The New York startup treats online perception like a security surface. Its bet: the dangerous part is not one false post, but the network that gives it reach, speed and consequences.
The disinformation company spent four years perfecting detection before customers taught it the more valuable trick: turning a suspicious spike into a decision. Now the newly public firm must prove that narrative intelligence can become durable infrastructure, not just crisis software.

From campaign war rooms to agent-driven intelligence, the Zignal Labs co-founder has spent 15 years turning public noise into decisions - while insisting that useful technology starts with a human problem.

Zignal Labs is a San Francisco-based intelligence software company that turns publicly available information into structured, real-time situational awareness. Founded in 2011 as political-media startup Politear, it pivoted into broader media analytics and now positions itself as a national-security intelligence company delivering AI and agentic tooling. Its platform ingests billions of open-source signals daily across 100+ languages, using machine learning, computer vision, and OCR to detect narratives, track influence, and flag emerging threats for enterprise, government, and defense customers.