Sumo-lings,

We’ve now been on AppSumo for two weeks, and the feedback has already changed how we’re building Latitude.

We covered LinkedIn post import in our last update, so I won’t spend this one walking through it again. It is live in onboarding, and existing users can reopen onboarding from Settings.

The update I want to focus on is that we rebuilt Hook Score.

Hook Score has existed since V1. The goal was to help users understand whether the opening of a post would make someone stop scrolling.

The problem was that the original logic was too generic.

One of our early B2B customers (Scott Rivers) showed us several examples where Latitude gave a lower score to the opening he believed was clearly stronger. When we looked at them, he was right.

We were judging the hook too much against a fixed set of best practices and not enough against the actual post, the author, and what had worked for them before.

A hook should not be judged in isolation.

Latitude now evaluates:

• The full post
• Your previous posts and performance
• Aggregate patterns from users with similar content strategies
• LinkedIn’s published best practice

That means the score is no longer just asking, “Does this look like a good hook?”

It is asking, “Is this the right hook for this post, from this person, for this audience?”

It will continue to adapt as Latitude learns from your writing and results.

This is especially important right now because LinkedIn recently added a “Seems like AI slop” feedback option.

I actually think that is a good thing.

AI and slop are not the same thing. AI can help organize an idea, get past the blank page, and improve how something is communicated.

Slop is what happens when the author’s experience, judgment, and voice disappear.

One of the core beliefs behind Latitude is that most professionals do not struggle on LinkedIn because they have nothing worth saying. They struggle because consistency becomes a bottleneck.

We built Latitude to solve that problem without removing the person from the content.

Use the software. Let it help. But read every post, challenge it, edit it, and make sure it says something you actually believe before it goes live.

Thank you to everyone who has challenged us so far. The product is better because of it.

Brian

Founder, Latitude

We've been officially live on AppSumo for a full week 🙌

In that period of time we've had thousands of views, both on our AppSumo but also our website as well. We had multiple YouTube videos made about Latitude, which has never happened before. We watched them all.

We took into account the feedback. We considered our current customers, and our roadmap and decided that it was import enough to build so we did.

This week we released improvements to our import post functionality. Now within Latitude as you complete your content strategy you can supply LinkedIn export post data to help Latitude learn about you.

Latitude will review the samples, and their content and begin to extrapolate some ideas about who you are and what your content strategy should be.

In the application you will see Latitude suggested modifications to your content strategy as additional data becomes available from the past posts.

We will also allow you to view this data in your analytics. We will mark any imported post data as imported, and then we will leverage the data to query the LinkedIn API and ensure that performance data is matching what is imported, and pulling data where data is unavailable.

According to Sammie Ginger our head of product this is currently in open beta, and you can find more information about how to import your post data here.

We look forward to your continued feedback, and how it further refines Latitude into a better product for all of our customers!

https://helpcenter.get-latitude.com/en/help/articles/6460710-import-your-linkedin-post-history-and-performance-data

Hello Sumo-lings,

We’re approaching the 24-hour mark since Latitude went live on AppSumo, and I wanted to share a quick update.

In our first day:

• 7 new customers joined across different tiers
• 4 accounts have already been activated
• 5 community questions have been answered

More importantly, you’ve already helped shape what we build next.

One request has come through clearly, both in your questions and in Mark Draper’s review: you want to bring your existing LinkedIn post history with you.

We agree.

We’ve already been working on an import for LinkedIn’s native data export. Once released, it will allow Latitude to bring in your historical post performance and use your previous posts as writing samples, giving the platform a much stronger understanding of your voice from the start.

We’re targeting a release later this week. We’re making a few revisions and testing it internally first because we want to get it right before putting it in your hands.

Most importantly, thank you. The early response to Latitude has been incredibly encouraging. We’re genuinely grateful for the opportunity to be here, listen to your feedback, and continue building alongside the AppSumo community.

We’re listening, and we’re moving quickly.

Brian Martynowicz

Founder & CEO, Latitude

I built Latitude because I lived the problem. I knew consistent LinkedIn activity was the fastest way to earn trust with the buyers I cared about, but every post took too long and the results were a coin flip. I'd post in bursts, go quiet, and have no idea why one landed and the next died. 

So I made the tool I wish existed. It pulls the topics my network cares about, drafts in my own voice, schedules for when my audience is online, and shows me what's working. I use it every day. This note in our launch post was drafted in Latitude. 

🔒 On control: Latitude is deliberately not an engagement bot. It never touches your comments or DMS and makes you consistent without putting your account at risk. 

🚀 On onboarding: Onboarding is about 2 minutes.  That includes account creation, and initial draft of the content strategy for each user.

📦 On the deal: The Tier explanation is everything you need to post consistently is included, the only limitations are multi-user and volume of monthly posts.  However, LinkedIn recommends that you post 2 - 3 times per week.  All tiers will include minimum amount of recommended post volume.