Scipio
An open-source intelligence instrument, in early development.
Scipio reads more than 400 public sources every 15 minutes, from federal agencies and Congress to foreign ministries, wires, and think tanks. It ranks what comes in against the priorities you set, and every rank is a visible sum of matched terms, so you can see why a story rose. Our principal built it, and it shows the kind of technical work we take on for clients.
Scipio is a separate company founded by our principal.
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Evidence labels
- Fact
- A primary document: the designation, the filing, the committee’s own release.
- Claim
- An attributed voice in its own channel, such as a state outlet or a ministry.
- Analysis
- Argued work from a research institution.
- Press
- Reporting from a news organization.
What readers get
- The brief
- The morning read, ranked, with a count of the outlets that carried each story.
- The wire
- Every item from every source, searchable across the full archive.
- The ledger
- Who said what, on the record: verbatim quotes tied to named speakers.
- Events
- Congressional hearings and think-tank events on one calendar.
Access
Scipio is in early access.
It is still in development. Readers are approved by hand, and it is available only in the United States.
Headlines and documents in Scipio belong to their original publishers.