# 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.

- **Founded:** 2011
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Josh Ginsberg (Co-Founder (former CEO)), Adam Beaugh (Co-Founder), Jim Hornthal (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~66 employees
- **Products:** Discover, ZEN, Narratives, Detect, Zignal Enterprise / Command Center
- **Notable:** Processes over 8 billion social media posts per day across 100+ languages., Built one of the earliest real-time, cross-media (TV, radio, print, online) intelligence platforms., Successful pivot from political campaign analytics (Politear) to enterprise and national-security intelligence.

## Products & services

- **Discover** — Rapid ad hoc search across billions of global records for fast verification, influence tracking, and tactical checks, with multilingual natural-language queries.
- **ZEN** — Persistent, adaptive monitoring with smart alerting and customizable live dashboards featuring AI-enhanced sentiment analysis.
- **Narratives** — LLM-powered detection of known and unknown narratives across languages, platforms, and adversarial ecosystems for early warning of behavioral shifts.
- **Detect** — Geolocated visual detection and enriched analytics that surface events and threats from imagery and open-source signals.
- **Zignal Enterprise / Command Center** — Legacy media intelligence platform and multi-screen command-center display system for real-time analytics and visualization across TV, radio, print, and online media.

## Achievements

- Processes over 8 billion social media posts per day across 100+ languages.
- Built one of the earliest real-time, cross-media (TV, radio, print, online) intelligence platforms.
- Successful pivot from political campaign analytics (Politear) to enterprise and national-security intelligence.
- Signed public-sector distribution partnership with Carahsoft in 2025.
- Serves both Fortune-class enterprises and top U.S. government/defense agencies.

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Zignal Labs and Carahsoft announced a partnership to deliver a next-generation OSINT platform to government and defense agencies.
- **2025** — ICE signed a reported $5.7M five-year contract via Carahsoft to license the platform, drawing scrutiny from civil-liberties groups.
- **2025** — Relaunched its platform around four products - Discover, ZEN, Narratives, and Detect - centered on narrative and agentic intelligence.

## Links

- Website: https://zignallabs.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zignal-labs
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/zignallabs
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zignallabs

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Last updated: 2026-07-09