Kortex
snapshot · 2026-07-08

Changelog

What changed, dated and specific. Kortex tracks a moving world, so the honest record includes corrections and retractions — when the graph was wrong and we fixed it, that ships here too.

2026-07-07

feature

Four new dataset layers on the Global Viewer. Water infrastructure (1.4M reservoirs, wells, towers, treatment and pumping assets) and telecom sites (729k masts + 26k carrier/interconnection buildings) are free to explore. US interconnection queues (25.9k geocoded projects with status, MW and study stage — locations are county centroids, disclosed per row) and engineering-grade grid detail (559k transformers, junctions, switches, compensators) are included with an API key. All four serve from cleared sources (ODbL, CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0).

feature

Every map layer now hands off to the Workbench — a wb chip on each layer opens a runnable starter Cypher query over the same data, so a visual finding becomes a queryable workflow in one click. Asset drawers gained twelve more traversable node types (water, grid-detail and telecom labels).

fix

Viewer load time cut. Anonymous layer responses are now micro-cached for five minutes (the data refreshes hourly at most), spatial queries serve concurrently instead of queueing behind the heaviest one, and sessions on slow connections or low-memory devices automatically fetch lighter payloads.

2026-07-05

data

Data centres joined the graph as a first-class label — 5,888 facilities (PeeringDB CC BY-SA + curated hyperscaler campuses, geocode precision disclosed per row) with nearest-substation links at site precision, on the map and in the API.

feature

Viewer: basemap style modes (dark / light / colour), real-sun solar lighting toggle, and shareable layer-state URLs. Clicking any asset opens a full-detail drawer with provenance and, for keyed users, one-hop connection analytics that deep-link into the workbench.

2026-07-03

rights

Data rights enforced on all public surfaces. Live vessel (AIS) and aircraft (ADS-B) layers on the Global Viewer are now key-gated pending a provider-rights audit. The nuclear-reactor, cable-landing and volcano map layers were withdrawn until their sources clear review. /licensing now opens with a binary production-safe count and states each enforcement action in the source notes.

data

Corporate-identity audit closed: all 116 open findings resolved with primary-source evidence (EIA-860 plant records, GLEIF, operator publications). Where an earlier verdict was wrong, the new evidence superseded it and the old edge was quarantined with its reason — corrections carry provenance; nothing is silently deleted.

feature

Divestiture watch is live. A weekly screen looks for group-vs-operator contradictions and GLEIF drift across the corporate layer. Its first baseline run caught the Exelon → Constellation nuclear-fleet spin-off and two wrong-identity stitches.

data

GLEIF golden-copy refresh applied 102,306 property updates including 16,458 legal-name changes, refreshed 5,574 parent relationships, and added 90,300 corporate entities. Runs monthly. Non-Latin entity names gained GLEIF transliterations so search finds them in either script.

feature

Global Viewer shipped at /globe — a WebGL globe over the spatial API: generators, transmission, pipelines, telecoms, water, minerals, conflict and market-zone surfaces, with live layers for keyed users. Free to explore without an account.

feature

Workbench shipped at /workbench — a Cypher studio with a schema-aware sidebar, an interactive graph explorer, and CSV/JSON export, sharing the same key as the Globe.

fix

Lifecycle vocabulary canonicalized at ingest. Generator lifecycle statuses now map to a documented 12-value vocabulary as data is written, with the source's raw value preserved alongside. All 28 example queries on the schema page were live-tested against the running graph.

fix

Identity join upgraded to capacity-weighted majority (methodology v1.1). Every ownership flip the change produced was reviewed before shipping; one regression was caught and fixed pre-release.

2026-07-02

feature

Provenance envelope on every insight response: as-of timestamp, the sources touched with their licences, methodology, confidence and stated limitations. The answer and its receipt travel together.

feature

Licence matrix published at /licensing. Every source in the register carries an explicit commercial status; unknowns render as "under review", never as an implied "cleared".

data

Validation programme published at /validation — six studies against independent references: GLEIF resolution, LBNL queue reproduction, SEC XBRL revenue, EIA-860 capacity (with honest coverage gaps: US wind 16%, solar 22%), spatial containment across 1.54M claims, and Exhibit 21 subsidiary chains. Misses are published alongside passes.

feature

Procurement trust page at /trust, including an explicit no-SLA / no-SOC2-yet block — claims a buyer can check, not marketing.

feature

Public demo scope: the three homepage proof queries now run for anonymous visitors, rate-limited and metered, so the flagship answers are checkable without signing up.

fix

Reactor coordinates repaired. A scraper fallback had given 109 reactors bogus clustered coordinates; 163 of 164 were re-sourced from independent references with country-level verification, and the containment study now validates the row at 100%.

data

Corporate stitch audit: 82 operators adjudicated impact-first — about 28 GW of capacity remapped to the right owners, ~899 edges verified, ~782 quarantined with reasons.

2026-07-01

feature

API elevation programme completed: keyset cursor pagination on unbounded collections, uniform sort and filtering, typed graph traversals, an MCP server exposing five tools under the same billing and scopes, and a live pricing manifest at /.well-known/kortex.json.

This changelog begins 2026-07-01. Earlier work is summarized on /validation and /trust. Page rendered 2026-07-08.