Unified Cycl Sales client portal dashboard showing courses, communities, and billing in one view

Your Pages Just Got a Personality (And 5 Other Upgrades This Week)

August 03, 2026

Big week over here. The builder got some new dance moves, your AI assistant learned to read, and the client portal finally stopped feeling like five different apps wearing a trench coat. Grab a coffee and let's get into it. ☕

🎨 A Fresh Batch of Templates Just Dropped

Need a head start on a website, funnel, or ad campaign? We just published a fresh wave of ready-to-use templates — new website and store layouts, an email template, social posts, Facebook and Google ad templates, LinkedIn ads, and a couple of new workflow templates too. Whatever industry you're in, there's a decent chance one of these fits like it was made for you (because, well, kind of was).

New website template example

Check out the full lineup →

🖱️ Buttons That Actually React When You Hover

Your buttons used to just... sit there. Now they can grow, pulse, wobble, glow, or sweep with color the moment someone hovers over them. Pick from 21 effects, preview them live on the canvas, and tweak the speed and color without touching a single line of code. It's the kind of small detail that makes a page feel alive instead of static.

Button hover animation demo

And it plays nice with everyone: hover effects turn themselves off on phones and tablets automatically, so nobody gets stuck in a weird half-hover limbo.

See it in action →

✨ Whole Sections Can Now Make an Entrance

Animations aren't just for individual elements anymore. You can now apply entrance animations to entire sections, rows, and columns — fades, slides, bounces, flips, you name it. Everything sequences itself automatically as visitors scroll, so a section's "kids" wait politely for their "parent" to finish before showing up. No math, no manual delays, no drama.

Section entrance animation demo

Take a look →

🤖 Ask AI Can Now Read Your Files

Here's a genuinely handy one: Ask AI now accepts images and documents right in the chat. Got a screenshot of a broken page? A PDF contract? A CSV of last month's leads? Just attach it (from your camera, gallery, files, or Media Library) and ask your question in plain English. No more retyping what a screenshot already shows you.

Ask AI file attachment feature

Learn more →

🏠 One Portal to Rule Them All

This is the big one. Your client portal, courses, and communities used to feel like separate apps stitched together with tape. We rebuilt the whole thing from the ground up: one login, one navigation bar, one connected home for courses, communities, billing, shared files, and account settings. Your customers get a real dashboard that shows what they're working on, what's due, and what's new — instead of a plain landing page that goes nowhere.

Unified client portal dashboard

Communities got a glow-up too — smoother discussions, six reaction types, unified search, and a much cleaner way to move between posts, courses, and events without ever feeling like you left the room.

See the new portal →

🎁 Gift Cards Now Work Everywhere You Take Payments

Gift cards used to only work on customer checkouts. Now you can redeem a customer's gift card balance yourself — while recording a payment, charging a card directly, or setting up a subscription. If the balance doesn't cover the full amount, the rest gets charged to their saved payment method automatically. Simple, consistent, no extra steps.

Gift card redemption in payments

See where to find it →

⭐ Smarter Review Campaigns

Two nice upgrades for anyone running review requests. First, you can now target drip campaigns by an exact review date range instead of just a rough age window — and you'll see exactly how many reviews match before you hit launch, so no more empty campaigns. Second, you can now set a default phone number and email specifically for review requests, so every request goes out looking consistent and familiar instead of random.

Review date range targeting for drip campaigns

Set up date targeting →  |  Choose your sender →

That's a Wrap

That's everything worth knowing this week. Go poke around, animate a button, upload a screenshot to your AI assistant, and let us know what you think. See you next week! 👋

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