Perception monitors 1,000+ sources across digital asset media, social, earnings calls, and filings in real time. Everything gets sentiment-scored and trend-clustered. You access it through the dashboard, connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini via MCP, or build on the API. Board updates, competitive reports, earnings analysis, minutes instead of hours, with full citations.

Who is Perception for?

Professionals who need to stay informed and deliver insights: • Fund analysts researching digital asset-exposed equities • IR and communications teams tracking coverage • Family offices monitoring their digital asset allocations • Financial journalists covering the space • Anyone who needs cited intelligence without hours of manual research

What sources does Perception track?

1,000+ sources including Bloomberg, Financial Times, CoinDesk, The Block, Bitcoin Magazine, Reddit, X, GitHub, YouTube, podcasts, and mainstream outlets like NYT, BBC, CNN, and Reuters. Full list available on the

What can I create with Perception?

Board updates, competitive positioning reports, earnings call summaries, interview prep briefs, stakeholder communications, and more. All include full source citations you can verify.

How much does Perception cost?

Standard is $249/month (or $199/month billed annually) and includes the full dashboard, real-time Slack/Telegram alerts, and unlimited keywords. Intelligence is $799/month (or $639/month billed annually) and unlocks our developer API and the Perception Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for local AI integration. During our public launch (until July 15, 2026), you can use the coupon code BETA149 at checkout to lock in the Standard Plan for just $149/month for life.

Can I try before I buy?

Yes. Start 14-day free trial and we'll give you a personalized walkthrough. We'll set you up with access so you can explore with your own watchlist.

Are reports unlimited?

Yes. All Perception subscribers get unlimited reports, briefs, tracking, and alerts. No usage caps.

Is there a free trial?

We offer a 14-day evaluation period.

How is this different from Google Alerts?

Google Alerts tells you something was published. Perception tells you what it means: sentiment, narrative context, competitive positioning, and how it connects to everything else being said. Plus, Perception covers sources Google doesn't index, podcasts, earnings calls, analyst research, and social. And we generate cited deliverables you can actually use.

How is this different from ChatGPT?

ChatGPT turns your question into a few Google searches and summarizes what ranks on page one. Page one is content written to rank: rewritten press releases, aggregator sites, contributor columns. The signal in digital assets lives elsewhere: SEC filings, earnings call transcripts, conference keynotes, the 220+ X accounts that actually drive narrative, paywalled Bloomberg and WSJ pieces the crawl can't reach. Perception has been reading those sources since 2019 and structuring the output into a queryable corpus. ChatGPT is the interface. Perception is the data layer underneath it. Connect us directly to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini via MCP and get AI grounded in real-time, cited data.

Does Perception work with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini?

Yes. Perception connects to all major AI platforms via the MCP protocol. Ask questions in natural language inside ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and get answers grounded in 1,000+ real-time sources with full citations. Set up takes under a minute.

What are the MCP rate limits?

Standard ($249/mo) includes the full dashboard, real-time Slack/Telegram alerts, and unlimited keywords. Intelligence ($799/mo) unlocks the developer API and the Perception MCP server for local AI integration with unlimited queries, subject to a global rate limit of 60 requests per minute.

Can I provide feedback or request features?

Yes. Email support or use the in-app feedback button. User input shapes the roadmap.

Fear & Greed Index

Neutral

Based on analysis of 1,025 sources

Daily Sentiment Analysis

Markets showed greed with an optimistic score of 58/100. Bullish sentiment dominated with 259 positive signals from 1025 sources.

The Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index measures investor sentiment on a scale of 0-100, where 0 represents extreme fear and 100 represents extreme greed. On May 17, 2026, the market sentiment was classified as Neutral.

Source Breakdown

259

Positive Signals

589

Neutral Signals

177

Negative Signals

Related Analysis

Get This Data Programmatically

Live and historical Bitcoin sentiment is available to AI assistants via the Perception MCP server (works with Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini) and to developers via the REST API. Free tier available, no credit card required.

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14,000 mentions across 1,000+ sources this week. The signal that mattered was scattered across news, social, podcasts, and filings.

