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2026-07-02
Branded study links and custom domains
  • Your studies now live on a branded <your-org>.pillow.so subdomain, so your links show your organization’s name instead of a generic address.
  • Add a Custom domain in Settings → Domains to serve studies from your own subdomain, such as interview.acme.com.
2026-06-30
Suggested studies and follow-ups
  • Find Suggested Studies tailored to your product and past findings, right in the new-study page.
  • Each study’s executive summary proposes Follow-up studies grounded in its findings.
2026-06-19
Revamped Insights page
  • The Insights page has been revamped, starting with a brand-new Executive Summary of your study.
  • Issues now surface feature requests alongside bugs and UX problems, clustered across every interview.
  • Every question cluster in the Overview now includes its own sentiment analysis.
2026-06-12
Faster, more natural interviews
  • Interviews now respond faster, keeping conversations flowing without long pauses.
  • Replies feel more natural and conversational.
2026-06-09
Connect AI tools with the Pillow MCP
  • Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI tools directly to Pillow and explore your study results without exporting transcripts.
  • Ask questions across your studies, search interviews, and pull recurring issues and patterns straight into your workspace.
  • Access is read-only and scoped to one organization: sign in with your Pillow account, no API keys to manage.
  • Open the new MCP tab in the dashboard to connect. See Connect AI tools with MCP.
2026-06-05
Synthetic study testing
  • Run synthetic participants against a test study to see how your agent handles several realistic interviews before launch.
  • Watch multiple test interviews unfold side by side.
  • Choose participant locales and inspect participant profiles to check how the study performs across different audiences.
2026-06-01
Filter and search your studies
  • A new filter bar on the studies list lets you narrow by status, creation date, interview count, reply rate, and creator.
  • Active filters appear as editable chips, and search jumps straight to a study by name.
  • See Browse and filter studies.
2026-05-29
Research Chat is now Ask Pillow
  • The chat panel for questioning your interview data is now called Ask Pillow.
  • A first-time hint points you to it above your study’s analysis tabs.
  • See Ask Pillow about your data.
2026-05-16
Custom agent roles
  • Customize the role shown under your agent’s name in the interview chat header.
  • Auto-translate the role for supported participant languages when setting up multilingual studies.
2026-05-15
Reach participants in their language
  • Add an outreach message for every supported language in one click with the new all-locales button.
  • The interview experience now adapts to each participant’s own language automatically.
  • See Run studies in multiple languages.
2026-04-23
Smarter Study Builder
  • The Study Builder can now search the web to ground your study in real context.
  • It proactively suggests goals and shows its reasoning in a live action feed as it works.
  • See Create a study.
2026-04-22
Interview grades
  • Each interview now gets a letter grade from A+ to D so you can spot the most valuable responses at a glance.
  • Filter the interview list by grade to jump straight to your best interviews.
2026-04-21
Participant rewards and identifier collection
  • Offer participants a reward for completing an interview.
  • Collect an email, phone number, or custom identifier from each participant, then export the list as a CSV.
  • See Offer rewards and collect identifiers.
2026-04-16
Target SDK audiences
  • Launch studies automatically to specific cohorts of SDK users, no shared link needed.
  • Build cohorts by combining activity rules with device, location, and custom property filters.
  • See Target SDK audiences.
2026-04-10
Mobile SDKs for iOS and Android
  • Native SDKs let you embed Pillow studies directly in your iOS and Android apps.
  • Identify users and set custom properties so studies reach the right audience segments.
  • Control when and how studies appear with presentation options like skipping already-seen studies or forcing a fresh session.
  • Track study lifecycle events: know when a study is presented, completed, skipped, or fails to load.
  • Install via Swift Package Manager on iOS or Maven Central on Android.
2026-04-01
Issue tracking
  • Pillow now automatically detects bugs and issues mentioned during interviews and clusters them across interviews.
  • Browse issue clusters in the new Issues tab with priority levels, verbatim participant quotes, and interview counts.
