Blackbird.AI Named a Notable Provider in External Threat Intelligence

Blackbird.AI was the only vendor to self-report the extended use case of ‘Expose narrative (misinformation) attacks’ as one of the top three use cases for which clients select them.

NEW YORK, January 14, 2025 — Blackbird.AI, a leader in protecting organizations from narrative attacks that cause financial and reputational harm – today announced that Forrester Research, Inc. recognized Blackbird.AI among notable providers in Forrester’s report, The External Threat Intelligence Service Providers Landscape, Q1 2025. A complimentary copy of the full report can be viewed here.

According to the Forrester report, “AI is increasingly used to enhance threat intelligence but is also a source of new threats. AI-generated attacks will become more complex and lower the barrier for new threat actors. Convincing deepfakes and complex narrative attacks are harbingers of more sophisticated threats, driving the need to fight fire with fire. Defensively, AI-infused threat intelligence will be able to handle expanding data volumes, identify previously unknown relationships, extract finer contextual data points, and provide deeper multisource data infusion. Expect more automation with predictive analytics and targeted recommendations.”

Since 2017, Blackbird.AI has invested heavily in creating the industry’s most innovative AI-based Narrative Intelligence Platform that enables organizations to understand the harmful narratives that are impacting their executives, organization, and industry, the influence behind them, the networks they infect, the anomalous–bot–behavior that scales them and the cohorts and communities that connect and amplify them. This has enabled customers across banking, consumer brands, and national security to make better strategic decisions to reduce risk and the financial and reputational harm to their organization. 

“We believe Blackbird.AI’s recognition in The Forrester External Threat Intelligence Service Providers Landscape, Q1 2025 Report demonstrates our leadership in protecting organizations from harmful narrative attacks that cause massive financial and reputational harm,” said Wasim Khaled, CEO and Co-founder of Blackbird.AI. “Harmful narrative attacks that manipulate public perception destabilize stock prices and erode stakeholder trust within minutes. Synthetic media, deepfakes, and AI-generated narratives are being used to fabricate press releases, forge executive communications across text and video conferences, or stage false crises, leaving organizations with a significant blind spot and scrambling to respond in real-time.”

Recently, Blackbird.AI has been named a winner of Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech 2024 in the AI and Data category, winner of the SINET16 Innovation Award, and Khaled was featured in a keynote at Fortune Brainstorm Tech called Perception, Lies and AI. The company also launched Compass Context to clarify any online claim, article link, or support social media post or video and Compass Vision to identify AI-generated images and videos to complement its AI-driven Constellation Narrative Intelligence Platform.

For a complimentary copy of the External Threat Intelligence Service Providers Landscape, Q1 2025 Report, visit here.

Read a blog about this industry recognition here.

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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 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.