Clay, the personal CRM known for auto-building your network from email, calendar, LinkedIn, and iMessage, rebranded to Mesh in 2026. The product now lives at me.sh, clay.earth redirects there, and the AI assistant is called Nexus. Same team, same product, new name.
If you found this page because you searched "what happened to Clay", here's the short version. If the rebrand made you re-evaluate your options, the honest landscape is below.
What actually changed
- The name and domain. Clay is now Mesh; clay.earth 301-redirects to me.sh. Your account, data, and apps carry over.
- Nothing about the core mechanic. Mesh still connects to your email, calendar, LinkedIn, and iMessage and assembles your network automatically.
- Pricing stays in the same range. Free up to 1,000 contacts, Pro at $20/month.
One likely reason for the change: "Clay" collided with clay.com, the (much larger) sales-automation company. Two products, one name, endless confusion. A rebrand was the sane exit.
Does a rebrand matter for you as a user?
Mostly, no. Your app keeps working. Two honest caveats:
- Muscle memory and links break. Old bookmarks, old recommendations, old reviews all point at a name that no longer exists. That's friction, not danger.
- Rebrands are a natural moment to re-evaluate. Not because Mesh got worse (it didn't) but because any switching cost you were avoiding is partially paid for you now: you're already re-learning a name.
If you're re-evaluating: the honest landscape
Stay with Mesh if the auto-sync is why you came. Nothing else assembles your network from your accounts with that level of polish. The trade-off is inherent: it needs read access to your email, calendar, and messages to work, and Pro costs $20/month.
Monica if you want open source and self-hosting. It's friends-and-family-focused and has no official mobile app, but you own every byte.
Dex if LinkedIn is your life. Job-change alerts and a capture extension, at $12–20/month.
PersonalCRM (that's us, so calibrate accordingly) if you want the opposite bet from Mesh: nothing reads your inbox, ever. You log a check-in with one tap (the "Ping"), set a cadence per person, and get a quiet nudge when someone's slipping. Native iOS app, an MCP server so your AI assistant can manage your network, EU data, made in Munich. Free while in beta.
The deeper difference isn't features, it's philosophy. Mesh believes your network should assemble itself from your communication exhaust. We believe a network you curate deliberately, one tap at a time, is smaller and truer. Both are defensible. Pick the one that matches how you think about your people.
Moving your data (any direction)
Every tool above imports CSV. If you leave Mesh, export your contacts, or go to the original source and export from Google Contacts or LinkedIn directly, which is often cleaner. PersonalCRM has import presets for LinkedIn, Google, and Outlook exports with duplicate detection built in.
Details in this post were last checked in August 2026. If something has changed, tell us and we'll correct it.