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Important product naming update: Sidekick is now called Gladly (AI) and Gladly Hero (the Platform) is now Gladly Team. Please keep this in mind as you read through our documentation.

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July 29, 2026

Team Assist: An AI Copilot Available Directly in Gladly Team

Team Assist is a conversational AI panel built right into the Agent workspace. It helps Agents resolve Conversations faster and more consistently, with every answer and draft grounded in the full Customer record Team Assist can see: the Customer Profile, order history, past Conversations across Channels, and the Answers and policies that apply. Every Customer gets a fast, accurate response regardless of who's handling the Conversation or how complex it is.

What Team Assist does:

  • Get caught up quickly – an instant summary of what the Customer needs, what's been attempted, and where things stand.

  • Understand the full Customer picture – pulls from the Customer Profile and Conversation Timeline to surface details, preferences, and a summary of each past interaction across Channels.

  • Get grounded answers – for any question about policy, past interactions, or next steps, drawn from your knowledge base and the current Conversation, with each response citing the specific Answers referenced.

  • Draft and refine responses – a drafted reply grounded in the current Conversation and the Customer's full context, which Agents refine by tone, length, or approach, then load into the composer with one click.

Configure it the way your team works:

  • Canned responses – admin-configured shortcut buttons that launch your team's most common prompts in one click at the start of a session; begin with Gladly's ready-made templates or build your own for the workflows your team runs most.

  • Natural-language prompting – Agents ask Team Assist for anything in their own words – a rephrase, a different tone, a translation, a specific next step – and keep refining until the reply fits the moment.

  • Audience mapping – scope which Answers Team Assist draws on by the inbox or endpoint address a Conversation comes through, so multi-brand, multi-region, multi-language, or policy-specific teams always answer from the right knowledge.

Team Assist is a paid feature, with limited free trials available for existing customers. To get started, contact your Strategic Account Manager or Gladly Support. Learn more, or see Set Up Team Assist and Team Assist Best Practices.

Expanded Search on the AI Sessions Page

Search on the AI Sessions page matches Sessions by Customer name, email, subject, Guide, and Channel, returning results faster from the new search backend.

Customizable Handoff Summaries in Workflows

The Workflow "Hand off to human" ‘Stop’ step lets you choose how the receiving Agent's summary is written:

  • AI summary – An AI-written summary of the Conversation.

  • AI summary with guidance – The same, steered by guidance you provide.

  • Summary you write – The exact note you write, shown to the Agent as-is.

Both the guidance and the note support {{$.path}} variables to pull in Workflow data. The summary is generated the same way on every handoff, so Agents always get consistent context.

Drag-to-Reorder Steps in the Workflows Editor

Reorder steps in the Workflows editor by dragging a handle on each step card. Dragging a step into or out of an ‘If’ branch changes its nesting level, and an insertion line shows exactly where the step will land, making it easier to refine and add onto Workflows.

Hide Redaction Requests by Shopify Shop

Compliance Admins can hide redaction requests from specific Shopify shops (Settings → Redaction Requests). Hidden requests are filtered from the list, counts, and exports but are never deleted.

Customizable Tags and Notes for Gladly AI for Helpdesks

Two new options for organizations using Gladly AI with an external helpdesk:

  • Configurable AI-outcome tags – The tags applied to AI-outcome tickets (handoff, abandoned, resolved) can be configured per integration, replacing the fixed gladly-ai-* defaults. Existing tags are unchanged.

  • Editable notes – The notes Gladly AI posts to the external ticket when a Session ends are customizable. Each note can keep the Gladly default, be edited, or be left blank to post no note.

Self-Healing Retry Metrics in Insights Builder

Insights Builder now includes self-healing retry data for AI Sessions – whether a Session was retried, the outcome (recovered, unrecovered, tool call, handoff), which quality checks triggered the retry, and which Guide was active at the time.

Use these metrics to see how often self-healing behavior saves a Session from handing off, identify which quality checks fire most frequently, and spot Guides that could benefit from tuning.

Streamlined OAuth App Configuration

Configuring an external app that requires OAuth is now a single, guided flow. Upon saving, Gladly walks you through the authorization process and then activates the configuration automatically. Previously, this required navigating back into the configuration form after creation.

AfterShip App Platform Upgrades

The AfterShip app has been updated on the App Platform to allow for more return capabilities in Gladly instead of providing a link to a form.

  • Send Customers a prepaid return label (via email) right in the Conversation. Gladly AI can now generate a downloadable return label and tracking number on the spot, instead of pointing Customers to a separate returns portal and hoping they finish there.

  • Start returns without leaving Gladly. The app can open a return for the specific items a Customer wants to send back, capture their reason, and approve it – all inside the Conversation. Previously it could only look up returns that already existed.

  • Install the app yourself from Settings. Adding AfterShip is now a self-serve setup in Admin Settings → Apps. Securely paste your API key, set how many results to show, and activate.

  • Nothing changes for what you already use. Shipment tracking, return status, warranty claims, and the AfterShip Card work exactly as before, so existing setups keep running after the upgrade.

If you're still on the legacy AfterShip app, contact Gladly Support to migrate.

Signals: Evaluate AI Session Quality at Scale

In case you missed it, Signals has arrived, offering a new way to evaluate the quality of your AI Sessions at scale.

  • Define what matters – Write evaluation criteria in plain English around the things most important to your operation: sentiment, policy adherence, Customer feedback on a new product change, or anything else you want to track.

  • Run at scale – Evaluate hundreds of Sessions at once and see pass/fail breakdowns, giving you continuous visibility into how your AI is performing at a scale no team could match manually.

  • Drill into any result – Click into any evaluation result for the full transcript and AI reasoning behind the pass/fail decision.

  • Monitor and uncover insights – Track AI Sessions and surface Customer insights, directly within Gladly.

Signals is available for free for a limited time, with paid pricing expected later this fall. Using Signals during the free period does not obligate you to purchase it once pricing is introduced.

To get started, contact your Strategic Account Manager or Gladly Support to have Signals turned on for your organization.

Unified Response Generation: AI Gets Full Context Before Responding

Today, Gladly AI handles navigation decisions (moving to another Guide section, going back, or handing off) and response generation as two separate steps. Unified Response Generation combines these into a single step, so that AI has context about both navigation and response at the same time. The result is more complete, accurate replies and actions.

Starting this week, you can opt in early to begin testing the new behavior. Navigate to your Gladly Agents → Basics → Early Access section → Unified Response Generation. We highly suggest turning this on now to validate your AI set up ahead of the full rollout.

A few tips to get the most out of this transition:

  • Review a sample of Sessions in the Conversation Review panel after enabling to confirm responses and navigation decisions meet your expectations.

  • Compare handoff rates and resolution rates before and after to measure the impact.

  • Reach out to Gladly Support with any questions or feedback.

[Early Access] Shopify Product Search for Gladly AI

AI can search your Shopify catalog directly so product questions get answered with up-to-date store data.

  • Real-time catalog data – Product cards with the real image, current price, working link, and true variant and inventory availability, pulled from Shopify on each request.

  • Semantic, typo-tolerant search – Customers can ask naturally ("Do you have this in size 8?") and Gladly AI matches them to the right products.

  • Custom fields included – Details that live only in your custom fields – care instructions, dimensions, ingredient lists – are surfaced to Gladly AI so it can answer questions web search can't.

