June 2026
Security & accounts
- Free AI visibility checks are now limited to 3 per day per visitor to keep the tool fast and fair.
- Stronger trial protection so new accounts are verified before they start.
- Trial abuse prevention: public signup now starts with an account shell; paid-plan trials run for 14 days and require a card on file.
- Database rebuilds and live migrations now enforce the same no-card-trial behavior at the signup trigger.
- Added passkey sign-in and management — Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, phone passkeys, password managers, and hardware security keys.
- Branded sign-in at
auth.neariq.io, and fixed login redirects so you always land on your dashboard.
Billing
- Optional usage overage controls: overage is off by default, so usage-based actions stop at your plan limit unless you turn it on.
- Optional monthly overage spend caps across SMS, voice minutes, video, citation sync, site audits, and keyword suggestions.
- Connect your own Stripe account (Growth+) to send card payment links from CRM contacts and reconcile completed payments into your ledger — with no NearIQ fee.
Customers & retention (Growth+)
- New Customers tab: lifecycle stages, churn-risk context, reviewed retention campaign drafts, and NPS surveys.
- Retention campaigns with built-in SMS consent, opt-out, quiet hours, and plan limits.
- A first-party payment ledger summary on Overview when you have CRM payments recorded.
Action Center
- New Action Center tab that ranks your next-best actions from your own business signals and sends you straight to the right workflow — nothing is sent or published automatically.
- Suggestions refresh automatically and respect SMS consent, quiet hours, and plan limits before any manual send.
Communication suite
- Call logs with inbound/outbound/missed filters, status, duration, forwarding info, and recording playback.
- Voicemail with transcription, unread indicators, and playback.
- SMS delivery status (sent, delivered, read, failed).
- International phone numbers with a 24-country selector.
- SMS number picker and multi-number management now support browsing without an area code, loading more results, capability/locality filters, primary sender selection, labels, and per-number release.
Dashboard & AI
- Content Studio: start a draft from your own page URL, generate batch variations, and polish images with freeform crop plus headline/CTA overlays.
- Rank Tracker now preserves circle-grid checks and saved competitor overlays in history and API reads.
- Clearer metric cards across Overview, Reviews, Market, Contacts, AI Visibility, Engagement, and SEO Audit — each with benchmarks and source context.
- Social follower sync refreshes competitor public follower and subscriber counts through official APIs on Growth+.
- AI chat: Enter inserts a newline, Ctrl/Cmd+Enter sends; compact mobile chat panel.
- AI preferences personalize chat, Content Studio, reports, and gap analysis (tone, length, language, saved context).
Integrations
- Instagram direct-message support in the unified inbox (send and receive).
- Real-time alert channels — Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, and webhooks — available on Growth and above. Starter keeps dashboard alerts, email alerts, and digests.
- Securely connect financial accounts to track revenue and expenses, with granular privacy controls.
- A new Settings > Integrations panel lets teams review connected financial sources, choose one active expense source, and manage account-level privacy controls.
- Google Search Console can now be connected for first-party organic search clicks, impressions, queries, CTR, and average position, with team permissions for viewing and managing the connection.
Platform & SDKs
- Official Go SDK for public API v1 is now available via
go get github.com/NearIQ/neariq-go. - Official JavaScript, Python, Go, and Rust SDKs cover the current public API, including competitors, alerts, reports, exports, market intelligence, agents, and webhooks.
- Sharing for reports, content, and agents — public viewer links and org-member links with viewer/editor/admin roles.
Fixes & polish
- Improved dark-mode charts and contrast across the app.
- Fixed mobile layout issues on the theme picker, globe fullscreen, and several cards.
- Faster, smoother loading states with a branded NearIQ animation.
- Removed vendor names from user-facing error messages.
May 2026
AI automation
- Content Studio — generate landing page copy, FAQ pages, Google Business Profile posts, social posts, review-response templates, and blog outlines, with presets for local business, product demos, e-commerce, and professional services.
- AI Search Visibility — check whether your business shows up in major AI assistant answers, with a score, per-engine breakdown, and improvement recommendations. Growth+ includes multi-city AI visibility checks and a website readiness audit.
- Engagement Report Card — six engagement metrics graded A–F against competitor benchmarks.
- Gap Analysis — competitive analysis ranked by severity with numbered priority actions.
- Ad campaign intelligence — view competitor ad activity and get drafted campaign suggestions for Google, Facebook, and Instagram.
- AI Agents — schedule recurring analysis that runs on its own.
Competitors & market
- Competitor momentum and financial-health signals (expanding, stable, declining) across the dashboard, reports, alerts, and API.
- Closure status tracking (operational, temporarily closed, permanently closed) for tracked competitors and market data.
- Hiring activity monitoring now requires a verified local source before generating alerts.
- Estimated revenue and business value on competitor cards and the competitive landscape panel.
- Social follower counts on the competitor social presence card (Growth+).
- Market density, saturation, leaders, and opportunity signals by city and category.
Dashboard
- Grid-based local rank tracker (up to 7×7) with a clear explanation of what each grid point measures.
- SEO Site Audit with multi-page crawl, metadata summaries, internal-link coverage, and copyable schema snippets.
- Citation/NAP consistency monitoring across directories.
- Photo previews open in a fullscreen viewer with keyboard navigation.
- My Business shows revenue and estimated business value near the top.
Platform
- Add tracked competitors via the public API and Zapier.
- Public API exports (JSON, CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, full-account ZIP), charts, embeddable chart links, and paginated tables — all from your stored data.
- Team workspaces with per-member permissions, including granular controls for Content Studio, ad campaigns, social publishing, and review responses, enforced on the backend.
- Team activity audit trail and org-scoped API key management with revoke attribution.
- Paid-plan trials run for 14 days with a card on file; Starter includes tasting access to core automation features.
- Referral program with account credit rewards.
Design
- Refreshed black-and-white brand palette enforced across the app, emails, reports, charts, and docs.
- Consistent semantic colors for success, warning, and error states.
Beta
Beta testers get full Enterprise-level access for free. Core monitoring- Track up to 50 competitors across 3 locations
- Automatic checks every 12 hours for rating, review, hours, website, and status changes
- 14+ alert types via email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, and webhooks
- Local rank tracking and competitor ad detection
- AI chat assistant on every page
- AI intelligence reports with benchmarks, threats, and opportunities
- AI Agents that run analysis on a schedule
- Review sentiment analysis with topic extraction
- Content Studio
- AI search visibility tracking across major AI engines
- Health score tracking with historical trends
- Market leaderboard for your area
- Grid-based local rank tracker (up to 7×7)
- Citation/NAP consistency monitoring
- Interactive competitor map with opportunity zones
- Behavioral engagement signals with benchmarks
- Gap analysis with priority actions
- Team workspaces with 5 seats and granular per-member permissions
- White-label PDF reports
- REST API access with 5 API keys
- Bulk competitor import via CSV or Google Maps URL
- Referral rewards, customizable digest emails, per-channel alert routing, and dark/light theme
- Comparison guides for the major local-marketing tools