Changelog
New updates and improvements to Starlight.
Personalize your background gradient
Settings → Profile now has a Personalization section where you can pick the color gradient that drifts softly behind the app. Choose from a row of presets — Spectrum, Sunset, Periwinkle, Ocean, and more — and the background recolors instantly. Your pick is saved to your account, so it follows you across every device.
A refreshed Chrome extension card
The extension's controls now appear as a clean card that floats right on the page instead of a cramped toolbar popup, and it opens from the Starlight icon on any tab. Autopilot got smoother too: it picks up any queued sends the moment you return to Starlight and spaces them out more naturally. The default flow is unchanged — Starlight prefills your draft and you press Enter, and Autopilot stays off until you turn it on.
Deliverability: see your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC status
The Deliverability overview now checks the three DNS records that decide whether providers trust your mail. Each sending domain shows a clear pass or action-needed status for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, with a direct link to the right setup guide for Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 when something's missing. Personal mailboxes like @gmail.com are marked provider-managed, so you only see what you can actually fix.
Meet Star — a guided, voiced onboarding
Signing up now starts with Star, a friendly virtual sales rep. A glowing orb greets you, then settles at the top of the screen and walks you through each setup step out loud, with a live caption that highlights every word as it's spoken. Prefer to read? A volume button in the corner mutes the voice and remembers your choice — the captions stay either way.
Companies: ICP scores, a deal board, and TAM
The Companies page now has three views. Table adds a Score column that rates every company for fit against your Ideal Customer Profile (Ideal Fit through Poor Fit). Board is a drag-and-drop deal pipeline — Lead through Closed Won/Lost — where each company carries an editable opportunity value, columns total their opportunities, and everything sums into your Total Addressable Market. Score groups companies by fit tier, strongest first. Scoring and deal estimates run automatically, cost no credits, and re-run only when your ICP or product changes.
LinkedIn follow-ups schedule themselves after the connection request
When you send a LinkedIn connection request, its follow-up Message now moves to the Scheduled tab automatically instead of waiting in Drafts — no need to approve each one by hand. It still holds until the prospect accepts, then sends.
Chatting with the AI agent is now free
Talking with the agent no longer costs credits — ask questions and plan as much as you like. You're only charged when it takes an action: each tool call costs 1 credit plus that action's own cost. Longer, busier conversations cost a bit more; quick questions cost nothing.
Agents: AI that runs Starlight for you
The new Agents panel (press A) lets you chat with an AI that searches leads, judges their fit against your ICP, drafts personalized outreach, and — with your confirmation — sends it. Create virtual SDRs with a goal, quota, and schedule that work on your behalf; every run leaves a full audit timeline, and an optional Autopilot mode sends messages that pass an independent quality judge.
Use Starlight from Claude Code and other AI tools
Starlight now ships a hosted MCP server. Run `claude mcp add --transport http starlight https://joinstarlight.com/api/mcp`, sign in, and ask your coding assistant to find leads and draft outbound for you.
Chrome extension Autopilot
An opt-in Autopilot toggle in the extension popup sends agent-approved LinkedIn messages automatically while Chrome is open, capped at 25 per day to protect your account.
Tasks: your daily action hub
A new Tasks page gathers everything waiting on you — in-progress campaigns, messages ready to send per channel, LinkedIn touches waiting on connections, and scheduled sends — in one place.
Friendlier notifications
Notifications now show the avatar of the person each one is about, and every message was rewritten in plain language.
A conversational Inbox
Threads now read like a chat — two-sided bubbles, avatars, and the full back-and-forth in view. New Sync Email and Sync LinkedIn buttons pull fresh replies on demand.
Sequence timeline in Messages
Multi-step campaigns render as a connected timeline with numbered steps and wait connectors, so you can read a whole campaign top to bottom.
Quick LinkedIn Sync (extension v1.2.0)
The Chrome extension now detects accepted connection requests and new LinkedIn replies and syncs them straight into your Inbox.
Meeting prep shows the video platform
Prep sheets now surface whether a call is on Google Meet, Zoom, or another platform at a glance.
Per-lead channel cadence
Email + LinkedIn campaigns now adapt to each contact. LinkedIn-only contacts get a LinkedIn-only cadence instead of being dropped from the send.
Four distinct send shapes
Stock templates are now four genuinely different plays — single cold email, multi-touch email sequence, email → LinkedIn multichannel, and a LinkedIn connection note.
Starlight extension on the Chrome Web Store
The extension is now publicly listed, so installing it is one click — no developer mode needed.