  • Web search stays in its lane – Product questions use the Shopify catalog; policies, FAQs, and blog content still come through web search.

Shopify Product Search isn't a separate add-on – it gives Gladly AI a direct, real-time connection to your Shopify catalog for product questions, alongside the web search and Answers it already uses. To test it early, reach out to Gladly Support to get started.

Search Will Include Tasks

Universal search is expanding to include Tasks alongside Conversations and Customers. Agents can search for Tasks by keyword, filter results by type, and open a Task directly from the search results. If you're interested in getting set up with Task Search, reach out to your Account Manager or Gladly Support.

Self-Healing Responses: AI Gets a Second Chance Before Handing Off

One of the biggest drivers of avoidable handoffs is a failed quality check – even when AI is one step away from a compliant answer. Self-Healing Responses gives the AI a second chance before handing off to an Agent.

Here's how it works:

  • When the proposed Gladly AI response fails a quality check, AI receives feedback from the failed check and regenerates the reply.

  • The new response is run through the full suite of quality checks again.

  • If the retry passes, the response is sent to the Customer.

  • If it still fails, the Conversation hands off to an Agent.

Your quality standards are not changing – every response must pass before it reaches the Customer. The difference is that more recoverable Conversations stay with AI instead of escalating on the first failed attempt.

Self-Healing Responses is now enabled by default across your Gladly AI set up. Note that this is not currently available for Voice AI.

If you still prefer to wait, you can opt out by navigating to your Gladly Agent → Basics → Early Access and clicking the Self-Healing Responses toggle to turn it off.

A few tips to get the most out of this transition:

  • Monitor your quality check pass rates and handoff volume after enabling to see how many Conversations are being recovered.

  • Review flagged Conversations in the Conversation Review panel to confirm retried responses meet your expectations.

  • Reach out to Gladly Support with any questions or feedback.

[Action Required] Contact Summary and Work Sessions Reports: Older Versions Deprecated Soon

We've migrated the Contact Summary, and Work Sessions reports to new infrastructure that makes them 2-3x faster!

As part of this migration, we will retire older versions of these reports. The following Contact Summary and Work Sessions report versions will be deprecated on September 2, 2026:  

  • ContactSummaryReport

  • WorkSessionEventsReport

  • WorkSessionEventsReportV2

  • WorkSessionEventsReportV3

Clearer Save and Test Errors for Workflows

Fixed – Workflows could fail to save or test with no explanation when a "Go to Agent/Guide" step had no destination selected. The editor now highlights the step and explains what to select.

Half-Hourly Agent Metrics Match Daily Totals

Fixed – Agent metrics broken down by half-hour intervals could add up to less than the daily total for the same day. Half-hourly and daily views now use the same calculation method, so the numbers match.

Gladly Improvement Opportunities Dashboard Filters Apply Correctly

Fixed – The Channel, Entry Point, Traffic Split, and Gladly Agent Name filters on the Gladly Improvement Opportunities dashboard now correctly narrow results when a value is selected, including A/B-test Sessions.

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Gladly's New Navigation Is Live

If you haven't explored the redesigned main navigation yet, now's a great time. Features are organized into clear sections – Gladly AI and Gladly Team each have their own area, grouped by what you do with them.

Two things worth trying:

  • Pin your go-to pages – Admins and Team Managers can star any item to pin it to a new Starred section at the top of the navigation panel, so your most-used pages are always one click away.

  • Collapse and expand groups – Open the sections you use and close the ones you don't. Gladly remembers how you leave them.

Nothing changes with your capabilities, permissions, or subscription. Need a quick orientation? Our overview video breaks down what moved where.

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Classroom Session: Gladly AI Workflows – Build with Confidence

Ready to get more out of Workflows?! Join us on August 12, 2026 for a Classroom Session covering everything from core building blocks to advanced logic. Whether you're setting up your first Workflow or fine-tuning what's already live, this is your chance to dig in with our team, explore real use cases, and walk away ready to build.

REGISTER

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Learn More About Team Assist: AI That Keeps Helping After the Handoff

When AI resolves a customer conversation on its own, everyone wins. But what about the conversations AI can't fully resolve? The disputes, the policy exceptions, the brand-sensitive, multi-step issues that land with a person. Until now, those conversations got the least help of all. The moment AI handed off, it stopped contributing, right at the hardest part.

That changes now. Team Assist, an AI copilot for every team member, is now generally available in Gladly Team.

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You're In Good Company

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Using Gladly with your Shopify store?

Using Gladly with your Shopify store? We'd love your feedback there too! Leave us a review on the Shopify App Store and help other merchants discover how Gladly creates seamless, revenue-driving conversations.

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Gladly Referral Promotion

Love using Gladly? Now’s your chance to share the experience with others in your professional network. Submit your B2C or e-commerce referral to receive up to $2,000! Visit the Refer-A-Friend program to learn how.

July 22, 2026

Gladly's New Navigation Is Live

The main navigation has been redesigned to keep up with a growing platform. Instead of a flat list, features are now organized into clear sections – Gladly AI and Gladly Team each have their own area, and items within them are grouped by what you do with them: Analyze, Manage, Test, and Deploy. The full menu appears consistently across every page.

Two things worth trying:

  • Pin your go-to pages – Admins and Team Managers can star any item to pin it to a new Starred section at the top of the navigation panel, so your most-used pages are always one click away.

  • Collapse and expand groups – Open the sections you use and close the ones you don't. Gladly remembers how you leave them.

Nothing else changes – your capabilities, permissions, and subscription are all the same. This update is included at no additional cost. Need a quick orientation? Our overview video breaks down what moved where.

Add Trusted Company URLs for AI

Admins and Managers can add up to five company website URLs in a Gladly Agent's Basics settings. AI treats these as trusted links, so it won't flag your own URLs as invalid in responses – reducing unnecessary quality check failures and potential handoffs.

Video Previews in the Conversation Timeline

Agents can preview video attachments directly from the Conversation Timeline. Videos sent by Customers – including on Apple Messages for Business, SMS, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and mp4 email attachments – appear inline with a play button and open in a full preview player when clicked, instead of showing a file card with no preview.

Recharge App Platform App Upgrades

The Recharge integration has been rebuilt on the App Platform (v2.0.1). The previous version let an Agent see subscription data – the new release lets them act on it. Eleven subscription actions now sit in the compose menu, a Subscriptions card with live payment health appears on the Customer Profile, and Gladly AI can answer subscription questions directly in Guides.

  • 11 actions, no context switch – Agents can delay a next order, change billing frequency, update a shipping address, add a gift, cancel or reactivate a subscription, skip or unskip the next order, apply or remove a discount, swap a subscription item, adjust a subscription's price, adjust store credit, and refund a charge – all from the Gladly + menu without leaving the Conversation.

  • Subscriptions card with live payment health – The Customer Profile now shows each subscription's status, next charge date, billing frequency, and price at a glance. A subscription whose payment retries are exhausted is flagged inline, so Agents can proactively fix a failed payment before it lapses.

  • Gladly AI support – Gladly AI can answer questions like "When is my next order?" or "How often am I billed?" using real-time subscription data.

Install directly in Gladly (Admin Settings → Apps → Create Configuration). No developer resource or Support request required.

