Blackbird.AI is recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2025 in the Applied AI category, alongside companies like Google Deepmind, Perplexity, and Glean

Accolade underscores the company’s commitment to pioneering AI-driven narrative analysis, deepfake detection, and risk intelligence solutions that help organizations proactively identify and combat narrative attacks.

New York, NY — March 18, 2025—Blackbird.AI, the leader in protecting organizations and executives from narrative attacks that cause financial, operational, and reputational harm, announced today that it has been named, alongside companies like Google Deepmind, Perplexity, and Glean, to Fast Company’s fourth annual Most Innovative Companies in Applied AI list. The list honors emerging technology that profoundly impacts industries, from education and sustainability to robotics and artificial intelligence.

This year, Fast Company features 138 technologies developed by established companies, startups, or research teams for their potential to revolutionize the lives of consumers, businesses, and society. While only some technologies are available in the market, each is reaching key milestones to have a proven impact in the next five years.

Blackbird.AI was named to the Applied AI category for Fast Company’s 2025 Most Innovative Companies based on its leadership in narrative intelligence. Top brands and national security organizations across the globe rely on Blackbird.AI’s Constellation Narrative Intelligence Platform to automatically detect, analyze, and measure narrative attacks to reduce the risk of financial, operational, and reputational harm.  It enables them to gain context and clarity around the impact of harmful narratives targeting their organization and executives for better strategic decision-making, especially during times of crisis. This award is timely as the World Economic Forum recognizes narrative attacks as the number one global risk for the second year. 

“Being named a winner in Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in Applied AI highlights the innovation and dedication of our exceptional team at Blackbird.AI,” said Wasim Khaled, CEO and Co-founder of Blackbird.AI. “Our Constellation Narrative Intelligence Platform, Compass Vision, and Compass Context help us protect our clients from the escalating threat of narrative attacks. With so many remarkable companies in this space, we are honored to be recognized as an AI and Data Category leader.”

Blackbird.AI’s AI-driven Narrative Intelligence Platform identifies key narratives that target executives and the company they serve, the threat actors behind them, the networks they touch, the bot behavior that scales 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.

“The Most Innovative Companies in Applied AI provides a fascinating glimpse at near- and long-term technological breakthroughs across various sectors,” says Brendan Vaughan, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. “Spanning everything from semiconductors to agricultural gene editing, the companies featured in this year’s list are tackling some of the world’s most pressing and vexing problems.”

Click here to see the final list of Fast Company award winners.

About Fast Company

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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 impact your organization/industry, the influence behind them, the networks they touch, the anomalous behavior that scales 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.