Blackbird.AI Earns Second SINET16 Honor for Innovation in Narrative Intelligence

The 2026 recognition follows the company’s 2024 honor, highlighting its technology to help organizations detect and respond to disinformation-driven narrative attacks

NEW YORK, September 18, 2026 — Blackbird.AI has been named a 2026 SINET16 Innovator, earning its second SINET recognition for technology that helps enterprises and national security organizations identify, analyze, and respond to narrative attacks. The company previously received the honor in 2024.

Each year, SINET evaluates hundreds of emerging cybersecurity companies worldwide and selects 16 whose technologies address significant security challenges. More than 100 industry experts participate in the judging process, assessing market urgency, originality, effectiveness, competitive advantages, and each company’s ability to succeed based on its product, capital, and leadership.

The recognition comes as organizations face narrative threats involving disinformation, manipulated media, deepfakes, and fabricated claims. These attacks can precede or amplify cyber incidents, threatening an organization’s reputation, operations, financial performance, and physical security. Generative AI makes deceptive content easier to produce and tailor to different audiences, increasing the challenge for security and communications teams.

Blackbird.AI’s first SINET16 honor recognized its AI-driven approach to narrative intelligence. The 2026 honor follows the company’s continued expansion of tools that help security and communications teams detect, analyze, and respond to narrative threats across platforms, languages, and borders.

Blackbird.AI thanks SINET’s 100-plus industry judges, Heather Rodriguez, Robert Rodriguez, and the SINET community for recognizing the firm’s work protecting enterprises and national security organizations from narrative attacks.

About Blackbird.AI

Blackbird.AI is the Narrative Intelligence Detection and Response company protecting executives, organizations, and institutions from narrative-based disinformation attacks that cause financial, operational, reputational, and physical harm. Blackbird.AI’s Constellation Platform identifies the actors, networks, bots, and communities driving them and turns those signals into early warnings, decision intelligence, and coordinated responses. Blackbird.AI brings Narrative Intelligence into the workflows where teams already operate, including cybersecurity, communications, legal, executive, and public-sector environments, with agentic response capabilities and MCP-enabled integrations that help organizations act faster. Founded by AI experts, threat intelligence analysts, and national security professionals, Blackbird.AI helps customers defend trust, strengthen resilience, and Own The Narrative.

About SINET

SINET is a global cybersecurity community that connects innovators, investors, government leaders, and industry experts to advance innovation and strengthen digital security. Its annual SINET16 program recognizes 16 emerging companies developing technologies that address significant cybersecurity challenges.

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