August 2026
- A second pair of (machine) eyes on the prose. Before the human editor sees a draft, a second AI model from a different family now copy-edits it — stripping the verbal tics of machine writing while leaving every fact, number, and judgment untouched. Different models have different tics; one is bad at hearing its own.
- IR Lens now reviews itself. Once a month, the system reads its own record — which predictions held, what its editor had to rewrite, what its filters missed — and proposes improvements to its method. The editor decides what gets applied; nothing changes automatically.
- Deeper source material. Analyses now read the full article text when a source provides it, rather than only headline summaries.
- A track record the analyst can see. Each analysis now knows how the storyline's past predictions resolved, and new predictions must be concrete enough to be scored later.
- A public archive. Every issue that went out is now browsable at /archive, exactly as it was sent — one page per week, linkable. Drafts and test runs don't appear; the archive is the record of what was actually mailed.
- Editorial review before every send. The digest is now checked — and where useful, edited — by a human editor before it goes out. Nothing lands in your inbox straight off the assembly line anymore.
- Editor's note. When there is something worth saying about the week's issue — a caveat, a correction, a heads-up — it appears as a short note at the top of the email. No note means nothing needed saying.
- A proper unsubscribe button at the bottom of every digest, plus support for one-click unsubscribe in mail clients that offer it.
- Updated design. to make the weekly email better readable.
- This changelog. What changes about IR Lens gets written down here.
- And many more.. .. small changes. Design tweaks, first version of a map, prompt finetuning, etc.
July 2026
- IR Lens opens to subscribers, with double opt-in and per-storyline subscriptions: pick the storylines you care about at signup and your digest covers exactly those.
- Storyline temperature gauges on the landing page: a weekly tension reading per storyline, derived from how much significant activity the week brought.
- "In this issue" overview at the top of the digest, storylines ordered hottest-first, and a TL;DR box per storyline.
- Monthly dossiers: each storyline's accumulated analysis is re-synthesized into a reviewed dossier that anchors the following weeks' analysis — the method page explains the three layers of time.