RELEASE NOTES

New features, bug fixes, and content you might've missed.

february 5th, 2026

Top Tasks Weekly Report

We're excited to introduce Weekly Top Tasks Reports - automated email summaries that help you stay on top of your highest-impact SEO optimization opportunities.

How It Works

Every Sunday, Market Brew automatically analyzes your Flight Plans and sends personalized email reports highlighting:

  • Top 10 optimization tasks ranked by total impact points
  • Task occurrence counts showing how many Ranking Sensors detected each issue
  • Progress tracking showing completion percentage for each task
  • Smart filtering - reports only sent when Ranking Sensors have been updated with fresh data

Key Benefits

Stay Informed - Never miss high-impact optimization opportunities
Save Time - No need to log in to check for new tasks
Prioritize Effectively - See your most impactful tasks at a glance
Track Progress - Monitor completion rates week over week
Mobile-Friendly - Beautiful responsive design works on any device

Who Receives Reports

Reports are sent to:

  • Flight Plan owners (Crew)
  • Flight Engineers
  • Flight Plan team members (Team Leads and Members)

Getting Started

These notification will be enabled by default. To Disable Notifications:

  1. Go to your account settings
  2. Click "Notification Preferences"
  3. Disable "Top Tasks Weekly Report"
  4. Save your preferences

Report Details

Each report includes:

Quick Stats

  • Total task occurrences across all Ranking Sensors
  • Total optimization points available

Task Breakdown

  • Rank (top 10 tasks)
  • Task title and description
  • Number of Ranking Sensors where task appears
  • Total optimization points
  • Current completion progress

Strategic Insights

  • Guidance on template-level optimizations
  • Links to view full task details in Market Brew

Smart Delivery

Reports are only sent when:

  • ✅ Your Ranking Sensors have been updated with new data
  • ✅ Tasks are available for the Flight Plan

This ensures you only receive reports when there's actually something new to review.

Mobile Optimized

The report email is fully responsive and works beautifully on:

  • Desktop email clients (Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail)
  • Mobile devices (iPhone, Android)
  • Web-based email (Gmail, Outlook.com)

Questions?

How do I stop receiving reports?
Go to Settings → Notification Preferences → Disable "Top Tasks Weekly Report"

Can I get reports more frequently?
Currently reports are sent weekly on Sundays. Contact support if you need custom frequency.

Why didn't I receive a report?
Reports are only sent when your Ranking Sensors have been updated since the last report. If no updates occurred, no report is sent.

Can I see past reports?
Log into Market Brew and visit your Flight Plan → Top Tasks to see current data anytime.

Who can I add to receive reports?
Add team members to your Flight Plan as Team Leads or Members, and they'll automatically receive reports if they enable the notification.

Centroid Keywords in Orbital Drift Stabilizer

🚀 New Feature: Centroid Keywords

We’ve added Centroid Keywords to the Orbital Drift Stabilizer to give you a fast, human-readable view of how search engines semantically categorize your content.

This feature converts embedding centroid data into clear keyword themes, helping you understand topic alignment before and during drift analysis.

february 4th, 2026

Content Booster Data Sources & Research Controls

What’s New

Enabled Data Sources Toggle and Enhanced Data Source Summaries are now available in Content Booster. These upgrades give you direct control over how much external research is used during generation and significantly increase the depth and specificity of grounded references in the output.

Enabled Data Sources (Research Control)

You can now turn the research component of Content Booster on or off using the new Enabled Data Sources option in Generation Options.

What This Does

  • Lets you explicitly control whether Content Booster uses:
    • Knowledge Base sources
    • Connected data sources
    • Real-time research inputs
  • When enabled:
    • Content is grounded in external sources
    • Outputs include more cited facts, statistics, and verifiable details
  • When disabled:
    • Generation relies primarily on your prompt and on-page context
    • Faster runs with less external enrichment

Why This Matters

Different workflows require different generation modes:

  • Research ON → Best for authority content, long-form articles, and data-backed pages
  • Research OFF → Best for faster drafts, rewrites, and structure-first iterations

You now have precise control over that tradeoff.

Improved Data Source Summaries

We have significantly upgraded how Content Booster reads and summarizes its research sources before writing.

