Narrative engineering for digital asset operators
Stream narrative signals from 1,000+ sources into your AI models via MCP, or work with our advisory team to shape your market narrative.
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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
Real-time signal.
zero homogenized noise
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.
| 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. |
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.
- 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
- Standard usage limits (upgrades managed in-app)
Grandfathered rate, closes July 15. Code BETA149.
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.
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