Changelog
Stay up to date with the latest features and improvements to FirstQuadrant.
User registration flow
Creating your FirstQuadrant account is now faster and more streamlined. We’ve built a complete registration system that guides you through account setup, plan selection, and payment processing in just…
Archive contacts
Managing your contact database just got more powerful. You can now archive contacts to keep your active list focused while preserving important data, and easily unarchive them when needed. We’ve also …
Contact archiving and management
You can now archive contacts to keep your lists organized without permanently deleting important prospects. Archived contacts are visually marked with a strikethrough and trash icon, making it easy to…
Campaign automation enhancements
We’ve significantly improved how campaigns run behind the scenes, making them more reliable and efficient. The system now better handles email scheduling, tracks draft emails more accurately, and prov…
Improved contact filters
Managing your contacts just got more powerful with several key improvements. You can now filter contacts using new boolean filters like “Has a deal” and “Has a campaign” to quickly identify prospects …
Billing and subscription management
Take full control of your FirstQuadrant subscription with our new comprehensive billing system. You can now view your current plan, upgrade or downgrade subscriptions, track credit usage, and manage p…
New contact context panel
Managing related contacts just got significantly easier with our improved contact interface. The contact details panel now displays related contacts with better organization and clearer visual hierarc…
Smart campaign scheduling
Managing email timing in your campaigns just got more precise. You can now set custom delays for each step in your sequences with improved visual feedback showing exactly when each email will be sent.…
Improved campaign management
Managing your email sequences just got significantly easier. When you adjust the timing of any step in your campaign, FirstQuadrant now automatically recalculates the delays for all subsequent steps t…
Precise contact imports
You now have more precise control over how FirstQuadrant handles existing contacts during imports. When importing contact lists, you can choose whether to include or exclude contacts that already exis…
Advanced filters
We’ve completely rebuilt the contact management experience with a new data table system that makes it easier to find, filter, and work with your prospects. The new interface includes advanced filterin…
Improved activity management
Creating and managing contact activities just got much more intuitive. The new activity form now handles email addresses more intelligently, automatically managing both contact IDs and email addresses…
Marketing website redesign
We’ve completely redesigned our marketing website with a modern, interactive experience. The new site features animated components, improved mobile navigation, and dynamic content sections that showca…
New landing pages
Our marketing website now features a completely redesigned navigation and user experience. The new interactive navigation includes a dynamic Features dropdown with hover effects and keyboard navigatio…
Contact processing improvements
We’ve significantly improved how FirstQuadrant handles contact processing and email management. You can now manually trigger contact processing with a new regenerate button in the contact activity bar…
Contact data preservation
When importing contacts from integrations like Vector and RB2B, FirstQuadrant now preserves all the original raw data alongside the processed information. This means you’ll have access to the complete…
Task management in contact activity
You can now manage tasks directly from the contact activity timeline. Each task now includes a dropdown menu with options to reopen completed tasks, delete tasks you no longer need, and copy task deta…
Email open and click tracking
Track how your prospects engage with your emails using our new open and click tracking features. When enabled, you’ll see exactly when someone opens your email and which links they click, giving you v…
New search experience
Finding the right prospects just got significantly easier. Our redesigned search now returns results 3x faster, includes smart filters for company size and industry, and offers intelligent autocomplet…
Activity interface
We’ve completely redesigned how activities are displayed and managed throughout FirstQuadrant. The activity interface now features a cleaner, more streamlined design that makes it easier to track your…
Outbound sales tools
We’ve significantly expanded your email management options with new integrations and improved settings. You can now connect Reply.io, Outreach, Smartlead, and Warmly to your FirstQuadrant workspace, g…
Activity updates
Managing your sales activities just got significantly more powerful. You can now undo activity updates, giving you better control when tracking changes in deal stages. The activity timeline has been r…
Draft email management
Managing follow-up emails just got significantly more powerful. You can now create draft emails with intelligent follow-up scheduling that automatically determines the best timing based on your conver…
Task management system
FirstQuadrant now includes a comprehensive task management system that helps you track and organize all your sales activities. Tasks are automatically created when the AI Brain processes emails, class…
Task management system
Stay on top of your sales activities with our new task management system. Tasks are now automatically created when your campaigns require manual review or action, giving you a clear view of what needs…
Campaign management and team collaboration
FirstQuadrant now includes comprehensive campaign management capabilities that make it easier to organize your sales outreach. You can create and manage multiple campaigns, assign team members to spec…
Contact and company enrichment
We’ve significantly upgraded how FirstQuadrant gathers and displays information about your prospects. Contact profiles now include much richer data about individuals and their companies, giving you be…
Company profiles and enrichment