What Changed

  • Source articles are now summarized with:
    • Higher detail density
    • Clearer fact extraction
    • Better statistical capture
    • More concrete claims and figures
  • Relevance scoring and grounded summaries are more structured and complete
  • The generator receives richer research context before drafting

Result in Your Content

With these improved summaries, generated content now tends to include:

  • More statistics and quantitative references
  • More specific claims tied to sources
  • Deeper topical coverage
  • Stronger grounding and cross-reference signals
  • Reduced generic filler language

Expected Impact on Generation Time

When Enabled Data Sources is ON and research is used:

  • Generation may take longer than before
  • This is intentional — the system is:
    • Collecting sources
    • Scoring relevance
    • Building grounded summaries
    • Cross-referencing before writing

The added time directly supports higher factual density and reduced hallucination risk.

february 3rd, 2026

Centroid Keywords

Centroid Keywords reveal what search engines believe your page is about, based on meaning rather than exact keyword matches.

Instead of guessing which keywords matter, you can now see the core semantic themes your content is associated with at an algorithmic level.

What This Does

Search engines don’t evaluate pages using keywords alone. They analyze meaning, context, and topical relationships.

Centroid Keywords translate those underlying signals into 8–15 clear, human-readable themes that represent how your page is understood semantically.

Think of these as your page’s semantic fingerprint.

Where You’ll See It

  • Webpage Scoresheet - Found in the Key Performance Indicators section
  • AI Overviews Visualizer
  • AI Overviews Author

Why It Matters

Centroid Keywords help you:

  • See your content through the search engine’s lens
    Understand how algorithms categorize your page, not just how it ranks
  • Identify content gaps
    Spot missing or underdeveloped topics compared to your goals
  • Improve topical alignment
    Ensure your headings, sections, and metadata reinforce the right themes
  • Build stronger authority
    Create more consistent, focused content across related pages

How to Use It

  1. Click Generate Centroid Keywords
  2. Review the 8–15 themes identified
  3. Export them using Copy Keywords as CSV
  4. Compare them to your target keywords and content goals
  5. Adjust content to better align with the strongest themes

This feature helps you optimize for how search engines actually understand content, not just how they match terms.

Content Booster – Improved Prompt Assistance

New Feature: “I Didn’t Like the Output”

When Content Booster doesn’t produce what you expected, you no longer need to guess how to fix it.

You can now give direct feedback and receive a custom-built focus prompt designed to correct the issue.

Faster Feedback Loop

  • New “I Didn’t Like the Output” button in the Final Draft Editor
  • Describe what didn’t work (tone, structure, depth, missing details, etc.)
  • Receive a revised focus prompt tailored to your feedback

Smarter Prompt Guidance

  • Analyzes your feedback and current content settings
  • Generates a clearer, more precise focus prompt
  • Preserves intent while tightening direction
  • Designed to be copied directly into the Content Strategy tab

Clear, Simple Workflow

  1. Click I Didn’t Like the Output
  2. Explain what needs improvement
  3. Copy the improved focus prompt
  4. Paste it into Content Strategy
  5. Regenerate content with better guidance

Why This Matters

Content quality issues are often prompt clarity issues, not writing issues.

This feature helps you:

  • Turn vague frustration into actionable direction
  • Gain confidence in what the prompt is actually instructing
  • Refine content without trial-and-error guessing
  • Achieve better results faster with fewer regenerations

It’s ideal when a keyword alone isn’t enough, but writing a perfect prompt feels unclear.

Content Booster – New Content Type: Press Release

Press Release is now available as a dedicated content type in Content Booster.

This option is designed specifically for announcements, launches, partnerships, funding news, and other official statements that need a clear, structured, and authoritative format.

Why We Added This

Press releases follow a very different structure than blogs or guides. They prioritize clarity, attribution, factual accuracy, and scannability over long-form exploration.

Using a generic blog format for press releases often leads to:

  • Overly narrative introductions
  • Missing or unclear announcements
  • Weak headlines and summaries
  • Inconsistent formatting for media use

This new content type removes that friction by guiding Content Booster toward a press-ready structure from the start.

