narrative-intelligence
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Accrete and the things nobody writes down
The expensive part of expertise is often the part missing from the manual. Accrete wants to turn that unwritten knowledge into software that can trace a supplier, follow a narrative and question an IT change.
Handraise Is Trying to Measure the Moment a Story Becomes a Belief
The Austin company began by helping PR teams amplify a good article. Then AI changed the more interesting question: not who saw the story, but what the machines learned from it.
Pulsar Stopped Counting Mentions and Started Mapping the Crowd
The London software company built its business on a sharp correction to social listening: the loudest post is rarely the whole story. Its platform maps the communities, narratives and behavioral signals underneath the noise.
David Low Has Spent 25 Years Turning Noise Into a Useful Signal
From the Xbox introduction to the age of synthetic consensus, David Low has made a career of finding the human decision hiding inside a flood of technology, data and fashionable jargon.
Dan Lowden Has Built a Career Making Invisible Threats Impossible to Ignore
After 12 startups and eight exits, the Blackbird.AI CMO still prefers the difficult shot. His method is part category design, part patient listening - with a romance novel tucked into the same improbable résumé.
The Internet Can Invent a Crisis Before Lunch. Blackbird.AI Wants to Spot It Before Breakfast
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.
Cyabra Learned the Hard Way: Finding the Bots Is Only Half the Job
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.
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.