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Product Updates

Product Updates

Explore monthly product updates featuring smarter tools, AI improvements, and workflow enhancements.

Opportunity Cohorts: from spotted signals to the right visitors

Opportunity Detection now lets you drill from a live signal directly into the visitors who match it. Four new lead generation templates also shipped for the moments just before a visitor decides to stay or go.

May 29, 2026

Pick the size, pick the color, add to cart — all inside the chat

Variant selection now happens inside the chat widget. Around half the products in a Shopify store have variants, and the AI agent can now close the sale on all of them without sending the visitor anywhere.

May 28, 2026

Playbook is live: skills your team and AI agent both run

The Automations section in Text is now Playbook. It's the first step toward collapsing workflows and custom skills into one concept, Skills, where one person builds something once and the whole team, humans and AI agents alike, can run it.

May 25, 2026

Chat card in tickets: one click back to the conversation that started it

Tickets created from chats now show a chat card at the top of the feed with the original conversation summary and a one-click link back

May 19, 2026

Wins counter is live: revenue, leads, and customers served, always in view

A persistent counter at the top of the app showing three numbers that move during the day: sales closed, leads qualified, customers served.

May 13, 2026

Text is live on the Shopify App Store

You can now find and install Text directly from the Shopify App Store. This matters more than it sounds. Shopify merchants no longer need to leave their admin panel, find our site, sign up separately, and figure out the integration. They search, click install, and they're in.

May 12, 2026

Every channel, one place: the new All Channels section

A new Settings page that shows every channel you can connect - website widget, email, messaging apps - and their current status.

May 12, 2026

Spotlight now searches everything at once

Search across chats, tickets, and contacts in one go. No scope picker, no retyping. Tabs filter the results after the fact.

May 12, 2026

Add to cart, right from the chat

When the AI agent recommends a product, visitors can now add it to their cart without leaving the conversation. One tap, item in cart.

May 11, 2026

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