Release Notes

✨ New Features

UGC Integration

The UGC Ads Generator has been integrated into the CogNerd platform, enabling users to generate high-quality ad creatives by simply providing a brand URL and a prompt.

Key capabilities:

• Generate UGC-style ads using brand URL as input
• Create ad content based on custom user prompts
• Faster content generation for marketing campaigns

Why it matters: This feature simplifies the ad creation process allowing users to quickly generate engaging, user-style content for marketing, improving campaign efficiency and creativity.

Google Authentication

Google Sign-In has been integrated into the CogNerd platform, allowing users to securely access their accounts using their Google credentials for a faster and more convenient login experience.

Key capabilities:

• Sign in using Google account with a single click
• Secure authentication powered by Google
• Seamless login experience across devices

Why it matters: This feature simplifies the login and signup process, reducing friction for users while enhancing security and improving overall accessibility to the platform.

Password Reset Feature

Users can now securely reset their passwords directly from the login flow, improving account accessibility and reducing dependency on manual support.

Key capabilities:

• “Forgot Password” option added to login screen
• Secure password reset flow via email verification
• Improved validation and error handling during reset process

Why it matters: This feature enhances user experience by making account recovery quick and secure, while also reducing support overhead and improving platform reliability.

✨ Enhancements

• Added links to Terms & Privacy Policy for better compliance
• Improved navigation flow and menu sequencing
• Enhanced Competitive Radar chart with better size and filtering
• Improved prompt analytics with latest persona selection
• Optimized rerun logic for better efficiency
• Enhanced keyword suggestions in Brand Monitor
• Improved overall UI responsiveness (fonts, buttons)

✨ Bug Fixes

• Fixed data loss when navigating between screens
• Ensured analysis flow visibility after running analysis
• Fixed incorrect prompt recommendations (duplication issue)
• Resolved ranking inconsistency issue
• Fixed missing prompt status details
• Resolved persona handling issues (ICP & null values)
• Fixed session and interrupted run handling
• Fixed UI issues including settings buttons and font sizes

Questions or feedback? We’d love to hear from you!

New Features

Cloudflare Integration

Cloudflare has been integrated with the CogNerd website to enhance analytics and monitoring capabilities.

Key capabilities:

• Improved traffic tracking and analytics
• Better visibility into user behaviour and website performance
• Enhanced monitoring of website activity
• Improved performance and reliability through Cloudflare infrastructure

Why it matters: This integration provides deeper insights into how users interact with the platform and helps improve overall website performance and reliability.

Web App — Installable PWA

CogNerd can now be installed directly from the website as a progressive web application.

You can now:

• Install CogNerd from the browser to your device home screen
• Access the platform like a native application
• Launch the app directly without opening a browser tab

Why it matters: This makes accessing CogNerd faster and more convenient, removing the friction of navigating to the site every time.

Mobile-Optimised Website

The CogNerd website is now fully optimised for mobile devices.

Enhancements include:

• Responsive layout across all mobile screen sizes
• Improved navigation on smaller devices
• Better readability and interface scaling
• Optimised performance for mobile browsers

Why it matters: Users can now easily access and use the platform on their phones, making CogNerd more accessible anytime and anywhere.

Guided Dashboard Tour

A guided dashboard tour has been introduced to help new users understand the platform before logging in.

Enhancements include:

• Interactive walkthrough of the dashboard
• Pre-login tour access for visitors
• Step-by-step introduction to major features
• Visual overview of the platform interface

Why it matters: This helps new users quickly understand how the platform works and explore its features before creating an account or logging in.

Content Studio

The Content Studio feature is now fully functional and allows users to generate AI-powered content directly within the platform.

Key capabilities:

• Automated content generation
• AI-assisted writing workflows
• Faster content creation for blogs, articles, and posts
• Streamlined content production process

Why it matters: Content Studio helps users create high-quality content quickly, saving time and improving productivity.

Platform Improvements

Server Infrastructure

The backend infrastructure for CogNerd has been deployed and organised across multiple services to improve system reliability and scalability.

Enhancements include:

• Deployment across cognerd.in, appv3, apy, ano, and n8n services
• Improved system architecture and service management
• Better workflow automation and orchestration
• Increased stability and scalability for platform operations

Why it matters: These infrastructure improvements make the platform more stable, scalable, and capable of supporting future feature expansions.

Fixes

• Fixed onboarding issue on the diagnostic page
• Resolved image upload functionality issues

Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you at support@cognerd.ai.

