Version 1.8.4February 2026

Economic analysis, intelligent search, worker infrastructure, and professional exports. This release transforms how users quantify regulatory impact, analyze documents at scale, and generate professional deliverables.

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Analysis Phases

Enhanced Cost-Benefit Analysis Pipeline

Multi-Phase Analysis Workflow

Complete CBA generation now follows a structured four-phase workflow: Plan extraction identifies stakeholders and impact categories. Data collection gathers economic indicators from government sources. Estimation phase calculates monetized costs and benefits. Report generation produces professional documentation.

Improved Real-Time Progress Streaming

Watch analysis progress stream to your screen as it happens. Each phase broadcasts updates showing exactly what's being processed - consolidation status, API calls, deduplication passes, and validation results.

Three-Pass Deduplication

Intelligent category consolidation using a three-pass pipeline. First pass normalizes entries deterministically. Second pass uses semantic understanding to merge conceptually similar items. Third pass organizes results into MECE (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) structures with proper hierarchy.

Government Data Integration

Direct integration with Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, and FRED economic data. Automatically retrieves employment figures, wage data, industry statistics, and economic indicators relevant to your analysis.

Reasonableness Validation

Every estimate passes through configurable reasonableness bounds. The system flags unusual values, validates against historical ranges, and ensures projections remain defensible. Transfer detection identifies when costs are actually redistributions rather than net losses.

Present Value Calculations

All multi-year impacts automatically converted to present value using configurable discount rates. The system handles annualized costs, one-time expenditures, and phased implementations correctly.

Pre-Generated Reports

Access professionally-prepared cost-benefit analyses for key regulations. Click any regulation with a CBA badge to instantly view the full analysis without waiting for generation.

CBA Tab Integration

Every regulation panel now includes a dedicated Cost-Benefit Analysis tab. View executive summaries, detailed cost breakdowns with methodology, benefit calculations with citations, assumptions, and data source documentation.

Sample Reports Dashboard

New dedicated page displaying all available CBA reports in a sortable table. Sort by regulation reference, net benefit, total costs, total benefits, or benefit-cost ratio. Click any row to jump directly to that regulation's CBA tab.

Multi-Format Export

Export any CBA to DOCX with professional formatting, XLSX with detailed cost/benefit sheets, or CSV for data analysis. Exports include full methodology, assumptions, and properly formatted currency values.

Worker Infrastructure

High-Concurrency Processing

Long-running analysis jobs now execute on dedicated worker infrastructure with 8GB RAM and no timeout limits. Complex operations that previously timed out now complete reliably.

Fire-and-Forget Architecture

Submit analysis jobs and continue working. Progress updates stream to your interface while generation continues in the background. No more watching spinners for complex multi-document operations.

Pairwise Document Comparison

Compare document pairs at scale with streaming progress for each comparison. Granularity controls let you adjust analysis depth for large document sets. Results stream back as each comparison completes.

Batch Query Processing

Complex queries involving multiple unions or extensive pattern matching now route to workers automatically. Bypasses connection timeout limits for expensive operations.

Web Search Integration

Data collection phase can search the web for supporting information using privacy-respecting search APIs. Results feed directly into analysis pipelines.

Extended Context Window

Million-Token Planning

Planning operations now have access to a one million token context window. Handle massive result sets, lengthy regulatory texts, and complex multi-document analysis without truncation.

Frontier Search & Discovery

Semantic Search Enabled

Vector similarity search now enabled by default across all corpora. Queries find conceptually related regulations even when exact keyword matches don't exist, using embeddings optimized for legal text.

Local Jurisdiction Research

Added support for researching over 40 local city and county jurisdictions. Web search now understands local government domains when investigating municipal or county-level requirements.

Tab Deduplication

The system now prevents duplicate result tabs. When running a query that would create an identical tab to one already open, the existing tab receives focus instead of creating clutter.

AI-Aware Tab Context

The AI now knows which document panels and result tabs you have open. Ask "summarize what I'm looking at" and it reads from existing open documents rather than re-running searches.

Search Term Highlighting

Query terms now highlight in result previews and full text displays. Visual emphasis shows exactly which portions of regulation text matched your search criteria.

