Questions, answered.

Satya (सत्य, truth) will be the map of human history. Chapter one, opening first, will cover India, 1526 to 1947, told through real places, real rulers, and real events, each one sourced. Satya has not launched yet. Join the waitlist to hear when it opens.

Chapter one, opening first, will be India, 1526 to 1947, spanning Babur's victory at Panipat to Independence and Partition: 21 powers with real boundary snapshots (or honest capital points where none survive), 123 dated rulers and officeholders, and every located event and landmark we can tie to the year it happened or was built. India is the first chapter, not the whole product; more chapters are planned after it. None of this is browsable yet.

Boundaries will come from the historical-basemaps scholarly compilation: real snapshot years, simplified, and labeled approximate by design. Rulers and events are being editor-curated from standard reference histories and cross-checked against encyclopedic sources, with deep links for further reading. Every data point will carry a source.

It won't, by design. Satya is being built to speak only from sourced material, and to say so plainly when the record is silent, instead of guessing. No source, no story.

No map of this era can honestly claim exact borders, so Satya won't either. Frontiers were zones, not lines. Satya will use real scholarly snapshot boundaries and label the result approximate by design. Powers with no reliably mapped territory will be shown as capital points rather than invented shapes.

Yes, that's a big part of why we're building it. Satya is meant to work for a curious student on their own and for a classroom together, with real sources behind every claim rather than a textbook summary to take on faith. It has not launched yet, so none of this is usable in a classroom today.

That's the goal. Satya is being built for two audiences: people exploring the atlas, and machines that need history to come back cited instead of hallucinated. There is no public app or API today; a versioned query API for agents is on the roadmap for after launch.

The atlas is planned to run in a modern desktop browser with JavaScript enabled, no account needed. Some of Satya's voice may require a configured server; when it isn't available, Satya will say so honestly rather than fake an answer. None of this exists publicly yet.

We don't have a date yet, and we would rather say that plainly than invent one. Join the waitlist below and you'll be the first to know when it does.

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A small team, building in the open, starting with India's history and expanding from there. We'll share more as we get closer to launch.

Because it wasn't. At any year on the map Satya will show, many powers, peoples, and versions of events coexisted: 1565 read differently from Vijayanagara than from the sultanates that defeated it. That's the thesis behind truth (सत्य) here: refusing to fake certainty. Satya will show every side, show the sources, show the doubt.