Blackbird.AI and Fivecast Forge Strategic Partnership to Deliver Next-Generation Threat and Narrative Intelligence

The companies collaborate to protect customers from the tidal wave of information manipulation risks and threats.

NEW YORK and ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA, April 22, 2025 — Blackbird.AI, the leader in protecting organizations and executives from narrative attacks that cause financial, operational, and reputational harm, and Fivecast, a global provider of market-leading open-source intelligence (OSINT) solutions, announced a partnership to jointly offer comprehensive threat and narrative intelligence protection to thwart threat actors and nation states who create and spread harmful narratives and information manipulation online.

In response to the rapidly evolving landscape of digital threats, Blackbird.AI and Fivecast have joined forces to deliver a next-generation intelligence solution that combines advanced AI-driven narrative analysis with powerful open-source intelligence (OSINT) capabilities. This strategic integration combines Blackbird.AI’s expertise in Narrative Threat Intelligence, enabling the detection of narrative attacks, deepfakes, and emerging risk signals, with Fivecast’s robust threat intelligence data collection and AI-powered risk analytics. The result is a unified intelligence that offers deeper insights and prioritization of risks to enable faster, more proactive decision-making by bridging narrative risk detection with multisource threat intelligence data enrichment. 

“Navigating the rapidly evolving global threat landscape requires constant vigilance and adaptability. Open-source intelligence is the beacon of truth in the fog of information warfare, illuminating hidden threats and empowering informed decisions,” said Dr. Brenton Cooper, CEO and Co-founder of Fivecast. “The synergy of complementary technology solutions empowered by this partnership between Fivecast and Blackbird.AI is crucial in fortifying our customers’ defenses and ensuring a resilient response to these ever-changing threats.”

The partnership comes together at a critical time. For the second consecutive year, the World Economic Forum ranked narrative attacks created by misinformation, disinformation, and cyber espionage among the top global risks. 

“Blackbird.AI and Fivecast provide a force multiplier for threat and narrative intelligence, delivering clarity, confidence, and control in a complex, ever-changing information environment,” said Matt Alario, Vice President of Partnerships at Blackbird.AI. “This collaboration fills a massive intelligence gap and ensures organizations can stay ahead of threat actors while safeguarding reputations, assets, and national security interests with unmatched precision.”

Combining Blackbird.AI’s ability to detect harmful online narratives with Fivecast’s strengths in gathering open-source data and AI-powered risk analysis, the companies will deliver a complete view of potential risks by connecting real-time narrative monitoring with rich, multisource intelligence. This allows for more intelligent decisions to protect people, brands, and national interests.

“At Ten Eleven Ventures, we invest in cutting-edge cybersecurity companies that are not only leaders in their respective markets but also true innovators delivering meaningful value to their customers,” said Dave Palmer, general partner at Ten Eleven Ventures. “We’re especially excited when our portfolio companies collaborate. Being safe online means more than just traditional cyber defense, it also includes protecting an organization’s reputation and ensuring employee safety. The integration of Fivecast’s industry-leading open-source intelligence (OSINT) technology with Blackbird’s award-winning Narrative Threat Intelligence creates a powerful combined solution—strengthening capabilities on both sides and expanding their reach to serve even more customers.”

Fivecast recently received the Australian Government Department of Defence award for Innovation in Science and Technology and the Exporter award for Advanced Technologies in recognition of their success in empowering global clients with open-source intelligence innovations. Forrester Research, Inc. recently recognized Blackbird.AI as the only notable provider focused on Narrative Protection in Forrester’s report, The External Threat Intelligence Service Providers Landscape, Q1 2025.  A complimentary copy of the full report is available here.

To learn more about Fivecast, visit www.fivecast.com

To learn more about Blackbird.AI, visit us here.

About Blackbird.AI

BLACKBIRD.AI protects organizations from narrative attacks that cause financial and reputational harm. Our AI-driven Narrative Intelligence Platform identifies key narratives that impact your executives, organization, or industry, the influence behind them, the networks they engage, the anomalous 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 Fivecast:

The mission of Fivecast is to enable a safer world. As a world-leading provider of open-source intelligence solutions, Fivecast helps customers collect and analyze massive amounts of data, uncovering actionable insights critical to protecting global communities. Purpose-built to address the highest priority use cases in the national security, law enforcement, defense, corporate security, and financial crime markets, Fivecast deploys advanced data collection and AI-enabled analytics to solve the most complex intelligence challenges. To learn more, visit www.fivecast.com