The Courier Blog

Create a customer journey from AI coding agent

Use Courier's Journey API to create multistep customer engagement workflows from your coding agent of choice. Describe the kind of journey you'd like to create, answer a few questions, and publish to the platform.

12 Best Customer Journey Orchestration Tools in 2026

API-first orchestration, enterprise CEPs, and marketing suites compared — a 2026 ranked breakdown of the 12 customer journey orchestration tools developers and marketers actually shortlist.

Courier Console v3: Redesigned From the Ground Up

Courier Console v3 is rolling out now with a faster, cleaner interface, improved navigation, and a more consistent experience across every workflow.

Courier journeys, as code

Most journeys don't die because they were hard to build — they die because they're hard to change. A day-5 nudge written before a new activation event existed still fires for users who hit the milestone on day two. Courier journeys are now programmable: a public Journeys API with SDKs, a CLI, and an agent skill on top. Describe a flow to your coding agent, get an ASCII diagram, ship it. Full post covers the access points, an example end-to-end, and the one gotcha worth knowing (`output_schema` is mandatory on AI nodes).

Transactional vs Marketing Email: A Developer's Guide to Deliverability, Consent, and Infrastructure

What separates transactional from marketing email, and why it shapes everything from sender reputation to which API you should reach for.

CocoaPods end of life: here's what to do

CocoaPods has been the default iOS dependency manager for more than a decade. On December 2, 2026, its central registry becomes read-only. Here's what that actually means for native iOS, React Native, and Flutter apps.

Introducing the AI Node in Courier Journeys

The AI node is a new step inside Courier Journeys that classifies users, branches on the result, and writes per-channel copy from a single prompt. Here's what it does, how to set one up, and when it's worth using over a regular condition node.

Customer Journey Orchestration: A Developer's Guide

How API-first orchestration coordinates triggers, multichannel sends, branching, and retries across the customer journey — with code examples and patterns developers can ship today.

Firebase CocoaPods support is ending. What happens to iOS push notifications?

Firebase is ending new Apple SDK releases to CocoaPods in October 2026. Your app will not break overnight, but your Firebase push notification stack can get stuck on old SDKs while APNs, iOS, Xcode, and Firebase keep changing.