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Antlect was built in layers, and this page is the record of it. The research graph was laid down first, in February 2026. Publications, patents, funding, and clinical trials were connected to it through the first half of the year. The query engine, the workspace, and research briefs were built on that foundation once it could carry them. Read from the bottom for how the platform was assembled, or from the top for what changed most recently. For how the layers fit together, see the platform architecture.
Security audit · Platform

Platform security audit

A dedicated security review across the entire API surface. Every route now enforces request-level authentication and verified workspace isolation, rate limiting applies platform-wide with stricter limits on public-facing endpoints, all rich-text input is sanitised before storage, and error handling was tightened so internal detail never reaches a client.Read more →
Live funding calls · Data

Open and forthcoming funding calls

Funding intelligence now extends beyond the historical record: Antlect tracks live Horizon Europe funding calls, refreshed from the official EU source. The results panel gained Open Calls and Forthcoming tabs, so current and upcoming opportunities sit alongside the research landscape they relate to.Read more →
Brief drafts · Analysis

Brief drafts

Generate a focused brief draft from any item: an artifact, a document, or a mind map. Drafts are generated for you, tied to the item they came from, and kept in the Library’s Drafts tab to refine and reuse.Read more →
Mind maps · Workspace

Mind maps live in your workspace

Mind maps are now first-class workspace content. Maps save as editable data (reopen one and continue where you left off, rather than looking at a static image) with autosave while you work, a full-map PNG download for sharing outside Antlect, and a dedicated Mind Maps tab in the Library.Read more →
Mind maps · Workspace

A mind map editor designed for Antlect

The mind map editor received its own interface, tuned for structuring an investigation quickly: per-branch colours with recolouring from the context menu, three layout directions that persist across sessions, a floating title, and unobtrusive zoom controls that stay out of the map’s way.
Account & audit trail · Account

Account settings and your personal audit trail

Settings is organised into Profile, Security, and Preferences. Manage your profile, choose where you land after sign-in, and, under Security, review your account’s audit trail: key content actions and password reset requests, logged with what happened and when.Read more →
Network graph · Analysis

See the network behind every answer

Results gained a Graph mode: an interactive, force-directed network of the people, universities, faculties, and research institutes behind your answer. Nodes are sized and coloured by entity type; search highlights matches while the rest fades back, a type filter narrows the view, and clicking a node opens its detail panel. Pop the graph out into a floating panel to keep it visible while you work, or expand a node to fetch its wider neighbourhood on demand.Read more →
Charts · Research briefs

Switch chart types in place

Chart blocks in the report editor are fully switchable: pick from five types (horizontal bar, vertical bar, line, area, and pie) and when a dataset has multiple numeric fields, choose which one the chart plots. Switching is instant and presentational only; the underlying data is untouched.Read more →
Public landing page · Platform

Antlect goes public

A public landing page introduces the platform, with sign-in and demo booking. Existing users go straight to Login from the top navigation.
Mind maps · Workspace

Mind maps arrive

A new way to think inside Antlect: sketch the structure of an investigation as a mind map (branching out entities, questions, and findings) alongside your threads and reports, in the same project.
Collections · Workspace

Collections in the Library

Group related artifacts into named collections, so the findings for one line of enquiry stay together and retrievable. Library search now spans every tab: artifacts, files, drafts, and mind maps.Read more →
Workspace & threads · Workspace

Workspace overhaul

  • Inline query runs: queries execute directly in the thread panel with a live step trace and timing.
  • Global search across the project (threads, reports, and tags) from the search pill at the top of the workspace.
  • Tag management: rename tags in place and reassign an item’s tag on hover.
  • Artifact selection: tick artifacts in results and act on the whole selection from the selection bar.
  • Redesigned sidebar: a compact collapsible rail that keeps more room for content.
Projects, threads, reports, drafts, files, collections, and history are all persisted server-side through a full workspace API.Read more →
Brief editor · Research briefs

The research brief editor

Research briefs became a full rich-text environment: headings, tables, task lists, images, links, highlights, character count, and autosave, with PDF export rendered server-side, so the document you deliver looks the way you wrote it.Read more →
Query engine · Analysis

Ask questions across the graph

The query engine arrived, and with it the Discovery Terminal: pose a research question in plain language and tune how it’s answered: the dimension the answer is organised around (people, institutions, funding bodies) and the metrics it’s ranked by (publication output, citation impact, funding volume, collaboration breadth). Completed queries return structured result sets with Summary, Publications, and Patents views, and every run keeps an inspectable step-by-step trace in its thread.Read more →
Platform foundation · Platform

Secure access, roles, and support

The platform’s access model shipped end to end: secure single sign-on with no passwords held by Antlect, role-based access separating users from administrators, access requests reviewed individually before an account is activated, and support requests raised from inside the app and delivered directly to the team.Read more →
Clinical trials · Data

Clinical trial coverage

Clinical trial activity joined the graph, connected to the researchers and institutions running it. Trials are the clearest translational signal, where research is moving towards practice, and they now inform the same queries and results as the rest of the graph.Read more →
Funding · Data

Funding coverage

Funding bodies and grant records were connected to the researchers and institutions they back. Funding volume became a rankable metric in queries, and an entity’s funding history now appears alongside its publication and patent record.Read more →
Patents · Data

Patent coverage

Patent activity joined the graph: filings, assignees, and inventors, linked to the researchers and institutions behind them. Patents reveal commercialisation intent that publication data alone misses, and they surface both in the Patents view of results and as signals in the Summary.Read more →
Publications · Data

Publication coverage

Scholarly publications were linked into the graph: papers, authors, venues, and dates, connected to the people and institutions behind them. Publication output and citation impact became rankable metrics, and every answer can be verified against its underlying publication record.Read more →
The research graph · Data

The research graph

The foundation of Antlect, and the beginning of the Descriptive Digital Twin: a connected graph of researchers, universities, faculties, and research institutes across New Zealand and Australia. People and institutions are first-class entities with real relationships between them, not rows in separate datasets, and every capability that followed is built on this graph.Read more →