Changelog
Soothsay is built in the open. Every feature, fix, and rewrite is logged here as it ships. No "we improved performance" copy — if it changed, the entry says what and why.
June 23, 2026
Feature
The deterministic rubric still scores the grade. A senior-editor LLM now reads the article on top of that and surfaces what rules can’t catch — contradictions, broken promises, paragraphs that introduce a claim and never resolve it. Findings appear in their own "Deeper read" section so the numbers stay reproducible. Same article → same grade, every time.
Feature
Click the spark on any finding and the explainer pulls the exact passage from your draft, explains why it tripped the rule, and offers a concrete rewrite suggestion. Vague "this section is weak" feedback is dead.
June 22, 2026
Feature
Every finding now carries a paragraph index and a short snippet from your draft. Findings render the actual quoted passage instead of pointing somewhere vague. The change started because one user said "this audit is just telling me my structure is weak — where?" — fair point.
Feature
The parser now isolates fenced code blocks so they don’t inflate sentence-length, passive-voice, or readability metrics. A 50-line code listing was getting scored as one giant unreadable sentence. Fixed.
Feature
Audits flag images that are likely too large (>500KB filename hints), use legacy formats (JPG/PNG where WebP/AVIF would do), or are missing alt text. Live-URL audits only — pasted drafts don’t carry image binaries.
Feature
Warm dark palette across the whole app and marketing surface. No flash on load — there’s a small inline script that reads your stored or system preference before hydration. Toggle is in the top right. Built because I was getting migraines reading cream at 1 AM.
Feature
When the citation probe runs, Soothsay now extracts the URLs and domains each AI engine cited — not just whether they cited you. The "Who got cited instead" leaderboard often tells you more about your real competitive position than the audit does. Originally shipped as a 0%-citation failure metric; reframed when I realized the answer was in the rest of the response.
Fix
The first export library fought the Next.js 15 bundler for three days. Swapped to PDFKit loaded through createRequire so the bundler can’t see it, fixed the trailing blank pages caused by the footer overflowing the page margin, and gave the title page a dominant Soothsay banner instead of the timid version. Working in 17 ms.
Polish
Removed the manual "brand name" input — Soothsay now infers your brand from the article (first capitalized phrase, most frequent capitalized phrase). The button is enabled the moment your audit is ready.
June 21, 2026
Fix
Articles behind aggressive bot protection or 429-throttled robots.txt now fail with copy a human can act on. Failed audits stop polluting your dashboard — only completed ones show up in the library.
Fix
Gemini 2.0 Flash was deprecated mid-sprint. Bumped to gemini-2.5-flash and gpt-5.4-mini. Claude haiku-4-5 and Perplexity Sonar unchanged.
Polish
If you’re already on a tier, the pricing page now shows a small "Current plan" pill on that card instead of pretending you might subscribe to what you already have.
Polish
URL audit moved ahead of paste-draft on the /audit/new page. URL is the more common job; paste-draft is the deeper one. Sequence the UI by frequency, not by what shipped first.
Polish
A crash inside any authed page now shows a quiet "something went sideways" panel with a way back, instead of the React error wall. Sentry catches the underlying error.
June 20, 2026
Fix
Health server now starts before BullMQ so Railway’s healthcheck passes during cold boot. Process stays alive even if a boot-time error occurs in a job processor. Dockerfile path corrected for the monorepo build.
June 19, 2026
Fix
Pointed Vercel at apps/web for Next.js detection. Build was previously failing because Vercel was looking at the workspace root.
Cadence
Most days something ships. Some are quiet. The work continues either way. If you want the running commentary, the building happens on X.