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Dear FirstIgnite Users,
We're excited to bring you a host of updates and new features designed to enhance your experience with FirstIgnite. This release introduces significant improvements like the launch of our Landscapes feature, expanded search capabilities, and enhanced patent data integration. Here's a detailed look at what's new:
Improvements and Features:
- Landscapes Launch: Explore insights into various academic and industry sectors with our new Landscapes feature, helping you identify areas of demand and interest effectively.
- Search by Industry: You can now filter searches by industry for both companies and people, allowing for more precise targeting and efficient searches.
- Patent Data Integration: Patent information has been integrated into the platform, categorized by fields such as technology and medical, enhanced by AI-generated insights on technical and commercial value.
- Increased API Capacity: We’ve expanded our API capabilities by doubling the request capacity to improve the performance and reliability of searches.
Fixes:
- Competitor Chart Issue: Fixed an issue that was preventing the competitor chart from generating as expected, ensuring accurate data representation.
- Patent Links Reliability: Resolved errors that were affecting the access and reliability of patent links across the platform.
UI/UX Enhancements:
- Our ongoing redesign efforts are focused on enhancing navigation and user experience, incorporating valuable feedback to ensure intuitive and seamless platform use.
Additional Updates:
- Security and Observability: Improved our monitoring systems for better resource management and system stability.
- Data Updates: We have added millions of records to our proprietary database, providing a richer set of grant data for deeper insights.
Thank you for your continued support and feedback. We are committed to improving FirstIgnite to better serve your needs and look forward to your thoughts on these new features.
Warm regards,
The FirstIgnite Team
Improvements and Features
- Improved Company Matching: Enhanced company matching algorithms to improve accuracy and efficiency. This includes scoring and updates to prompts.
- Project Logic Overhaul: Reworked the project job logic to support batching processes for improved performance.
- Architecture Enhancements: Streamlined the architecture for streaming company results, offering a more efficient event-handling system.
- Company Search Updates: Refactored company search to align with job-based logic, enhancing search accuracy andrelevance.
- Model Enhancements: Updated models with additional type-hints to improve code clarity and functionality.
Fixes
- Competitor Search Bug: Resolved a bug affecting competitor searches, ensuring accurate results.
- Project Exports Issue: Fixed export issues within projects, facilitating smooth data exports.
- Matched Reason Bug: Addressed a bug related to matched reason edge saving, ensuring data integrity.
- Project and Org Match Fixes: Corrected issues with project organization matches that lacked associated people, also addressing size discrepancies.
- Company Not Scoring Bug: Fixed an issue where some companies were not being scored correctly.
UI/UX Enhancements
- Button Visibility: Improved visibility for project-related buttons, enhancing user interface and accessibility.
- Design and Table Behavior: Updated project design and matched reason logic, along with improvements to table behavior to provide a better user experience.
Additional Updates
- Legacy Data Handling: Modified logic to avoid displaying relevance for outdated company searches that weren’t scored.
- Summary and Market Reports: Reintroduced summary and market reports functionality for improved project insights and reporting.
- Matched Reason Updates: Provides more clarity and detailed reasoning for matched results in projects.