A source-grounded intelligence terminal
CrisisBrief reads the open-source picture across languages and platforms, grades every source, and writes an analyst-grade brief where each claim carries its own confidence and citation. Here is everything it does.
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Define the requirement
Name a topic, time window, and source posture. CrisisBrief writes a search plan.
Collect & grade
20+ collectors sweep the open-source picture; every source is fetched and Admiralty-graded.
Extract & test
Claims are extracted, cited, scored for confidence, and checked against each other for contradictions.
Brief & review
An ICD-203 brief is drafted, graded for tradecraft, and revised — then delivered with its full ledger.
Every claim carries its evidence
Most AI tools hand you a confident paragraph and hope you trust it. CrisisBrief shows its work — line by line, source by source.
Claim-level evidence ledger
Each brief is broken into individual claims, and every claim links back to the source it came from — with the exact excerpt that supports it. Nothing is asserted that can't be traced.
Admiralty Code grading
Sources are graded for reliability (A–F) and claims for corroboration (1–6), the same NATO standard intelligence analysts use. You see how much to trust each line at a glance.
Contradiction detection
When sources disagree on dates, casualties, attribution, or severity, CrisisBrief flags the conflict instead of silently picking a side — so you know exactly where the picture is contested.
Source integrity panel
See every source behind a brief, classified by type — official government, wire service, think tank, NGO, state media — with its reliability grade and fetch status.
Event timeline
Claims cluster into events and arrange chronologically, each with its confidence, supporting-claim count, and any contradictions — so you can read how a situation actually unfolded.
Reads the whole open-source picture
When a crisis breaks, the signal is scattered across languages, platforms, and formats. CrisisBrief pulls from all of it in one pass.
20+ live data collectors
Web and news search, GDELT global events, ReliefWeb humanitarian alerts, Reddit, Mastodon, Telegram, Bluesky, curated RSS from governments and think tanks, Wikipedia, SEC EDGAR, and travel advisories — gathered automatically per run.
Specialist signals
NASA FIRMS fire and thermal anomalies, EIA energy-supply data, AISStream maritime vessel tracking, and YouTube — the kind of ground-truth signals that confirm or contradict the news cycle.
Source modes
Choose your evidence posture per run: Official Only for government and multilateral sources, Balanced for the mainstream picture, or Broad OSINT to sweep social and state media with stricter relevance filtering.
Multilingual, deduplicated, attributed
Material is read across English, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, and French, deduplicated by URL, and tagged with the channel that surfaced it — full provenance from intake to brief.
Analyst-grade reasoning, not a summary
CrisisBrief writes to the standard of a national intelligence product — structured judgments, calibrated language, and a self-review loop before anything reaches you.
ICD-203 structured briefs
Every brief leads with a BLUF (bottom line up front), then key judgments with per-claim confidence, alternative scenarios with calibrated probabilities, and clear recommendations.
Draft → review → revise
A reasoning-tier model drafts the brief, a second pass grades it for tradecraft — specificity, estimative calibration, fact-vs-analysis separation, analysis of alternatives — and a third rewrites to fix every deficiency.
Structured Analytic Techniques
Apply four formal techniques to any finished brief on demand: Key Assumptions Check, Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Devil's Advocate, and What-If Analysis — each returning flagged findings and a bottom line.
Tailored intelligence products
Export a brief as a one-page BLUF, a SITREP (situation / assessment / outlook / recommendations), or a fuller INTSUM — each with date-time group, confidence, and citation anchors.
See the shape of a crisis
Reading is one thing; seeing the structure is another. CrisisBrief turns claims into a map, a graph, and a single severity number.
CrisisBrief Index (CBX)
A daily 0–100 global severity score with conflict, maritime, energy, and political sub-scores, a 30-day trend, and a plain-language rationale for each day's reading. Public and free to watch.
Geospatial map
Every location mentioned in a brief is geocoded and plotted, each pin carrying its claim text, confidence, and event date — the situation at a glance, not buried in prose.
Entity & relationship graph
Actors, organisations, and places are extracted from the claims and linked by co-occurrence, so you can see who and what is moving together across the reporting.
Monitoring that works while you don't
The best intelligence is the warning you get before you went looking. Set your requirements once and let CrisisBrief watch.
Standing topics
Define your persistent intelligence requirements — keywords, geography, actors — and have CrisisBrief re-brief them automatically on a schedule, threading each run into a running history.
Tripwires (Indications & Warning)
Set alert conditions on your briefs — a keyword appears, confidence crosses a threshold, or a scenario's probability spikes — and get notified the moment a new brief trips one.
Footprint monitoring
Register the assets you care about — sites, suppliers, people, investments — and every brief is automatically checked for exposure, surfacing when your footprint is in the line of fire.
Forecasts & calibration
Log probability estimates on resolvable questions, then have CrisisBrief score them with Brier scores when they resolve — building a track record of how well-calibrated your judgments really are.
A standing intelligence cadence
Beyond on-demand briefs, CrisisBrief runs a published intelligence cadence you can follow without lifting a finger.
Daily, weekly & monthly briefings
Daily PDB-style updates, weekly trajectory assessments, and monthly strategic estimates — each written to the ICD-203 standard and published to the public feed.
Live intelligence feed
A continuously updated situation board of the latest published assessments, each linking to a full, cited analysis you can read in seconds.
Briefings by email
Subscribe to daily, weekly, or monthly briefings delivered to your inbox — no account required, one-click unsubscribe, opt-in only.
Built to be passed up the chain
Intelligence is only useful when it reaches the person who needs it. CrisisBrief makes a finished brief easy to send, share, and present.
Export with provenance
Download any brief as styled HTML or raw Markdown — citation anchors, source links, Admiralty grades, and evidence excerpts all travel with it.
Brief sharing
Share a brief directly with a colleague by email for read-only access — they see the full assessment and its ledger without needing to own the run.
Public links
Promoted briefs get a clean, indexable public page — a stable link you can drop into a report, a deck, or a message and know it will render.
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