v0.4 turned Curated from a question-and-answer tool into a content generator. Instead of a paragraph in a chat thread, you started getting deliverables you could share.
What shipped
- PlaceStory — point at any location and Curated generates a narrative covering demographics, foot traffic, key destinations, comparable places, and what makes the spot distinctive
- Point-in-Polygon analysis — count what's inside a custom boundary, with attribute filters
- RAG knowledge base — every answer is grounded in source documents Curated cites
- Measurement tools — area and distance calculations on the map
- Location search — type a place name and Curated zooms there
Why it mattered
A chat answer is throwaway. A PlaceStory is a one-page brief you can paste into a deck or send to your CEO. v0.4 was the version where Curated stopped feeling like a chatbot and started feeling like an analyst on your team.
The RAG layer also fixed our biggest credibility problem: previous answers occasionally hallucinated. After v0.4, every answer points to the document, layer, or dataset it came from — and if there's no source, Curated says so instead of making something up.