What’s Different About Press Release Mode

When Press Release is selected, Content Booster will:

  • Emphasize a clear, news-focused headline
  • Lead with the announcement, not background context
  • Use a formal, neutral, media-friendly tone
  • Structure content for quick scanning by journalists and readers
  • Focus on facts, attribution, and relevance over opinion

The goal is content that can be published directly or shared with media without heavy rewriting.

Where to Find It

  • Open Advanced Settings
  • Expand Content Settings
  • Select Press Release from the Content Type dropdown

When to Use It

Use Press Release when you are:

  • Announcing a product launch or feature
  • Sharing company news or updates
  • Communicating partnerships or milestones
  • Publishing official statements intended for external distribution

For thought leadership, education, or exploration, Blog Post or How-To formats remain the better choice.

february 2nd, 2026

Content Booster Update: URL Support in Focus Prompts

Feature: Smart URL Summaries in Focus Prompts

Content Booster now supports URLs inside Focus Prompts.

When you include a link in your Focus Prompt, the system automatically detects it and gives you the option to replace the URL with a concise summary of its content.

Instead of passing a raw link to the AI, Content Booster converts the page into a clear, readable summary that becomes part of the prompt itself.

Why We Designed It This Way

Raw URLs hide important details.

If an AI is given a link, there’s no way for you to know which parts of that page are being used, what context is being pulled, or how that information is influencing the output.

That’s why Content Booster does not allow URLs to remain in Focus Prompts.
You must replace them with a summary.

This ensures you always know exactly what the prompt is doing.

You can read the summary, edit it if needed, and see—line by line—what information is guiding content generation. Nothing is implicit or hidden.

How It Works

  1. Paste a URL into your Focus Prompt
  2. Content Booster detects the URL automatically
  3. Click “Summarize URLs in Focus Prompt”
  4. The URL is replaced with a concise, structured summary of that page

That summary is what the AI uses—no live fetching, no invisible interpretation, no guesswork.

Why This Matters

  • Full transparency – You can see exactly what context is being applied
  • Predictable results – Prompts behave consistently because inputs are explicit
  • Better grounding – Content is anchored to known facts, not inferred ones
  • Lower risk of hallucinations – The AI works from vetted summaries, not opaque links

When to Use This

This feature is ideal when:

  • You want to reference authoritative sources with precision
  • Accuracy and traceability matter
  • You need to align content with a specific historical, legal, or editorial source
  • You want confidence that the AI is responding to your intent—not interpreting a link on its own

Summary

URLs are now supported—but only as something you can fully see and control.

By forcing URLs to become readable summaries, Content Booster ensures that you always understand how your Focus Prompt is shaping the output. What you see in the prompt is exactly what the system is using.

february 1st, 2026

📚 New Feature: Knowledge Bases for Content Generation

We’ve introduced Knowledge Bases, a powerful new way to control where your AI-generated content gets its information. This gives you more accuracy, more trust, and more consistency in every piece of content you create.

🌟 What Is a Knowledge Base?

A Knowledge Base lets you define a set of trusted websites that Market Brew should use when researching and citing sources for content.

Instead of pulling information from the open web, your content can now be grounded in sources you choose—such as industry publications, research sites, or your own properties.

✅ Why This Matters

  • ✔ More accurate and reliable content
  • ✔ Citations from sources you trust
  • ✔ Better alignment with your brand, industry, or mission
  • ✔ Less risk of low-quality or irrelevant references

🧠 How It Works (At a High Level)

  1. You create a Knowledge Base
  2. You add trusted websites (and optionally limit which sections are used)
  3. You assign that Knowledge Base to your website via the Brand Bible
  4. Content generation automatically uses those sources for research and citations

No extra steps during content creation—everything happens automatically once configured.

🔧 What You Can Do Now

1️⃣ Create Knowledge Bases

  • Organize sources by topic, industry, or purpose
  • Reuse the same Knowledge Base across multiple content projects
  • Add descriptions so your team knows how each one should be used

2️⃣ Choose Exactly What Gets Indexed

For each website you add, you can decide:

  • Entire Site
    Use everything from a trusted source
  • Include Only Certain Sections
    Example: only /blog/ or /research/
  • Exclude Certain Pages
    Example: remove job listings or outdated content
  • Specific Pages Only
    Perfect for curated articles, research papers, or official documents

This gives you full control without needing technical expertise.

