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# Roadmap

### Beyond

Categories widen into every domain markets trade, and the judgment history thickens year after year.

### 2026

#### H1

* [x] **Multi-agent intelligence pipeline live.** Brought the six-stage pipeline into production, with trained cluster, content, and analysis agents reading and judging articles.
* [x] **Four categories live.** Began real-time publishing across crypto, economy, politics, and geopolitics.
* [x] **16-language simultaneous publishing.** Built the translation pipeline and began distributing every story in 16 languages at once.
* [x] **Event clustering system.** Converged cross-outlet reporting of the same event into one event and computed related-coverage counts.
* [x] **Event Memory.** Accumulated judgment history, event timelines, per-outlet coverage records, and first-report credits so that the same event receives the same scale.
* [x] **Publishing gate.** Activated the quality gate that blocks promotion, press releases, and off-domain noise at classification.
* [x] **Source coverage expansion.** Expanded to 51 sources including 7 primary institutional sources, receiving issuers' own documents directly.
* [x] **NewsCover Library.** 3,000 entities and 10,000 covers spanning crypto, equities, nations, currencies, commodities, institutions, brands, and people.
* [x] **Cover grid system.** Standardized person, symbol, wordmark, and object layouts, and established the licensing verification process.

#### H2

* [x] **Terminal launch.** A console for exploring the layer by contract name and asset name, showing exactly what the API returns.
* [x] **Newsroom launch.** A desk that takes a KOL from picking top news to publishing on social in two clicks.
* [x] **News Feed API release.** A real-time stream with category, impact, and language filters and cursor-based incremental fetching.
* [x] **Top News API release.** A ranking of the top 10 per category, recomputed hourly and returned in the same order in every language.
* [x] **Match API release.** A matching engine that attaches relevant news to any page in two modes: sentence (contract questions) and keyword (assets and entities).
* [x] **NewsCover API release.** A cover matching API returning publication-grade covers from a headline or keywords.
* [x] **RSS feed release.** Standard per-category feeds, open without a key.
* [x] **Skills release.** Natural-language access for AI agents, running on the same API.
* [ ] **Sports category** (or H1 2027)**.** Opening the fifth category and extending the event-type system for sports.
* [ ] **MCP server with x402 payment** (or H1 2027). No-auth agent access and per-call payment.
* [ ] **$FL launch** (or H1 2027). Token generation and the payment rail going live.

### 2025

#### H2

* [x] **Market research and opportunity definition.** Studied embedded-news demand across prediction markets, exchanges, and data providers, confirmed the shift of news consumption from sites into in-screen layers, and set the product direction.
* [x] **News source evaluation.** Compared global outlets and primary institutional sources on ingest feasibility, publishing latency, and licensing terms, and established source selection criteria.
* [x] **Licensing structure design.** Defined the license-free position: fact-based synthesis and rewriting, no storage of original articles, and credit to the outlet that broke the story.
* [x] **Multi-agent architecture design.** Designed the six-stage pipeline (Read, Classify, Cluster, Synthesize, Intelligence, Rank) and selected the technology stack.
* [x] **Signal system design.** Defined the impact scale, the five sentiment values, the eventType classification, and the three-layer entities join key, together with their judgment rules.
* [x] **Neutrality architecture.** Designed the track split that removes sentiment generation entirely from the non-market track, and defined the promotion-blocking gate.
* [x] **Coverage design.** Fixed the four categories, set the selection criteria for primary institutional sources and major outlets, and planned the 16-language rollout.
* [x] **Prototype build and quality verification framework.** Measured judgment quality on a pipeline prototype and designed the golden-set verification process.
* [x] **Brand and design system.** Established the FLASH brand, built the product design system, and designed the official website.

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To become the standard embedded news layer, and the standard news infrastructure agents call. That is where the roadmap ends.
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