What’s new in CTD
A monthly log of new features, improvements, and platform updates across Connect The Dots. Updated at the end of every month.
August 2026
CTD Mobile for Android
The CTD app is now live on Google Play. Your whole network, warm paths, and ghost emails - now on both major mobile platforms. See details →
Paths through external members
Add advisors, investors, and partners as external members - no CTD account or sign-up required on their side. Based on publicly available data, CTD maps everyone they likely know and turns it into warm paths your team can act on. Your company’s reach grows the moment you add them.
Unified Members experience
Co-workers and external members now live in a single Members view, simplifying how admins manage everyone contributing to the company network.
New user welcome guide
A shareable onboarding guide that admins can send to every employee when rolling out CTD company-wide.
July 2026
CTD Mobile for iPhone
The CTD app arrived on the App Store: every contact, interaction, and warm path in your pocket, with Dottie - your network AI - one tap away. See more →
Claude skills for CTD
Pre-built skills for Claude: company research (full account brief with warm paths in one command) and portfolio introductions for VC & PE platform teams.
New Help Center
We launched a completely new Help & Guides center - 90+ searchable articles covering every edition, integration, and workflow.
June 2026
CTD MCP server
CTD went live on the Model Context Protocol. Connect your CTD account to Claude or any MCP-compatible AI tool and ask questions like “who can intro me to this company?” in plain language. Set it up here.
HubSpot integration
Relationship scores and warm paths, embedded directly in HubSpot records. See the setup guide.
Clearer relationship strength indicator
Relationship scores are now shown as a three-bar strength indicator across the app, making it easier to read connection strength at a glance.
Manually add contacts
You can now add contacts to your network manually - useful for relationships that never touched your inbox.
Relaunched ctd.ai
A completely redesigned website, including a public Security page documenting our data practices, certifications, and privacy controls.
May 2026
LinkedIn messages import
Upload your LinkedIn message history alongside your connections so CTD can score the real strength of LinkedIn relationships - not just their existence. How it works.
LinkedIn connections API
A new API endpoint for pushing LinkedIn connections into CTD programmatically - including directly from AI tools like Claude.
Workspace API enrichment workflows
The Workspace API expanded to support CRM and partner-tool enrichment workflows, and path endpoints now cover personal connectors in addition to co-workers and external members.
CTD + Claude skill files
Downloadable skill files that let Claude query your CTD network over the API: find people, rank paths by strength, and draft ghost emails - the precursor to our MCP server.
March 2026
New UI rollout completed
The redesigned interface became the default for all workspaces, completing the rollout that began in September - along with the retirement of the legacy UI.
Champion tracking notifications
Champion job-change alerts expanded to email notifications for account owners, so no champion move goes unnoticed.
February 2026
Shared notes on people
Add multiple notes to the same person and share them with your entire team, making institutional knowledge about relationships visible company-wide.
Shared lists
Share any list - companies or people - with everyone in your company to collaborate on outreach, events, or account planning.
Paths in HubSpot (first release)
The first iteration of warm paths surfaced inside HubSpot, bringing relationship intelligence into CRM workflows.
January 2026
Champion tracking
CTD now automatically identifies your champions - strong relationships at customer accounts - detects when they change jobs, and notifies account owners via Slack.
Rich people profiles (About page)
A new About page for every person: an AI-generated summary, education, skills, locations, contact details found in email signatures, and a full breakdown of how you know them across email, calendar, LinkedIn, career overlap, and mutual connections.
API access for every plan
API documentation and an API access page shipped in-app, with self-serve API keys - so every team can see what’s possible before upgrading.
Reorganized navigation
A cleaner left navigation based on usage data and user feedback, making core features easier to find.
December 2025
Public API launch
Our first public API went live: contacts, relationship paths, and notes endpoints with self-serve API keys. The start of programmatic access to your relationship graph - see CTD API.
Outreach approvers
Admins can now define who must approve ghost email requests before they reach a connector - protecting executives and key relationships from over-outreach. Learn more.
Activity tab on people pages
Every person’s detail page now shows the full history of intro requests and outreach involving them, so you never double-ask the same connector.
Guided enterprise onboarding
A new guided initial-setup flow for enterprise workspaces - email scopes, data controls, and provisioning - dramatically reducing time-to-launch for new customers.
November 2025
Normalized company industries
Company industries are now normalized and grouped into ~20 broad categories, so filtering by industry actually works - filter by “Education” or drill into “E-Learning.”
Automatic path freshness
Warm paths now refresh automatically on key events - a new LinkedIn import, a new external member, or a new team member joining - plus scheduled freshness checks, keeping paths reliably up to date.
Streamlined path generation
Path creation and refresh went from a multi-step process to a single step, with automated monitoring - the foundation for always-fresh relationship data.