3️⃣ Assign a Knowledge Base to Your Brand Bible

Once a Brand Bible exists, you can:

  • Select a Knowledge Base from a dropdown
  • Save it once
  • Automatically apply it to all future content generation for that site

✍️ Smarter Citations & Links (Automatically)

When a Knowledge Base is used:

  • Content cites information from your selected sources
  • Citations are clearly numbered and linked
  • External links respect your link-density and ratio settings
  • If the link limit is reached, extra citations are still shown (just not linked)

This keeps your content clean, credible, and SEO-friendly.

🔄 Seamless Upgrade from the Old Friend/Foe System

If you were already using Friends:

  • They’ve been automatically converted into Knowledge Bases
  • Each trusted site was preserved
  • No action required—everything keeps working

(Previously blocked “foe” sites are not included, by design.)

🖥️ New Screens You’ll See

  • Knowledge Base Management
    • Create, edit, and organize your Knowledge Bases
  • Data Source Editor
    • Add websites
    • Control which pages are included
    • Easily adjust rules visually
  • Brand Bible Integration
    • Select which Knowledge Base powers your content

Everything is fully integrated into your existing workflow.

🧭 Best Practices

  • Create separate Knowledge Bases for different content goals
    (e.g., “News Sources”, “Research”, “Internal Docs”)
  • Start broad with trusted sites, then narrow if needed
  • Review your sources occasionally to keep content fresh and relevant

🚀 What This Unlocks

Knowledge Bases are the foundation for future enhancements like:

  • Source performance insights
  • Shared team Knowledge Bases
  • Smarter citation scoring
  • Advanced content validation

This release sets the stage for even greater control and transparency in AI-powered content creation.

If you have questions or want help setting up your first Knowledge Base, our support team is ready to help.

Happy publishing!

January 29th, 2026

🔍 Ask: Smarter Conversation Search

Finding past conversations in Ask is now fast and effortless.

What’s New

  • Search your conversations by meaning, not just titles
    You can now find past Ask conversations based on what was actually discussed, even if you do not remember the exact wording.
  • Automatic search when you need it
    When you have a larger conversation history, Ask intelligently adds a search option so older conversations are never lost.
  • Real-time results
    As you type, relevant conversations appear instantly, ranked by relevance.

Why It Matters

  • Quickly recover insights from older conversations
  • No more scrolling through long conversation lists
  • Finds conversations based on intent, not exact phrasing

📰 Content Booster: Smarter Use of Current Events

Content Booster now knows when your content needs up-to-date information and proves it.

What’s New

  • Automatic detection of time-sensitive sections
    Content Booster evaluates each section to determine whether current events are required.
  • Relevant news sources added only when needed
    When freshness matters, Content Booster pulls in the most relevant news context to improve accuracy and credibility.
  • Clear source transparency
    You can now see exactly:
    • Which sections used news sources
    • Why current events were included
    • Which sources were referenced
  • Built-in reporting
    A new “News Sources Used” section appears in the final draft when applicable, making content review and validation easy.

Why It Matters

  • Prevents outdated or inaccurate content
  • Avoids unnecessary news clutter in timeless content
  • Builds trust with editors, stakeholders, and readers
  • Makes AI-generated content easier to verify and defend

✨ Overall Impact

These updates continue Market Brew’s shift toward:

  • More discoverable insights
  • More trustworthy AI-assisted content
  • More clarity around why decisions are made

Ask helps you find knowledge faster.
Content Booster helps you publish with confidence.

January 27th, 2026

✨ AI Recommendations Now Available in the AI Overviews Visualizer

We have added AI Recommendations directly into the AI Overviews Visualizer and Author, making it easier to move from analysis to action without leaving your workflow.

What’s New

🧠 AI Recommendations Button
A new AI Recommendations button is now available on the Content Similarity tab. This provides guided rewrite suggestions tailored to how embeddings are being interpreted by AI systems.

