clearly.
  • Animated brand photos fill the selected placement without unwanted letterboxing.
  • Ad Studio supports Hinglish as a dedicated language choice alongside Hindi in Devanagari.
  • Ad briefs save your tone and language choices and apply them to the script, voice, captions and music direction.
  • Taking back a scheduled post removes it from the publish queue, with clear reporting when publishing has already started.
  • An invitation is applied after any successful email-verification route, including password recovery.
  • Invited team members gain immediate workspace access upon completing signup.
  • Workspace invitation claims and coupon validation operate reliably during signup.
  • The already-registered email message points you toward sign-in or password recovery.
  • The Agent reads workspace context, saves private drafts and proposes approval cards step by step in your language.
  • Agent improvements preserve your language and tone, show drafts before media work, and offer factual alternatives to competitor smears.
  • The Agent keeps completed drafts available and replaces unsupported personal stories or measurements with clear placeholders.
  • The Agent reports confirmed results and failed lookups clearly when a turn reaches its work limit.
  • The Agent can read context, prepare private drafts and propose approval cards within bounded turns.
  • Scheduled posts retain duplicate-publishing protection when their background processing changes.
  • The Agent grounds all content drafts strictly in verified brand source material and research.
  • The Agent can read a public GitHub repository you share and use it as source material for a draft.
  • Unsupported measurements and first-person stories become visible placeholders for you to replace with real facts.
  • Drafts saved by the Agent appear as editable cards in the conversation and can be read back in full.
  • Editing a draft card saves the change to your post without including the Agent’s commentary in the copy.
  • AI-generated tool markup is filtered out of customer-facing drafts and suggestions.
  • The Agent handles tool requests without exposing raw tool instructions in the chat.
  • Eligible Pro and Team beta workspaces can connect Claude without a separate connector invitation.
  • Support can answer routine questions automatically and passes sensitive requests to a person without promising an outcome.
  • Support replies identify the assistant, use product knowledge and ask a follow-up when a request is unclear.
  • Brand document uploads use updated PDF processing with additional security fixes.
  • Ad Studio creates brand-grounded video and audio ads with script review, timed captions and a record of AI-generated content.
  • Campaigns and Gallery link into Ad Studio, and finished ads can move into the existing Composer review workflow.
  • Paid plans can add Ad Studio with allowances of 10, 40 or 120 finished ads per cycle for Basic, Pro or Team.
  • Finished ad rendering requires your approval and downloads save with a useful name.
  • Photo animation includes real-time scene progress and automatic fallback to camera pans when motion rendering is unavailable.
  • Image processing and secure connections include updated protections for uploaded and fetched media.
  • Home cards adapt to the space beside the sidebar so narrower windows stay readable.
  • Connected-assistant requests show an exact preview before consequential actions can proceed, with scope and plan checks preserved.
  • Approving a connected assistant’s scheduling request in VI schedules the post directly and repeated submissions reuse the result.
  • Connected assistants receive clearer instructions to stay within your brand and report usage in familiar units.
  • Brand logo and media analysis displays real-time progress indicators during processing.
  • Brand knowledge requests allow more time for slow analysis to complete.
  • Pro and Team can choose an additional navy theme with readable text in normal and Zen layouts.
  • Dark surfaces, secondary text and borders are clearer to read.
  • Claude can inspect brand-specific accounts, media, post details and publishing readiness before proposing an action.
  • Invitation matching handles supported email aliases and applies the matching invitation after verification.
  • Slow website imports keep their progress visible and recover saved results without resending the link.
  • You can delete owned brand knowledge sources with confirmation and retry any storage cleanup that fails.
  • Brand knowledge imports provide real-time progress indicators, validation checks, and guided document support.
  • Resumed Agent work refreshes knowledge-sharing consent and keeps citations attached to the correct brand.
  • Switching brands restores that brand’s conversation and clears the previous brand’s drafts and approval context.
  • Content security policies safeguard workspace sessions while supporting customer media embeds.
  • Withdrawing analytics consent stops browser tracking immediately.
  • Promotions dashboard provides comprehensive access to historical paid campaign performance.
  • Selected-brand filters now apply consistently to promotion history, content plans, AI history and scheduled work.
  • The Agent respects requests to summarize without creating drafts or proposing publishing actions.
  • Approval workflows strictly verify action authorization before executing any changes.
  • New one-click unsubscribe links have a limited lifetime while existing email links remain usable.
  • Social platform names display consistently in recommendations, emails and campaign names.
  • Media uploads validate file dimensions upfront and provide immediate processing feedback.
  • Profile photos fall back to initials while loading or unavailable and update when you switch workspaces.
  • Website and document imports feature live extraction progress and clear retry options.
  • Signup, verification, AI generation and uploads have more targeted rate limits to reduce abuse.