October 2025
New UI rollout expands
The redesigned interface rolled out to more workspaces, with a guided in-app tour for first-time users.
September 2025
Redesigned interface (new UI)
The general rollout of CTD’s redesigned interface began: left-hand navigation, a cleaner layout, and the new Paths → People experience. New customers get the new UI by default.
Relationship insights in email digests
Weekly email digests now include personalized relationship insights, surfacing the warm paths and network changes that matter most to each user.
August 2025
Activity tracking for all enterprise users
Admins and account owners can now see team activity across CTD - logins, paths viewed, ghost emails, and intro requests - directly in the app, with per-company activity views in Paths.
AI-powered home experience (beta)
A new AI-driven home screen began rolling out: ask questions about your network in plain language, right from the app’s front page.
July 2025
Smarter path discovery
A major upgrade to how CTD finds warm paths: paths through personal connections, career overlaps at previous companies, and familiar third-degree relationships - and connectors no longer need to be CTD users to appear as a path.
Weekly job-change digest for everyone
The weekly email digest of job changes across your network rolled out to all users - know the moment a relationship lands somewhere new.
June 2025
New Paths toolbar
A redesigned Paths toolbar went live for everyone, putting filters and bulk actions where you need them.
Ghost email workflow upgrades
Draft comments are now private until the ghost email is shared with the sender; reminders can nudge both the approver and the sender; and you can look up a missing email address via ZoomInfo right from the compose window.
Manual path status updates
You can now manually move a path to “introduced” or “meeting scheduled,” keeping path stages accurate even when the outreach happened outside CTD.
Unified Invite view
Adding co-workers, inviting external members, and sending personal invites now live in one streamlined Invite view with clear descriptions of each option.
May 2025
Paths for free users
Warm paths came to the free plan, giving every individual user a taste of path discovery across their own network.
Editable relationship scores
Users can now adjust their own relationship scores directly in Paths - you know your relationships best, and now the graph can reflect that.
Enterprise-wide views guided tour
A guided in-app tour for admins exploring enterprise-wide network views.
Ghost email comments on mobile
Collaborating on ghost email drafts now works from your phone.
April 2025
Relationship insights for everyone
Rich insights on how a connector actually knows a target - shared history, interaction patterns, and context - went live for all users.
Better location filters
Free-text location filters in Paths were replaced with structured dropdowns of all available locations.
Apollo email lookup
Find a missing email address via Apollo directly from the compose flow.
March 2025
Salesforce integration launch
The native Salesforce integration went live for the first cohort of customers - target account data synced from Salesforce daily, with the rollout expanding to 20+ companies over the following weeks.
Self-serve account deletion & auth pages
Users can delete their own accounts without contacting support (a SOC 2-driven improvement), and authentication moved from modals to dedicated, more secure auth pages.
February 2025
Self-serve user management
Admins can now add, activate, deactivate, and delete users directly from the User Management page - no more emailing support to provision a new employee.
CTD paths in Salesforce (early access)
The first version of the embedded Salesforce experience: warm paths surfaced on account pages inside Salesforce.
Job-change tracking pilots
Job-change detection for target personas entered testing, laying the groundwork for the notification features that followed.
January 2025
Daily ghost email digest for connectors
Connectors now get a daily email digest of pending ghost email requests, keeping intro requests moving without logging in.
Weak-relationship warning
CTD now warns you before you ask a connector with a weak relationship to the target - protecting your asks and your connectors.
Bulk ghost email reminders & bigger lists
Send reminders on multiple ghost emails at once, and create more lists per user.
December 2024
New onboarding experience
A completely redesigned sign-up and onboarding flow went live - fully mobile-responsive, so new users can join and sync from any device.
Bulk path stage changes
Update the stage of many paths at once, plus filtering by custom columns and a round of email inbox improvements.
November 2024
Custom columns in Paths
Add your own columns to Paths - text, number, or date - with custom names, drag-and-drop ordering, and multi-column sorting.
Recommended external members
CTD now recommends the strongest candidates from your network to invite as external members.
Drafted tab in the ghost email inbox
Ghost email drafts got their own tab, with colored variable pills making template placeholders easy to spot.
October 2024
Advanced Paths filtering
A wave of new Paths filters - by path, connector, target, connector type, path stage, and degree - plus a redesigned filter toolbar.
Self-serve target account upload
Upload your target account list yourself via CSV, without waiting on the CTD team.
September 2024
New external member invite experience
A redesigned invite template and landing page for external members - clearer value proposition for the advisors, investors, and friends you invite to share their networks.
Paths table polish
Adjustable column widths, hover cards with company and contact details, and a round of email reliability fixes.