🔍 Embedding-Level Guidance
Clicking on any individual embedding now opens a right-hand sidebar with AI Recommendations on how to rewrite or improve that specific passage. This experience mirrors what users already rely on in the Orbital Drift Stabilizer, bringing consistency across tools.

Why This Matters

Instead of guessing how to improve similarity or alignment, you can now see exactly how Market Brew recommends rewriting content at the passage level, based on the same modeling used throughout the platform.

This closes the gap between:

  • Seeing a similarity issue
  • Understanding why it exists
  • Knowing what to change

What’s Coming Next

This release is part one of a broader initiative to unify Market Brew’s content analysis and writing tools into a single, cohesive experience. Future enhancements will continue to reduce friction between insight, recommendation, and execution as we build toward a fully integrated content analysis and writing suite.

More to come.

January 26th, 2026

Clearer Signals. Faster Content. Smarter Decisions.

This release focuses on improving signal accuracy, removing confusing UX states, and making content creation faster and more intuitive. The goal is simple: help you trust what you see, act faster, and stay aligned with how search and AI systems actually interpret your site.

🧭 Visibility Launchpad: Most Similar Webpage now links to AI Overviews Visualizer

The Most Similar Webpage link in Visibility Launchpad now opens the AI Overviews Visualizer instead of the Webpage Scoresheet.

What this means for you

  • The link now reflects how the match is actually generated
  • The page shown is the exact URL reported by the rankings data (from the Mine tab)
  • The AI Overviews Visualizer is used because this match is based on a fast embedding pass, not a full crawl
  • You no longer see conflicting messages about whether a page has been crawled or processed

This creates a clearer, more honest experience when reviewing similarity matches.

📘 Brand Bible "Not Specified" Fix

Brand Bible fields that previously displayed “not specified” across the platform have been corrected.

What this means for you

  • Your saved brand guidance now displays properly
  • Prompts and generated content reflect your real inputs
  • No more placeholder values appearing in workflows

✨ Content Booster: Faster Defaults, Smarter Prompts

Two major improvements make Content Booster more fluid and more aligned with your goals.

Auto-Expand Focus Prompt

When your prompt is short or vague, Market Brew now automatically expands it using your brand, page intent, and surrounding context.

You get

  • Richer, more specific content
  • Less manual prompt engineering
  • Better alignment to real search intent

Optional Advanced Settings

The step-by-step wizard has been simplified.

You can now

  • Write a prompt and click Ignite Content immediately
  • Open advanced controls only when you want them
  • Stay in flow without mandatory setup steps

This creates a fast default path with power controls still available when needed.

📈 Historical Drift

Historical drift is now available in the Orbital Drift Website Visualizer.

You can now see how each website’s alignment changes over time, with Max / Avg / Min drift values plotted across the timeline.

What this means for you

  • Track when a site starts drifting from its original intent
  • See whether optimizations are holding or slipping
  • Compare stability across time instead of relying on single snapshots

Summary

This release sharpens Market Brew’s signal integrity, simplifies content creation, and removes sources of confusion that slow teams down.

The result

  • Clearer insights
  • Faster workflows
  • More trustworthy signals
  • Stronger alignment between strategy and execution

SEO moves from reacting to noise to acting on outcomes.

January 24th, 2026

New Tool: Link Injector
Automated internal link deployment using semantic matching

We’ve released Link Injector, a new tool that analyzes your content and injects contextually relevant links to pages within a selected website using Market Brew’s semantic similarity engine.

It completes the internal linking workflow:

Spot → Find → Inject
Discovery → Targeting → Deployment

Where to find it
Tools → Link Analysis → Link Injector

Works with any licensed website in your account that has embeddings indexed.

What it does
• Finds linkable phrases in your content
• Matches them to relevant pages using embeddings
• Injects links automatically
• Preserves your existing HTML and formatting

Key controls

Similarity Threshold (30%–85%)
Controls how closely a phrase must match a page before a link is created.
Default: 40% (Relaxed)

• 30–40% → very broad matches
• 40–55% → relaxed (default)
• 55–70% → balanced
• 70–85% → strict

Link Density
Set how many links to add per 100 words (1.0–5.0).
This controls how aggressively authority is distributed.

Target Website
Choose which licensed site will receive the links.

