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Adam Beaugh Built a Machine for the 24-Minute News Cycle. Now It Watches for What Comes Next
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
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.