Narrative engineering for digital asset operators
Measure how media, analysts, and markets talk about any company, asset, or narrative across 1,000+ sources, with real-time intelligence streaming directly into your AI workflows and daily operations.
The problem
14,000 mentions across 1,000+ sources this week
The signal that mattered was scattered across news, social, podcasts, and filings.
SEC FilingsScattered signal
Legacy tools like Meltwater flood you with unfiltered noise. AI models like Claude and ChatGPT miss emerging trends and produce stale consensus.

One intelligence layer
Perception is the antidote. We stream the exact signal directly to your Slack, dashboard, or AI models.
The system
Turn scattered signal into a controlled system
See how the market perceives the companies you track
Audit and benchmark any company's real share of voice and public media footprint directly against its competitors to identify positioning anomalies.
- Quantify absolute coverage volume against competitor presence
- Isolate high-influence writers and article streams across global feeds
Find the market trends others miss and use them to your advantage
Analyze leading correlations and early trend indicators across digital asset markets to detect narrative transitions.
- Isolate early correlation signals across disparate channels
- Track primary trend anomalies before they reach general news feeds
Stream the exact signal to your Slack, dashboard, or AI models
Perception bridges the structural gap: connecting isolated enterprise AI instances directly to curated, channel-weighted primary data streams.
- One MCP connection covers Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and VS Code
- Briefings, due diligence, trend reports: cited deliverables in seconds
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Core intelligence operations
A unified set of tools to keep every brief, alert, and AI answer on the same signal.
Search mentions
Query 1,000+ curated sources with sentiment, outlet, language, and region filters.
Compare entities
Benchmark share of voice and sentiment across companies side by side.
Narrative momentum
Track whether a topic is accelerating, steady, or fading before it hits general feeds.
Daily radar
A daily briefing of anomalies, sentiment shifts, and emerging narratives.
Earnings intelligence
Earnings call analysis with management tone scoring and notable quotes.
Regulatory watch
Filings, enforcement actions, and policy documents by agency and jurisdiction.
How it works
How Perception becomes your intelligence layer
Connect your sources once. Every brief, alert, and AI answer draws from the same signal.
Step 1
Connect your focus areas
Tell Perception what you care about: companies, topics, competitors. Set up watchlists and alerts in minutes.
Step 2
We monitor everything
News, social, podcasts, filings, earnings calls, 1,000+ sources scored and clustered in real time. You only read what matters.
Step 3
Generate intelligence on demand
Briefings, due diligence, trend reports, ask your AI or use the dashboard. Cited deliverables in seconds.
Integrations
Works with your existing tools
Sign in to authorize once. Perception is active and ready to stream into the AI clients and workflow tools you already run.

One simple plan. Full platform access
Comparing options? See how Perception stacks up as a Brand24, Meltwater, or Muck Rack alternative. Or, learn about the trade-offs of maintaining web scrapers and running real-time sentiment analysis for a database of our size.
Perception
Full access to our narrative tracking dashboard, developer API, and MCP tools.
- Full access to 1,000+ source database
- Unlimited company & topic tracking with alerts
- Unlimited custom reports and briefs
- Earnings call summaries and analysis
- Advanced sentiment and narrative analysis
- Custom dashboards by outlet or region
- MCP Access: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini
- Slack & email alerts
- Email support
- 20 MCP & API requests/day: built for daily research sessions
Running automated agents? You want Intelligence.
Grandfathered rate, closes July 15. Code BETA149.
Perception Intelligence
For teams that put Perception inside their AI workflows and run agents on it.
- Everything in Perception
- 100 MCP & API requests/day: enough for scheduled agents plus live research
- All 23 MCP tools
- Priority support
Advisory
Comprehensive narrative strategy, positioning, and communications advisory driven by the full Perception dataset. Strictly limited capacity.
- Narrative strategy & positioning
- Communications & marketing
- Content strategy & execution
- Team narrative training
- Direct access to the team
Replace your media tools and save $18,000 a year
Meltwater, Brand24, and Muck Rack are redundant. Perception consolidates your intelligence footprint into a single real-time stream, saving you $18,000 a year and reclaiming hundreds of analyst hours.
Questions? Talk to sales and we'll walk you through the platform live.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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You can't read a thousand sources. Now you don't have to.
Perception reads all of them, around the clock, and streams what matters into your dashboard, your Slack, and your AI.
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