Collapsible Search Results

Completed AI searches can now be minimized to reduce visual clutter. Click the collapse toggle to shrink finished searches while keeping them available for reference.

Cancel Active Searches

Press Escape to cancel an in-progress AI search. Immediately start a new query without waiting for the old one to complete.

Authority Analysis

Batch Analysis with Phased Progress

Analyze authority chains across multiple regulations simultaneously. Progress streams through four distinct phases: loading documents, prefetching dependencies, running analysis, and completion. Visual indicators show which phase is active with color-coded status.

Authority Chain Hyperlinks

DOCX exports now include clickable hyperlinks for authority chains. Navigate from any regulation directly to its enabling statute within the exported document.

Redline Progress Streaming

Compare regulation versions with real-time progress indicators. Each comparison streams its status as the batch processes.

Tool Labels & Intelligence

Smart Input Extraction

The Chain of Thought panel now extracts and displays meaningful labels from tool inputs. See "Title 22" instead of raw query parameters. Statute codes, section numbers, and regulatory references display prominently.

Document Generation

Semantic Nesting Detection

Export formatting now intelligently detects when bullet points should be nested based on context. Phrases like "including:", "such as:", and "may need to:" trigger automatic sub-item nesting. Major labels in ALL CAPS stay at the root level.

Regulation Text Cleanup

Export formatting automatically strips extraneous metadata headers, footers, and credits from regulation text. Cleaner exports focus on substantive regulatory content.

Nested Bullet Formatting

Fixed nested bullet point rendering in Excel and PDF exports. Multi-level lists now display with proper indentation and hierarchy in all export formats.

Capabilities Discovery

Help Button

New help icon adjacent to the message input reveals all available capabilities organized by category. See exactly what the AI can do: panel operations, search queries, citation analysis, change detection, QA/QC analysis, and specialized agents.

Expanded Capability List

Comprehensive tool coverage now documented in the capabilities dialog. Categories include conflict and compliance analysis, modernization detection, authority tracing, cost-benefit analysis, and specialized agent workflows.

Deep Thinking Improvements

Markdown Rendering

The thinking/Chain of Thought panel now renders markdown formatting. Bold text, lists, headers, and code blocks display properly instead of showing raw syntax.

Token Count Display

Full analysis depth visible even when display is truncated. Token counts show how much reasoning occurred behind the scenes.

Architecture & Performance

Unified Query Service

New consolidated query interface for regulations, statutes, and registers. Eliminates duplicated query logic across API routes. Includes automatic deduplication by document reference.

Tool Registry System

Customer-specific tool availability now managed through a centralized registry. Handler patterns for search, details, filter, status, and restrictions standardized across all corpora.

Modular Tool Organization

Tools reorganized into domain-specific directories: agents, bills, CBA, citations, authority, QA/QC, panels, and search. Cleaner imports and easier maintenance.

Component Decomposition

Large components split into focused modules. ToolProgressIndicator decomposed into BatchProgress, SubagentProgress, ThinkingSection, and ToolItem components.

Parallelized Data Collection

CBA Phase 2 now runs API calls concurrently. FRED and BLS data fetched in parallel instead of sequentially, reducing analysis latency.

Faster Builds

Build system enhanced with caching and parallel compilation. Subsequent builds reuse unchanged modules, significantly reducing deployment times.

AI Instrumentation

Full telemetry integration for AI operations. Monitor request patterns, token usage, latency distribution, and performance across all analysis types.

Security Hardening

Addressed potential security vectors and removed hardcoded credentials from codebase. Enhanced input validation across all endpoints. Missing auth checks added to API routes.

Platform Expansion

Additional Jurisdiction Support

Infrastructure prepared for additional jurisdiction deployments. Configuration system supports jurisdiction-specific tool availability and persona customization.

Authentication Improvements

Enhanced login flows with improved error handling. Account setup, password reset, and invitation workflows updated for better reliability.

Checkpoint Iteration

Multi-step analysis workflows now support checkpoint-based iteration. Submit questions, request edits, approve stages, or reject and restart specific phases without losing prior work.

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