# Handraise

> Handraise is an Austin enterprise software company that helps communications teams see how news coverage, recurring narratives, and source citations shape a brand's reputation in both human audiences and AI systems. Its platform combines media monitoring, narrative clustering, brand-centric sentiment, risk detection, competitive intelligence, AI perception analysis, and executive briefings. Founded by former TrendKite CEO Matt Allison, the company raised a $6.4 million seed round in 2023 and now presents itself as an AI brand perception platform for large communications organizations.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** Austin, United States
- **Founders:** Matt Allison (Founder & CEO)
- **Products:** AI Brand Perception Platform, Narrative Intelligence, Herald, Risk and Crisis Intelligence, Media Monitoring, Measurement, and Reporting
- **Notable:** Raised a $6.4 million seed round led by Silverton Partners in November 2023., Built an enterprise platform spanning AI perception, media perception, narrative intelligence, risk, recommendations, briefings, monitoring, and reporting., Publicly features customer stories involving Walgreens, Hershey, AMD, Colossal, and Adobe.

## Products & services

- **AI Brand Perception Platform** — Analyzes how leading AI models characterize a brand, which sources they cite, where model interpretations diverge, and how perception changes over time.
- **Narrative Intelligence** — Groups related coverage into living narrative clusters and tracks which stories are forming, accelerating, hardening, or fading.
- **Herald** — A conversational intelligence partner inside Handraise that produces sourced briefings, recommendations, and action plans from the platform's precomputed media and perception intelligence.
- **Risk and Crisis Intelligence** — Surfaces emerging reputation threats, source authority, narrative momentum, and the evidence behind risk signals.
- **Media Monitoring, Measurement, and Reporting** — Tracks coverage, brand-centric sentiment, share of voice, message pull-through, executive visibility, campaign performance, and board-ready reporting.
- **Daily Briefings** — Delivers automated brand, competitor, industry, and risk briefings for communications leaders.

## Achievements

- Raised a $6.4 million seed round led by Silverton Partners in November 2023.
- Built an enterprise platform spanning AI perception, media perception, narrative intelligence, risk, recommendations, briefings, monitoring, and reporting.
- Publicly features customer stories involving Walgreens, Hershey, AMD, Colossal, and Adobe.
- Completed SOC 2 Type I and says the platform includes SAML SSO, role-based access, encryption, and penetration testing.
- The current team says its members have supported 1,490-plus brands through platforms they helped build and reached more than 80% of the Fortune 500 through communications technology.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Published its critique of AI visibility dashboards, arguing that prompt-based precision can overstate what is actually known about brand perception.
- **2026-07** — Expanded its public methodology for how narratives, claims, citations, and source authority become durable AI brand beliefs.
- **2026-06** — Introduced Herald, its conversational intelligence partner for sourced executive briefings and deeper analysis.
- **2026-05** — Published its distinction between AI visibility scores and the favorability, positioning, and durability of AI brand perception.

## Links

- Website: https://www.handraise.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/handraise
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@handraise
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetHandraise/

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Last updated: 2026-09-22