Release Notes

A summary of changes to Kensho NERD.

May 2026

New Feature: Proprietary Document Support

NERD now supports annotation of proprietary and confidential documents. Documents submitted with the appropriate entitlement are stored separately with encryption, keeping them isolated from standard annotation data. File tags can be attached to requests for downstream tracking and organization.

Improved: Enhanced Entity Recognition Accuracy

NERD's annotation model was updated to the latest version, improving entity detection accuracy.

April 2026

Reliability: Improved Performance for Large Documents

Large document submissions are now processed more reliably with reduced wait times.