Sage Intacct Release Notes

Searchable, version-controlled markdown archive of Sage Intacct release notes scraped from intacct.com, with AI-generated executive summaries.

Sage Intacct publishes quarterly release notes as HTML pages. This tool extracts them into clean markdown files with YAML frontmatter, then uses Claude to generate executive-level summaries organized by impact category.

What's included

714 pages across 9 quarterly releases, 3 "hidden gems" recaps, and a release calendar:

Release	Pages	Coverage
2024-R1	66	Quarterly release (2024 Release 1)
2024-R2	70	Quarterly release (2024 Release 2)
2024-R3	77	Quarterly release (2024 Release 3)
2024-R4	83	Quarterly release (2024 Release 4)
2025-R1	86	Quarterly release (2025 Release 1)
2025-R2	94	Quarterly release (2025 Release 2)
2025-R3	94	Quarterly release (2025 Release 3)
2025-R4	71	Quarterly release (2025 Release 4)
2026-R1	69	Quarterly release (2026 Release 1)

Plus standalone pages: hidden-gems-2023.md, hidden-gems-2024.md, hidden-gems-2025.md, 2026-calendar.md

Each quarterly release also has an AI-generated executive summary and each year has an annual rollup in docs/<year>/summaries/.

Output format

Each page becomes a markdown file with YAML frontmatter:

---
source: https://www.intacct.com/ia/docs/en_US/releasenotes/2025/2025_Release_4/2025-R4-home.htm
release: 2025-R4
extracted: 2026-02-07
title: "2025 R4 Release Notes"
---

Quarterly releases are organized into directories by module:

2025-R4/
  index.md                              # Release overview
  manifest.json                         # URL-to-file mapping
  1-regional-updates/australia.md       # Regional updates
  accounts-payable/...                  # AP features
  general-ledger/...                    # GL features
  platform-services/...                 # API/platform features
  ...

Standalone pages (hidden gems, calendar) live in the year root directory.

Executive summaries use BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) format with impact categories:

---
source: generated
release: 2025-R4
generated: 2026-02-07
generator: claude-opus-4-6
type: executive-summary
---

Setup

Requires Node.js 20.6+ (for --env-file support).

npm install
npx playwright install chromium

For summarization, copy .env.example to .env and add your Anthropic API key:

cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your key

Usage

The extractor has two phases: discover (find all sub-pages) and extract (convert to markdown).

# Extract a single release
node extract.mjs discover 2025-R4     # Scrape home page, write manifest.json
node extract.mjs extract 2025-R4      # Convert each page to markdown

# Re-extract even if files already exist
node extract.mjs extract 2025-R4 --force

# Discover + extract all releases at once
node extract.mjs all

Available release IDs: 2024-R1 through 2025-R4, 2026-R1, hidden-gems-2023, hidden-gems-2024, hidden-gems-2025, 2026-calendar.

Standalone releases (hidden gems, calendar) skip the discover phase and extract directly.

Summarization

Generates executive summaries from each release's index page using Claude Opus 4.6.

# Summarize a single release
npm run summarize -- 2025-R4

# Generate an annual rollup (creates missing per-release summaries first)
npm run summarize:year -- 2025

# Summarize all releases and years
npm run summarize:all

# Re-generate even if files exist
npm run summarize -- 2025-R4 --force

Per-release summaries are organized by executive impact: Breaking Changes & Deprecations, Action Required, New Capabilities, AI & Automation, Early Adopter Opportunities, Platform & API Changes, and Minor Enhancements. Empty categories are omitted. Annual summaries synthesize across quarters into Key Themes, Most Significant Changes, Items Requiring Attention, and What to Watch.

Adding a new release

Add an entry to the RELEASES object in both extract.mjs and summarize.mjs:

'2026-R2': { year: '2026', dir: '2026_Release_2', home: '2026-R2-home.htm' },

Then run:

node extract.mjs discover 2026-R2 && node extract.mjs extract 2026-R2

For preview/upcoming releases, add preview: true (uses preview.intacct.com). For standalone single-page content, add standalone: true, dir: null.

How it works

Two scripts: extract.mjs for scraping (using Playwright and Turndown) and summarize.mjs for AI summarization (using the Anthropic SDK).

1. Discover -- Opens a release home page in headless Chromium, collects all sub-page links from the content area and sidebar navigation, and writes a manifest.json mapping URLs to output filenames.

2. Extract -- Reads the manifest, visits each page, strips boilerplate (sidebar, footer, breadcrumbs, TOC, "Related help topics"), converts HTML tables to markdown tables in-browser (because Turndown's node objects don't support DOM methods like querySelectorAll), then runs Turndown on the cleaned HTML. Waits 300ms between requests.

3. Summarize -- Reads each release's index.md (the overview page with the full feature table), sends it to Claude Opus 4.6 with a structured prompt, and writes the summary to docs/<year>/summaries/. Annual summaries use a map-reduce pattern: read the per-release summaries, then synthesize across quarters.

Linting and formatting

npm run lint            # ESLint + markdownlint
npm run lint:js         # ESLint only
npm run lint:md         # markdownlint only
npm run format          # Prettier (write)
npm run format:check    # Prettier (check)

License

ISC