Common uses
• Updating older content
• Preparing AI content for publishing
• Migrating content
• Standardizing internal linking

Link Injector turns content into a modeled authority distribution engine — not guesswork, not manual linking, but repeatable deployment based on semantic relevance.

January 23rd, 2026

Content Booster: Current Events Intelligence - Release Notes

Feature: Automatic Current Events Detection & Integration

🆕 What's New

Content Booster now automatically detects when your content topics benefit from current events and seamlessly integrates relevant, real-time information into your generated articles.

Intelligent Current Events Detection

When generating content, Market Brew now:

  • Analyzes each section to determine if current events would enhance the content
  • Automatically searches news sources when topics like "latest trends," "recent developments," or "current state" are detected
  • Retrieves semantically relevant snippets from top news articles and stories
  • Integrates information naturally without forcing irrelevant current events into evergreen content

✨ Key Benefits

1. Always-Current Content

Your generated articles automatically include the latest industry developments, market trends, and breaking news when relevant to your topic.

2. Zero Manual Research

No need to manually search for current statistics, recent case studies, or latest industry news—Market Brew does it automatically during content generation.

3. Smart Detection

The system intelligently distinguishes between:

  • Evergreen topics (how-to guides, foundational concepts) that don't need current events
  • Time-sensitive topics (market analysis, technology trends, policy updates) that benefit from real-time information

4. Semantic Relevance

Using advanced embedding technology, Market Brew finds the most contextually relevant news snippets—not just keyword matches—ensuring current events genuinely support your content.

🎯 When Current Events Are Added

Current events are automatically detected and added for sections involving:

✅ Topics that benefit from current events:

  • Recent industry trends or developments
  • Current market conditions or statistics
  • Latest technology advancements
  • Policy changes or regulatory updates
  • Competitive landscape analysis
  • State-of-the-art practices or best practices that evolve
  • Topics with explicit time references ("recent," "latest," "current," "2025," "2026")

❌ Topics that remain evergreen:

  • Foundational how-to content
  • Historical facts or completed events
  • Timeless principles and frameworks
  • General definitions and explanations
  • Theoretical or conceptual topics

🔧 How It Works

Behind the Scenes

  1. Section Analysis: Each content section is analyzed to determine if current events would add value
  2. Confidence Scoring: The system generates a confidence score (0-100%) for whether current events are needed
  3. Smart Search: If confidence exceeds 65%, Market Brew generates an optimized search query
  4. News Retrieval: Relevant news articles and top stories are crawled and processed
  5. Semantic Matching: Using embeddings, the most relevant snippets are identified based on your section's context
  6. Natural Integration: Current events are provided as context to the content generator, which integrates them naturally when appropriate

What You'll Notice

  • Sections with current data: When Market Brew adds current events, you'll see references to recent developments, latest statistics, or breaking industry news
  • Source diversity: Information comes from authoritative news sources, industry publications, and top stories
  • Natural flow: Current events are woven into the narrative, not awkwardly inserted
  • Graceful degradation: If news retrieval fails, content generation continues normally without current events

📝 Example Impact

Before (without current events):

"SEO strategies continue to evolve as search engines improve their algorithms. Businesses should focus on quality content and user experience."

After (with current events):

"SEO strategies continue to evolve as search engines improve their algorithms. Recent analysis from January 2026 shows that Google's latest core update has increased emphasis on E-E-A-T signals, with sites demonstrating clear expertise seeing ranking improvements of 15-30%. Businesses should focus on quality content and user experience while ensuring proper author attribution and topical authority."

Content Booster Release Notes - FAQ Enhancement Update

New Feature: Intelligent FAQ Generation with Current Events

We've significantly enhanced how Content Booster handles FAQ sections in generated content, making your FAQs more accurate, relevant, and up-to-date.