Preview every draft before you approve
The Outbound builder now writes a draft for every recipient up front. Review them all, then approve to send the whole batch to Messages. Drafting and redrafting now cost 4 credits each.
The new Outbound builder
Drafting got a fullscreen home: write a brief, pick a Voice and send shape, toggle per-recipient web research, and preview the results — replacing the old step-by-step wizard.
Email signatures
A new Settings → Signature page with hosted headshot and logo images. Your signature is included automatically in drafts and sends.
Deliverability dashboard
Deliverability is now a top-level page with a health score, bounce and reply stats, and the Blacklist (moved from Settings). Bounce scans run automatically every day, and bounced addresses are removed from your contacts.
One-click calendar invites from the Inbox
When a prospect confirms a time, Starlight detects it and offers a one-click invite. You can also schedule manually from any thread, in the recipient's timezone.
Email verification before send
Invalid and disposable mailboxes are caught at send time so they never hit your bounce rate. Each sequence email now costs 2 credits, down from 5.
Chrome extension: one-click LinkedIn and X sends
Drafted LinkedIn DMs, connection requests, and X DMs open prefilled on the right profile — you just hit send.
Sends in the recipient's timezone
Outbound is now scheduled within business hours in each lead's local timezone, skips national holidays, and spreads sends to protect deliverability.
AI Sales Intelligence
The Metrics coach was renamed and rebuilt to give one accurate, stage-aware insight from your real pipeline data instead of generic advice.
Company search
A new Companies tab in Search finds target accounts directly, replacing Boolean search. Open any company to see enriched data and search its employees.
Credits ledger
A new Settings → Credits page shows a per-charge history of every credit spent, with a running balance and usage trend.
Free plan raised to 200 credits
Everyone's monthly free allowance went up from 120 to 200 credits.
Built-in scheduling
Create event types, set your availability, and share a public booking page — no separate scheduling tool needed. Booked meetings land on your calendar automatically.
Companies page
A new CRM view for the companies behind your leads, enriched with location, revenue, employee count, and tech stack.
Outlook email and calendar
Connect Microsoft 365 to send outreach from Outlook and sync Outlook Calendar events alongside Google Calendar.
Sources on AI Meeting Prep
Meeting prep notes now cite the web sources they draw from, so you can verify and go deeper.
Report bugs and suggest features
A new Settings → Support section lets you report a bug or suggest a feature without leaving the app.
HubSpot CRM integration
Connect your HubSpot account to import and export contacts directly. Leads sync bi-directionally with deduplication by email and HubSpot contact ID.
Seven new credit tiers
The plan ladder now runs from Starter (400 credits/mo) to Ultimate (12,000 credits/mo), with Advanced (8,000) and Enterprise (10,000) for teams that need serious throughput.
Isometric SVG illustrations for docs
Replaced CSS-based card illustrations on the docs landing page with hand-crafted isometric SVG artwork.
AI-powered reply drafting
When a prospect replies, Starlight drafts a contextual follow-up using live web research. Review and send in one click from your inbox.
Business-hours scheduling
Outbound messages now land during optimal windows — Tue–Thu 8:30–5, Mon 11–5, Fri 8:30–12. Timezone configurable per account.
Sequence drag-and-drop reordering
Reorder steps in your email sequences with drag-and-drop. Powered by dnd-kit for smooth, accessible interactions.
Natural language lead search
Describe your ideal customer in plain English — Starlight's AI parses your query into structured filters and searches our B2B contact database for matching leads.
Gmail OAuth integration
Connect your Gmail account with OAuth2 for sending personalized outreach. Includes daily rate limiting and thread continuity.
Credit usage tracking
A new metrics dashboard shows your credit consumption breakdown by action type — search, outreach, AI replies, and more.
Multi-step email sequences
Create automated follow-up sequences with customizable delays. Each step can have its own AI-generated or manual template.
Lead composite scoring
Leads are now scored with deterministic vendor-switch and decision-maker signals computed from enrichment data — no LLM required.
Fixed email template variable replacement
Resolved an issue where {{company}} variables were not replaced in sequence email subjects.
Personalized outreach generation
Starlight researches each prospect with live web search to draft hyper-personalized cold outreach that references their recent work.
Kanban pipeline view
A new drag-and-drop kanban board for managing leads through your sales pipeline stages.
Google Calendar integration
Sync your calendar to see availability, book meetings from lead profiles, and auto-generate AI meeting prep notes.
Improved search result relevance
AI scoring now better prioritizes leads matching your ideal customer profile, with improved title and seniority detection.