What’s new in Stardex: August 2026

This month, we’ve made Stardex more collaborative, context-aware, and easier to use. AI search can now ask clarifying questions and account for your priorities, while the new Team Knowledge Base gives Ask Dex access to the institutional knowledge that makes your firm unique. We’ve also added smarter email workflows, better company relationship mapping, and several quality-of-life improvements across campaigns, reports, integrations, and more.

Here’s what’s new in Stardex.

AI search is now agentic

Our internal AI search used to be one-shot but now it works more like a researcher: it’s collaborative and asks you clarifying questions when your criteria are ambiguous. It allows you to prioritize the criteria, and we have updated the candidate ranking to be more relevant and the UX to be a bit cleaner.

Team Knowledge Base

Every firm has context that lives in people's heads. This client always passes on candidates without PE backing, that company's comp bands run low - or maybe it’s some other secret sauce only your team knows. You can now save that as team memory, and Ask Dex pulls the relevant bits automatically when you're working a search. In beta now!

Attachments in campaigns and email templates

For all the folks that prefer attaching PDFs to their candidate outreach, this is what you’ve been waiting for! You can now attach PDFs and Word docs to your campaigns, instead of pasting in links. This is supported in one-off email templates as well.

Email forwarding assistant

Forward an email into Stardex and we'll figure out who it belongs to and file it on the right record, no manual matching. Useful for the threads that happen outside your connected inbox, like when a client loops you in from a different address. Admins can turn it on for the team in settings, and available on the pro tier. We are still testing this, so would love to hear feedback.

Company network

On any company page you'll now see a network view of everyone in your database who has worked there and where their time overlapped. It's the fastest way to find a backchannel reference or figure out who can make an intro into an account you're trying to break into.

Quality of Life

• Goals are now in Reports. Set targets by metric, for the team or per person, and track progress against them.
• Campaign sending got safer: per-mailbox daily send limits, plus min and max gap settings so your outreach paces out naturally instead of firing all at once.
• Metaview x Stardex Integration: We’ve shipped a native integration with Metaview! Transcripts and call summaries now automatically pull into Stardex candidate profiles. Here’s a guide on enabling the integration.
• You can now block a campaign from moving forward until a task is done, useful when a step needs a human to actually do something first.
• Schedule rejection emails instead of sending them the moment you reject someone.
• The Chrome extension now shows your list of tasks, so you can breeze through them much quicker.
• API keys now support scopes, so you can hand out access that's limited to what an integration actually needs.
• Download a job share as PDF or Word, and share links now have branded thumbnails.
• Set org-wide default column layouts and reorder custom fields so everyone starts from the same view.