July 2025 Release Notes
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Current Data Release
We released updates to the Rhetorik360 core data Thursday July 23, 2025.
Customers of all our products can now see the current data for Profiles, Companies, Office and Technographics.
Developments
With all the celebrations it is amazing we were still able to get a lot of things accomplished this month.
We have a new user experience on the Rhetorik360 Portal. Along with a cleaner, better organized design, users can now access code snippets specific to each data element to help them structure precise queries. Additionally, there are great pre-constructed query examples on the Search page to help jumpstart your search for the right people and companies.
For data lovers we have included a “Raw Record” view in the search results panel. Just click on any record in the Top 100 view to access a view of the record in its raw JSON format. You can navigate an entire record in a panel to the right of the search results to give you deeper insights into our file data and formats.
Display Raw Json
Upcoming Changes
API customers can see a free preview of a record by leveraging our unique “Reveal” capability before they decide to purchase. This is easily accomplished by including a Reveal All= “false” in their query. Credits are only consumed when Reveal All = True, which grants full access to the entire record.
We will be adjusting the number fields we include in the Reveal All = False for all data collections to ensure that the free view provides data sufficient to make a purchase decision yet protects our commercial interests and limits the demands on our infrastructure.
We will be meeting with impacted customers in the coming weeks and plan to have the changes in place before our next update. This change will only affect API customers on credit driven agreements.
Data Enhancements
- Skills – we had a major update to our skills coverage this month, adding an additional 44% more coverage. We now have over 404 million profiles with our proprietary skills.
- Technographics – we increased our technographic coverage by 355k domains, lifting the number we cover to over 17.4 million companies.
- Locations – we increased our location data as well, impacting contact, experience and office location data by 10%.
- Social Data - although the total numbers are relatively small, we posted a 29% increase in Companies with YouTube.
Issues
This month, we significantly reduced the number of occurrences of 502 errors our API customers experienced through changes to our infrastructure and reducing the number of calls per minute to our APIs.
However, a few are still popping up (less than .00017%). We continue to monitor the situation closely and will make further adjustments to our stack this month to reduce them completely.
Our R360 App users have been experiencing slow search responses and timeouts. Our increased user base combined with ever-growing size of our data collections are the culprits. Our engineering teams will be adding additional capacity in the coming weeks that should alleviate the issues.
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we worked the issues.
Kind Regards,
Jim Longo