  • Connected assistants can filter drafts, scheduled posts and inbox comments by brand and see which brand owns each item.
  • Abuse checks distinguish real visitor addresses when requests pass through a trusted proxy.
  • Capacity packs activate upon verified payment, social OAuth redirects enforce strict domain matching, and concurrent Spark spending remains fully synchronized.
  • Newsletter consent, password recovery and sign-in text are easier to use on small screens.
  • A transparent cookie consent banner enables granular analytics preferences with direct access to privacy policies.
  • Posts, campaigns and other workspace pages fit phone screens with consistent branded loading states.
  • Strict framing controls and clickjacking protections safeguard workspace sessions.
  • Shared links use the official VI Engine preview artwork.
  • Privacy information distinguishes optional browser analytics from server-side activation records.
  • Workspace pages remain responsive and fluid when browsing image-heavy brand assets.
  • Undo stays within its original workspace, and the Agent supports Enter-to-send on tablet and laptop keyboards.
  • Comment recovery respects platform request limits and notification retries recover gradually after failures.
  • Inbox shows the newest open threads first, recognizes your own replies and delivers accessible notifications without duplicate pop-ups.
  • Temporary platform failures preserve cached comments and notification read states stay in sync across tabs.
  • The Agent shows the active brand separately from its workspace and keeps voice and pending approvals with that brand.
  • Workspace emails support one-click unsubscribe and comply with industry deliverability standards.
  • Switching accounts during assistant connection clears the previous workspace choice and resumes consent for the new account.
  • Inactivity and trial reminders respect account protection deadlines.
  • Account registration and email verification remain available while protected app access follows the workspace’s access rules.
  • Invitation updates use clearer branded emails when an integration is awaiting approval.
  • Dismissed notices reset correctly when you sign out or change users.
  • Home cards can be dismissed, undone or snoozed, and the Agent composer stays usable above the phone keyboard.
  • Inbox orders open conversations by comment time and keeps priority available as a badge and filter.
  • Reconnecting Facebook or Instagram starts a fresh analytics check and clearly marks unavailable follower data.
  • Assistant consent returns correctly to the client in browsers with stricter redirect protections.
  • Agent previews save to Drafts and can be archived, deleted or opened in Composer for review.
  • Assistant connection consent uses your signed-in VI session and lets you select an eligible workspace.
  • Social account authorization runs seamlessly on mobile devices with resilient popup handling.
  • The remote connector accepts its server URL with or without a trailing slash.
  • Brand import progress can show the real reading, analysis and saving stages as sources become ready.
  • Brand knowledge supports Markdown and TSV documents alongside standard document formats.
  • Reconnecting a known social account updates its existing connection and removes stale cards across devices.
  • Privacy settings provide clear options for immediate account deletion and data export.
  • Free onboarding leads into a first editable Composer draft with clear setup and retry guidance.
  • Returning-customer discounts stay unavailable until checkout can honor the offer in each supported market.
  • Brand website import includes secure URL validation before extracting content.
  • Cached LinkedIn comments and their triage state are removed within the disclosed retention window.
  • Connected AI assistant sessions display clear connection and authentication statuses.
  • Connected-assistant draft changes require approval of the exact preview.
  • Settings lists active assistant connections and lets you revoke your own access grants.
  • Connected-assistant previews, approvals and duplicate protection share the workspace’s scheduling and quota rules.
  • Assistant permissions and action receipts remain tied to the connection that requested them.
  • Assistant connections support explicit browser consent and renewable sign-in sessions.
  • The remote connector provides scoped access to brand and post information with revocation and action records.
  • Agent status indicators clearly reflect current operational availability.
  • Agent usage controls accurately track multilingual requests and restore capacity on cancelled runs.
  • Comment-reply safeguards allow retries after a definite refusal while preventing repeats after an uncertain send.
  • Agent usage controls automatically release unused reservations to preserve workspace capacity.
  • The Agent strictly treats uploaded documents, research data, and external results as reference material.
  • Comment replies include centralized de-duplication across Inbox, Agent, and external assistants.
  • Agent conversations and their nested AI work follow workspace quota limits.
  • Agent access and autonomy follow owner and admin workspace settings.
  • Inbox suggestions use the stored comment and the correct brand voice.
  • Agent turns that read untrusted content require review before changing workspace content or settings.
  • Remote assistant changes require signed-in approval of the exact request in VI.
  • You can skip or complete brand intake during onboarding and return to it in Settings.
  • Brand knowledge supports multimodal visual image analysis across workspace brand assets.
  • Batch campaign approvals process resiliently and provide detailed feedback for individual items.
  • Meta data-deletion requests affect only the verified connected identity and provide a readable confirmation status.
  • Publishing and content generation workflows provide informative status messages during network recovery.
  • Workspace analytics strictly masks sensitive content and honors user privacy preferences.
