We heard you that reliable 'date type' questions were one of the only remaining question types not supported by Briink, so we've shipped a new question type specifically made for generating date type answers!
Assignees now receive email notifications when they're assigned to screening tasks. When you assign a team member to a screening response, they'll automatically be notified with details about the assignment and a direct link to the screening—helping ensure nothing falls through the cracks in your review workflow.
The Batch Screenings API is now publicly available for all users. You can create and manage batch screening jobs to process multiple companies simultaneously using endpoints under /workspaces/{workspace_id}/batch-screenings. This enables efficient bulk ESG screening workflows, including document collection and questionnaire screening across your entire company portfolio.
We've added a new ah-hoc screening end point to support use-cases where you just want to send a new question and document context on the fly (rather than from a pre-made template) and receive an AI suggested answer directly using:POST /workspaces/{workspace_id}/adhoc-screenings
We also added API documentation for this new ah-hoc screening endpoints with clearer descriptions and usage guidance.
You can now retrieve screening responses in a tabular format with structured columns and rows. Add ?format=table to your GET /workspaces/{workspace_id}/screenings/{screening_id}/responses/{response_id} request to receive data in a table-friendly structure—ideal for spreadsheet exports or displaying results in grids.
We've improved our AI-powered document collection engine to further discover and collect ESG relevant company documents from across the web with intelligent crawling that prioritizes the most valuable domain content, including sustainability disclosures, financial reports and investor relations materials.
We heard that some folks prefer to organise their ESG analysis workflows by company entities, so Briink now supports Company Entities as a core entity concept so you can define companies and organisations as your unit of analysis when conducting screenings!
Company records store metadata about a company including name, and domain as well as industry classification, company description, public/private status, employee count, size category, and country.
This feature is currently only available to API users (via the new 'Companies' endpoints group: https://briink.readme.io/reference/create_company_document_collection_job_workspaces__workspace_id__companies_documents_collecting_jobs_post).
You told us and we listened! The new v1.1 of Briink's API is now live including fully removing ‘versioning’ from all our API response objects as well as a number of other improvements which make the API developer experience:
Simpler 🧘♂️ - Removing versioning will make the API simpler to work with and reduce complexity
Faster ⚡- Removing versioning means smaller, more efficient data packets and faster responses
Better (for us too) 😉 - Removing versioning also helps Briink develop and ship new functionality faster for you!
Thanks to all our integration partners who worked with us on this. The fully updated API documentation is as always available here: https://briink.readme.io/docs/getting-started#/
Briink now automatically detects empty table rows and generates new rows based on column requirements. Also available to API users.
You can now select "Tables" as an output type. Briink will generate nicely-formatted tables based on your existing data.