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.
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The problem
14,000 mentions across 1,000+ sources this week
The signal that mattered was scattered across news, social, podcasts, and filings.
News
X / Twitter
Podcasts
SEC Filings
LinkedIn
GitHub
RedditScattered 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 Perception Index
The digital asset narrative, measured daily.
One score for how the world is talking about digital assets, calculated every day since 2018. Tested, published, and replicable.
of the Perception Index is explained by trailing price returns. The Fear & Greed Index sits at 68%, mostly an echo of the chart it claims to explain.
Regression on trailing price returns · replicate it yourself via the API
The full daily history and methodology live in the Perception Index archive.
The system
One pipeline from raw coverage to the tools you work in
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.
Insider activity
SEC Form 4 buys and sells, with cluster alerts when multiple executives move the same way within days.
Scenario analysis
Test a hypothetical against historical analogues: sentiment arcs, coverage patterns, narrative half-life.
Narrative momentum
Track whether a topic is accelerating, steady, or fading before it hits general feeds.
Cross-signal digest
One daily read fusing analyst actions, sentiment shifts, volume spikes, earnings, and regulatory moves.
Earnings intelligence
Every call scored for management tone and directness, with the quotes and dodges that mattered.
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, all 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.
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 25 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
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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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