New CogNerd Landing Page

We've launched a completely redesigned CogNerd marketing website with a modern AI-first experience.

Key improvements include:

• New single-page landing structure covering mission, features, workflow, platform integrations, and FAQs
• Improved navigation with smooth scrolling and active section tracking
• Conversion-focused call-to-action sections and integrated demo booking
• Consistent design across contact, policy, and support pages

Why it matters: The new site helps visitors understand the value of CogNerd faster and move from discovery to product usage more easily.

New User Interface

The platform interface has been completely redesigned to improve usability and navigation.

Key improvements include:

• New left-side navigation layout for faster access to tools
• Redesigned AI Visibility dashboard
• Improved data visualization for visibility trends and platform performance
• Enhanced platform breakdown insights across AI engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude

Why it matters: The new interface makes it easier to monitor brand visibility across AI platforms and quickly identify optimization opportunities.

New Features

AGXP Edge Delivery

A new AGXP Edge Delivery module has been added to improve content delivery and optimization across AI and search platforms.

Key capabilities:

• Faster content distribution
• AI-friendly content delivery
• Optimized edge-level performance
• Improved indexing and discoverability

Why it matters: Helps ensure your content reaches AI engines and search platforms more efficiently, improving visibility and response inclusion.

Backlinks Monitoring

A new Backlinks module has been added under Search Engine Nexus.

You can now:

• Track backlinks pointing to your website
• Monitor backlink sources
• Identify SEO authority opportunities

Why it matters: Backlinks remain one of the strongest signals for search ranking and AI citation probability.

Improved AEO Reporting

The AEO reporting system has been upgraded to provide deeper technical insights and more flexible report workflows.

Enhancements include:

• Faster report generation
• Persistent report storage
• Flexible PDF and HTML export options
• Expanded diagnostics including:
  • AI and search bot accessibility
  • Core Web Vitals and mobile usability
  • SSL certificate health
  • Content freshness analysis
  • FAQ schema validation

Why it matters: These improvements provide deeper insights into how AI systems discover and evaluate your content.

GEO Optimization Enhancements

The GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) system now supports improved report persistence and retrieval.

Enhancements include:

• Stored GEO reports for future access
• Downloadable optimization artifacts such as:
  • robots.txt
  • schema files
  • FAQ files
  • llm.txt files
• Improved generation stability and performance

Why it matters: This ensures GEO assets are accessible, reusable, and easier to manage across optimization workflows.

Content Studio Improvements

Content Studio has been enhanced with new analytics and content scoring capabilities.

New capabilities include:

• Brand-level content performance summaries
• AI citation probability analysis
• Improved scoring transparency with factors like:
  • Entity coverage
  • Factual density
  • Neutrality
  • Snippet quality
• Improved audience targeting in content generation

Why it matters: These tools help you create content that is more likely to be cited by AI systems.

Platform Improvements

Behind the scenes, the platform architecture has been upgraded to improve scalability and reliability.

Enhancements include:

• Modular backend architecture for improved maintainability
• Better service orchestration for AEO, GEO, and Content Studio pipelines
• Improved monitoring and stability across long-running workflows
• Better handling of crawl and vector database operations

Why it matters: These improvements make the platform more reliable, faster, and easier to extend with new capabilities.

Fixes

• Improved stability across analytics dashboards
• Improved FAQ ordering logic by auto-assigning next available order value
• Improved handling of brand URLs and input validation
• Various UI alignment and responsiveness fixes

Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you at support@cognerd.ai.

New User Interface

The public-facing experience has been redesigned as a modern, AI-first landing flow.

Key improvements include:

• New single-page landing structure with clear section flow: Hero, Mission, Features, How It Works, Platforms, Comparison, FAQ, CTA
• Responsive navigation with active-section tracking and smooth scrolling
• New visual system with glassmorphism surfaces, ambient gradients, and motion-enhanced section transitions
• Conversion-focused CTAs with direct app access and integrated Calendly demo booking
• Consistent contact and policy page styling across the site

Why it matters: The new interface improves readability, trust, and CTA visibility, helping visitors understand value faster and move to action with fewer clicks.

New Features

Blog Platform + Content APIs

A complete blog publishing layer has been added with database-backed APIs and dynamic blog pages.

