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MKT AUTO
Velocity7.5

Automated messaging platform for tech-savvy marketers

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Customer.io spent the summer pushing messaging off the screen and into location, time, and the lock screen

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◆Current state
The summer release cycle put more than ten features into the product, and the coherent ones are about context rather than content: geofences trigger workflows when someone enters or leaves a physical location, live notifications render as iOS Live Activities and Android Live Updates, date triggers now read attributes on custom objects, and a notification inbox retains pushes. Around that sits infrastructure work — SMS via Sinch, Infobip and Vonage, multiple mobile apps per platform in one workspace, send-rate controls on automations — and an LLM actions surface where knowledge sources can be attached once and reused across prompts. The most recent entry is editor ergonomics in Design Studio.
◆Where it's heading
The platform is expanding the set of things that can start a message and the set of places one can land, which is a different axis from the segmentation-and-copy tooling most of this category competes on. Geofences and live notifications both take work that previously required a specialist vendor or custom device code and make it a workflow primitive. The LLM actions work is following the same instinct — reusable knowledge sources are the beginning of prompt infrastructure rather than a prompt box — but it is the least developed of the threads. Meanwhile send-rate control and multi-app support read as enterprise deployment blockers being cleared.
◆Prediction
Expect the location and live notification surfaces to gain the operational controls that continuous device features require, and the LLM actions path to keep accreting reusable pieces. Design Studio is receiving steady editor polish, so a broader component authoring release is plausible.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    Design Studio: new and improved canvas editing experience

    Design Studio's canvas gains slash commands for adding blocks, navigation and resize shortcuts, and drag from anywhere on a component rather than just the handle. Editor ergonomics, but on the surface where the message content itself gets built.

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  2. 13d ago

    Control how fast your automations send messages

    Send-rate control for automations, letting teams throttle how fast a workflow pushes messages out. An operational guard that matters at the volumes the rest of the summer release is aimed at.

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  3. 20d ago

    Geofences: message people when they enter or exit a location

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    Physical location becomes a workflow trigger, which is the clearest example of the summer release's push toward context-driven messaging. It extends what can start a campaign rather than improving what a campaign sends.

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  4. 20d ago

    Set up SMS with Sinch, Infobip, or Vonage

    SMS gains Sinch, Infobip and Vonage as providers, widening the carrier relationships a customer can bring with them. Channel plumbing rather than new capability, but it removes a procurement objection in markets where provider choice is fixed.

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  5. 20d ago

    Add reusable knowledge sources to LLM actions

    LLM actions can attach a file, a Google Drive doc or a recent-events query as a named knowledge source and reuse it across prompts instead of pasting the same context each time. The first sign of prompt infrastructure rather than a prompt field, though the surface is still small.

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  6. 20d ago

    Customer.io’s Summer Release: Meet your customers where they are

    The summer release round-up post, which restates the features shipped individually elsewhere in this feed. Useful as an index, but it carries no release of its own.

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