Smart FAQ Question Detection

  • FAQ sections now use the actual questions defined in your content strategy (Stage 1)
  • Each FAQ question is analyzed individually to determine if current events would improve the answer
  • Questions about recent developments, current challenges, or evolving situations automatically trigger news retrieval

Current Events Integration for FAQs

  • FAQ answers are enriched with recent news and developments when relevant
  • The system intelligently determines which questions benefit from current information
  • Multiple layers of analysis ensure comprehensive coverage:
    • Overall FAQ section analysis for broad context
    • Individual question analysis for specific current events needs
    • Smart confidence thresholds prevent irrelevant news from cluttering answers

Natural, Accurate Responses

  • Current events are integrated naturally into FAQ answers
  • No fabricated statistics or invented case studies
  • Clear guidelines prevent AI buzzwords and jargon
  • Answers remain focused on providing genuine value to readers

How It Works

  1. Question Analysis: When generating an FAQ section, Content Booster analyzes each question to detect if it relates to current events, recent developments, or evolving situations
  2. Intelligent News Retrieval: Questions that benefit from current information trigger targeted news searches:
    • Broad searches for questions covering multiple recent topics
    • Focused searches for specific current event questions
    • Balanced snippet collection (4-8 articles) to avoid information overload
  3. Contextual Integration: Current events are woven naturally into answers:
    • Recent developments support your answers with real data
    • Up-to-date information keeps your content relevant
    • Questions that don't need current events remain focused on core concepts

Benefits

  • More Accurate FAQs: Answers reflect current reality, not outdated information
  • Better User Experience: Readers get relevant, timely information
  • Improved SEO Value: Fresh, current content performs better in search results
  • Reduced Manual Updates: Current events are automatically incorporated at generation time


Website Crawl 403s - Crawler Enhancement
Previously when a site was crawled and it returned 403 errors, we only enabled a proxy crawl when we had crawled at least 50 pages from the site. This causes many sites to never get included in the Ranking Sensors b/c we didn't reach this limit. Now all sites that exceed a 403 ratio will be automatically switched to proxy crawling, resulting in these sites included in many more Ranking Sensors, resulting a higher PSO score for all Ranking Sensors.

January 22nd, 2026

This release improves workflow clarity, historical insight, ranking accuracy, and operational control across core platform surfaces.

📚 Brand Bible Enhancements

Historical Brand Bible Listing

A new Brand Bible Listing screen now shows historical versions of each Brand Bible entry.

Why this matters

  • Track how your brand narrative evolves over time
  • Compare previous guidance to current positioning
  • Maintain consistency across AI-generated content, Ask, and self-healing workflows

📊 Mission Control & Task Intelligence

Top Tasks Now Reflect Selected Website

When a website is selected in Mission Control, the Top Tasks panel now dynamically reflects tasks for that specific site.

Benefits

  • Immediate, site-specific prioritization
  • Clearer operational focus in multi-site environments
  • Reduced noise from irrelevant tasks

Target Website Filter in Top Tasks View

The Top Tasks screen now includes a Target Website filter, allowing you to explicitly scope tasks to a specific site.

Benefits

  • Rapid context switching between websites
  • Cleaner task views for multi-domain customers
  • Improved focus for execution teams

📈 Ranking & Sensor Accuracy

Manual Ranking Sensor Review Fix

Resolved an issue where the Manual Ranking Sensor Setup Wizard displayed “Not Ranking” on the review screen, even when the site was ranking.

Result

  • Accurate ranking validation during setup
  • Greater confidence before launching calibrated sensors

🚀 Flight Plan Management

Copy / Delete Actions Restored

Fixed an issue where Flight Plans could not be copied or deleted from the listing view.

Outcome

  • Full lifecycle control over Flight Plans
  • Faster iteration when testing SEO strategies

Summary

This release tightens the feedback loop between strategy, execution, and measurement by:

  • Making Brand intelligence auditable over time
  • Aligning Top Tasks with live operational context
  • Enabling site-level task filtering
  • Ensuring ranking signals are trustworthy
  • Restoring full control over Flight Plan workflows

These improvements continue to move Market Brew toward a fully self-healing, decision-driven SEO system.

January 7th, 2026

Bug Fixes

Listen Usage Limit Display Fix

  • Fixed an issue where the Listen module displayed “0 / 15” while also indicating that the maximum limit had been reached.
  • Usage limits are now correctly enforced and displayed per crew, rather than per customer, ensuring accurate reporting and preventing false limit exhaustion.

