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 v0.7.11: 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.
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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, v0.7.7–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.