2026-03-26
Add images to study goals
  • Attach up to four images per goal to give the Study Builder and Research Agent multimodal context. Share screenshots, mockups, or reference visuals alongside your text.
2026-03-23
Voice messages in interviews
  • Participants can now send voice messages during interviews instead of typing.
  • Voice messages are automatically transcribed so you can read them alongside text responses.
  • Play back original audio recordings from the interview transcript.
2026-03-18
Export Research Chat to PDF and Notion
  • Export any Research Chat thread to PDF.
  • Export any Research Chat thread to Notion.
2026-03-17
Edit your study setup from the chat
  • Ask the Study Builder to update agent settings, outreach messages, persona attributes, and interview depth directly in the interview.
  • See inline previews of every change the builder makes, and click to review the full details.
  • Drag-and-drop goals editor with inline editing, custom goal creation, and suggested choices above the chat input.
2026-03-16
Study setup quality checks
  • A background quality judge now evaluates your goals and notes, surfacing warnings when something looks off.
2026-03-16
QA distribution charts in Research Chat
  • Research Chat answers can now include QA distribution charts as inline evidence.
2026-03-06
Share Research Chat with your team
  • Share Research Chat threads and individual messages via a link.
  • Choose between organization-only or public visibility, with optional expiration.
2026-03-04
Verbosity control for Research Chat
  • Control response length in Research Chat with Concise and Detailed modes.
  • Concise mode produces tight summaries while still performing thorough analysis.
  • Choose your preferred style once, and it persists across your chat session.
2026-03-03
Translate interviews on demand
  • Translate interview transcripts into your preferred language from the interview view.
  • Read translated text inline while keeping the original messages available.
2026-03-02
Filter Research Chat by metadata
  • Narrow Research Chat analysis by metadata like locale, country, device, and custom fields.
  • Discover available metadata values before filtering to focus answers on the right audience segment.
2026-02-25
Notes to guide AI interviews
  • The Study Builder agent can now take notes to guide AI interviews.
  • Use notes to give extra context the AI should keep in mind during interviews.
2026-02-25
Better interview view
  • We redesigned interviews to make them easier to read.
2026-02-25
Research Chat history fixed
  • Reopening an older Research Chat now shows the thread as expected.
2026-02-25
Filter interviews by language
  • You can now filter interviews by locale.
2026-02-25
PII improvements
  • Sensitive-data detection was updated to reduce false positives.
2026-02-24
Set default outreach locale
  • You can now choose a default locale for outreach messages.
2026-02-19
Interview summaries
  • Each interview now gets an AI-generated summary with a headline and key bullet points.
  • Hover over any interview to preview its summary at a glance.
2026-02-16
Research Chat
  • Ask questions about your study data and get AI-generated answers in a new chat interface.
  • Insights are grounded in your actual interviews with source references.
  • A small-sample banner warns you when data is limited so you can interpret results with the right context.
2026-02-13
PII automatic detection
  • Personally identifiable information (PII) is now automatically detected and can be redacted from interview transcripts and insights.
  • Redacted content appears as styled labels instead of raw markers, making transcripts easier to read.
2026-02-04
Interview depth control
  • A new depth slider lets you choose between four interview styles: Express, Quick, Balanced, and Deep.
  • Each level adjusts how many questions and follow-ups the agent asks, from fast broad coverage to thorough exploration.
2026-01-20
New study builder and guided setup
  • Introduced a new Study Builder with AI-powered goal generation.
  • Guided setup makes it faster to turn objectives into actionable studies.
  • Improved launch flow clarity so teams can go live with confidence.
2025-12-23
Richer insights and smoother navigation
  • Insights now include fuller interview context and study metrics.
2025-12-16
Test & launch experience refined
  • Preview chats directly from the test & launch page before sharing.
  • Study tables and stats are clearer at a glance.
  • Copy updates make settings and workflows easier to understand.
2025-12-11
Study duplication and integration improvements
  • Duplicate studies to reuse settings and move faster.
  • Integration links are clearer with live mode guidance built in.
  • Interview selection and Safari form behavior are more reliable.