A 7-day Pro trial is now available to any free user who has never subscribed. The upgrade dialog and /checkout both offer it — Stripe takes a card upfront, then charges the standard Pro rate when the trial ends. Trial accounts start with 1M credits; the first paid invoice resets to the full Pro allotment. The /pricing page reflects this too: the Pro card now reads "Start 7-day free trial" with "$0 today. Card required" beneath it.
On free brands, running a new visibility scan, generating workflow content past the first free post, and creating marketing posts from a post now require Pro. The upgrade dialog shows the trial offer to anyone who hasn't subscribed before. A teammate on someone else's free brand sees a message that the owner needs to upgrade. The onboarding scan and the "Run first scan" button are not affected.
Visibility personas show a face again. When avatar generation fails during a scan, the persona now falls back to a portrait from the stock pool — and the scan saves that portrait so it persists correctly.
Site Analytics no longer shows search impressions a brand didn't earn. Pendium was matching Search Console data by username, so a new brand could inherit impressions from a previous holder of the same username, or pick up production data on preview and staging. The sync now skips brands without a public site and ignores data dated before the brand was created. A brand with no live site and no Search Console connection sees the empty state instead of a number. The visibility report also no longer shows a site card to brands without a site, and the Pages tab no longer offers "Create homepage" to brands whose site Pendium doesn't render. On /topics, the stalled-prompt note now names a specific prompt to work on, links to Sources for brands that already have published pages, and only flags a prompt as stalled after 6+ answers on each side.