  • Composer autosaves remember the destination you selected without moving other posts in the campaign.
  • Disconnected account cards can be removed after confirmation.
  • Deliberately disconnected accounts show a neutral status with clear reconnect options.
  • Privacy documentation details secure conversation persistence and session protection.
  • Application telemetry automatically redacts personal identifiers and request payloads.
  • Branded email buttons remain readable in clients that do not support gradients.
  • Inbox lets you refresh recent Facebook and Instagram comments on demand.
  • Image generation applies daily limits and briefly reuses identical workspace results.
  • Facebook and Instagram comments reach Inbox reliably even when one item in a batch cannot be read.
  • Draft media attachments persist reliably across edits with conflict prevention.
  • Video publishing can generate cover thumbnails from the footage.
  • Instagram access emails open the account connection screen.
  • Agent draft cards show the platform of the post they actually belong to.
  • Deleting the last post in an automatically created campaign removes the empty campaign too.
  • Media gallery provides seamless multi-page browsing and resilient asset retrieval.
  • Outgoing messages share a mobile-friendly branded template and support email receives an automatic acknowledgement.
  • Generated campaigns follow your requested start date and posting cadence.
  • Campaign hashtag suggestions prioritize high-signal topical keywords.
  • Eligible returning workspaces can receive a one-time win-back offer when the payment provider supports it.
  • Welcome and onboarding emails provide clear product walkthroughs and workspace guidance.
  • Instagram draft cards display visual media previews and ensure all required assets are attached before approval.
  • Facebook and Instagram videos use a real cover frame, and Composer lets you choose a cover.
  • Videos publish through the correct Facebook video and Instagram Reel workflows.
  • The Agent reports real pending approvals and distinguishes choosing a campaign from approving an action.
  • Gallery reuse carries across available post text, platform and media, with search, filters and downloads.
  • Scheduling an autosaved draft preserves the post seamlessly within its existing campaign structure.
  • Instagram Audience insights display demographic breakdown including age, gender, location, and engagement metrics.
  • Campaign drafts use the current brand voice and knowledge, and overdue approvals move to a future posting window.
  • Campaign generation provides tailored hashtags and visuals across diverse industries with forward-looking schedules.
  • People with a valid team invitation can create an account during invite-only access.
  • Agent voice transcription provides responsive audio processing and real-time status feedback.
  • The Agent retains complete saved drafts from earlier turns where capacity allows and reports missing context honestly.
  • Image generation responses include creative rationale and direct links to active approval cards.
  • Instagram and Facebook publishing requests create valid approval cards.
  • Plan emails describe capabilities and usage warnings explain when most of a cycle’s capacity has been used.
  • The Agent synthesizes comprehensive responses from available context across in-depth research turns.
  • Active trial users receive their effective plan’s generation and campaign-planning access.
  • Composer automatically suggests contextual hashtags tailored to the specific topic of your draft.
  • Transactional emails clearly highlight activity streaks and Spark rewards.
  • Email branding is optimized for consistent rendering across all major email clients.
  • Campaign creation saves text drafts instantly and prepares requested visual assets in parallel.
  • Subscription updates process idempotently to guarantee exact billing precision.
  • Detached Instagram connection windows close after notifying the app.
  • In-app documentation links open the public product documentation.
  • Replacing a brand knowledge file removes the superseded text so old facts do not remain searchable.
  • The Agent asks for the earlier text before comparing versions and respects requests not to create campaigns or schedules.
  • Calendar gap dates stay aligned with local weekdays.
  • Brand knowledge files can be deleted with confirmation and removal of their searchable content.
  • Signing back in restores the selected brand before reading its settings or drafting context.
  • Workspace Health distinguishes no connected channels from an unavailable health check.
  • Billing settings clarify how earned Sparks redeem eligible AI assists and image generations.
  • Account deletion is blocked by an actual paid subscription when needed, with a link to cancel it in Billing.
  • Password reset provides clear link validation and an immediate path to request a fresh link.
  • Signup shows clear errors beside an invalid email or short password.
  • Expired or revoked team invitations can be replaced with a fresh invitation.
  • Composer generation can use an image attached through Add Media as context.
  • Shorten Content preserves whole sentences and the closing call to action.
  • Add Relevant Hashtags dynamically generates hashtags based on the actual content of the post.
  • Vision analysis validates image files and provides clear status for unsupported formats.
  • Image generation prefers clean images without unwanted text and checks requested wording more carefully.
  • Vision analysis flags a mismatch between attached imagery and draft copy.
  • Media uploads validate requirements and provide inline guidance if a file cannot be processed.
  • Audience insights display platform threshold requirements alongside actionable optimization suggestions.
  • Dashboard and account screens feature optimized caching for faster page loads.
  • Identity labels, scheduled-post counts and chart numbers display consistently across the workspace.
