TAG Infosphere: Blackbird.AI Named Top Narrative Intelligence Vendor

The information war has gone operational. Narrative attacks, deepfakes, AI-generated manipulated media, and coordinated influence campaigns are being deployed in real-time to damage reputations, manipulate markets, and destabilize institutions. In its newly released Top Five Narrative Threat Intelligence Vendors report, TAG Infosphere—a trusted authority led by cybersecurity pioneer Dr. Ed Amoroso—named Blackbird.AI the top vendor in the field for 2025, awarding our platform the highest overall Composite Vendor Rating.

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TAG Infosphere is a top cybersecurity analyst firm that provides security professionals with curated research, expert guidance, and access to trusted solutions. Founded by former AT&T Chief Security Officer and NYU research professor Dr. Edward Amoroso, TAG is widely regarded as a rigorous, independent evaluator of cybersecurity vendors. CISOs, insurers, and national security leaders trust its research. The firm’s vendor assessments—based on ten core evaluation factors ranging from innovation to infrastructure maturity—are used to benchmark more than 4,700 vendors globally. In the 2025 report, Blackbird.AI received a CVR score of 8.7 out of 10, the highest in the Narrative Threat Intelligence category.

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Narrative Threats: The Modern Cybersecurity Challenge

Modern organizations—SMBs and startups, governments, executives, and the enterprise—face increasingly sophisticated threats from narrative attacks, deepfakes, and manipulated media. These technologies, enabled by AI and machine learning, create hyper-realistic but fabricated content that can manipulate perceptions, spread false narratives, and cause significant harm. Narrative attack campaigns targeting enterprises can spread rapidly through social media, undermining public confidence in a company’s brand, products, or leadership. Fake press releases, manipulated videos, or misleading images can trigger stock price drops, customer distrust, or regulatory scrutiny.

Why TAG Analyst Reports Matters

TAG Infosphere’s analysis is particularly valued for several reasons:

Unbiased Expert Evaluation: Unlike other analyst firms, TAG employs only seasoned experts as analysts, many of whom have held senior positions such as CISO at major organizations. This real-world experience informs their vendor evaluations.

Comprehensive Analysis Methodology: TAG evaluates vendors using ten distinct factors, including company stage, message efficacy, the pace of innovation, vision and strategy, the strength of management, the strength of references, financial stability, ability to scale, product functionality, and infrastructure maturity. This multifaceted approach ensures a thorough assessment of a vendor’s capabilities and potential.

Industry Influence: TAG reports are widely read and respected by cybersecurity decision-makers, particularly CISOs and security leaders who rely on their insights when selecting vendors and solutions.

Emphasis on Cutting-Edge Threats: TAG has been at the forefront of identifying emerging threats, making their recognition of narrative intelligence as a critical security domain particularly significant.

Core Solutions in Blackbird.AI’s Narrative Intelligence Arsenal

Blackbird.AI’s suite of solutions addresses narrative threats:

Constellation Platform: Constellation is the world’s first purpose-built narrative intelligence platform. It automatically detects, analyzes, and measures risk around emerging narratives through five distinct signals:

• NARRATIVES: Automatically detected storylines around a topic or organization
• NETWORKS: Information flow patterns showing how narratives propagate
• COHORTS: Like-minded communities that interact with narratives
• ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR: Detection of inorganic, bot-like activity that amplifies narratives
• INFLUENCE: Measurement of harmful actors and trusted voices driving narratives

Narrative Feed: Powered by the RAV3N Risk LLM, this module identifies high-risk narratives and ranks them using Blackbird.AI’s Narrative Risk Score (NRS), a metric based on hundreds of risk signals that can be tailored to specific risk profiles. It provides a continuous summary of harmful narratives impacting an organization.

RAV3N Watch: A specialized group that understands threats and risks from narrative attacks across the digital information ecosystem. This international team of experts includes threat intelligence analysts, data scientists, behavioral psychologists, linguists, and national security professionals who provide deep insights to protect organizations.

The Way Forward: The Evolution of Narrative Intelligence

The recognition from TAG Infosphere comes at a high-stakes moment in the cybersecurity industry. The World Economic Forum identified narrative attacks as the top global risk in 2024 and 2025, highlighting the critical need for robust narrative intelligence solutions. And as narrative attack tactics evolve, Blackbird.AI’s inclusion in TAG’s Top Five Narrative Threat Intelligence Vendors report confirms its position at the forefront of the industry

For organizations looking to protect their reputation, maintain stakeholder trust, and safeguard against the financial impacts of narrative attacks, narrative intelligence applications are essential in identifying, analyzing, and mitigating sophisticated digital threats.

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