What's new

Changes to CorpusKit Cloud and its portals, newest first.

Questions about a change? Email hello@corpuskit.cloud.

Title suggestions as you search

  • The search box in the portal header suggests matching document titles as you type.
  • Use the arrow keys to move through the suggestions and Enter to open one, or press Enter to search what you typed.
  • The example questions on the portal home page have a lighter look.

Citations open at the cited page

  • When an answer cites a PDF, opening the citation takes you to the cited page.
  • This works for PDFs with selectable text.

A more accessible knowledge map

  • Pause the map's motion with one control, and move or zoom the view with buttons as well as by dragging.
  • A text list shows what the map contains.
  • Map labels and lines have stronger contrast.

An accessibility statement per portal

  • Each portal has an accessibility statement page, linked from its footer.
  • It explains what has been tested, how it is tested and where the portal depends on its documents.

Update a document in place

  • Curators can replace a document's text in Manage and re-index it in one step.
  • Search and answers use the new text once it has been processed.

Export a portal

  • Administrators can download one portal's document list, settings and activity log as a single ZIP file.
  • The download is recorded in the activity log.

Send feedback from a portal

  • Portals can offer a Send feedback button, so readers can say what worked and what to improve.
  • The privacy notice explains what the form collects and how long it is kept.

Clearer focus on every colour scheme

  • Focus rings and brand marks keep at least 3:1 contrast on any portal's colours.
  • Focus stays where you were after the portal checks your access again.
  • Card text stays whole when readers enlarge text spacing.
  • Sign-up fits narrow phone screens, and every page footer has a contact email.

Plan a trial around your team’s work

  • New guides explain how researchers, research adoption teams, evidence teams and research programs can evaluate a portal with their own published material.
  • Each guide includes example questions, practical evaluation tasks and the scope of a trial.

More room for the knowledge map

  • The knowledge map has a compact toolbar, giving the map more space on screen.
  • On phones, the header scrolls away and a Back to top button returns you to the controls.
  • Desktop controls stay in place while you explore.
  • Manage shows a green check beside confirmed knowledge box connections, and Help starts with the page title.

Use the portal in Japanese

  • For portals with Japanese enabled, switch between Japanese and English across portal pages, account controls and Manage.
  • Navigation, forms and the built-in help guide follow your selected language.
  • Source documents and your saved research keep their original wording.

Choose and pay for a plan

  • Choose a Hosted or Managed plan from your organisation's Billing page.
  • Checkout shows the price and applicable tax before you confirm.

Import document details

  • Restore titles, summaries and other document details from a JSON archive in Manage.
  • Check the record count and destination portal, then confirm the import.
  • Existing records are kept, and the result shows how many records were added or skipped.

Prices in US dollars

  • Hosted is US$750 a month and Managed is US$1,750 a month, with no per-user fees.
  • Setup packages start at US$4,950.

Choose where your documents live

  • Hosted and Managed portals can hold their documents in the United States, Europe or Australia.
  • Ask us about a trial outside Australia.

Explore a research portal

  • The home page introduces CorpusKit Cloud with a new design and an interactive example portal.
  • Switch between Search, Ask, the knowledge map and Generate to explore example research, open sources and follow connections.

Delete a document

  • Managers can delete a document from its page, from Recent additions or from Corpus health.
  • One confirmation names the document and says what deleting it removes.
  • Investigations keep the evidence they drew from it, with its passage and notes.

Replies reach our team

  • Reply to any CorpusKit Cloud email and it reaches our team at hello@corpuskit.cloud.
  • Reminders before a trial ends, and the email when it becomes read-only, offer "Talk to us about keeping it".
  • That button starts an email to us with your portal named in the subject.

Search answers show how sure they are

  • Search answers carry the same confidence level, citations and checked figures as Ask.
  • Figures to check against the sources are marked in the answer.

See answers readers found unhelpful

  • Insights lists the answers readers marked unhelpful, with the comment they left.
  • Ask again runs the same question, so you can see the difference after adding or fixing documents.

Clear reasons when a job stops

  • When a website sync, summary run or knowledge graph run stops, Manage shows the reason it gave.
  • A source's sync log stays in place, so you can see how far it got.

Accessible colours and focus

  • New portals start on the CorpusKit library palette, designed for WCAG AA contrast.
  • Links and text drawn on a portal's own colours are adjusted to meet AA contrast.
  • Keyboard focus is clearly visible on buttons and the question fields, including in high contrast mode.
  • Owners can choose another palette from the library under Appearance.

Adding documents

  • "Add documents" appears in the Library, on the portal home page and in Manage.
  • The add panel is open from the start, with a drop zone and room for several files at once.
  • Each file shows its upload progress, then processing and ready, or the reason it failed.
  • Library counts update as documents arrive, without a reload.

Drafts stay with your team

  • Documents and links saved as drafts stay out of readers' view, in the Library and its filters.
  • Hide, in Manage, takes a published document back out of readers' view.
  • Readers see a draft once a manager publishes it.

Data retention and deletion

  • Account, trial and sign-in records are deleted automatically, on the schedule in our privacy notice.
  • When a trial portal is deleted, its sessions, investigations, members and activity log go with it.
  • Email hello@corpuskit.cloud to have your details, or your organisation's, deleted sooner.

Single sign-on

  • Your organisation can sign in with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace or another OpenID Connect provider.
  • We set it up with you on request, and your people then sign in with their work account.
  • Signing in from your portal brings you back to the page you started on.

Clearer emails

  • Every email from CorpusKit Cloud arrives in the CorpusKit design, with a plain text version alongside.
  • Each one opens with a heading and labels its buttons, and sign-in links are shown in full as well.

Choose where documents are stored

  • The trial request shows where your documents, their index and the knowledge graph will be stored.
  • Australia (Sydney) is the default, and other regions are available on request.
  • Your setup page and the portal-ready email name the region.

Your own web address

  • Your portal can use your organisation's own web address, such as research.yourorg.au.
  • Owners add it under Your web address, then add the two DNS records shown there.
  • The first address you connect becomes the portal's main address, and yourname.corpuskit.cloud forwards to it.
  • Included with Hosted and Managed.