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Open signals, responsibly read.

OSINT Intelligence turns public, open-source signals — news, social, forums and the public web — into aggregate narrative and issue intelligence. It is built for understanding communities in the aggregate, gathered through permitted sources, and deliberately not for covert profiling of individuals.

The line we hold

Aggregate intelligence, not surveillance

Open-source intelligence can be done responsibly or invasively, and the difference is a design decision, not a setting. Civiq.plus builds OSINT for aggregate geographic, cohort and community understanding. It does not create covert individual-level psychographic scores or hidden persuasion profiles, does not fabricate public support, and works only through permitted sources. That constraint is architectural — it shapes what the module can do, not just what it is configured to do.

  • Aggregate signals, not individual tracking
  • Permitted sources under each platform's terms
  • Confidence and provenance on every finding
  • Risk flags for human review, not automated verdicts

Public Sentiment Overview

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82%

Overall
Positive Sentiment

12% vs last 30 days
  • Very Positive42%
  • Positive36%
  • Neutral10%
  • Negative5%
  • Very Negative3%

Citizen Feedback Trends

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  • Service Satisfaction82% 8%
  • Infrastructure68% 5%
  • Cleanliness61% 4%
  • Safety & Security74% 6%
  • Transparency79% 7%

Service Delivery Monitoring

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78%

Overall
Service Index

9% vs last 30 days
  • On-Time Delivery81%
  • Quality of Service76%
  • Resolution Rate74%
  • Citizen Reach79%

Functions

What it computes

Narrative clustering

Group semantically related narratives across sources and track their size, velocity and drift over time — so you see a story forming rather than a single post.

  • Cross-source narrative grouping
  • Velocity and drift tracking
  • Geographic relevance where it can be inferred

Propagation analysis

Trace how a claim or narrative moved between channels and communities, showing origin, amplification and decay rather than just where it ended up.

  • Origin and relay patterns
  • Cross-media transitions
  • Amplification and decay curves

Risk & misinformation flags

Surface potential false or unsupported claim clusters for human review. The platform flags for attention; it does not adjudicate truth automatically.

  • Unsupported-claim clustering
  • Flagged for human review
  • Reversibility and risk indicators

Confidence & provenance

Every OSINT signal carries source quality, coverage and model certainty, so a thin or one-sided signal is visibly thin rather than presented as fact.

  • Source-quality weighting
  • Coverage and diversity scored
  • Provenance on every finding

Sources

Where the signal comes from

No single source is trusted on its own. OSINT signals are calibrated against representative survey and field data, and the gap between them is itself a useful indicator.

Open-source signal inputs
SourceHow it is gatheredWhat it surfaces
Public social mediaPosts and engagement on public accounts via permitted APIsAggregate topic and sentiment trends
News & broadcastPrint, TV, radio and digital news metadata and transcriptsNarrative pickup and cross-media spread
Public web & forumsOpenly published pages, blogs and public discussionEmerging issues and recurring questions
Search & trendsPublic search-interest signalsWhat a community is actively looking for
Community channelsSignals from channels where consent and terms permit analysisAggregate concern clusters, labelled for representativeness

Pipeline

From open signal to reviewed brief

  1. 01

    Collect

    Gather from permitted open sources — public APIs, news feeds, the public web — under each platform's terms.

  2. 02

    Normalise

    De-duplicate, detect language and attach a geographic unit where one can be reasonably inferred.

  3. 03

    Cluster

    Group related narratives and issues, and track how they move and grow across sources.

  4. 04

    Score

    Attach confidence and provenance so a signal's reliability is visible alongside it.

  5. 05

    Brief

    Feed the result into the twin, media briefs and the AI recommendation layer for human review.

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