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Public changelog

What changed, when, and why

Every meaningful platform update is logged here — feature drops, methodology revisions, data refreshes. We don't silently change scores or classifications. If a brand's ownership status flips, the live event lands in the ownership change log; the platform-level reasoning lives here.

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  1. Fixv0.12

    Accessibility pass, ownership fixes, live audience pages & clearer terms

    • Accessibility and usability pass across the site — a skip link, keyboard-friendly menus, carousels you can pause, labelled form fields, larger tap targets and readable text sizes on phones
    • Fixed owner pages that showed “not found” for some brands because two owners were tied; duplicate owner entries (Colgate, Aavin, Nandini, Bikaji, Everest, Balaji Wafers) were merged and their old addresses now redirect permanently
    • Submitters now get an email when a brand they suggested is published or rejected
    • The categories page now counts every brand — it was missing about 1 in 8 brand-to-segment links — and the Business and Policy pages read live category figures instead of fixed examples
    • Ownership API: brand responses now include the ownership score and the corporate lineage up to the ultimate owner
    • Terms, Refund Policy and Privacy Policy updated: advertiser placements are paid one month at a time and never renew, Enhanced Brand Profile prices corrected, and the AI providers that read receipts and write insights (Google, Anthropic, OpenAI) are now named
  2. Datav0.11

    Ownership graph, country pages & a bigger catalogue

    • Ownership now resolves through a graph (owner → company → brand) on brand, owner and compare pages
    • Brand pages show the full ownership chain; owner pages get readable addresses
    • Per-country ownership pages at /country/[name]
    • Head-to-head brand comparisons linked from every brand page
    • New segments — Telecom, Hospitality & Dining, Healthcare & Pharma, Mobile & Computer Accessories, Meat & Seafood, Edtech — and more verified Indian brands
    • Bill Analyzer recognises more Indian retail brands and loose, unbranded staples
    • Bill Analyzer shows a separate “Mixed ownership” share for brands whose control is genuinely split (Annapurna, Captain Cook, WazirX) instead of counting them as foreign
    • The ownership change log is live: every reclassification or parent change needs a source and is published, and September's 15 corrections are backfilled
    • Scoring fix: Indian-controlled brands whose equity was stored as a default 0% are now treated as unrecorded rather than as 0% Indian, which corrects some Indian brands' scores
  3. Featurev0.10

    Can India Stand Alone? — the self-reliance series

    • A two-way dependency ledger: what India imports, and what the world imports from India
    • The five pillars — air, water, food, clothing, shelter — traced stage by stage
    • Deep dives on energy, defence, chips, minerals, medicine, civilian security and digital
    • Reclaiming What's Ours, the Blueprint, Build India with a founders' pledge wall, and What Will You Become? for students
    • Every figure source-linked
  4. Featurev0.9

    Answer-first redesign

    • Brand, category, segment, alternatives and compare pages lead with the verdict and the switch
    • Type-a-brand homepage hero; shareable X-vs-Y compare cards
    • One-tap switch from any bill row; Copilot keeps the conversation thread
    • Live brand-verdict cards inside Journal posts; type-ahead search on the brands directory
  5. Featurev0.8

    Supporter plan & a bigger free tier

    • Supporter: ₹149 for a year, one payment, no auto-renewal
    • Compare builder and pre-shopping lists opened to every free account; Copilot free limit raised to 5 a day
    • Brand watchlist retired — ownership shifts are published on the public change log instead
  6. Featurev0.7

    Onboarding & security hardening

    • Short onboarding on first sign-in
    • Content-Security-Policy, HSTS and clickjacking protection on every page
  7. Featurev0.6

    Account hardening

    • Profile editing and email change
    • Active sessions panel — list devices, revoke individually, sign out everywhere
    • Concurrent session cap (Free = 1, Supporter = 3) with automatic eviction of the oldest device
    • Account deletion with type-DELETE confirmation
  8. Methodologyv0.5

    Ownership score v2

    • Seven weighted dimensions: ultimate ownership (25), country of control (15), profit retention (15), supply-chain localization (15), manufacturing presence (10), brand/IP ownership (10), leadership control (10)
    • Correction (October 2026): this entry first listed an earlier four-factor weighting; the seven weights above are the ones that shipped and are still in use
    • Score now reflects effective control, not just nameplate ownership
    • Methodology page updated with worked examples
  9. Featurev0.4

    Change log, corrections & audience portals

    • Public ownership change log at /ownership-changes
    • Corrections and data-request flow
    • Portals for Consumers / Researchers / Business / Policy, plus the Intelligence Hub
  10. Datav0.3

    Compare builder + segment-level mapping

    • Side-by-side brand comparisons across ownership, score and segment
    • Brand-segment mapping for accurate alternatives
    • Pre-shopping list builder
  11. Featurev0.2

    Bill Analyzer with OCR

    • Upload a photo of a grocery bill — we OCR and classify each line
    • Per-bill ownership split + Indian alternatives
    • Public methodology page
  12. Featurev0.1

    Switch To India goes live

    • Brand ownership lookup with an Indian vs. foreign verdict
    • Indian alternatives for foreign-owned brands