The biggest structural change this release is how homepages are built. Instead of assembling a page from a fixed set of layout blocks, Pendium now writes each homepage as real code directly from the approved design mockup — so announce bars, icon rows, contact forms, and custom navs all make it in, grounded in your actual content and photos. Every new homepage generates this way by default. You can also customize it with a plain-language instruction ("remove the gold shape after the hero") and the edit applies in place without regenerating the whole page. A visual link editor lists every link on your homepage by health status — green, orange, or red — and lets you repoint a broken one to your booking page, shop, or a real section of the page in one click, no credits used.
The rest of your site caught up too. Custom pages — FAQ, Services, Profile — can now be upgraded into code-written designs that inherit the homepage's visual language. Service-area and recreated website-page batches generate a complete design for each draft with per-page progress and a review-before-publish step. The "Technical SEO" fact sheet is now called AI Crawlability and checks the things that actually matter here: whether AI crawlers are allowed in your robots.txt, whether your site renders anything without JavaScript, and whether your structured data is present — not title tag length.
The platform's design system migration finished this release. Every authenticated surface — Visibility, Knowledge, Posts, Fact Sheets, Homepage, Site, Competitors, Assets, AI Memory, and the rest — now follows the same light/dark theme. The sidebar keeps whatever state you left it in across navigation and reloads. The chat dock moved to the left of the page and reads as part of the surface rather than a floating panel. For chat-first agents, opening any surface (homepage, visibility, knowledge) now keeps the chat on screen and renders the page in a pane beside it. The sidebar is always there on the chat home too — agent switcher, nav, Business Info, log out — so you're never stranded in a full-screen conversation.
A handful of things that were quietly broken now work correctly. The canonical URL served to AI crawlers was pointing at another customer's domain. Root domains like acme.com can now be pointed at your Pendium site — previously the setup gave you instructions your DNS provider would reject, and verification failed even if you got it right. The onboarding chat no longer invents a stand-in brand when no facts have loaded yet. The sidebar's collapsed icon rail now shows which section you're in. Homepage previews no longer crash inside the sandboxed chat frame. Google sign-in now returns you to the page you were headed to instead of dropping you on the account list.