diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cfe4985..a569c75 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,19 +4,140 @@ High-throughput telecom Call Detail Record ingestion and analytics pipeline.
 
 ## Architecture
 
-The system will consist of:
+The system consists of:
 
-1. FastAPI ingestion API
-2. Kafka-compatible Redpanda message broker
-3. Processing and normalization worker
-4. ClickHouse analytics database
+* FastAPI ingestion API
+* Redpanda as a Kafka-compatible message broker
+* Processing and normalization worker
+* ClickHouse analytical storage
+* Dead Letter Queue for failed records
 
-Data flow:
+Current data flow:
 
-Network Element → Ingestion API → Redpanda → Worker → ClickHouse
+```text
+Network Element
+    ↓
+FastAPI API
+    ↓
+Validation
+    ↓
+202 Accepted
+```
 
-Malformed or unprocessable records are routed by the worker to a Dead Letter Queue.
+Infrastructure already available:
 
-## Development Status
+```text
+Redpanda
+├── cdr.raw
+└── cdr.raw.dlq
 
-Currently under development.
\ No newline at end of file
+ClickHouse
+└── telecom.cdr_records
+```
+
+Kafka publishing and worker processing are not connected yet.
+
+## Current Features
+
+* Dockerized Redpanda and ClickHouse
+* Automatic and idempotent Kafka topic provisioning
+* Automatic ClickHouse schema initialization
+* Persistent Redpanda and ClickHouse volumes
+* Raw and normalized CDR domain models
+* Required-field and type validation
+* RAT validation and normalization
+* E.164 phone-number normalization
+* Deterministic UUIDv5 `cdr_id` generation
+* Epoch and traffic-value validation
+* FastAPI `POST /api/v1/cdr/raw`
+* FastAPI `GET /health`
+* Structured JSON error responses
+* Unit and API integration tests
+
+## Project Structure
+
+```text
+src/core/
+├── api/
+│   ├── main.py
+│   └── routes.py
+│
+└── domain/
+    ├── errors.py
+    ├── models.py
+    ├── normalization.py
+    └── validation.py
+
+infrastructure/
+└── clickhouse/
+    └── init.sql
+
+tests/
+├── integration/
+└── unit/
+```
+
+## Configuration
+
+Configuration is provided through environment variables documented in `.env.example`.
+
+This includes:
+
+* Redpanda version and topic settings
+* Kafka broker and consumer configuration
+* ClickHouse connection settings
+* Worker batch size and flush interval
+
+## Running Infrastructure
+
+```bash
+docker compose up -d
+```
+
+Verify services:
+
+```bash
+docker compose ps -a
+```
+
+Expected:
+
+```text
+Redpanda       healthy
+redpanda-init  exited successfully
+ClickHouse     healthy
+```
+
+## Running the API
+
+```bash
+uvicorn core.api.main:app --reload --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000
+```
+
+Available endpoints:
+
+```text
+GET  /health
+POST /api/v1/cdr/raw
+```
+
+A valid CDR currently returns:
+
+```json
+{
+  "status": "accepted",
+  "raw_id": "raw-test-001"
+}
+```
+
+Invalid payloads return structured `400` responses.
+
+## Testing
+
+Run:
+
+```bash
+pytest -v
+```
+
+The current test suite covers domain validation, normalization, deterministic ID generation, and API request validation.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d89d360..6fd6330 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dev = [
     "pytest>=8.0",
-    "httpx>=0.27,<1.0",
+    "httpx2>=2.4,<3.0",
 ]
 
 [build-system]
diff --git a/src/core/api/main.py b/src/core/api/main.py
index 4884f65..872da07 100644
--- a/src/core/api/main.py
+++ b/src/core/api/main.py
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ app.include_router(
 async def health() -> dict[str, str]:
     return {
         "status": "ok",
-    }
\ No newline at end of file
+    }