New App Platform Apps: Stay.ai, WooCommerce, RyderShip, and ShipMonk

Four new App Platform apps are now available for installation. Each can be set up directly in Gladly (Admin Settings → Apps → Create Configuration) or via the appcfg CLI tool:

  • RyderShip – Shipping and fulfillment. Authenticates via OAuth2 with a one-time authorization flow.

  • ShipMonk – Third-party logistics and fulfillment. Authenticates with an API key from your ShipMonk account.

  • Stay.ai – Subscription management. Authenticates with an API key from the Stay.ai merchant portal.

  • WooCommerce – Ecommerce order management. Authenticates with a Consumer Key and Consumer Secret from your WooCommerce REST API settings.

Once a configuration is active, contact Gladly Support to set up the Customer Details card and actions for your team.

Signals: Evaluate AI Session Quality at Scale

In case you missed it last week, Signals has arrived, offering a new way to evaluate the quality of your AI Sessions at scale.

  • Define what matters – Write evaluation criteria in plain English around the things most important to your operation: sentiment, policy adherence, Customer feedback on a new product change, or anything else you want to track.

  • Run at scale – Evaluate hundreds of Sessions at once and see pass/fail breakdowns, giving you continuous visibility into how your AI is performing at a scale no team could match manually.

  • Drill into any result – Click into any evaluation result for the full transcript and AI reasoning behind the pass/fail decision.

  • Monitor and uncover insights – Track AI Sessions and surface Customer insights, directly within Gladly.

Signals is available for free for a limited time, with paid pricing expected later this fall. Using Signals during the free period does not obligate you to purchase it once pricing is introduced.

To get started, contact your Strategic Account Manager or Gladly Support to have Signals turned on for your organization.

Unified Response Generation: AI Gets Full Context Before Responding

Today, Gladly AI handles navigation decisions (moving to another Guide section, going back, or handing off) and response generation as two separate steps. Unified Response Generation combines these into a single step, so that AI has context about both navigation and response at the same time. The result is more complete, accurate replies and actions.

Starting this week, you can opt in early to begin testing the new behavior. Navigate to your Gladly Agents → Basics → Early Access section → Unified Response Generation. We highly suggest turning this on now to validate your AI set up ahead of the full rollout.

A few tips to get the most out of this transition:

  • Review a sample of Sessions in the Conversation Review panel after enabling to confirm responses and navigation decisions meet your expectations.

  • Compare handoff rates and resolution rates before and after to measure the impact.

  • Reach out to Gladly Support with any questions or feedback.

[Early Access] Shopify Product Search for Gladly AI

AI can search your Shopify catalog directly so product questions get answered with up-to-date store data.

  • Real-time catalog data – Product cards with the real image, current price, working link, and true variant and inventory availability, pulled from Shopify on each request.

  • Semantic, typo-tolerant search – Customers can ask naturally ("Do you have this in size 8?") and Gladly AI matches them to the right products.

  • Custom fields included – Details that live only in your custom fields – care instructions, dimensions, ingredient lists – are surfaced to Gladly AI so it can answer questions web search can't.

  • Web search stays in its lane – Product questions use the Shopify catalog; policies, FAQs, and blog content still come through web search.

Shopify Product Search isn't a separate add-on – it gives Gladly AI a direct, real-time connection to your Shopify catalog for product questions, alongside the web search and Answers it already uses. To test it early, reach out to Gladly Support to get started.

Search Will Include Tasks

Universal search is expanding to include Tasks alongside Conversations and Customers. Agents can search for Tasks by keyword, filter results by type, and open a Task directly from the search results. If you're interested in getting set up with Task Search, reach out to your Account Manager or Gladly Support.

Self-Healing Responses: AI Gets a Second Chance Before Handing Off

One of the biggest drivers of avoidable handoffs is a failed quality check – even when AI is one step away from a compliant answer. Self-Healing Responses gives the AI a second chance before handing off to an Agent.

Here's how it works:

  • When the proposed Gladly AI response fails a quality check, AI receives feedback from the failed check and regenerates the reply.

  • The new response is run through the full suite of quality checks again.

  • If the retry passes, the response is sent to the Customer.

  • If it still fails, the Conversation hands off to an Agent.

Your quality standards are not changing – every response must pass before it reaches the Customer. The difference is that more recoverable Conversations stay with AI instead of escalating on the first failed attempt.

Self-Healing Responses is now enabled by default across your Gladly AI set up. Note that this is not currently available for Voice AI.

If you still prefer to wait, you can opt out by navigating to your Gladly Agent → Basics → Early Access and clicking the Self-Healing Responses toggle to turn it off.

A few tips to get the most out of this transition:

  • Monitor your quality check pass rates and handoff volume after enabling to see how many Conversations are being recovered.

  • Review flagged Conversations in the Conversation Review panel to confirm retried responses meet your expectations.

  • Reach out to Gladly Support with any questions or feedback.

[Action Required] Contact Summary and Work Sessions Reports: Older Versions Deprecated Soon

We've migrated the Contact Summary, and Work Sessions reports to new infrastructure that makes them 2-3x faster!

As part of this migration, we will retire older versions of these reports. The following Contact Summary and Work Sessions report versions will be deprecated on September 2, 2026:  

  • ContactSummaryReport

  • WorkSessionEventsReport

  • WorkSessionEventsReportV2

  • WorkSessionEventsReportV3

New-Message Sound Alert on iOS and Safari

Fixed – The new-message sound alert now plays correctly on iOS and Safari for messages that arrive more than a few seconds after the Customer's last interaction – most noticeable during AI Sessions.

Backspace No Longer Deletes Entire Workflow ‘If’ Step

Fixed – Pressing Backspace while editing a condition field on an ‘If’ step could delete the entire step (and anything configured under it) instead of removing a single character. Editing condition values is now safe, and an empty condition can still be removed with Backspace as before.

More Precise Workflow Outcome Reporting

Fixed – Workflow outcome analytics now distinguish how a Workflow ended (navigated to a Guide or Gladly Agent, handed off to a human, closed the session, etc.) rather than collapsing these into a single outcome. This improves the accuracy of downstream Workflow reporting.

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How WeNatal Scaled a Concierge Customer Experience Without Losing the Human Touch

When AI failed to deliver the nuance their customers needed, WeNatal took a different approach. See how a four-person team supports 1,300 monthly conversations with a relationship-first customer experience – using AI to empower people, not replace them.

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ICYMI: July 2026 Gladly Roadmap Webinar is Now on Demand!

Watch this on-demand webinar to explore recent product releases, get a look at what's coming next, and see the features designed to help your team work smarter and deliver even better customer experiences.

Check it out

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You're In Good Company

Love using Gladly? Share your experience on G2 Crowd to help others discover how Gladly empowers better customer connections.

REVIEWS

Using Gladly with your Shopify store?

Using Gladly with your Shopify store? We'd love your feedback there too! Leave us a review on the Shopify App Store and help other merchants discover how Gladly creates seamless, revenue-driving conversations.

RESOURCE

Gladly Referral Promotion

Love using Gladly? Now’s your chance to share the experience with others in your professional network. Submit your B2C or e-commerce referral to receive up to $2,000! Visit the Refer-A-Friend program to learn how.

July 15, 2026

Signals: Evaluate AI Conversation Quality at Scale

Signals is a new way to evaluate the quality of your AI Sessions at scale – no surveys, manual review, or third-party tools required.