Self-serve enterprise documents
Admins can update and remove enterprise documents themselves.
August 2024
Saved filtered views in Paths
Save your favorite filter combinations as named views and jump back to them instantly.
Automated path & company statuses
Path and company stages now update automatically as outreach progresses, with email notifications when your paths change.
Flexible external member invites
Invite external members without predefined email addresses, track pending invites in a “waiting to be approved” tab, and invite directly from the top navigation.
July 2024
Chrome extension refresh
A significantly updated Chrome extension with a cleaner layout and faster relationship lookups alongside LinkedIn and Gmail.
Admin onboarding steps (beta)
A guided setup checklist for new enterprise admins entered beta, streamlining workspace configuration.
“My score” in Paths
See and sort by your own relationship score across path views.
June 2024
Mobile sign-up
New users can now sign up and complete onboarding entirely from their phone.
Redesigned external member onboarding
A completely new web onboarding flow for external members - researched, tested, and rebuilt to get advisors and investors contributing their networks with far less friction.
Approved connectors
The first version of connector protection went live: admins control which connectors can be approached, preventing over-outreach to key relationships.
Weekly job-change email (pilot)
The weekly digest of job changes across your network began its pilot, ordered by relationship strength.
Path degree filters
Filter paths by connection degree to focus on first-degree relationships or expand to the extended network.
May 2024
Keyboard shortcuts
A keyboard shortcuts menu and app-wide shortcuts for faster path triage and inbox work.
Weak paths for target accounts
Paths reports can now include weaker connections for target companies - more coverage when strong paths don’t exist yet.
Compose window polish
Add and edit recipient emails inline, with clearer warnings and tooltips when addresses are missing or stale.
April 2024
Best Paths
A new Best Paths experience launched, ranking the strongest routes into every target account in a single view.
Third-degree ghost emails
Ghost emails now work across third-degree connections - chain introductions through your extended network.
Self-serve user management (first customers)
The admin User Management page went live with the first enterprise customers.
Ghost email stage control
Manually change ghost email stages, with comments on drafts restored and improved.
March 2024
User management upgrades
Sorting, seniority and function filters, and company-wide admin templates in the User Management page.
Admin setup checklist
A complete-setup banner and checklist so enterprise admins always know what’s left to configure.
External member invite polish
Individual emails by default, a congratulations modal on acceptance, and clearer invite templates.
February 2024
Ghost emails on mobile
Review, edit, and send ghost emails from your phone.
New invite landing page
A redesigned invitation landing page nearly doubled invite-to-signup conversion (24% → 40%).
Automatic ghost email re-sends
Unanswered ghost email requests are automatically re-surfaced after three days.
January 2024
Salesforce Lists integration (early access)
The first Salesforce integration went live behind a feature flag: build CTD lists directly from Salesforce data.
Inline image resizing
Resize inline images in ghost emails and templates.
External member insights
See how many connectors each external member brings before and after they join.
December 2023
External Members launch
External Members for Enterprise went live - board members, investors, and advisors can join a company’s supergraph and contribute their networks without being employees. The foundation of CTD’s network effect.
Template folders
Organize email templates into folders with drag-and-drop.
Chrome extension v3.27
Split ghost email button, a new details tab with career history, standardized connection cards, and list support in the sidebar.
Share ghost emails with comments
Attach a comment when sharing a ghost email draft, and use inline attachments including GIFs.
November 2023
Winter ’24 release: smart lists
Build lists of high-value targets: load your target accounts, define your ideal personas and connectors (seniority, function, location), and preview the list through a connector’s eyes.
Share lists & offers to help
Share a list with an individual or a group - everyone gets a personalized view of where they can help, and connectors can flag where they’re comfortable lending a hand with one click.
Claim your account
New users joining through an enterprise can claim their pre-built account - relationships already mapped and scored on first login.
Redesigned home page
A new home experience with first-time-user onboarding, core-concept explainers, and recent items.
October 2023
Auto-created lists
Every user now starts with seven automatically generated lists showcasing their network - fully editable, fully deletable.
Email signatures & attachments
Ghost emails gained signature support and file attachments.
Stale email detection
Inactive email addresses are now flagged across the app and in the compose window, so outreach lands in active inboxes.
Chrome extension auto-update
The extension now shows an update banner so users always get the latest version quickly.
September 2023
Fall ’23 release: ghost email workflow
A wave of ghost email improvements following the feature’s breakout adoption - a streamlined review-edit-send flow, comments, draft-declined notifications, and a complete sent-emails view.
Dynamic people list sharing (beta)
Sharing of dynamic people lists entered beta, the first step toward team-wide list collaboration.
Notifications upgrades
Company logos in notifications, email-the-contact from job updates, and cleaner draft status alerts.