The UP-TO-DATE platform is a set of connected apps that share one sign-in and one place where people, companies and access are managed. This article is for the web developers and technical staff at your agency who connect client websites and troubleshoot them. Your clients may see your agency's logo and name instead of UP-TO-DATE, but the apps and domains behind it are the same.
The apps
App | Domain | What it does |
|---|---|---|
Accounts | accounts.uptodateconnect.com | Sign-in, your agency, companies (clients), websites, teams, members, roles and white-label branding. Websites are connected from here. |
The AI App | app.uptodateconnect.com | Where content teams and clients work: AI Writer, Topic Ideas, Post Planner, the Posts overview, the blog editor, approvals and social posts. |
AI Memory | memories.uptodateconnect.com | Reads client websites (sitemap, crawl, page types) and holds what the AI knows about each company. It opens inside Accounts and inside the AI App. |
AI Chat | chat.uptodateconnect.com | The chat assistant. It opens from the AI App and uses the selected company's memory. |
Sites & blog API | uptodateconnect.com | The back end that tests CMS credentials, stores website connections and publishes posts to the client's CMS. Nobody signs in to it; the other apps call it. |
Social posting | uptodatesocials.com | Social media connections and social posts. It opens from the Social tab in Accounts and from the social posting screen in the AI App. |
How the apps work together
One sign-in
Everyone signs in through Accounts. When someone opens the AI App, it sends them to accounts.uptodateconnect.com to sign in and brings them back with a session and your agency's branding. What a person can do in each app follows the company and website roles set in Accounts, including which cards they see on the AI App dashboard. See Roles and permissions explained.
Agency, companies and websites
The structure is always: your agency > companies (one per client) > websites. When a company is created, it gets its own AI Memory workspace automatically. A website can also get a memory of its own when it is a separate business. See Company memories, site memories and your personal memory.
Connecting a website
In Accounts, Connect a Site opens the connection form for a company.
The credentials you enter go to the sites & blog API, which calls the CMS to check them when you click Test Connection.
When you click Connect, the API stores the connection and the website appears in the company's Websites list in Accounts.
Standard publishing needs nothing installed on the website. Multilingual WordPress sites that use WPML or TranslatePress need a small handler plugin. See Connecting a website: the connection handler step by step.
Publishing
When someone publishes or schedules a post in the AI App, the sites & blog API sends it to the CMS's own API with the stored credentials: the WordPress REST API, Drupal JSON:API, the Webflow CMS API, Craft's GraphQL API, Odoo's external API or the Wix Blog API. The client's CMS must therefore accept those API requests from the internet, not only from an office network.
Building AI Memory
When you click Yes, crawl my website after creating a company, or Crawl in the Memory column of the Companies list, Accounts asks AI Memory to find the website's sitemap, sort the pages into page types, crawl them and extract what the AI needs. An admin then approves the result. The crawl only reads public pages. It does not use the CMS credentials. See How the sitemap is retrieved and How AI Memory is built automatically from website content.
Using the memory
AI Chat, the AI Writer and the other AI tools follow the company and website selected in the AI App. A website with its own memory uses that memory. A website without one uses the company memory.
Rule of thumb
accounts.uptodateconnect.com: who someone is and what they may do, plus connecting websites.
app.uptodateconnect.com: where content is created, approved and published.
memories.uptodateconnect.com: what the AI knows about each client.
uptodateconnect.com: the API that talks to client websites.
uptodatesocials.com: social media connections and posts.
The other articles in this category walk through the access you need, connecting each CMS, how the sitemap is found, how pages are crawled and categorized, how AI Memory is built and how to test everything.