  • Define what matters – Write evaluation criteria in plain English around the things most important to your operation: sentiment, policy adherence, Customer feedback on a new product change, or anything else you want to track.

  • Run at scale – Evaluate hundreds of Sessions at once and see pass/fail breakdowns, giving you continuous visibility into how your AI is performing at a scale no team could match manually.

  • Drill into any result – Click into any evaluation result for the full transcript and AI reasoning behind the pass/fail decision.

  • Monitor and uncover insights – Track AI Sessions and surface Customer insights, directly within Gladly.

Signals is available for free for a limited time, with paid pricing expected later this fall. Using Signals during the free period does not obligate you to purchase it once pricing is introduced.

To get started, contact your Strategic Account Manager or Gladly Support to have Signals enabled for your organization.

Improved Post-Call Summaries

Voice summaries are now delivering better accuracy and richer context. Filler phrases like "the transcript" or "the recording" have been replaced with specific details Agents need to pick up a Conversation or follow up, without re-reading the transcript.

Summaries also follow a new structured format instead of a single dense paragraph. Rather than scanning a block of text, Agents get four clear sections:

  • Issue – What the Customer contacted you about.

  • Key Points – Specifics from the call (order numbers, account details, dates).

  • Outcome – Whether the issue was resolved, and how.

  • Next Steps – What (if anything) still needs to be done.

If your organization already uses Voice summaries, this improvement applies automatically with no action required.

"Conversations" Renamed to "Sessions" in Gladly AI

"Conversations" has been renamed to "Sessions" throughout the Gladly AI interface – most visibly on the "Gladly AI Conversations" page, which is now "AI Sessions." The update reflects how these terms are already defined in the Gladly platform:

  • Conversation – The time-bounded grouping of all interactions a Customer has with your brand. It can include any combination of AI Sessions and team-handled Contacts.

  • Session – A single Gladly AI interaction – one Chat, one phone call, or one Email thread handled by AI. It stays open while the Customer and Gladly AI are actively exchanging messages and closes after 2 hours of inactivity.

Because Gladly AI operates at the Session level – handling one interaction at a time – the UI now reflects that distinction. This is a terminology change only; no features, data, reporting, or billing are affected. Learn more about Conversations vs. Sessions – and which reports to use for each.

Redesigned Knowledge Sources Modal for Guides

We’ve refreshed the Knowledge Sources action configuration for Guides. Answers, Websites, and Documents categories are organized into tabs, and documents can be selected from a checkbox list (with select-all and deselect-all) instead of individual on/off toggles. This makes it easier to see at a glance what information a Gladly Agent has access to and will search when generating a reply.

Inline Customer Images in AI Sessions Review

When reviewing Gladly AI Sessions, images that Customers sent appear inline on the AI Sessions page with click-to-enlarge, instead of showing only the file name. Reviewers are able see the image the AI was responding to and give more complete feedback.

"Starts With" and "Ends With" Condition Operators for Workflows

Workflow authors can match text with two new condition operators – "Starts with" and "Ends with" – for cleaner prefix and suffix rules. For example, route on order numbers that start with a given prefix, or match email addresses that end with a specific domain. Previously only "Contains" was available, which matched the text anywhere in the value.

Gladly AI for Helpdesks: Improved Tagging on AI Responses

Two improvements for organizations using Gladly AI within an external helpdesk:

  • Explicit AI outcome tags – Tickets created in your external helpdesk are tagged with a clear AI outcome: gladly-ai-handoff when Gladly AI hands off to an Agent, and gladly-ai-resolved when Gladly AI resolves the Conversation.

  • Abandoned Chats tagged separately – Chats the Customer abandoned or that timed out are now tagged gladly-ai-abandoned, so your helpdesk reporting can distinguish an abandoned Chat from one Gladly AI actually resolved.

Agent Availability Report

A new Agent Availability report is available – a lightweight version of the Agent Summary report containing Agent identity and assignment columns plus Available Time broken out by Any, Voice, Messaging, Mail, and Task. Designed for fast retrieval via the Generate Report API, especially for workforce-management use cases with large Agent volumes.

To access, navigate to Reports → Agents → Agent Availability.

Gladly AI Feedback Report

The new Gladly AI Feedback report gives Admins and Team Managers a row-by-row export of every thumbs-up or thumbs-down review – and any comment left with it – submitted on Gladly AI Sessions. Unlike rolled-up summary reports, this report returns one row per review, so you can read individual reviewer comments and open the exact Session each review is tied to.

Navigate to Reports → Gladly AI → Gladly AI Feedback Report to either view the embedded dashboard, or download the CSV.

Search Results Navigate Directly to the Matching Item

Clicking a search result in Gladly Team navigates directly to the specific item that matched the search. Previously, clicking a universal search result opened the Conversation at the bottom, requiring you to scroll to find the match.

Table Support in Rich-Text Composers

Agents can paste tables into Note, Task, and Email Composers. Background color, text color, font weight, and text alignment are preserved on paste. A table editing toolbar appears when working inside a table, and wide tables scroll horizontally.

Additional Read-Only Endpoints Resource

Gladly's public API now exposes a read-only Endpoints resource. Developers can call GET /api/v1/endpoints – and GET /api/v1/endpoints/{id} – with their API token to retrieve the inbound addresses configured for their organization – each with its ID, address, and channel.

This makes it easier to programmatically discover which Channels and addresses an organization is set up to receive Customer Contacts on.

Unified Response Generation: AI Gets Full Context Before Responding

Today, Gladly AI handles navigation decisions (moving to another Guide section, going back, or handing off) and response generation as two separate steps. Unified Response Generation combines these into a single step, so that AI has context about both navigation and response at the same time. The result is more complete, accurate replies and actions.

Starting this week, you can opt in early to begin testing the new behavior. Navigate to your Gladly Agents → Basics → Early Access section → Unified Response Generation. We highly suggest turning this on now to validate your AI set up ahead of the full rollout.

A few tips to get the most out of this transition:

  • Review a sample of Sessions in the Conversation Review panel after enabling to confirm responses and navigation decisions meet your expectations.

  • Compare handoff rates and resolution rates before and after to measure the impact.

  • Reach out to Gladly Support with any questions or feedback.

Self-Healing Responses: AI Gets a Second Chance Before Handing Off

One of the biggest drivers of avoidable handoffs is a failed quality check – even when AI is one step away from a compliant answer. Self-Healing Responses gives the AI a second chance before handing off to an Agent.

Here's how it works:

  • When the proposed Gladly AI response fails a quality check, AI receives feedback from the failed check and regenerates the reply.

  • The new response is run through the full suite of quality checks again.

  • If the retry passes, the response is sent to the Customer.

  • If it still fails, the Conversation hands off to an Agent.

Your quality standards are not changing – every response must pass before it reaches the Customer. The difference is that more recoverable Conversations stay with AI instead of escalating on the first failed attempt.

Self-Healing Responses is now enabled by default across your Gladly AI set up. Note that this is not currently available for Voice AI.

If you still prefer to wait, you can opt out by navigating to your Gladly Agent → Basics → Early Access and clicking the Self-Healing Responses toggle to turn it off. Here is the rollout timeline:

  • Optional opt-out period, July 8–July 23: Self-Healing Responses is on by default. Click the toggle on any Gladly Agent to opt out during this window.