Get deeper insights into your prospects with our new company profiles feature. When viewing contacts, you can now access detailed company information including industry, size, revenue, and other key b…
Sales pipeline management
Track your deals from first contact to close with our new pipeline management system. You can now create custom sales pipelines with multiple stages that match your sales process, whether that’s “Lead…
Data management system
We’ve completely rebuilt FirstQuadrant’s data infrastructure to give you more control and visibility over your sales data. You can now organize your contacts and campaigns with custom properties, crea…
Improved follow-ups
We’ve been making under-the-hood improvements to our content generation systems to make emails more engaging and effective. This week, we’ve shipped an improved workflow that uses the content of previ…
Billing management
This week, we’ve shipped new billing management features that allow you to upgrade and downgrade your subscription from the Settings -> Billing page. You can also view the number of AI credits used in…
Segment audiences
Today, we’re announcing the launch of segmenting audiences. When creating a new campaign, you can select the “Segment” option to create a new audience based on a segment of an existing audience. You c…
In-app notifications
Today, we’re announcing the release of in-app notifications. On the bottom left corner of the app, you’ll now see a bell icon that will show you notifications about your campaigns, billing, and any ot…
Overwrite qualifications
In June, we launched Qualification, a new feature that uses LLMs to help you find relevant leads that match your ICP. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve added the ability to overwrite qualifi…
Autonomous decision-making
In May, we launched our autonomous decision-making system, codenamed the Brain, in preview. Today, we’re excited to announce that it is now generally available to all customers. Our new AI system can …
HTML emails
We have developed a new email parsing and rendering system to improve how emails are displayed in FirstQuadrant. Previously, emails were displayed as plain text, which made it difficult to read and un…
Improved HubSpot integration
We shipped our HubSpot integration in preview in May 2024 and in general availability in June 2024. Since then, we’ve been working on improving the integration based on your feedback. This week, we’ve…
Microsoft 365 integration
This week, we have added full support for Microsoft 365 (previously Office 365) mailboxes. Previously, only Google Workspace, Outlook, iCloud, and other IMAP-based email providers were supported. The …
Mailbox ramp-up settings
We have added a new feature to help you ramp up your mailboxes in a more controlled, customizable way. Previously, FirstQuadrant automatically ramped up your mailboxes to the maximum sending limit ove…
Autopilot sampling
Almost a year ago, we introduced Autopilot, a way to truly automate actions on FirstQuadrant. When Autopilot is enabled, you don’t have to manually approve generated Sequences and replies. Today, we’r…
Archive contacts
You can now archive contacts, informing FirstQuadrant that you will manually take over the relationship with that contact. Archiving a contact means that FirstQuadrant will no longer generate todos re…
Snooze todo options
Previously, if you did not want to deal with a particular todo immediately, you could snooze a todo to receive a reminder the following week, or view it on the “Snoozed” view. Now, you can select whet…
Goal completion API
We’ve added support for creating goal completions via the FirstQuadrant API. This allows you to programmatically mark contacts in a campaign as “won”, enabling you to automate your workflows and integ…
Provide feedback to the Brain
You can now provide feedback to the Brain on the actions it takes. If you disagree with an action, you can let the Brain know, and it will learn from your feedback. For example, you can provide feedba…
FirstQuadrant API
We’re excited to announce the release of the FirstQuadrant API. The API allows you to interact with FirstQuadrant programmatically, enabling you to automate your workflows and integrate FirstQuadrant …
Brain (preview)
Today, we’re proud to launch in preview one of the biggest improvements to FirstQuadrant’s AI since its inception: the Brain. Brain is the codename of our new AI system that can take actions on your b…
Multilingual support (preview)
We are excited to announce that FirstQuadrant campaigns now support multiple languages! This means you can create campaigns not only in English (US), but also English (UK), Dutch, French, German, Roma…
HubSpot integration (preview)
One of the most requested features is finally here! You can now connect your HubSpot account to FirstQuadrant to sync your suppression list. Before a contact is added to an audience, we will make sure…
Qualification
In February, we released the feature preview of a new feature called AI prospecting. Today, we’re excited to announce that AI prospecting is now called Qualification, and is now available to all custo…
Creativity slider
Our customers have been asking for a way to control the creativity of their campaigns - specifically how much the content of the emails can deviate from the sequence template. When setting up a campai…
Unsubscribe Links
In this release, we’ve added support for unsubscribe links in emails. When unsubscribe links are enabled and you send an email, we’ll automatically add the link to the email’s footer. If a contact cli…
Bulk actions
We’re excited to ship one of our most requested features: bulk actions! In all views, you can now select multiple rows and perform actions on them in bulk. For example, you can approve multiple replie…
Data export
We’ve added a new feature that allows you to export all your data from FirstQuadrant. You can now export all your data in CSV format, including companies, contacts, campaigns, emails, clicks, opens, i…
Campaign mailboxes
We’re excited to introduce the ability to select specific mailboxes for each campaign. This allows you to run multiple campaigns with different sets of mailboxes, where each campaign will only send em…
Redesigned conversations
We’re happy to launch a redesigned conversations view in FirstQuadrant. This new layout is designed to make viewing the conversation history and upcoming messages easier and more intuitive, and to mak…