Key capabilities:

• Blog listing and dynamic slug pages
• Create/read/update/delete style API routes for blog content
• Duplicate slug protection during publishing
• Server-side sorting for newest-first delivery

Why it matters: This enables ongoing thought-leadership and SEO growth from the same codebase used for the landing experience.

FAQ Management + Question Intake

FAQ content is now backed by APIs and admin tooling, with support for collecting user-submitted questions.

You can now:

• Serve FAQ entries from database-backed endpoints
• Auto-order FAQ entries for predictable display
• Accept question submissions with validation and trimmed inputs
• Manage FAQ content from admin modules

Why it matters: Teams can keep answers current, reduce support friction, and capture real visitor intent for future content planning.

Admin Workspace Foundation

A secured admin area has been added for internal content operations.

Key capabilities:

• Environment-based admin credential validation
• JWT-backed session cookie authentication
• Dashboard cards for content metrics and quick actions
• Dedicated modules for blog and FAQ management

Why it matters: Content operations can run independently from engineering while maintaining controlled access.

Platform Improvements

• Better content freshness strategy via route-level revalidation where applicable
• Improved data consistency with deterministic blog sorting (created date + _id tie-break)
• Unified design language across landing, resources, and policy pages
• Cleaner code organization using modular components and dedicated API routes

Fixes

• Fixed duplicate blog slug conflict handling with clear API error response
• Improved FAQ ordering logic by auto-assigning next available order value
• Added validation for empty FAQ submissions
• Improved reliability of public/admin data retrieval and response handling

Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you at support@cognerd.ai.

New Features

Asset Creation Enhancements

Asset creation has been expanded to support your entire website.

You can now:

• Generate assets for all pages, not just landing pages
• Automatically create JSON-LD structured data
• Generate llm.txt files for AI-readable content control

Why it matters: A stronger technical foundation improves discoverability across SEO, AEO, GEO, and AI platforms.

FAQ Generator

Automatically generate structured FAQs aligned with your brand and content.

Why it matters: FAQs improve your chances of appearing in search results and AI-generated responses.

IntelliWrite

A centralized content creation workspace that allows you to:

• Create content for blog articles, LinkedIn, Twitter (X), and Reddit
• View and manage all previously generated content by category

Why it matters: Create, manage, and reuse content efficiently across platforms.

Platform Improvements

Platform Monitoring and Reliability

BetterStack has been implemented to enhance platform stability and observability.

Enhancements include:

• Centralized logging via Logtail
• Health monitoring and uptime checks
• Improved error handling and alerting
• End-to-end uptime monitoring for critical services

Why it matters: Faster issue detection and improved system reliability ensure a smoother experience.

Brand Monitor Experience

• Added Tips and Tricks across key sections of the Brand Monitor UI for better contextual guidance
• Improved overall usability during brand analysis workflows
• Capped the maximum number of competitors to eight to maintain performance and data accuracy

Fixes

Brand Monitoring

• Improved brand URL detection — URLs can now be entered as www or https, and the system automatically identifies the correct website
• Fixed an issue where the location selected in the Brand Info form was not being used during brand search
• Corrected the visibility score chart logic and rendering, ensuring accurate and consistent insights
• Fixed brand classification issues to improve search relevance and industry mapping
• Improved overall brand search accuracy and consistency

GEO Files

• Added process termination and kill logic during GEO file creation, allowing long-running or stuck generation tasks to be safely stopped

Other Fixes

• Implemented correct credit deduction logic for IntelliWrite
• Added URL validation to prevent invalid or malformed inputs across workflows

Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you at support@cognerd.ai.

New Features

Superuser Brand Access

Admins now have a bird's-eye view of all brands across your organisation. Whether you're overseeing multiple teams or managing large-scale brand portfolios, you can now access and monitor every brand profile from one central location.

Why it matters: No more switching between accounts or requesting access — streamline your workflow and make informed decisions faster.

Brand Creator Identification

Each brand now displays a small badge showing who created it. Quickly identify brand ownership and know who to contact for questions or updates.

Why it matters: Better accountability and easier collaboration across your team.

Platform Improvements

Enhanced Brand Filtering

Finding the right brand just got easier. We've added industry-based filtering with a convenient dropdown menu next to the search bar. The search now intelligently combines:

• Text-based search for brand names
• Industry category filtering

Why it matters: Whether you're managing brands across multiple industries or looking for specific competitors, you can now pinpoint exactly what you need in seconds instead of scrolling through long lists.

Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you at support@cognerd.ai.