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    <title>SoundMinds.ai — Stela Updates</title>
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    <lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:42:14 GMT</lastBuildDate>
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      <title>Coming soon: Team plan — team access, invites, roles, and agency workspaces</title>
      <link>https://www.soundminds.ai/updates#2026-04-13-coming-soon-team-access</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Team plan ($149/mo) brings team collaboration to Stela: invite members, assign roles, and manage multiple client workspaces from one account. 6× Starter quotas (4,500 discoveries, 2,400 scores, 900 drafts). Designed for agencies and brand teams who collaborate on creator outreach.

  • Invite by email — Send invites to team members. They create an account (or log in) and land in your workspace.
  • Roles — Owner, admin, and member roles with different access levels. Owners manage billing; admins manage campaigns; members run discovery and drafts.
  • Multi-workspace — One login, multiple workspaces. Agencies can manage separate client workspaces from a single account.
  • 6× Starter quotas — 4,500 discoveries, 2,400 scores, and 900 drafts per month — plus everything in Pro (reply detection, follow-ups, and the Stela inbox).]]></description>
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      <title>Tell us what to build next</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[We're considering several directions for Stela's roadmap and want your input. Client reporting, audience insights, and campaign outcome tracking are all on the table — but what we build depends on what you actually need.

  • Client reporting — Auto-generated campaign reports for agencies to share with clients: discovery stats, outreach funnel, creator list, response status.
  • Audience insights — Estimated audience demographics from public signals: language, content topics, engagement sentiment, timezone patterns.
  • Campaign outcome tracking — After a creator agrees to collaborate, monitor whether they actually posted — surface the post URL, reach, and engagement.
  • Something else entirely — If none of these match what you need, we want to hear that too. Email us at support@soundminds.ai and tell us what would make Stela indispensable for your workflow.]]></description>
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      <title>Stela by SoundMinds.ai is officially live</title>
      <link>https://www.soundminds.ai/updates#2026-04-13-stela-launches</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Stela by SoundMinds.ai is officially live. Sign up free at stela.soundminds.ai — no credit card required. The first 10 customers get 3 months completely free, and every early customer gets direct founder onboarding.

  • Sign up free — Create your account at stela.soundminds.ai — no credit card required. Search YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok for creators, AI-score their fit, and draft personalized outreach in one click.
  • First 10 get 3 months free — The first 10 people to complete sign-up get the full Starter plan at zero cost for 3 months. No strings, no card required. Everyone after that gets a 30-day free trial.
  • Starter ($49/mo) and Pro ($99/mo) — Starter includes 750 discoveries, 400 scores, and 150 drafts per month across YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. Pro gives you 3× the quotas plus premium outreach features like reply detection, follow-ups, and the Stela inbox.
  • Founder-led onboarding — Every early customer gets a direct onboarding session with Eric, the founder. Walk through your use case, get your workspace set up, and run your first discovery together.]]></description>
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      <title>Stela Pro Wave 2: reply detection, follow-ups, the Stela inbox, and LinkedIn enrichment</title>
      <link>https://www.soundminds.ai/updates#2026-04-13-stela-pro-wave-2</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Stela Pro now includes reply detection, follow-up sequence drafts, the Stela inbox, and LinkedIn contact enrichment. These features complete the outreach loop — send, track, follow up, and manage conversations without leaving Stela.

  • Reply detection (Pro) — When a creator replies to your outreach, Stela catches the reply and surfaces it inline on the draft card. You'll see your funnel as sent → delivered → replied, with unread indicators so nothing slips through. Stela-routed is the default; you can opt out per campaign to route replies straight to your own inbox instead.
  • Follow-up sequence drafts (Pro) — For creators who haven't replied, Stela automatically drafts follow-ups on a cadence you configure (up to 3 per creator). Every follow-up still goes through your review before it sends — nothing auto-sends, ever.
  • The Stela inbox (Pro) — A new Inbox tab showing every outreach conversation across campaigns, with per-creator threading and the ability to reply from inside Stela using your verified sender identity. No context-switching to a separate email client.
  • LinkedIn contact enrichment — When Stela scans a creator's website for a business email, it also picks up LinkedIn profile URLs, giving you a second outreach channel for creators who don't publish an email. Included in Starter.]]></description>
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      <title>Stela Pro launches — plus self-service plan changes and delivery tracking</title>
      <link>https://www.soundminds.ai/updates#2026-04-10-stela-pro-launches</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Stela Pro launches at $99/mo with 3× Starter's quotas and premium outreach features. You can now upgrade or downgrade your plan yourself from Settings, with a transparent prorated-charge breakdown before you confirm. And every draft you send now shows a live delivery badge — delivered, bounced, or complained — with a campaign funnel row above your drafts list.

  • New Pro plan — $99/mo — Pro gives you 3× Starter's monthly quotas (2,250 discoveries, 1,200 scores, 450 drafts) and unlocks premium outreach features as they roll out, starting with reply detection. Annual billing is 20% off on both Starter and Pro.
  • Upgrade and downgrade yourself — Change your plan from Settings without contacting support. Upgrades (Starter → Pro, or monthly → annual) take effect immediately, with a transparent prorated charge and a "How is this calculated?" breakdown shown before you confirm. Downgrades take effect at the end of your current billing period — you keep your current features until then, and a scheduled-change banner shows when the switch will happen. Changed your mind? One-click Cancel Downgrade keeps you where you are.
  • Delivery tracking — Every draft you send now shows a live delivery badge: delivered, bounced, or complained, updated in real time. A campaign summary row above your drafts list shows the funnel at a glance — "Sent 42 → Delivered 38 → Bounced 2". Included in Starter.]]></description>
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      <title>Smarter Discovery &amp; Richer Creator Profiles</title>
      <link>https://www.soundminds.ai/updates#2026-04-07-smarter-discovery-richer-profiles</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Four improvements to how Stela finds and presents creators: automatic business-email extraction from creator websites, plain-language scoring explanations, a consolidated creator dossier view, and natural-language keyword suggestions for YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.

  • Contact enrichment — Stela now automatically scans creator websites to find business email addresses, increasing the number of creators you can reach by email.
  • Richer scoring summaries — Each scored creator now includes a detailed plain-language explanation of why they scored the way they did, making review decisions faster.
  • Creator dossier — Click any scored creator to see everything Stela knows in one view: profile, scoring, engagement metrics, content evidence, contact info, and cross-campaign history.
  • AI keyword suggestions — Describe your ideal creator in plain English and Stela will generate platform-specific keyword suggestions for YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.]]></description>
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      <title>Stela by SoundMinds.ai — launch date confirmed: April 13</title>
      <link>https://www.soundminds.ai/updates#2026-03-30-launch-date-confirmed</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Stela by SoundMinds.ai launches April 13, 2026. The first 10 customers to sign up get 3 months completely free — no credit card required. Everyone after that gets a 30-day free trial.]]></description>
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      <title>Founder-led onboarding confirmed for all early Stela customers</title>
      <link>https://www.soundminds.ai/updates#2026-03-21-founder-led-onboarding</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every early Stela customer gets a direct onboarding session with the founder. We're keeping the early cohort small deliberately so every customer gets real attention — not a ticket queue.]]></description>
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      <title>Stela pricing finalized: $49/mo Starter, 20% annual discount</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Stela Starter is $49/month with monthly or annual billing (annual ≈ $39/mo). Usage caps are 750 discoveries, 400 scores, 150 drafts, and 10 keywords per month. Overage is opt-in after entering payment info.]]></description>
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