# News & Updates

Latest updates and announcements from Webhound

Looking for every product change? [See the full changelog →](/content/changelog/index.html)

## Going back to a composer-first home
**April 27, 2026 / Webhound Team**  
We tried a chat-first home where the agent asked what you wanted before kicking off research. It added friction more than it helped, so we rolled it back. The composer is the home page again — the agent still does the same work, it just doesn't make you talk to it first. [Read more →](/content/news/back-to-basics/index.html)

## LaTeX math and DOI lookup in research
**April 22, 2026 / Webhound Team**  
OpenSearch research now stores math in katex-source spans for KaTeX in the reader, and adds a fallback lookup_unpaywall_by_doi tool that returns Unpaywall JSON when search and page visits cannot read a paper. [Read more →](/content/news/latex-unpaywall-research/index.html)

## New session minimums, and why we're raising them
**April 21, 2026 / Webhound Team**  
Pro reports now start at $10 instead of $3, Pro datasets at $5. Flash reports start at $2 and Flash datasets at $1. Here's the data behind the change and which model to pick for which job. [Read more →](/content/news/session-minimums/index.html)

## How we think about truth, verification, and "time to first trust" at Webhound
**April 21, 2026 / Webhound Team**  
People who do work where truth matters don't trust AI. They spend more time verifying than the AI saves them. For three months we've been focused on one question: how do you build AI research people can actually trust. [Read more →](/content/news/time-to-first-trust/index.html)

## Tool Chains on Every Claim, Traces on Every Cell
**April 17, 2026 / Webhound Team**  
Click any claim — a report pill or a dataset cell — to see the exact tool calls that produced it: searches, page visits, code executions, with full inputs and outputs. Plus structured claim traces now on every dataset cell. [Read more →](/content/news/tool-chains/index.html)

## Research Quality: Better Sources, Smarter Planning, Real-Time Guidance
**April 15, 2026 / Webhound Team**  
Redesigned source indicators, mid-research guidance, assembly versioning, full LinkedIn profiles, 15+ platform scrapers, smarter planning, and anti-AI writing rules. [Read more →](/content/news/research-quality/index.html)

## Publications: Share, Version, and Fork Research
**April 9, 2026 / Webhound Team**  
Publish any session or folder as a versioned artifact with a permanent URL. Four license tiers, immutable version history, one-click forking with attribution, author profiles, and a public explore page. [Read more →](/content/news/publications/index.html)

## Claim Traceability, Multi-Document Research, and New API Endpoints
**April 1, 2026 / Webhound Team**  
Every factual claim now carries a structured trace. Reports are built across multiple working documents and assembled into a final output. Three new API endpoints expose documents, claims, and traces. [Read more →](/content/news/claim-traces/index.html)

## Webhound Agent: A Research Assistant with a Workspace
**March 22, 2026 / Webhound Team**  
Webhound now has a conversational agent and workspace. Start research from chat, read and analyze your existing work, organize everything in folders, and let the agent remember your preferences over time. [Read more →](/content/news/webhound-agent/index.html)

## Code Execution: Webhound Can Now Write and Run Python
**March 6, 2026 / Webhound Team**  
Webhound can now write and execute Python code during research—calculations, charts, data transformations, API calls, and more. Works across reports, datasets, enrichment, and Ask mode. [Read more →](/content/news/code-execution/index.html)

## Cross-Session Access, Conversational Planning, and Research Phases
**March 5, 2026 / Webhound Team**  
Webhound can now read your previous sessions, Plan mode is conversational, and research budgets can be split into phases. [Read more →](/content/news/cross-session-phases/index.html)

## Plan, Agent, and Ask: Mode names and new Ask mode
**February 24, 2026 / Webhound Team**  
We renamed Guided to Plan and One shot to Agent, and added Ask for quick Q&A over your report or dataset—with optional web lookups. [Read more →](/content/news/plan-agent-ask/index.html)

## Refer Friends, Get Free Credits
**November 18, 2025 / Webhound Team**  
Share Webhound with friends and you both get rewarded. Get $2 per signup plus matching credits up to $50 on their first purchase. [Read more →](/content/news/referral-program/index.html)

## Webhound is Moving to Pay-As-You-Go
**November 9, 2025 / Webhound Team**  
Starting November 17, 2025, Webhound will use a pay-as-you-go model. Pay only for what you use with no recurring fees or subscriptions. [Read more →](/content/news/pay-as-you-go/index.html)