Blackbird.AI Named to Inc.’s 2025 Best in Business List in the Best in Innovation Category
The annual list recognizes the industry-leading companies that are the best in their industry
NEW YORK, NY, December 2, 2025 — Blackbird.AI, the leader in protecting executives, global companies, and national security organizations from narrative attacks, is proud to announce its inclusion on the Inc. Best in Business list in the ‘Best in Innovation’ category. Inc.’s annual Best in Business Awards celebrate the exceptional achievements and contributions of companies that have made a profound impact on their industries.
The recognition honors companies that, through exceptional execution, have achieved significant milestones and core business wins, like customer expansion, key product launches, increased market share, and industry-defining accomplishments. Companies from a wide range of industries—such as technology, health care, finance, and retail—have been recognized for their success and their positive influence on the business world.
The complete list can be found on Inc.com and in the upcoming winter print edition of Inc. magazine.
“Each Best in Business honoree achieved a breakthrough moment this year. Some unveiled groundbreaking innovations while others launched savvy marketing campaigns or strategically implemented AI in their companies,” says Bonny Ghosh, editorial director at Inc. “No matter what their business win looked like, their projects and initiatives had a sizable impact on their company and even on their industry at large, making them worthy of this honor.”
Inc.’s Best in Business Awards are open to companies of all sizes and types, in all industries and locations. Public, private, nonprofit, subsidiary, U.S.-based, and international companies are all encouraged to apply. Inc. editors and reporters hand-review every application and select Best in Business honorees that, in each of the award categories, have had an outstanding influence on their communities, their industries, the environment, or society as a whole.
“To be recognized by Inc.’s Best in Business list in the ‘Best in Innovation’ category validates our mission to help executives and organizations detect, analyze, and defend against narrative attacks before they escalate into full-blown crises,” said Wasim Khaled, CEO of Blackbird AI. “With our AI-powered Constellation narrative intelligence platform and Compass Vision, we’ve given cybersecurity, communications, and risk teams the ability to protect against the spread of harmful narratives, identify the actors behind them, and take action to reduce risk significantly. As narrative attacks increasingly converge with cybersecurity and geopolitical risk, we’re proud to be leading the charge in this critical new category of Disinformation Narrative Intelligence.”
For more information or to see the complete list, please visit inc.com/best-in-business
About Blackbird.AI
Blackbird.AI protects organizations and executives from narrative attacks that cause financial, operational and reputational harm. Our AI-driven Narrative Intelligence Platform identifies key narratives that target your company, the threat actors behind them, the networks they engage with, the bot behavior that amplifies them, and the cohorts and communities that connect them. This information enables organizations to proactively understand narrative threats as they scale and become harmful for better strategic decision-making. A diverse team of AI experts, threat intelligence analysts, and national security professionals founded Blackbird.AI to defend information integrity and fight a new class of narrative threats. To learn more, visit Blackbird.AI.
About Inc.
Inc. is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of its community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating the future of business. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow leading business publication Fast Company. For more information, visit www.inc.com.