// changelog · everything that shipped

What's new at LaneBolt.

I ship in public, one feature at a time, from a phone in Australia while caring for my parents. Every autopilot, every quality-of-life fix, every price update lives here so you always know what's changed.

// 2026-09-03 · 20 shipments
AI

AI Cold-Prospect Autopilot — 5 hyper-personalised DMs every Sunday

Every Sunday 10:00 UTC LaneBolt analyses your top 3 booked lanes and drafts 5 warm, human-voice LinkedIn DMs to freight-forwarder prospects hand-picked to match your winning trades. Delivered to your inbox before the Sunday auto-post fires, so you have 5 fresh outbound touches ready in one tap. Zero-touch new-customer pipeline for a caregiver-founder.

AI

AI SEO Health Monitor — weekly zero-touch digest

Every Sunday 22:00 UTC the monitor pings every AI-crawler surface on your site (sitemap URLs, llms.txt, /api/llms.json, JSON-LD blocks, robots.txt) and emails a warm digest of what's green vs what needs a look. Zero-touch — perfect for a caregiver-founder who can't babysit dashboards. Owner-only /admin/seo-health/run-now trigger available any time.

AI

AI Rate Repricer — proactive price-drop emails on every open quote

Daily 06:00 UTC scan of every unbooked quote 24h-7d old. Claude Sonnet 4.6 judges whether the spot rate on that lane has likely dropped 5-12% (fuel, capacity, season, geopolitics). If yes, drafts a warm 'great news — I can lower this to $X' email. Auto-sends for Autopilot teams. Kills the #1 reason forwarders lose deals: a competitor with fresher data reaching out first.

AI

AI Win/Loss Autopsy — never lose the same way twice

Mark any quote as LOST and Claude drafts a 3-line autopsy in seconds: why we probably lost, one sentence to say next time, and one adjacent lane pivot where you're likely stronger. Free per-quote coach on every miss — competitors don't give solo forwarders anything like this. Live on every quote at /quote/:id.

AI

AI Auto-Follow-Up Cascade (Day 2 + Day 5)

Every quote with a customer email on an Autopilot plan now auto-receives a warm Day-2 check-in and a Day-5 last-nudge — both drafted by Claude in your voice, both auto-sent while you focus on family. Zero-touch conversion recovery on every single quote you generate. Non-Autopilot teams still see the drafts in /comms for a one-tap send.

AI

Predictive Booking Score + AI Objection Handler

Every new quote now comes with a 0-100 Predictive Booking Score and 3 anticipated buyer objections + winning responses you can paste verbatim to win the deal. Grounded in lane, mode, urgency, and customer-domain signals. The '?' Help Drawer is now data-grounded too — it reads your live stats (open quotes, P0 count, trial days left) when answering questions.

UX

Always-on '?' help drawer

A sticky jade '?' button in the bottom-right of every authed page. Tap it → slide-out drawer with a Claude Q&A input (ask 'how do I X in LaneBolt?' in plain English) + a compact 7-step operational map with jump-in links. Never leave the page you're stuck on to find help.

UX

'How to Use LaneBolt' 7-step operational guide

New /how-it-works public page walks brand-new customers through the first week: generate a quote → share the link → read the morning AI Ops digest → do the LinkedIn ritual → mark your first booking → turn on Autopilot free trial → read the Sunday wrap-up. Every step names its time-to-complete and expected outcome. 'How to Use' link added to the sidebar too.

AUTOPILOT

Autopilot trial ribbon + God Mode signups panel

Customers on the 7-day AI Autopilot trial now see a live countdown pill on their dashboard (turns amber at 2 days left). Pablo gets a full God-Mode panel at /health showing every team that has touched Autopilot — paid, active trial, expired, or declined — plus live MRR from the add-on and potential MRR if the current trials convert.

AUTOPILOT

Day-6 warm trial recap email

One day before a customer's Autopilot trial expires, Claude AI drafts a warm 3-paragraph email summarising exactly what Autopilot did that week (quotes auto-shipped, replies sent, LinkedIn posts published), reassures nothing is lost if they don't upgrade, and softly invites them to keep it on at $499/mo. Non-salesy, non-desperate, in Pablo's voice.

AUTOPILOT

7-day free Autopilot trial — momentum trigger

The moment a customer generates their 5th quote, a warm modal offers a 7-day free trial of AI Autopilot Mode. Tap once → trial auto-enables, all Autopilot features flip on. Day 8 the trial auto-expires safely — never a surprise bill. Zero-touch upsell mechanic.

BILLING

AI Autopilot Mode — $499/mo add-on

A new hands-off tier that stacks on any plan. When ON, freight quotes auto-email your customer the moment they're generated, Reply Autopilot flips from draft to auto-send, Sunday LinkedIn auto-publishes without a nag, and the warmest-lead radar auto-drafts a follow-up in your outbox. Toggle it in /billing.

OWNER

Warmest Lead Radar (daily autopilot)

Every morning at 07:00 AEST, Claude scans your signups, waitlist, and inbound replies from the last two weeks — picks the SINGLE warmest lead to reach out to today, and sends you a 3-line brief with WHY and NUDGE. Web push + email. Silent skip if there's nothing warm.

GROWTH

Sunday LinkedIn autopost

If you don't tap AI-Publish during the week, Sunday morning at 09:00 UTC Claude auto-drafts, scores, picks a winner, stashes it under /post/{token}, and sends you a push + email. Tap once → LinkedIn opens with your post pre-filled. Truly zero-touch LinkedIn presence.

GROWTH

One-tap AI-Publish on LinkedIn Ritual

Tap 'AI-Publish Now' → 60 seconds later Claude has drafted 3 posts, scored them, picked the winner, copied it to your clipboard, and opened LinkedIn's compose sheet with the post pre-filled. Auto-marks Task 04 done and bumps your daily streak. Nothing to write.

GROWTH

Daily LinkedIn Ritual page

Seven small taps every morning: reply to comments · DM 3 warm forwarders · engage 5 posts · publish 1 · follow 5 · reshare a win · thank someone by name. Local streak counter, progress bar, auto-resets tomorrow. Turns your manual outreach into a one-tap routine.

MARKETING

/features deep-dive page + LinkedIn drafter vibe

New public /features page walks visitors through all 11 autopilots working in the background. Landing gets an 11-tile teaser above pricing. A matching 'Features deep-dive' LinkedIn vibe generates warm posts pointing at /features on demand.

OWNER

AI Financial Insights on Revenue panels

Both the customer Revenue Impact panel and the Platform Impact God-Mode panel now include a daily AI accountant read — Claude writes 3 short, on-brand next-step lines grounded in your real numbers (top lane, mode mix, cash-flow risk). Refreshed daily so cost stays negligible.

UX

First-visit Welcome Tour

New customers see a warm 4-step overlay on their first dashboard visit — 'Hey, glad you're here' → 'Generate your first quote' → 'AI Ops Manager reads them for you' → 'Confetti when it starts working'. Skippable, one-time, no library dependency.

UX

Visual polish (mobile header)

Fixed the character-stacked heading bug on narrow tablet viewports. Headings now truncate cleanly with an ellipsis instead of breaking one letter per line. Better breathing room across the whole product on 800px viewports.

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// written by pablo · zero press releases · zero marketing team