Introducing Rapid Intelligence Direct

AI-Powered News Briefings to Empower Your Fast-Moving Team

Stay Ahead of the News, Effortlessly.

News cycles move fast, impacting brand reputations quickly. Businesses often lack resources to manually curate briefings.  

Rapid Intelligence Direct provides AI-powered news briefings that automate media analysis, helping teams stay informed and make timely decisions. Using Google's cutting-edge vector search technology, our AI processes vast amounts of media data to provide you with only the most relevant and actionable information. 

Designed for small to mid-sized teams, Rapid Intelligence Direct helps you stay informed without breaking the budget. 

Key benefits

For teams that need quality insights fast, Rapid Intelligence Direct offers the perfect balance of efficiency and accuracy. 

  • Ease of Use: Get started in minutes with minimal onboarding.  
  • Time-Saving Automation: AI automates news gathering and analysis, freeing up valuable time and resources.  
  • World-Leading Coverage: Monitor millions of global news articles  
  • Flexibility: Tailor monitoring to focus on specific topics.  
  • Cost-Effective: Get impactful data, with pricing starting as low as $20k/year. 

The Ideal Solution for your business

Rapid Intelligence Direct puts your team a step ahead of the competition while optimizing resources. 

  • Communications: Improve efficiency of stakeholder comms and focus on strategy.  
  • PR: Maintain a real-time view of brand perception and respond faster to issues.  
  • Marketing: Monitor market and competitor developments and make data-driven decisions. 
  • Content: Craft timely, relevant messaging aligned with broader trends and audience needs. 
  • PR agencies: Proactively manage client reputations, track competitors, and respond quickly to public perception changes. 

Leverage world-leading AI

Rapid Intelligence uses industry-leading AI from Google to automate workflows and generate high- quality insights   

  • Smart search: Vector search makes collecting the right content effortless and Google's “grounding” feature ensures the AI understands current events better than any other model.   
  • AI summaries: AI analyzes full text of articles to provide clear, accurate, human-readable summaries.   
  • Trained on real briefings: The AI in Rapid Intelligence Direct is trained on thousands of human-built briefings written by subject matter experts working with the best known brands in the world. 

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