Release Notes

Bring Your Own Key (BYOK)

Users can now connect their own OpenRouter API key to the CogNerd platform, giving them full control over their AI usage and billing.

Key capabilities:

● Add and manage your personal OpenRouter API key from account settings

● Route AI requests through your own key for custom rate limits and model access

● Seamlessly switch between platform-managed and personal API keys

Why it matters: This feature gives power users and teams greater flexibility, cost control, and access to the full range of OpenRouter-supported models without being bound by platform usage limits.

Competitor Management

Users can now manually manage their competitor list directly within the platform, in addition to using auto-discovered competitors.

Key capabilities:

● Manually add competitors by entering their name and URL

● Add competitors surfaced from AI-powered discovery to your tracked list

● Edit and remove competitors from a centralised management view

Why it matters: This gives users complete control over their competitive landscape, ensuring the platform tracks the brands that matter most to their business rather than relying solely on automated discovery.

Platform Documentation

Official CogNerd platform documentation is now live at docs.cognerd.in.

Key capabilities:

● Comprehensive guides for all major platform features

● Step-by-step onboarding and setup instructions

● API and integration references

● Regularly updated with new releases and feature additions

Why it matters: A centralised documentation hub makes it easier for users to onboard, self-serve answers to common questions, and get the most out of the platform.

Competitor Deduplication

Competitor detection has been significantly improved to prevent duplicate entries from appearing in brand analyses and tracked lists.

Key improvements:

● Name normalisation to match competitors regardless of capitalisation or minor spelling variations

● URL normalisation to unify entries across www, https, and trailing slash variants

● Automatic deduplication applied during both analysis and manual entry workflows

Why it matters: Cleaner competitor data leads to more accurate insights, less noise in your competitive analysis, and a better overall experience when managing your brand landscape.

● Fixed logo rendering on downloaded files — logos now appear correctly across all export formats

● Resolved various landing page layout and content issues

● Minor stability and performance improvements across the platform

Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you at support@cognerd.ai.

Content Studio

Content Studio has been introduced as a centralized workspace within the CogNerd platform, enabling users to create and manage content across multiple formats seamlessly.

Key capabilities:

● Create and manage content in a unified interface

● Streamline workflows across multiple content types

● Improve efficiency from ideation to publishing

Why it matters: This feature simplifies the entire content creation process by bringing everything into a single workspace, enabling faster production and better content management.

LinkedIn Post Generator

The LinkedIn Post Generator allows users to create professional, high-quality posts tailored for business audiences.

Key capabilities:

● Generate structured, engagement-focused posts instantly

● Adapt tone for professional communication

● Save time on manual content drafting

Why it matters: This feature helps users maintain a strong and consistent professional presence while reducing the effort required to create impactful LinkedIn content.

Reddit Post Generator

The Reddit Post Generator enables users to create authentic, community-driven content tailored for Reddit discussions.

Key capabilities:

● Generate subreddit-style content

● Align tone with community expectations

● Improve engagement through discussion-oriented posts

Why it matters: This feature ensures that content fits naturally within Reddit communities, improving engagement and overall content performance.

● Improved content generation speed and responsiveness

● Enhanced UI consistency across content modules

● Better handling of multi-platform content workflows

● Improved overall user experience within content creation flows

● Fixed inconsistencies in generated content outputs

● Resolved UI issues in content creation workflows

● Improved system stability under high-load conditions

● Fixed minor bugs and performance issues across modules

Questions or feedback? We’d love to hear from you at support@cognerd.ai.

UGC Integration

The UGC Ads Generator has been integrated into the CogNerd platform, enabling users to generate high-quality ad creatives by simply providing a brand URL and a prompt.

Key capabilities:

● Generate UGC-style ads using brand URL as input

● Createad content based on customuser prompts

● Faster content generation formarketin campaigns

Why it matters: This features implifies the ad creationmprocess allowing users to quickly generate engaging, user-style content formarketing,improving campaign efficiency and creativity.

Google Authentication

Google Sign-In has been integrated into the CogNerd platform,allowing users to securely access their accounts using their Google credentials for a faster and more convenient login experience.

Key capabilities:

● Signin using Google account with a single click

● Secure authentication powered by Google

● Seamless login experience across devices

Why it matters: This features implifies the login and signup process,reducing friction for users while enhancing security and improving overall accessibility to the platform.

Password Reset Feature

Users can now securely reset their passwords directly from the login flow, improving account accessibility and reducing dependency on manual support.

Key capabilities :

● Forgot Password option added to login screen

● Secure password reset flow via email verification

● Improved validation and error handling during reset process

Why it matters: This feature enhances user experience by making account recovery quick and secure, while also reducing support over head and improving platform reliability.

● Added links to Terms & PrivacyPolicy for better compliance

● Improved navigation flow and menusequencing

● Enhanced Competitive Radar chart with better size and filtering

● Improved promptanalytics with latest persona selection

● Optimized rerun logic for better efficiency

● Enhanced keyword suggestions in BrandMonitor

● Improved overall UI responsiveness(fonts, buttons)

● Fixed dataloss when navigating between screens

● Ensured analysisflow visibility after running analysis

● Fixed incorrect prompt recommendations (duplication issue)

● Resolved ranking inconsistency issue

● Fixed missing prompt status details

● Resolved persona handling issues(ICP & null values)

● Fixed session and interrupted runhandling

● Fixed UI issues including settings buttons and font sizes

Questions or feedback ? We’d love to hear from you at support@cognerd.ai.

