Ask AI Finally Talks Back and Your Dashboard Got Smarter

Big week around here. Your AI assistant learned to talk (and listen), your dashboard got a serious glow up, and your communities just got a lot better at keeping the riff raff out. Grab a coffee and let's get into it.

Just Talk to Ask AI. Like, Actually Talk

Typing questions into your phone while you're driving, walking a dog, or juggling three other things is nobody's idea of a good time. Now you don't have to. Ask AI on the mobile app has full two way voice, so you can tap the mic, say what you need, and hear the answer read back to you out loud.

Here's what makes it actually useful and not just a gimmick:

• You can interrupt it mid sentence. If it's rambling or you thought of a follow up, just start talking and it stops and listens.
• It works over Bluetooth headsets and AirPods automatically, so you can go fully hands free.
• If your connection drops, it shows a quick "reconnecting" message and picks the conversation back up instead of making you start over.
• You can close the chat and come back later. It remembers where you left off.

Everything you say or type lands in the same conversation thread, so you can switch between talking and typing whenever it's convenient. Open Ask AI, tap the mic, and give your thumbs a break.

Your Dashboard Now Listens to You, Not the Other Way Around

Dashboards are supposed to save you time, not make you dig through everyone else's numbers to find yours. Now you can edit any general widget on your dashboard and lock it down exactly the way you want it.

A few things you can do now:

• Set permanent filters on a widget, like "only show me my own leads," and it stays that way every time you open the dashboard.
• Lock a widget to a specific date range, separate from whatever date filter the rest of the dashboard is using.
• Turn on comparison mode to see how this month stacks up against last month or last year, right on the widget itself.
• Rename widgets and apply a theme so your dashboard actually looks like it belongs to your business.

No more guessing what time period a number is even showing. It's right there on the widget now. To try it, open your dashboard, hit Edit, and click into any widget's three dot menu.

Smarter AI Under the Hood

The AI models powering automations and the AI Agent action just got upgraded to a newer, sharper generation. Translation: fewer weird or made up answers, cleaner writing, and quicker responses when your workflows lean on AI to draft replies, tag contacts, or summarize things.

There are now two options depending on the job. One is built for bigger, multi step tasks that need careful thinking. The other is built for speed, great for quick replies, tagging, or summarizing a wall of text in a blink. Both are noticeably more accurate than what you had before. You'll see the new options the next time you open the Model dropdown in an AI Agent or AI text action.

Communities Just Got a Bouncer

If you run a community inside Cycl Sales, spam and rule breaking posts are now way easier to keep out. You can set a list of flagged words, phrases, or domains, and anything that matches gets held back for review before it ever hits the feed.

Some nice touches:

• A starter pack of common spam phrases is ready to go with one click, so you're not starting from a blank list.
• A "try your rules" tool lets you test sample text before anything actually goes live.
• Flagged posts land in a Needs Review tab where you can see exactly what triggered the flag and approve or remove it in one click.
• Members can also report posts themselves, and those show up in their own tab too.
• The author of a held post still sees it on their own timeline marked "in review," so nobody thinks their post vanished into the void.

You (and your team) get notified the moment something gets flagged, so nothing sits around unnoticed. Set it up under Settings, then Content Moderation.

Finding the Right Course Just Got Way Easier

If your community has a growing pile of courses, scrolling through a giant flat list to find the right one is a pain. Now members can filter courses by topic, difficulty, and language, and sort them by title or newest first.

It works on mobile too, with simple filter chips at the top of the Learning tab. Less scrolling, more learning.

Dark Mode Has Landed

For everyone who prefers to browse at night without getting blinded, communities and courses now support dark mode. Members can flip the switch right from the top navigation, and it stays remembered across visits.

If you run a community, you can set up separate light and dark color palettes under Settings, then Appearance, so your branding still looks right no matter which mode someone picks. Editing one palette won't mess up the other.

A Little Extra Security for Email Attachments

Behind the scenes, we're tightening up how file attachments on email conversations are accessed, so sensitive files are better protected. Most people won't notice any change in their day to day use. This mostly matters if you use outside apps that pull attachments directly, since those will need updated permissions down the road.

Fresh Templates to Grab

Two big batches of new templates landed this week, covering websites, funnels, social posts, and ad templates across industries like real estate, legal, medical, travel, and more. If you've been putting off building something from scratch, now's a great time to browse the template library and grab one instead.

That's a Wrap

That's everything worth knowing from this week. Voice chat with your AI assistant, dashboards that finally behave, cleaner communities, and dark mode for the night owls. Go poke around and see what sticks. Want to see everything Cycl Sales can do? Check out our features page.