Website Embedding Domain Cluster Index Fix

  • Resolved an issue where the domain cluster value could appear as -1 in the Website Embedding Listing.
  • Domain cluster identifiers now correctly reflect valid clustering assignments.

Enhancements & Feature Updates

Improved Search Interaction for Website Embedding Listing

  • Updated the Website Embedding Listing to use a dialog-based prompt input instead of an inline search field, providing a cleaner and more intentional search experience.
  • Added direct linking from the Brand Briefing screen to the Website Embedding Listing for improved workflow continuity.

Expanded Keyword Visibility for Embedding Clusters

  • Increased the number of displayed centroid keywords and branded keywords from 3 to 12, offering deeper visibility into the dominant semantic signals driving cluster classification.

AI Overviews Author & Orbital Drift Stabilizer – Meta Information Control

  • Added a new “Add Meta Information” button, allowing users to explicitly include and manage metadata as part of AI Overviews alignment and orbital drift stabilization workflows.

Core Content Sample (New Feature)

  • Introduced the Core Content Sample across the Website Dashboard and Website Embedding Listing screens.
  • The Core Content Sample is based on approximately 15 representative embeddings from the largest content cluster (Domain Cluster #1).
  • This provides a concise, high-signal snapshot of how embedding-based systems interpret the site’s primary topical focus, analogous to cluster sampling used in AI Overviews and passage-based retrieval.
January 4th, 2026

Content Booster – Recent Enhancements

New: Article Layout Configuration

A new Article Layout section has been added to the Content Booster setup screen, giving users finer control over how generated content is structured.

Key capabilities include:

  • Generate Introduction / Abstract
    Choose whether to automatically generate an introductory or abstract section at the start of the content.
  • Custom Layout Instructions
    Define high-level structural rules that guide how the content is organized (e.g., narrative flow, step-based structure, verse-by-verse analysis).
  • Section Heading Options
    Choose whether to include visible section headings or allow content to flow continuously as prose.
    When headings are disabled, logical section breaks are still respected internally, enabling narrative-style content without visual headers.

This enhancement enables significantly more flexibility for long-form, narrative, or editorial content while maintaining consistent internal structure.

Enhanced: “Use Site Context” (Internal Linking Intelligence)

The Use Site Context option has been substantially upgraded when Internal Links are enabled.

What’s changed:

  • Content Booster now attempts to incorporate additional supporting content from existing site pages, based on the entire generated section, not just anchor text.
  • This allows the system to surface more relevant references and internal links that better reflect topical alignment and on-site authority.

How this improves results:

  • Previously, the system identified anchor text first and then searched for the closest snippet embeddings to determine internal link targets.
  • The upgraded approach evaluates full section context, resulting in more meaningful internal references and better semantic alignment.

This behavior now mirrors the proven logic used in Friends/Foes, where defining a friend site and enabling external links allows Content Booster to add contextual quotes or reference links automatically.

Improved: Stage 6 – Editorial Rules Enforcement

Stage 6 (Final Output) has been enhanced to more closely adhere to the Brand Bible’s editorial_rules section.

Impact:

  • Tone, style, formatting, and editorial constraints defined in the Brand Bible are now enforced more consistently.
  • Final output more accurately reflects brand voice, editorial standards, and compliance requirements without additional manual editing.

This results in content that is both search-aligned and brand-aligned at publication time.

New: Reduced Minimum Word Count

The minimum word count for Content Booster output has been lowered to 500 words.

Why this matters:

  • Shorter-form content now works more effectively with custom section layouts and no section title configurations.
  • Enables narrative, editorial, and commentary-style content that benefits from tighter structure without unnecessary length.
  • Provides greater flexibility when producing supporting articles, topical explainers, or focused authority pieces.

This change was validated alongside the new Article Layout controls and is designed to expand Content Booster’s use cases without sacrificing semantic depth or internal structure.

Summary

These updates collectively improve:

  • Structural control over generated content
  • Internal linking accuracy and contextual relevance
  • Editorial consistency and brand compliance
  • Flexibility for both long-form and concise narrative content

Together, they move Content Booster closer to a fully guided, first-principles content generation workflow that aligns structure, semantics, and brand standards in a single pass.