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Release Notes 2026-08-06

Release notes for the 2026-08-06 hushh.ai production release: the one search box, the community lane, honest ranking, and the regulator verify fix.

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TL;DR: The directory now takes the sentence a person would actually say, ranks real reachable people first, and sends verification to the actual regulator; shipped and verified in production on 2026-08-07 UTC.

Status as of 2026-08-07: see body.

Say it in your own words, and reach somebody who can help

The directory could always find people. What it could not do was take the sentence you would actually say, and it was quietly putting the wrong ones at the top. Both are fixed, and one defect is described in full because we caused it and found it by looking at our own page.

One box, and it reads what you type before it searches anything

The page asked what you needed done and gave you nowhere to answer it. There is now one box. Type "the furnace is out and it is freezing" and it says it is looking for a heating contractor before it searches, so a wrong reading costs one keystroke instead of a page of wrong results. The translation code had existed for weeks with a full test file and was connected to nothing; it is now the front door at hushh.ai/directory/find.

The search box could not hear two thirds of what we exist for

369,447 food banks, shelters, legal-aid offices and bill-assistance organisations were unreachable by any sentence. "I cannot afford my rent", "I need food for my kids" and "I cannot afford a lawyer" now resolve first, ahead of every commercial reading, because "I cannot pay my electric bill" contains the word electric and was about to return electricians. A sentence that suggests domestic violence puts the National Domestic Violence Hotline above the results.

We were ranking your results and then throwing the ranking away

Searching Stamford for a plumber returned two holding companies above two named humans, alphabetically. Every record in a postcode sits at the postcode centre, so a sort by distance was a sort on a total tie that restored the source file's order. Ranking now happens once, over every source, after the merge, and removes duplicates across sources.

The verify button now goes to a regulator

Every public-record listing carried a button reading "Verify at the regulator" that opened our own claim form. It now links the real door where one exists: the SEC adviser search, the NPI registry, the state insurance department, the IRS tax-exempt search. Where no verified lookup exists, for the trades, there is no button, because a missing door is honest and a wrong one is not.

We broke the ordering while fixing it, and said so

Ranking by usefulness across the whole list scrambled the distance headings. It is now ordered by distance band first, usefulness inside the band. The full record, including this, is on hushh.ai/releases.

Verified

Shipped through UAT with an 11-of-11 smoke pass, promoted, and verified in production. The public timeline at hushh.ai/releases was also regenerated after being found 59 commits stale, and a pre-flight now blocks any future release whose notes have drifted.

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