  • July 23: The opt-out toggle will be removed from the Basics tile and Self-Healing Responses will be the standard across Gladly Agents.

A few tips to get the most out of this transition:

  • Monitor your quality check pass rates and handoff volume after enabling to see how many Conversations are being recovered.

  • Review flagged Sessions in the Conversation Review panel to confirm retried responses meet your expectations.

  • Reach out to Gladly Support with any questions or feedback.

"Conversations" Renamed to "Sessions" in Gladly AI

Next week, we will rename "Conversations" to "Sessions" throughout the Gladly AI interface – most visibly on the "Gladly AI Conversations" page, which will become "Gladly AI Sessions."

The update reflects how these terms are already defined in the Gladly platform:

  • A Conversation is the time-bounded grouping of all interactions a Customer has with your brand. It can include any combination of AI Sessions and team-handled Contacts.

  • A Session is a single Gladly AI interaction – one Chat, one phone call, one Email thread handled by AI. It stays open while the Customer and Gladly AI are actively exchanging messages and closes after 2 hours of inactivity.

Because Gladly AI operates at the Session level – handling one interaction at a time – we’ll be updating the UI to clearly reflect this.

This is a terminology change only; reporting and billing are not affected. Learn more about Conversations vs. Sessions – and which reports to use for each.

Refreshed Main Navigation

Next week, we'll be updating the main navigation menu to make Gladly easier to navigate as it continues to grow.

The new menu organizes features into clear, intuitive categories – separating AI items and Gladly Team into their own sections, and grouping items by what you do with them (Analyze, Manage, Test, Deploy) rather than a flat list.

A few things to keep in mind:

  • Admin Settings stay the same – Existing Settings menu and selections are not affected.

  • Consistent across all pages – The full navigation menu will appear everywhere in the product, not just on certain pages.

  • Permissions are unchanged – What you see will continue to depend on your role and access level.

[Early Access] Shopify Product Search for Gladly AI

AI can search your Shopify catalog directly so product questions get answered with up-to-date store data.

  • Real-time catalog data – Product cards with the real image, current price, working link, and true variant and inventory availability, pulled from Shopify on each request.

  • Semantic, typo-tolerant search – Customers can ask naturally ("Do you have this in size 8?") and Gladly AI matches them to the right products.

  • Custom fields included – Details that live only in your custom fields – care instructions, dimensions, ingredient lists – are surfaced to Gladly AI so it can answer questions web search can't.

  • Web search stays in its lane – Product questions use the Shopify catalog; policies, FAQs, and blog content still come through web search.

Shopify Product Search is not a separate add-on – it's a new knowledge source for Gladly AI alongside web search and Answers. If you’d like to test this feature out early, reach out to Gladly Support to get started.

[Action Required] Contact Summary and Work Sessions Reports: Older Versions Deprecated Soon

We've migrated the Contact Summary, and Work Sessions reports to new infrastructure that makes them 2-3x faster!

As part of this migration, we will retire older versions of these reports. The following Contact Summary and Work Sessions report versions will be deprecated on September 2, 2026:  

  • ContactSummaryReport

  • WorkSessionEventsReport

  • WorkSessionEventsReportV2

  • WorkSessionEventsReportV3

Chat Widget Accessibility

Fixed – Screen readers no longer announce the minimized Chat button as being inside a dialog after the Chat is closed, and keyboard focus no longer gets stuck on the button.

Empty Guide Section Instructions Restored

Fixed – For existing Guides whose instructions had been cleared out, guidance the AI follows has been restored for affected sections without any re-authoring on your part.

Stuck Conversations in the Automation Inbox

Fixed – Gladly AI Sessions could remain stuck open in the automation Inbox after an error while closing. They now close normally.

Complete Chat Handoff Transcripts on Retry

Fixed – If a Chat handoff's transcript was long enough to span multiple messages, or included attachments, and an error interrupted posting it, a retry could leave the Agent with a truncated transcript and missing images. Retries now deliver the complete transcript and all attachments.

Built-In Action Duplication in App Actions Builder

Fixed – Saving a built-in action from the App Actions builder could create a duplicate, misconfigured copy of that action. Built-in actions are now protected from accidental duplication.

Handoff Summary Visible in Conversation Review Panel

Fixed – The handoff summary could be missing when reviewing handed-off Conversations. Reviewers now consistently see the handoff summary and can click it to jump to the moment of handoff in the Inspect Summary.

Conversation Review Panel Shows All Gladly Agents Involved

Fixed – The Inspect Summary shows the full set of Gladly Agents involved within an AI Session. Previously the Conversation Review panel showed only the Gladly Agent that the Conversation ended under, with no indication it had started elsewhere or been re-routed.

Custom Channel Replies for Multi-Device Customers

Fixed – Replies on a custom channel could fail to deliver for Customers who had messaged from more than one device. The Composer now defaults the reply recipient to the device the Customer most recently messaged from, so Agents no longer have to manually switch recipients.

Gladly AI for Helpdesks Fixes

  • Fixed – A duplicate handoff for the same Chat could send the Customer a "Something went wrong" message and email an error to the connected helpdesk even though the handoff was successful. Duplicate deliveries are now handled silently.

  • Fixed – A Chat handoff whose Topic contained a space or comma could create several unintended tags on a Zendesk ticket instead of one.

  • Fixed – A Chat message with no text and no attachments could stop later messages in that Conversation from syncing between Gladly and the connected helpdesk.

  • Fixed – Transcripts for AI-resolved Chat messages now include the AI's product recommendations instead of dropping them.

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July 8, 2026

Self-Healing Responses: AI Gets a Second Chance Before Handing Off

One of the biggest drivers of avoidable handoffs is a failed quality check – even when AI is one step away from a compliant answer. Self-Healing Responses gives the AI a second chance before handing off to an Agent.

Here's how it works:

  • When the proposed Gladly AI response fails a quality check, AI receives feedback and regenerates the reply.

  • The new response is run through the full suite of quality checks again.

  • If the retry passes, the response is sent to the Customer.

  • If it still fails, the Conversation hands off to an Agent.

Your quality standards are not changing – every response must pass before it reaches the Customer. The difference is that more recoverable Conversations stay with AI instead of escalating on the first failed attempt.

Starting this week, Self-Healing Responses will be enabled by default across your Gladly AI set up. Note that this is not currently available for Voice AI.

If you prefer to wait, you can opt out by navigating to your Gladly AgentBasicsEarly Access and clicking the Self-Healing Responses toggle to turn it off.

Here is the rollout timeline:

  • Optional opt-out period, July 8–July 23: Self-Healing Responses is on by default. Click the toggle on any Gladly Agent to opt out during this window.

  • July 23: The opt-out toggle will be removed from the Basics tile and Self-Healing Responses will be the standard across Gladly Agents.

A few tips to get the most out of this transition:

  • Monitor your quality check pass rates and handoff volume after enabling to see how many Conversations are being recovered.

  • Review flagged Conversations in the Conversation Reviewer to confirm retried responses meet your expectations.

  • Reach out to Gladly Support with any questions or feedback.

Workflow Authoring Improvements

Five updates to the Workflows editor make the build-out process more intuitive and effective:

  • Clear condition operators – The editor labels each "Contains" operator in plain English ("Contains the text," "Contains any of these," "Contains any of these whole words") and displays list-valued operators as removable chips instead of a single comma-separated text box, making it obvious whether a condition takes one value or a list.

