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What changed in the tool, newest first. Currently running v3.

v3

running now2026-09-15

Outreach runs itself: every contact on a deal is looked up, an email and two LinkedIn messages are written per person, and lemlist sends them.

Claude writes a first-touch email for each person from the deal's own news article, and the lead is pushed into a lemlist campaign automatically after it reaches Inquiry — up to 10 people a night.
Each lead carries its own text: aiSubject, dealHook (one personal line for a fixed template), aiLinkedinMsg and aiInviteNote, so one campaign template serves everybody without sounding generic.
Subject lines are short questions about the recipient's own business, and the email is an introduction rather than a pitch — no offer, no NDA, no meeting request.
Emails are written from the full source article, not the one-line summary, so the opening line is a detail only a reader of the story would know.
Nothing sends without a check: a draft still holding a [placeholder] is held back, a junk-looking address is skipped, and a contact whose employer is not part of the deal is never queued (Apollo matches common names to the wrong person).
Preview page shows the exact drafts and the exact payload lemlist receives, sends nothing, and needs no password.
OUTREACH_PAUSED=1 stops queueing without touching the rest of the pipeline.

Both sides of a deal are searched — buyer and seller — and each side with an email becomes its own row in Inquiry, labelled Buyer or Seller in Comment 2.
Every contact on a deal is now revealed, not just until the first email lands: a reveal returns the LinkedIn profile too, and the profile is worth having on its own.
A reveal that finds nothing is recorded, so a person Apollo has no address for reads as "No Apollo email" instead of offering a button that can only fail.
"Find Contacts" no longer discards emails that were already unlocked.

Outreach: who has an email, who was queued, who replied, who is waiting — with lemlist's own activity per person (sent, opened, replied, invite accepted, messaged, bounced) and a button to queue one person at a time.
Daily status: a table of the last 14 days — deals found, searched, with email, written to Inquiry, queued — plus the last run's result and the Apollo credit balance.
Controls: every job on one page with a plain description, so nothing needs a hand-built URL.
Deal cards show the found email, whether the deal reached Inquiry, whether outreach was sent, and the date the scan found it (matching the digest email).
The whole interface is in English.

Enrichment is its own nightly job, half an hour after the scan: a slow scan can no longer eat the time the day's leads need.
The nightly job works only on the last few days and newest first, so importing the old backlog can never crowd out today's deals.
When deals are still pending, the run hands off to another run of itself — roughly fifty deals a day instead of the six that fit in one request.
Long jobs no longer overwrite each other's saves, which was quietly losing sheetedAt marks and could have lost revealed emails.
Each run records what it did, readable on the status page, because this Vercel plan keeps no logs for scheduled runs.

2026-09-08

Apollo finds the email, and deals with an email reach the VF Inquiry sheet by themselves.

Apollo looks up a contact and unlocks the email for each new deal.
Deals with an email are written into the VF Inquiry sheet, ALL LEADS tab, in the sheet's own column format.
A deal with no email is never written to Inquiry.
The 08:00 scan runs the whole flow and emails the daily digest.
/api/enrich-backfill imports older deals in batches.

Each release is also tagged on GitHub with the same notes.