What’s new

Release notes for the BRIA product and public site — new sources onboarded, scoring model updates, and demo improvements. We publish here monthly so you can see momentum without waiting for a sales call.

August 2026

• 21 Aug Demo

  Company profile on the live demo

  The live demo now opens a company profile — score history over time, what moved the score, cited evidence, and linked parties — instead of a flags-only report. Flags that have a source show a last-updated date and a link to the regulator or article.

• 21 Aug API

  Score-history endpoint

  GET /v1/entities/{id}/score-history returns an oldest-to-newest timeline of score changes, each tagged with why it moved — new information, a model update, or time decay.

• 21 Aug API

  Source links on license, debarment, and news flags

  License, debarment, and adverse-media flags now include a source URL — the regulator’s official page or the news article — and a short excerpt where we have one. Court-case mentions carry the Kenya Law judgment link.

• 19 Aug Scoring

  Cleaner director and appointment links

  Director and appointment links no longer treat a person as their own company. Nightly updates attach new court cases and Gazette appointments to companies we already know, so scores stay current without a full rebuild.

• 14 Aug Source

  Richer Gazette party roles

  Official Gazette notices now extract named roles — appointee, liquidator, transferor, and others — so reports show the relationship in the notice instead of labelling everyone a director.

• 5 Aug Source

  KEBS Diamond Mark permits onboarded

  Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) Diamond Mark product permits are now in the corpus, linked to company profiles — active permits count as a positive regulatory signal.

• 5 Aug Source

  KENAS accredited bodies register onboarded

  Kenya Accreditation Service (KENAS) accredited conformity assessment bodies are now in the corpus, linked to company profiles, with an adverse scoring signal when a linked accreditation is suspended or withdrawn.

• 2 Aug Source

  ODPC registered data handlers onboarded

  Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) registered data controllers and processors are now in the corpus, linked to company profiles, with an adverse scoring signal when a linked registration has expired.

July 2026

• 23 Jul Source

  PBORA registered PBOs onboarded

  Public Benefit Organizations Regulatory Authority (PBORA) registered public benefit organisations are now in the corpus, linked to company profiles — active listings count as a positive regulatory signal.

• 23 Jul Source

  TRA tourism enterprises register onboarded

  Tourism Regulatory Authority (TRA) licensed tourism enterprises are now in the corpus, linked to company profiles, with an adverse scoring signal when a linked licence is suspended.

• 20 Jul Source

  CA licensee registers onboarded

  Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) broadcast and related licensee registers — including revoked licences — are now in the corpus, linked to company profiles, with an adverse scoring signal when a linked licence has been revoked.

• 20 Jul Source

  ICPAK approved firms register onboarded

  Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) approved audit and accounting firms are now in the corpus, linked to company profiles — active firm listings count as a positive regulatory signal.

• 20 Jul Source

  TVETA accredited institutions register onboarded

  Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TVETA) accredited institutions are now in the corpus, linked to company profiles, with an adverse scoring signal when a linked institution’s accreditation is not active.

• 20 Jul Source

  KMLTTB laboratory register onboarded

  Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board (KMLTTB) licensed laboratories are now in the corpus, linked to company profiles — active licences count as a positive regulatory signal.

• 20 Jul Demo

  Clearer names and regulator labels in reports

  Company and director names display in readable Title Case in the API and live demo. Risk flags show full regulator names (for example Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC)) instead of short codes alone.

• 19 Jul Source

  PPB pharmaceutical outlets register onboarded

  Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) pharmaceutical outlets are now in the corpus, linked to company profiles, with an adverse scoring signal when a linked outlet licence is suspended.

• 19 Jul Source

  KMPDC health facilities register onboarded

  Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC) licensed and closed health facilities are now in the corpus, linked to company profiles, with an adverse scoring signal when a linked facility is closed.

• 11 Jul Site

  Data freshness page shows dated ingest proof

  The public status page now lists cadence, last ingest date, and newest content per source category — plus a badge legend and recent maintenance strip — so buyers can verify corpus health without a sales call. High-frequency families refresh often daily when new material appears.

• 11 Jul Source

  NEAIMS recruitment-agency register onboarded

  National Employment Authority (NEAIMS) private employment agencies are now in the corpus, linked to company profiles, with an adverse scoring signal when a linked agency licence is not active.

• 9 Jul Demo

  Stable mobile report tabs

  Evidence tabs keep a fixed height on phones — switching Court cases, News, Gazette, and the rest no longer jumps the layout. Try it on the live demo or sample report.

• 8 Jul Source

  e-GP suppliers and OCDS awards onboarded

  Public procurement coverage expanded: Kenya e-GP registered suppliers plus tenders.go.ke OCDS award releases, linked to company profiles for screening.

• 8 Jul Scoring

  Government supplier and contract-award signals

  Scores now reflect active e-GP supplier registration and recent open-contract awards under Kenyan fiscal-year rules — cited like other risk flags.

• 8 Jul API

  Procurement facts on risk and profile responses

  Risk and entity profile payloads include e-GP registration and OCDS award aggregates so integrators can show procurement context without a second lookup.

• 5 Jul Site

  Insights, status, and integrations

  New Insights articles, a public data freshness status page, and an integrations quickstart for API buyers.

• 5 Jul Site

  Compare page for internal champions

  Side-by-side BRIA vs manual due diligence — time, cost, citation trail, and batch API — for budget conversations with finance and procurement.

• 5 Jul Site

  Sources, Security, and navigation refresh

  New public pages for data sources and security, plus About, FAQ, and Our process. Header focuses on use cases, sample report, compare, and live demo.

• 4 Jul API

  Evidence references and content age on flags

  Risk flags carry citation references and content-age context; entity profile and mentions endpoints help integrators show why a signal fired.

• 4 Jul Site

  Use cases and guided sample report

  Use cases by persona and report section. Sample report tour walks through Acme Limited without signing up.

• 3 Jul Demo

  Live demo report shell v2

  Redesigned report layout with tabbed flags, clearer freshness line, and mobile-friendly PDF download row. Try it on the live demo.

June 2026

• 27 Jun Source

  Adverse media refresh

  Adverse media category updated — new articles indexed with entity mentions tied to resolved company profiles.

• 26 Jun Source

  Official gazette pipeline refreshed

  Gazette notice ingestion current through mid-June 2026.

• 26 Jun Source

  Court judgments refreshed

  Litigation corpus updated; party extraction keeps new cases searchable by company name.

• 15 Jun Scoring

  Scoring model v3f2a1b8 on every report

  Each score now stamps Scoring model v3f2a1b8 — a version fingerprint so you know when two reports used the same rules. Visible in API JSON, demo, and PDF freshness line.

• 10 Jun API

  Capabilities endpoint documents signal vocabulary

  GET /v1/meta/capabilities returns the active scoring model version and sorted risk signal codes — useful for integrators mapping flags to your core systems.

May 2026

• 27 May Scoring

  Weights versioning and resume-safe scoring runs

  Batch scoring stores a weights hash per entity. Re-score only stale records after a model update — no full rebuild required.

• 12 May Source

  Sector regulator registers expanded

  Additional licensing and register data onboarded — positive and negative signals in the same cited report.

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