  • ‘Stop’ steps can target a specific Guide section – ‘Stop’ steps that route to a Guide can now target a specific section instead of always starting from the beginning, so a Workflow can send the Customer straight to the relevant part.

  • Required-input validation for nested Workflows – The editor flags any step that includes a nested Workflow without providing one of that Workflow's required inputs.

  • Field-aware ‘Ask’ step questions – AI asks more specific opening questions when an ‘Ask’ step collects information. Previously the first question could be generic, it now reflects the actual fields being collected, so Customers get a clearer prompt.

  • Apply Freeform Topics – The Apply Freeform Topics action is available within the Workflows editor. Use it to set one or more Freeform Topic on the current Conversation as part of a Workflow run.

Clickable Links in Historic Guide Version

When reviewing a previous version of a Guide, handoff and Rule links inside a section are now clickable – reviewers can open the link to see the handoff reason or the Rule's conditions. Previously these links were inactive when viewing a historical version.

Granular Settings Permissions for Custom Roles

Admins can grant Custom Roles access to the following individual Settings areas via four new permissions:

  • Agent Experience

  • Channels

  • Orchestration

  • Proactive Conversations

Absolute Timestamps in the Conversation Timeline

Agents can enable absolute timestamps to display for each message in the Conversation Timeline.

Go to ProfileDetailed Dates to switch from relative timestamps ("2 hours ago") to full date-and-time stamps. Messages from a previous year also include the year.

Custom Notification Sounds and Channel Colors

Agents can personalize their Gladly Team experience with per-Channel notification sounds and Channel Contact border colors – both configurable from Profile settings.

Assign a distinct sound to each Channel so you can tell a Chat from an SMS or Email by ear, and assign a distinct border color to each Channel Contact on the Conversation Timeline so you can easily tell them apart at a glance.

Shopify App v5: More Actions Gladly AI Can Handle Directly

Shopify App v5 expands what Gladly AI can do on the Customer's behalf, covering more of the order lifecycle end-to-end without handing off to an Agent.

  • Replacement orders and draft orders – AI can build an order on the Customer's behalf and let them pay through Shopify. Create a new draft order and email the Customer a Shopify checkout link to pay or complete the draft into an order directly.

  • Deeper order visibility – A new ‘orderByIdentifier’ action gives Gladly AI the complete picture of a single order: every line item's lifecycle (ordered, shipped, refundable, or removed), shipments with tracking and delivery estimates, returns, refunds, and fulfillment holds.

  • Cancel and refund – Cancel an order and refund to the original payment method or to store credit, with control over restocking and Customer notification.

  • One-time discount codes – Issue a single-use, single-Customer discount code scoped to the whole order or to specific collections, products, or variants.

  • Live inventory checks – Check product inventory before promising a replacement or reorder, so Customers get real-time answers.

  • Invoice emails – Send an invoice email for an unpaid order.

How to upgrade: Shopify v5 requires a one-time re-authorization and a review of any Guides or Rules that reference changed actions.

  • Re-authorize the app. v5 requests additional Shopify permissions. Sign in to Shopify from the app's configuration and approve the updated permissions – the new actions will not work until you do.

  • Update Guides that reference changed actions. A few actions were rebuilt in v5, and a Guide configured against the old shapes needs a one-time update. Be sure to review any Guide that uses the following actions, and revise them as necessary:

    • lookupOrderByOrderNum

    • lookupOrdersByEmail

    • suggestedRefund

    • cancelOrder

    • updateShippingAddress

  • Review Rules against the streamlined order data. Order lookups return a leaner shape – each line item carries a compact product and variant reference, and rarely-used fields (transactions, billing address, fulfillment details) have moved to orderByIdentifier. If a Rule references a removed field, point it at the new shape or fetch the detail through orderByIdentifier.

[Action Required] Contact Export, Contact Summary, and Work Sessions Reports: Older Versions Deprecated Soon

We've migrated the Contact Export, the Contact Summary, and Work Sessions reports to new infrastructure that makes them 2-3x faster!

As part of this migration, we will retire older versions of all three of these reports, with ContactExportReport and ContactExportReportV2 deprecated first, next week. If your team currently uses either of these versions, please update your integrations to use ContactExportReportV3 to avoid any disruption.

The following Contact Summary and Work Sessions report versions will be deprecated on September 2, 2026:

  • ContactSummaryReport

  • WorkSessionEventsReport

  • WorkSessionEventsReportV2

  • WorkSessionEventsReportV3

"Conversations" Renamed to "Sessions" in Gladly AI

Next week, we will rename "Conversations" to "Sessions" throughout the Gladly AI interface – most visibly on the "Gladly AI Conversations" page, which will become "Gladly AI Sessions."

The update reflects how these terms are already defined in the Gladly platform:

  • A Conversation is the time-bounded grouping of all interactions a Customer has with your brand. It can include any combination of AI Sessions and team-handled Contacts.

  • A Session is a single Gladly AI interaction – one Chat, one phone call, one Email thread handled by AI. It stays open while the Customer and Gladly AI are actively exchanging messages and closes after 2 hours of inactivity.

Because Gladly AI operates at the Session level – handling one interaction at a time – we’ll be updating the UI to clearly reflect this.

This is a terminology change only; reporting and billing are not affected. Learn more about Conversations vs. Sessions – and which reports to use for each.

Refreshed Main Navigation

We'll be updating the main navigation menu the week of July 22, to make Gladly easier to navigate as it continues to grow.

The new menu organizes features into clear, intuitive categories – separating AI items and Gladly Team into their own sections, and grouping items by what you do with them (Analyze, Manage, Test, Deploy) rather than a flat list.

A few things to keep in mind:

  • Admin Settings stay the same – Existing Settings menu and selections are not affected.

  • Consistent across all pages – The full navigation menu will appear everywhere in the product, not just on certain pages.

  • Permissions are unchanged – What you see will continue to depend on your role and access level.

Signals: AI Conversation Quality Evaluation

Signals is a new way to evaluate the quality of your AI Conversations at scale – no surveys, manual review, or third-party tools required. Write evaluation criteria in plain English, run them against hundreds of Conversations at once, and see pass/fail breakdowns with the ability to drill into any result for the full transcript and AI reasoning.

Signals gives you continuous visibility into how your AI is performing, at a scale no team could match manually. Define evaluation criteria around the things that matter most to your operation – sentiment, policy adherence, customer feedback on a new product change, or anything else you want to track.

Write your criteria in plain English, run them against hundreds of Conversations at once, and get qualitative insights with the ability to drill into any result for the full transcript and AI reasoning. Monitor every AI Conversation and uncover Customer insights, right in Gladly.

Want early access? Signals is currently in beta and will be available for free temporarily. If you'd like to try it and share your feedback, please contact Gladly Support to get started.

Voice Mode Coming to the Guide Tester

Soon you'll be able to test how your Voice AI sounds to a caller before they experience it – without picking up the phone.

Voice testing is coming directly to the Guide Tester. Instead of typing, click the microphone icon, speak naturally, and hear the AI respond out loud using the same speech recognition, spoken voice, and pronunciation settings as a real phone call. See exactly how your Guide performs in a real voice conversation – the response timing, the language, the tone, all of it.