  • Deleting a selected comment clears its reply draft and moderation temporarily blocks replying.
  • Instagram comment moderation provides transparent review statuses for pending platform actions.
  • Editing Facebook posts checks that the campaign content still matches the proposed change.
  • Post editing, deletion, and comment moderation remain fully synchronized across live social channels.
  • Account connection screens offer step-by-step guidance for connecting social channels.
  • Connection screens refresh after a popup closes and Billing labels promotional plan access clearly.
  • Connecting a Facebook Page already assigned to another brand offers a clear option to move it.
  • Analytics axes remain readable and dashboard identity, schedule counts and queue-gap messages reflect the selected brand.
  • Newsletter preferences synchronize after email verification and include later opt-outs.
  • Public website reading is available for brand research when the service is configured.
  • Owners can reset the selected workspace without affecting other workspaces, members, brand profiles or billing.
  • Connecting a social account detects existing workspace assignments and provides seamless transfer options.
  • Facebook connection can recover Pages included in your verified consent even when the initial list omits them.
  • Payment popups accept keyboard and pointer input without being blocked by the upgrade dialog.
  • Analytics lists connected Facebook Page posts with their content, reactions, comments and links to Facebook.
  • Invited beta users can sign up through supported password and social sign-in routes.
  • Newsletter signup is optional and its preference can be changed later in Settings.
  • Signup access rules apply consistently across supported sign-in methods.
  • Beta invitation emails use a consistent mobile-friendly brand template.
  • Scheduling confirmations clearly display target platform channels and scheduled send times.
  • Composer persistently saves draft platform, tone, and formatting settings across browser sessions.
  • Gallery media attachments remain linked to reused drafts across Composer sessions.
  • Autosaved Composer revisions update seamlessly in place without creating extra drafts.
  • Composer organizes post drafting smoothly without generating unneeded workspace campaigns.
  • Composer delivers instant, reliable one-click publishing to connected platforms.
  • Transactional emails are beautifully formatted and fully responsive across Gmail and major clients.
  • The website includes self-hosted product walkthroughs.
  • Welcome emails explain the getting-started steps for the workspace.
  • Account deletion removes personal identifiers from retained customer relationship records.
  • AI content generation operates on high-availability production infrastructure with live health status.
  • Text generation features automatic high-availability failover across managed AI providers.
  • Multimodal AI services operate independently to maintain high availability across voice and visuals.
  • Social sign-in verifies browser session integrity to ensure secure workspace connections.

Milestones

Customer-visible milestones from private beta through the launch release.

  • Private beta opens in production for initial invitees.
  • Composer delivers instant publishing, high-readability transactional emails, and interactive product walkthroughs on the marketing site.
  • Publishing is verified across Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn alongside Agent scheduling proposals and AI hashtag suggestions.
  • Team invite signups, faster voice transcription, brand-voice campaign drafting, Agent approval cards, and media gallery reuse go live.
  • The website announces upcoming Model Context Protocol connector support.
  • The first product walkthrough video demonstrating Agent launch planning is published on Facebook.
  • Video cover selection, post media edits, and notification navigation links are updated in production.
  • Facebook and Instagram comment reply workflows are enabled end to end.
  • Workspace security hardening rolls out with expiring assistant approvals, automatic draft saving, and distributed rate limiting.
  • Inbox hardening rolls out with live toasts, dismissible home cards, de-duplicated approvals, and an updated Agent composer.
  • The public status page goes live with automated five-minute availability checks across the application, API, and website.
  • Brand voice and approvals are isolated across brands in the same workspace alongside mobile layout fixes and enhanced website security headers.
  • Dedicated chat threads per brand, cross-brand knowledge sharing for Team owners, high-contrast themes, and visual media understanding go live.
  • The navy theme arrives for Pro and Team tiers alongside advanced brand logo analysis and structured assistant outputs.
  • Connector actions can now be approved directly inside connected AI assistants without a redundant confirmation step.
  • Autonomous support replies go live in production and the focus-mode home card layout is polished.
  • The Agent formats international currency symbols and accurate pricing details across drafted campaigns.
  • An updated Agent tool loop launches in production with private drafting, language matching, and mandatory step-by-step approvals before publishing.
  • Retracting a scheduled post instantly cancels queued publishing, and assistant connections open to all beta participants.
  • Meta App Review is approved for all production permissions across Facebook and Instagram.
  • Updated privacy controls, terms of service, zero-configuration assistant connections, idempotent publishing, and increased media upload limits go live.
  • VI Engine officially launches into production with public signups open to everyone, Ad Studio enabled, and the Model Context Protocol connector live.
  • The marketing website introduces open registration, interactive demo ads on the homepage, and conversion tracking.
  • The public status page secures custom domain HTTPS at status.viengine.social.