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SGI / NARRATIVE INTELLIGENCE

Think tanks · Media · NGOs

What's loud isn't always what's real.

When a narrative, claim, or campaign is moving online, we tell you what is really happening underneath it: who is driving it, whether the network behind it is authentic, and whether it is about to spill into real-world violence. Every account, post, and reach figure in our reporting is confirmed directly at the source.

Traceable evidenceSources you can review
Broader contextConnections across platforms
Clear confidenceFacts, assessments, and gaps distinguished
Decision supportImplications, risks, and what to watch
Research capabilities

Six ways we take a narrative apart.

From a single anchor account to a full two-year resurgence trace. Each capability stands alone or compounds with the others, and every deliverable ships with documented methodology fit for peer review.

Signature work

Narrative Intelligence & Virality Analysis

How a narrative spreads, who steers it, and where it's headed, from the actual seed posts to mass amplification.

  • Origin investigation: tracing a claim to its true point of ignition
  • Credibility-ladder analysis: how a claim climbs from advocacy posts into mainstream coverage
  • Dominant-narrative mapping with relative prevalence
  • Bottom-line-up-front briefs, built for decision-makers

Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (e.g., bots and sock puppets)

Is the campaign organic, or manufactured? Sock puppets, engagement pools, and troll networks, enumerated and fingerprinted.

  • Network extraction from a single anchor account
  • Inauthentic-fingerprint analysis across accounts
  • Amplification-pool and template-account detection

Influence-Operation Attribution

Foreign and domestic influence activity traced to its operators, methodically, with the evidence shown.

  • Cross-platform actor correlation
  • Infrastructure & metadata analysis
  • State-aligned amplification-track mapping
  • Attribution graded by confidence, never overstated

Real-World Threat & Mobilization Risk

When online outrage starts turning into real-world action: a severity-graded read on who is mobilizing whom, and how fast.

  • Severity tiers from outrage to real-world action
  • Early signals that online anger may turn violent
  • Hour-by-hour escalation curves during live events

Verification & Attribution for Newsrooms

Pre-publication confidence on viral claims, anonymous accounts, and contested footage, on deadline.

  • Post-level verification of accounts & reach
  • Identity resolution behind anonymous handles
  • Same-day turnaround available

Briefings, Reports & Expert Testimony

Findings packaged for the audience that needs them: research partners, editorial boards, boards of directors, or Congress.

  • Congressional-grade written briefs
  • Analyst briefings & Q&A sessions
  • Methodology documentation for peer review
Recent work · published reports

The reporting speaks for itself.

Two published investigations you can read in full, below. Client and partner work stays confidential as a matter of course, and is discussed on a call.

FEATURED · PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Beyond SGI’s own investigations, our founder has authored published narrative-intelligence research for national-security think tanks.

Illustrative research scene: an analyst comparing printed sources with articles on screen
The difference

Every figure, traceable to its source.

We probe platforms directly and confirm every account, post, and engagement figure at the source. That surfaces the accounts genuinely driving a story, including the high-reach nodes that move a narrative without ever naming a place or using an obvious keyword.

The result reads like an intelligence product: bottom line up front, severity tiers defined, confidence stated, and every figure traceable to a source you can click.

Every figure, checked at the source

Every account, post, and reach figure, confirmed directly

Engage

Bring us the narrative. We'll bring the receipts.

Research partnerships, single-question engagements, live-event coverage, and standing analyst support, scoped confidentially and priced per engagement.

Discuss a Research Question EVERY INQUIRY TREATED AS CONFIDENTIAL · SOURCE-PROTECTION DISCIPLINE THROUGHOUT
Contact

Discuss your research needs.

Inquiries go straight to our analysts. Most conversations start within one business day.