It's a private test conversation that never reaches live Customers or affects your reporting, so you can validate how callers will be understood and how responses will sound before going live. The full transcript appears in the tester afterward for review. No phone number or IVR setup is required – just open the Guide Tester, select Voice as the Channel, and start talking.

Before this, validating Voice AI behavior meant placing actual phone calls. Now you can validate the full voice experience right inside Gladly, catch issues before they reach callers, and tune your setup with confidence. Stay tuned for availability details.

Multiple Channels Supported in Workflow Conditions

Fixed – A Workflow Channel condition using "Contains any of these" can now match multiple Channels. Previously the selector was limited to one.

App Platform Actions With Long Descriptions Import Correctly

Fixed – An organization's Shopify (App Platform) actions could fail to import or appear in the Guide editor when any action had a description over 1,024 characters. Long descriptions are now handled correctly.

Workflow ‘Ask’ Step No Longer Fails on First Message

Fixed – A Workflow that opens by asking the Customer a question could fail when triggered at the very start of a Session (before the Customer had sent any message). These Workflows now reliably produce their opening question.

Add Note Preserves Line Breaks in Gladly Team

Fixed – The Add Note action now preserves authored line breaks. Additionally, using Enter in the Note field now inserts a line break (Shift+Enter still works).

Markdown Links No Longer Incorrectly Flagged as Unverified

Fixed – A valid link could be incorrectly flagged as unverified when AI formatted it as a Markdown link whose visible text was the URL itself. These types of links are now validated correctly.

Conversations Open in a New Tab

Fixed – Conversations on the Gladly AI Conversations page can now be opened in a new browser tab. Right-click a Conversation to open it in a new tab.

Agent Liveboard Fixes

  • Fixed – Hovering over "+ N more" in an Agent's "Currently On" column on the Agents Liveboard correctly displays the popup listing that Agent's other active Sessions.

  • Fixed – An Agent on a phone call no longer disappears from the Agents Liveboard's "Currently On" view when they mute themselves or put the Customer on hold.

  • Fixed – A live phone call an Agent was actively handling could show a "No agent reply" indicator on the Agents Liveboard. Phone calls are correctly marked as active.

Category-Admin Roles Can Access All Settings Page Dependencies

Fixed – Admins whose role grants only a single Settings category permission (Channels, Orchestration, Agent Experience, or Proactive) could be bounced to the home page or see missing data when opening pages in that category.

This affected creating or editing Chat configurations, setting a Chat logo, and opening the Proactive Voice campaign editor. All category-specific Settings pages now load correctly for the corresponding role.

Customer Deletion for Large Conversation Histories

Fixed – Customer profiles with very large Conversation histories could not be deleted by the data-retention job or compliance deletion. These deletions now complete successfully.

App Platform Errors Are More Descriptive

Fixed – Errors from App Platform apps are clearer and more actionable. This applies everywhere errors are surfaced:

  • App Platform calls in the Conversation Reviewer

  • App Platform Action and Custom Action logs in the Gladly UI

  • ‘appcfg’ CLI when testing, developing, or reviewing detailed logs for app usage

Previously, error messages could be vague. Resource-limit breaches (output size or execution time) now also report a dedicated error code.

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How Do You Know if Your AI is Actually Working?

Most AI teams obsess over deflection rate. How many conversations did the AI touch? How many stayed away from a human?

But when Gladly studied what retail's best AI deployments have in common, a different pattern emerged.

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Love using Gladly? Share your experience on G2 Crowd to help others discover how Gladly empowers better customer connections.

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Using Gladly with your Shopify store?

Using Gladly with your Shopify store? We'd love your feedback there too! Leave us a review on the Shopify App Store and help other merchants discover how Gladly creates seamless, revenue-driving conversations.

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July 1, 2026

Gladly Agent Versions and Entry Points Updates

A batch of improvements to the Versions page, Entry Points page, and Guide tester make it easier to test, deploy, and iterate on your Gladly Agents.

  • Inspect Summary links to the specific Gladly Agent version – The Inspect Summary in the Conversation Review panel navigates directly to the version of the Gladly Agent that ran during the Conversation. If the Conversation ran on an older version, clicking the link opens a read-only view of that version. This also applies to test Conversations run in the Guide tester.

  • Select a Gladly Agent version in the Guide tester – Choose which Gladly Agent version to use when testing scenarios within the Guide tester.

  • Search bar on Add Entry Points – The "Add entry points" button on the Entry Points page includes a search bar, making it easier to find unassigned Entry Points by name or address instead of scrolling the full grouped list.

  • Workflow Trigger changes tracked in version history – Changes made to the Workflow Triggers tile on the Gladly Agent page are now reflected in the "What Changed" column on the Versions page.

  • "Workflows" label renamed to "Workflow Triggers" on Versions page – The "Workflows" label displayed in the "What Changed" column has been renamed to "Workflow Triggers" for clarity.

Refreshed Gladly AI Conversations Page

The Gladly AI Conversations page has an updated look and feel. Each row displays the first message sent by the Customer and the first response generated by AI, making it easier to scan and identify sessions at a glance. The Channel icon has also been relocated to the start of each row for quicker visual reference.

Granular Settings Permissions for Custom Roles

Admins can grant Custom Roles access to the following individual Settings areas via four new permissions:

  • Agent Experience

  • Channels

  • Orchestration

  • Proactive Conversations

Dedicated Hero Condition in Workflow ‘If’ Step

Build ‘If’ step conditions on a Customer's Dedicated Hero using the new ‘Dedicated Hero’ variable. Check whether the Customer has a Dedicated Hero, or matching on the assigned Agent's name, email, or team name – instead of writing a custom expression.

Inline Workflow Step Review in the Tester

Workflow authors can review all the steps a tested Workflow took directly within the Workflow tester. Expand each message the Workflow sent for a deeper view of how it arrived at the response and debug behavior without leaving the Workflow editor.

Gladly AI Sessions Reporting Now Includes Historical Data

Gladly AI Sessions reporting includes historical data from before January 2026. Previously, Sessions reporting was limited to data on or after January 1, 2026, which meant teams couldn't compare current AI performance against earlier periods or analyze long-term trends. The full history is now available, making it easier to measure progress, identify seasonal patterns, and build reports that span your entire Gladly AI rollout.

Updated AI performance: All Gladly Agented rolled over to new models

As first shared in the June 10 release notes, Gladly has been migrating all organizations to updated AI models to ensure Customers benefit from the latest advances in performance and accuracy.

Updated models are now the default for all Gladly Agents, and the "Updated AI performance" toggle has been removed from the 'Basics' tile.

Phone Metrics Added to Insight Builder

New phone-related metric families are now available in the Agent Metrics explore in Insight Builder:

  • Contact Handle Time – Phone Call and After Contact Time – Phone Call, broken out by Inbound and Outbound.

  • Contacts With Contact Handle Time, broken out by Inbound/Outbound for Phone Call, Chat, SMS, and Email.

  • Hold Time – Phone and Talk Time – Phone, broken out by Inbound and Outbound (previously available only at the Contact level).

New App Platform Integrations: Klaviyo and Okendo

Two additional external apps are now available on the App Platform, bringing email marketing and reviews-and-loyalty data directly into the Conversation:

  • Klaviyo – Surfaces a Customer's email marketing consent status, recent marketing emails, and subscription profile in a Customer Details card.