Cloudflare Integration

Cloudflare has been integrated with the CogNerd website to enhance analytics and monitoring capabilities.

Key capabilities:

Why it matters: This integration provides deeper insights into how users interact with the platform and helps improve overall website performance and reliability.

Web App — Installable PWA

CogNerd can now be installed directly from the website as a progressive web application.

You can now:

Why it matters: This makes accessing CogNerd faster and more convenient, removing the friction of navigating to the site every time.

Mobile-Optimised Website

The CogNerd website is now fully optimised for mobile devices.

Enhancements include:

Why it matters: Users can now easily access and use the platform on their phones, making CogNerd more accessible anytime and anywhere.

Guided Dashboard Tour

A guided dashboard tour has been introduced to help new users understand the platform before logging in.

Enhancements include:

Why it matters: This helps new users quickly understand how the platform works and explore its features before creating an account or logging in.

Content Studio

The Content Studio feature is now fully functional and allows users to generate AI-powered content directly within the platform.

Key capabilities:

Why it matters: Content Studio helps users create high-quality content quickly, saving time and improving productivity.

Server Infrastructure

The backend infrastructure for CogNerd has been deployed and organised across multiple services to improve system reliability and scalability.

Enhancements include:

Why it matters: These infrastructure improvements make the platform more stable, scalable, and capable of supporting future feature expansions.

Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you at support@cognerd.ai.

We've launched a completely redesigned CogNerd marketing website with a modern AI-first experience.

Key improvements include:

Why it matters: The new site helps visitors understand the value of CogNerd faster and move from discovery to product usage more easily.

The platform interface has been completely redesigned to improve usability and navigation.

Key improvements include:

Why it matters: The new interface makes it easier to monitor brand visibility across AI platforms and quickly identify optimization opportunities.

AGXP Edge Delivery

A new AGXP Edge Delivery module has been added to improve content delivery and optimization across AI and search platforms.

Key capabilities:

Why it matters: Helps ensure your content reaches AI engines and search platforms more efficiently, improving visibility and response inclusion.

Backlinks Monitoring

A new Backlinks module has been added under Search Engine Nexus.

You can now:

Why it matters: Backlinks remain one of the strongest signals for search ranking and AI citation probability.

Improved AEO Reporting

The AEO reporting system has been upgraded to provide deeper technical insights and more flexible report workflows.

Enhancements include:

- AI and search bot accessibility - Core Web Vitals and mobile usability - SSL certificate health - Content freshness analysis - FAQ schema validation

Why it matters: These improvements provide deeper insights into how AI systems discover and evaluate your content.

The GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) system now supports improved report persistence and retrieval.

Enhancements include:

- robots.txt - schema files - FAQ files - llm.txt files

Why it matters: This ensures GEO assets are accessible, reusable, and easier to manage across optimization workflows.

Content Studio has been enhanced with new analytics and content scoring capabilities.

New capabilities include:

- Entity coverage - Factual density - Neutrality - Snippet quality

Why it matters: These tools help you create content that is more likely to be cited by AI systems.

Behind the scenes, the platform architecture has been upgraded to improve scalability and reliability.

Enhancements include:

Why it matters: These improvements make the platform more reliable, faster, and easier to extend with new capabilities.

Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you at support@cognerd.ai.

Asset Creation Enhancements

Asset creation has been expanded to support your entire website.

You can now:

Why it matters: A stronger technical foundation improves discoverability across SEO, AEO, GEO, and AI platforms.

FAQ Generator

Automatically generate structured FAQs aligned with your brand and content.

Why it matters: FAQs improve your chances of appearing in search results and AI-generated responses.

IntelliWrite

A centralized content creation workspace that allows you to:

Why it matters: Create, manage, and reuse content efficiently across platforms.

Platform Monitoring and Reliability

BetterStack has been implemented to enhance platform stability and observability.

Enhancements include:

Why it matters: Faster issue detection and improved system reliability ensure a smoother experience.

Brand Monitor Experience

Brand Monitoring

GEO Files

Other Fixes

Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you at support@cognerd.ai.

Superuser Brand Access

Admins now have a bird's-eye view of all brands across your organisation. Whether you're overseeing multiple teams or managing large-scale brand portfolios, you can now access and monitor every brand profile from one central location.

Why it matters: No more switching between accounts or requesting access — streamline your workflow and make informed decisions faster.

Brand Creator Identification

Each brand now displays a small badge showing who created it. Quickly identify brand ownership and know who to contact for questions or updates.

Why it matters: Better accountability and easier collaboration across your team.

Enhanced Brand Filtering

Finding the right brand just got easier. We've added industry-based filtering with a convenient dropdown menu next to the search bar. The search now intelligently combines:

Why it matters: Whether you're managing brands across multiple industries or looking for specific competitors, you can now pinpoint exactly what you need in seconds instead of scrolling through long lists.

Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you at support@cognerd.ai.