Notes from the team rebuilding around AI.
Field notes, product updates, and worked examples from the team building ThoughtLeaders.AI. New posts on launch days and around the major releases.
What's new in tl v0.9.4: your agent finds the extra skills your org publishes, and raw-SQL detours end sooner
The extra skills your organization publishes are now discoverable to your AI agent the first time it looks for them. And two of the most common raw-SQL wrong turns now come with a helpful hint on the spot, so a curious deep-dive doesn't dead-end on a naming mismatch.
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What's new in tl v0.9.3: build sourcing workflows from your AI agent, and install extra skills your org distributes
Your AI agent can now design a full sourcing funnel and drop it straight into the ThoughtLeaders app as a real workflow you can open, share, and iterate on. Plus a new skill-delivery system that installs any extras your organization publishes, and a cleaner view of the credits you have to work with.
What's new in tl v0.9.2: a protected email archive, sharper keyword research, and error messages that actually help
A tighter, safer release. Your channel email archive is now protected from accidental overwrites, keyword research reaches deeper into the data to find more matching channels, and when your AI agent hits a query error it gets a real hint instead of a dead end.
What's new in tl v0.9.0: keyword research hands you a validated filter, a channel roster, and trending videos
Ask your AI agent to research a topic — a niche, a trend, a category — and you now get back three things at once: a validated keyword filter you can save and reuse, a ranked shortlist of channels tiered by how much they actually cover it, and the trending videos on that topic sorted however you want. Plus a built-in help mode that costs nothing to ask.
What's new in tl v0.8.1: fewer wasted credits and gentler error messages for raw data queries
Your AI agent now catches itself before running the same expensive query three times in a row, and when a query does trip on a renamed field it gets a nudge in the right direction instead of a dead end. Small polish, real savings.
What's new in tl v0.8.0: clearer field names across the board and Media Selling Network editing from the CLI
A friendlier vocabulary lands across the tl CLI: advertisers, subscribers, projected views, scheduled dates — names that mean what they say. Plus, your AI agent can now add or remove a channel from the Media Selling Network in a single command.
What's new in tl v0.7.15: ask for a topic, get a ranked, validated channel shortlist
Topic-driven channel discovery just got a serious upgrade. Tell your AI agent the topic you care about — investing, cold plunges, AI cooking, whatever — and instead of a raw keyword count, it now returns a ranked, sense-checked shortlist of channels that actually cover it, with sponsorability flags ready to go.
What's new in tl v0.7.14: smarter keyword search and a sharper channel-update skill
A new switch on raw keyword search keeps the matching snippet right next to each result — so when your agent answers "which videos talk about VPNs?", you can see exactly where. Plus a clearer playbook for updating channel contacts.
What's new in tl v0.7.13: brand-to-channel matching, end to end
Two new commands close the loop on one of the questions every brand researcher asks: which creators is this brand already in love with, and who looks like them? Plus a cleaner, simpler vocabulary for sponsorship statuses across the board.
What's new in tl v0.7.12: no more ceiling on deep data sweeps
Two smooth upgrades land today: your AI agent can now walk through huge result sets end-to-end — past the old 10,000-row ceiling — when answering broad sweeping questions, and setting tl up inside the Claude desktop app just got a lot more reliable.
What's new in tl v0.7.11: smarter creator search and automatic YouTube discovery
Looking up a creator by name now works the way you'd expect — typos and odd spacing get sorted out for you, and a name we don't track yet is found on YouTube and queued for analysis on the spot.
What's new in tl, v0.7.7–v0.7.10: deeper discovery, fairer pricing, cleaner reports
Your AI agent can now pull the complete list of creators who fit a topic — not just the top few thousand — the cost structure is simpler and only charges for what you actually ask, and building or saving a report now follows one clear path.
What's new in tl v0.7.6: smarter counts, friendlier article results
Two small but useful upgrades to the tl CLI's AI guidance — your agent now answers "how many?" questions in one shot instead of paging through every record, and article searches come back with channel names already attached.
Why we bet the company on AI in 2026
This year, we made the call: rebuild the company around AI. Not a product feature. Not an internal pilot. The entire operating system of the business. Here is why, and what it has produced.