Legacy tools like Meltwater and Brand24 lack context. They flood you with unfiltered noise without connecting disparate signals.

AI models like Claude and ChatGPT lack live context. They miss emerging trends and produce stale consensus.

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See how the market perceives you and your competitors

Track and identify the exact journalists and editorial authors covering specific asset themes in real time, separating organic coverage from syndicated noise.

Isolate high-influence writers and article streams across global feeds
Filter syndicated press noise to target primary original authors

Find the market trends others miss and use them to your advantage

Map competitive whitespace and structural messaging deficits across institutional assets and protocols to identify where coverage falls short.

Expose competitor narrative gaps across major digital assets
Pinpoint exact messaging deficits to claim authority whitespace

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Traditional media trackers flood corporate desks with unfiltered, duplicate press releases. Standard LLMs rely on stale, averaged search engine scraping. Perception bridges the structural gap: connecting isolated enterprise AI instances directly to curated, channel-weighted primary data streams.

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Feature	Social Listening	Media Databases	Generalist AI	Perception
Journalist Coverage	Not supported. Limited strictly to public social media accounts and blogs.	Requires manual list building. You pay massive annual access fees to copy static lists.	No structured coverage. Relies on crawling search engine results to find public reporter bios.	100% automated. Vets and tracks every journalist, newsletter, and niche industry writer (e.g., Zeus Lacid Industry) in real-time. Zero lists or export credits needed.
How fast it updates	Real-time alerts, but restricted to simple keyword matches.	Static directory records. Relies on manual profile updates or delayed job-change reporting.	Stale training cutoffs or slow live search latency.	Live stream-piped narratives updating every 90 seconds.
Filtering out spam	Unfiltered slop. Includes noise from bot networks and duplicate releases.	Highly filtered but requires human curators to verify lists and beat updates.	Consensus noise. Repeats averaged web summaries.	Zero duplicate noise. 100% clean streams from 1,000+ curated primary sources.
AI Integration	None. Rigid dashboards with locked keyword charts.	Basic AI recommendations within a closed portal.	Generalist engines relying on search query averages.	Connects your AI workflows directly to our primary narrative MCP Server.
Data Ingestion Limit	Strict volume quotas. Mentions are metered by rate limits.	Restrictive user list and export credit caps that force premium upgrades.	Rate-limited API thresholds on general search endpoints.	Unlimited narrative scale. Zero meters, zero caps on streaming data.

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Bitcoin Market Sentiment - May 17, 2026: Neutral (58/100)

Fear & Greed Index

Daily Sentiment Analysis

Source Breakdown

Related Analysis

Get This Data Programmatically

Narrative engineering for digital asset operators

See how the market perceives you and your competitors

Journalist Influence Mapping

Brand Footprint Benchmarking

Find the market trends others miss and use them to your advantage

Competitive Gaps Mapping

Executive Synthesis Briefings

Cross-Topic Narrative Analysis

Real-time signal.
zero homogenized noise

One simple plan. Full platform access

Perception

Perception Intelligence

Advisory

Replace your media tools and save $18,000 a year

Frequently asked questions

Fear & Greed Index

Daily Sentiment Analysis

Source Breakdown

Related Analysis

Get This Data Programmatically

Narrative engineering for digital asset operators

See how the market perceives you and your competitors

Journalist Influence Mapping

Brand Footprint Benchmarking

Find the market trends others miss and use them to your advantage

Competitive Gaps Mapping

Executive Synthesis Briefings

Cross-Topic Narrative Analysis

Real-time signal.zero homogenized noise

One simple plan. Full platform access

Perception

Perception Intelligence

Advisory

Replace your media tools and save $18,000 a year

Frequently asked questions

What is Perception?

Who is Perception for?

What sources does Perception track?

What can I create with Perception?

How much does Perception cost?

Can I try before I buy?

Are reports unlimited?

Is there a free trial?

How is this different from Google Alerts?

How is this different from ChatGPT?

Does Perception work with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini?

What are the MCP rate limits?

Can I provide feedback or request features?

Real-time signal.
zero homogenized noise