    • Agents can see what a Customer has received before replying, and unsubscribe a Customer from Klaviyo marketing email directly from the Conversation, no tool-switching required.

    • Klaviyo data is also available to Gladly AI via Data Pulls, so Guides can factor in subscription status when responding.

  • Okendo – Surfaces a Customer's product reviews and loyalty standing in two Customer Details cards:

    • Okendo Reviews (star rating, content, photos, sentiment, and any store reply)

    • Okendo Loyalty (points balance, enrollment status, and VIP tier)

    • Agents can reply to a review – publicly or privately – without leaving Gladly

    • Okendo loyalty data is available to Gladly AI via Data Pulls for personalized, context-aware responses.

To get started, navigate to Settings → Apps → Create Configuration and select Klaviyo or Okendo from the menu.

[Action Required] Contact Export, Contact Summary, and Work Sessions Reports: Older Versions Deprecated Soon

We've migrated the Contact Export, the Contact Summary, and Work Sessions reports to new infrastructure that makes them 2-3x faster!

As part of this migration, we will retire older versions of all three of these reports, with  ContactExportReport and ContactExportReportV2 deprecated first, in 2 weeks. If your team currently uses either of these versions, please update your integrations to use ContactExportReportV3 to avoid any disruption.

The following Contact Summary and Work Sessions report versions will be deprecated on September 2, 2026:

  • ContactSummaryReport

  • WorkSessionEventsReport

  • WorkSessionEventsReportV2

  • WorkSessionEventsReportV3

"Conversations" Renamed to "Sessions" in Gladly AI

In two weeks, we will rename "Conversations" to "Sessions" throughout the Gladly AI interface – most visibly on the "Gladly AI Conversations" page, which will become "Gladly AI Sessions."

The update reflects how these terms are already defined in the Gladly platform:

  • A Conversation is the time-bounded grouping of all interactions a Customer has with your brand. It can include any combination of AI Sessions and team-handled Contacts.

  • A Session is a single Gladly AI interaction – one Chat, one phone call, one Email thread handled by AI. It stays open while the Customer and Gladly AI are actively exchanging messages and closes after 2 hours of inactivity.

Because Gladly AI operates at the Session level – handling one interaction at a time – we’ll be updating the UI to clearly reflect this.

This is a terminology change only; reporting and billing are not affected. Learn more about Conversations vs. Sessions – and which reports to use for each.

Refreshed Main Navigation

We'll be updating the main navigation menu to make Gladly easier to navigate as it continues to grow.

The new menu organizes features into clear, intuitive categories – separating AI items and Gladly Team into their own sections, and grouping items by what you do with them (Analyze, Manage, Test, Deploy) rather than a flat list.

A few things to keep in mind:

  • Admin Settings stay the same – Existing Settings menu and selections are not affected.

  • Consistent across all pages – The full navigation menu will appear everywhere in the product, not just on certain pages.

  • Permissions are unchanged – What you see will continue to depend on your role and access level.

Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks.

Signals: AI Conversation Quality Evaluation

Signals is a new way to evaluate the quality of your AI Conversations at scale – no surveys, manual review, or third-party tools required. Write evaluation criteria in plain English, run them against hundreds of Conversations at once, and see pass/fail breakdowns with the ability to drill into any result for the full transcript and AI reasoning.

Signals gives you continuous visibility into how your AI is performing, at a scale no team could match manually. Define evaluation criteria around the things that matter most to your operation – sentiment, policy adherence, customer feedback on a new product change, or anything else you want to track.

Write your criteria in plain English, run them against hundreds of Conversations at once, and get qualitative insights with the ability to drill into any result for the full transcript and AI reasoning. Monitor every AI Conversation and uncover Customer insights, right in Gladly.

Want early access? Signals is currently in beta and will be available for free temporarily. If you'd like to try it and share your feedback, please contact Gladly Support to get started.

Voice Mode Coming to the Guide Tester

Soon you'll be able to test how your Voice AI sounds to a caller before they experience it – without picking up the phone.

Voice testing is coming directly to the Guide Tester. Instead of typing, click the microphone icon, speak naturally, and hear the AI respond out loud using the same speech recognition, spoken voice, and pronunciation settings as a real phone call. See exactly how your Guide performs in a real voice conversation – the response timing, the language, the tone, all of it.

It's a private test conversation that never reaches live Customers or affects your reporting, so you can validate how callers will be understood and how responses will sound before going live. The full transcript appears in the tester afterward for review. No phone number or IVR setup is required – just open the Guide Tester, select Voice as the Channel, and start talking.

Before this, validating Voice AI behavior meant placing actual phone calls. Now you can validate the full voice experience right inside Gladly, catch issues before they reach callers, and tune your setup with confidence. Stay tuned for availability details.

We're Bringing Mobile Support to Gladly!

We are excited to introduce mobile support for Gladly Team. Designed for Agents on the go or away from their desk, this update lets you view your Customer list, open Conversations, and take action directly from your phone.

Want early access? Mobile support is currently in beta. If you'd like to be among the first to try it and share your feedback, please contact Gladly Support to get started.

Versions Page Timezone Incorrect on Refresh

Fixed – Timestamps in the Version and Summary columns on the Versions page would briefly render in the wrong timezone on page refresh before correcting to the local time.

Inspect Summary Shows Local Timezone

Fixed – The Agent version timestamp in the Inspect Summary panel now displays in the local timezone instead of UTC.

Rich-Content Agent Messages Trigger message:received Event

Fixed – The message:received event now fires for Agent messages sent as rich (HTML) content. Previously these messages did not trigger the event.

Workflow Editor, Runtime, and Template Fixes

  • Fixed – Using the same action more than once in a Workflow produced a duplicate-output error that prevented the author from saving. Repeated actions now save correctly, and all validation errors are listed under the validation banner with a working "Jump to" link that navigates to the exact field.

  • Fixed – The error banner in the Workflow editor could remain stuck on "Save blocked until errors are resolved,” with no visible per-step errors.The banner now reflects the errors actually shown on the steps, so resolving them clears the banner and re-enables Save.

  • Fixed – Several Workflow templates had starter conditions that referenced variables incorrectly, appearing as unrecognized custom conditions or silently failing to evaluate.

  • Deployment Status Banner Incorrectly Showing "Not Published"

  • Fixed – The deployment status banner on the Gladly Agent page could incorrectly show "Not published" even when the Gladly Agent was actively assigned to Entry Points.

Deployment Status Banner Incorrectly Showing "Published"

Fixed – The deployment status banner on the Gladly Agent page could incorrectly show "Published" even when no Entry Points were connected to the Gladly Agent.

Version Preview for Entry Points Linked to Older Versions

Fixed – The version preview stopped working and the label showing how many iterations a version was behind could disappear for Entry Points linked to versions more than 25 saves old.

Shared Report Editing Restricted to Analysts

Fixed – Editing and deleting shared Insight Builder reports from the Reporting view is now restricted to users with the Analyst role. Other users with report access retain view-only permissions.

Analyst Role Includes Read Reports Permission

Fixed – The built-in Analyst role includes the "Read reports" permission, allowing users with only the Analyst role to load Insight Builder and reports without needing to be combined with another role.

OrderGroove Product Names Display for Large Subscriptions

Fixed – Product names in the OrderGroove app were not displaying when a Customer had more than ten open subscriptions.

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