Intel Desk 2.0 launched.
The full rebuild is live. New live wire, new three-pane desk layout, new Hormuz-focused vessel map, portfolio-linked critical alerts, and an editorial brand layer across every public page.
What 2.0 ships
Intel Desk 2.0 is a ground-up rebuild of the desk. The 1.x product ran as a single continuous wire stream with a light dashboard on top. 2.0 is an actual desk: three panes, live editorial brand, and a tight loop between the wire, the map and the watchlist. The things most users will notice first:
- Rebuilt live wire. New polling, new dedupe logic, new reliability-letter display, new tiered source rendering. The wire is now the spine of the desk and every other surface is pinned to it.
- Three-pane desk layout. Left pane for the wire, centre pane for the intel map, right pane for portfolio, alerts and market strip. Fully responsive, with a native mobile tab layout on small screens.
- Portfolio-linked critical alerts. Critical alerts now carry a portfolio-impact flag when they tag instruments on your watchlist. No more manually joining up a headline with a position.
- Hormuz vessel map. The vessel layer has been reworked around the Strait of Hormuz corridor. New AIS bounding boxes cover the Persian Gulf, the Strait, the Gulf of Oman, Bab el-Mandeb, Suez and the Bosphorus.
- Editorial brand layer. Every public page, landing, live wire, pricing, updates, methodology, sources, FAQ, case file, is filed in the same paper-and-ink editorial voice. Consistent masthead, footer, internal linking, schema.
What changed under the hood
- New canonical URL policy, all public pages live at extensionless paths (
/live,/pricing,/updates, etc) with 301 redirects from legacy.htmlURLs. - Full
@graphJSON-LD on the homepage, per-page schema on every standalone document, and an overhauled sitemap. - Explicit
OAI-SearchBotallow andGPTBotdeny inrobots.txt. Dashboard and admin surfaces carryX-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow. - Per-map marker keys in the intel map so aircraft and vessel layers can render correctly across the three map surfaces (intel map, mobile map, desktop full-screen map).
What comes next
The next wave of work is paid tiers. Intel Desk is in Early Access, free to use, with Desk and Team tiers planned for later in 2026. Existing accounts will be grandfathered onto the core wire when that happens. Detail on the pricing page.
If you haven't tried 2.0, open an account. If you want to read how the desk files intelligence, start with the methodology or the 23 March case file.