Railway's free tier sleeps after idle. First request typically takes 5–30 seconds while the container starts. Subsequent queries are fast.
The corpus is 15 FERC orders spanning 2003–2024: interconnection (Orders 2003, 845, 845-A, 2023, 2023-A), transmission planning (Orders 1000, 1920 + RM21-17 ANOPR), distributed energy and storage (Orders 745, 841, 2222, 2222-A, 872), and market mechanics (Order 825). Single-document lookups go through Haiku; multi-document synthesis questions get decomposed and answered with Sonnet. Each stage of the pipeline streams live.