Filter by reply classifications
In the Actions -> Todo view, you can now view the reply classifications for each todo. You can filter the view by reply classification, team member, campaign, and priority. This helps you better m…
Bulk import mailboxes
Last week, we shipped first-party support for additional email providers such as Yahoo!, iCloud, AOL Mail, Zoho, Fastmail, and others, and now you can bulk import mailboxes from any provider using a C…
Additional email providers
With first-party support for additional email providers such as Yahoo!, iCloud, AOL Mail, Zoho, Fastmail, and others, you can now connect almost any email account to FirstQuadrant for sending outbound…
AI prospecting (preview)
AI prospecting is a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to help you find relevant leads that match your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). After you select an audience using traditional filters (…
Sender reputation scores
As part of our extensive built-in email deliverability features, FirstQuadrant uses industry-leading email warming to keep your emails out of spam and increase your sending reputation. We now show you…
CRM forwarding
We’ve been thinking about how to make it easier for you to manage your FirstQuadrant leads in your existing CRM. As a first step, we’ve added the ability to forward all emails to your CRM. This is an …
Enriched fields are available
A few months ago, we launched Enriched fields in preview. After a lot of feedback, testing, and optimization, we’re happy to announce that Enriched fields are now available to all customers in general…
LinkedIn work history
With intelligent leads sourcing, FirstQuadrant finds the right leads based on your ICP and automatically adds them to your audience, showing you the most relevant information about them including a li…
Smart scheduling
In the past week, we’ve made a ton of under-the-hood deliverability improvements to ensure your outbound emails end up in the right place. One of the biggest changes we’ve made is to how we schedule y…
Filters
We’ve added a powerful new feature to FirstQuadrant: filters. You can now add filters to almost all views to find exactly what you’re looking for. For example, you can filter conversations by campaign…
Analytics
Today, we’re releasing our most-requested feature — Analytics. On the new Analytics page, you can see real-time data about campaign performance, the conversion funnel, and detailed metrics. You can al…
Autopilot is available
Last month, we introduced the preview of Autopilot, a feature to truly and fully automate outbound sales. After you have manually approved a minimum number of messages, Autopilot will take over and se…
Exclude lists
We’re happy to launch a new feature to help you exclude companies from your campaigns. You can now upload a list of domains to exclude from your campaigns when creating a new exclude list. This is ver…
Custom domain tracking
FirstQuadrant automatically provisions custom domains and mailboxes for outbound emails. With the new custom domain tracking feature, we will now use your custom domain to track opens and clicks. This…
Import CSV metadata
Since the past few months, you can import your own leads to FirstQuadrant using CSVs. Now you can also import additional metadata for each lead, such as their name, company, and more. This allows you …
Email deliverability checks
When you create an audience in FirstQuadrant, we find information about relevant leads for you, including their email addresses. These email addresses can sometimes be invalid or undeliverable, which …
Draft campaigns
We’re excited to ship one of our most requested features: Draft campaigns. As soon as you start creating a campaign, it will automatically be saved as a draft, and each change will be saved as you go …
Single training step
We’ve made it much easier to create a new campaign by eliminating the email revision steps. Now, you can start a campaign in a single step by providing a training email and FirstQuadrant will understa…
Goal link per team member
You can now set a goal link for each team member, for example their own Calendly scheduling link, instead of using the same call-to-action throughout the campaign. You can configure the link for each …
Dark theme
Today, we’re launching FirstQuadrant in dark! This is a feature that’s very helpful when burning the midnight oil, and we’re excited to finally make it available. By default, we’ll use your system the…
Import CSV audiences
You can always find new leads within FirstQuadrant, but sometimes you want to import your own leads. You can now do this by uploading a CSV file with your leads. You can find this feature while creati…
Custom API goals
With the FirstQuadrant API, you can mark conversations as won and perform other tasks programmatically. This is useful if you want to integrate with your CRM or other systems. Create an API key by hea…
New interface for creating campaigns
Today, we’re shipping a brand-new, well-structured interface for creating campaigns. We now open each step of the campaign creation process in a popup, which makes it easier to navigate between steps …
Manually mark conversations as won or lost
Although FirstQuadrant automatically marks conversations as “Won” when they meet your goal criteria, such as scheduling a meeting using your Calendly link, you can now manually mark conversations as ”…
Calendly integration
We now sync created events in Calendly to FirstQuadrant and automatically mark conversations as “Won” when a meeting is booked. You can connect your Calendly account by going to “Settings” -> “Apps” a…
Automated responses
In a major update, we’ve added automated responses to FirstQuadrant. When a lead replies to your email, FirstQuadrant will automatically generate contextual responses that you can review and send. Thi…
Reopen lost conversations on reply
We now reopen conversations that were marked as lost when a reply is received. This is useful if you have a long sales cycle and a lead replies after a few weeks - the conversation will automatically …
Email tracking
We’ve added click and open tracking to outbound messages, so you can now see when a message has been opened and when a link has been clicked. This is a great way to see how your campaigns are performi…