Blackbird.AI Launches 'RAV3N Radar,' Bringing Agentic Narrative Intelligence To Slack To Protect Organizations And Executives From Narrative Attacks

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RAV3N Radar delivers decision-ready narrative intelligence insights from day one, with zero
learning curve and zero overhead, delivered where you work, directly to Slack

NEW YORK, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackbird, the leader in protecting organizations and executives from disinformation-based narrative attacks that cause financial, operational, reputational, and physical harm, announced today that it has expanded its agentic narrative intelligence product portfolio with the launch of 'RAV3N Radar.'

RAV3N Radar provides continuous, automated early warning of narrative threats and opportunities across the entire digital landscape-24/7 monitoring, landscape insights, threat actors, velocity signals, topics, and escalation detection-turning what it finds into easy-to-understand, decision-ready intelligence delivered directly into Slack. RAV3N Radar is powered by Blackbird's groundbreaking, context-aware narrative intelligence agent, RAV3N Agent.

"AI has radically accelerated narrative attacks against organizations. Our customers want real-time, actionable narrative intelligence with full context, where they work. RAV3N Radar helps teams identify who's targeting their organization and executives to coordinate better triaging and response," said Wasim Khaled, CEO and Co-founder of Blackbird. "Drawing on our work with leading brands and national security organizations, we're bringing narrative intelligence into the agentic enterprise starting with Slack for its best-in-class Agentforce ecosystem. More integrations and our rapidly advancing actioning capabilities will unite people, agents, and intelligence in the flow of work to counter growing threats."

With RAV3N Radar, organizations control exactly how real-time, actionable narrative intelligence reaches them: what to monitor, who receives it, when it's sent, and where it's delivered. Each brief/real-time alert documents:

The narrative - what's being claimed, how it's framed The network spread - which platforms it is on and how fast it is moving The actors and communities - Who is spreading it and which audiences it is reaching The tactics - evidence of coordinated or artificial amplification, where the data supports it What changed - which narratives are new, growing, or fading since the last brief Supporting context and evidence - links to the source posts, with direct quotes

"At Vantor, we've found RAV3N Radar valuable for bringing media activity, sentiment, and emerging narrative threats into our daily situational awareness," said Norm Laudermilch, Chief Information Security Officer at Vantor. "Its concise summaries help us connect narrative intelligence with traditional cyber threat intelligence and look for signals that could provide earlier warning of cyber attacks. It's become a useful part of how we monitor a fast-changing information environment."

The size and scale of harmful narrative attack campaigns continue to grow exponentially. "By 2028, Gartner predicts enterprise spending on battling misinformation and disinformation will surpass $30 billion, cannibalizing 10% of marketing and cybersecurity budgets to combat a multifront threat."

What makes Blackbird RAV3N Radar unique

Zero learning curve. No new platform to master, and easy setup to get value on day one. Fast time to insight. Actionable, decision-ready narrative intelligence starts flowing immediately after onboarding, not after a lengthy implementation Built for every team, at every maturity level. Whether you're standing up narrative intelligence for the first time or supplementing an existing security operations team or comms function, RAV3N Radar fits in seamlessly Quick Actions, right in the channel. Kick off context-aware responses directly from Slack, including deep dives, disinformation contextual checks, or a request to Blackbird's RAV3N Watch Intelligence team for a full analyst report from subject matter experts. Direct access. RAV3N Agent access in Slack lets you use natural language queries to explore alerts, insights, and threats further, and receive recommendations for next steps. Meets you where you work. Delivers easy-to-understand, decision-ready intelligence directly to Slack or email. A natural next step. When something warrants deeper investigation, escalate directly to Blackbird's Constellation Narrative Intelligence Platform or request a Blackbird RAV3N Watch Intelligence analyst report - without switching tools Operates alongside your agents. Blackbird's MCP protocol enhances what your team already uses.

The World Economic Forum named narrative attacks a top global threat, and they now move at machine speed," said Naushad UzZaman, CTO and Co-founder of Blackbird. "Our answer is agents that do the research and deep analysis so people can make informed and actionable decisions to significantly reduce risk. RAV3N Radar runs continuously, investigates follow-up questions on demand, and works alongside the other agents a team already uses in Slack."

Narrative attacks now target leadership teams, global brands, and national security organizations. A recent example includes foreign nation-states targeting the data center industry, as seen in this Blackbird RAV3N team report, 'How Hostile Foreign State-Aligned Networks Amplify America's Data Center Backlash.'

To see how RAV3N Radar works firsthand, request a demonstration here .

Gartner® has positioned Blackbird as a Market Shaper in 'The Emerging Market Quadrant for Narrative Intelligence – Startup Vendors as of June 2026.' The company placed highest for Potential to Execute and furthest to the right for Potential for Market Disruption. A RAV3N blog summarizing the Gartner report is available here.

Gartner recently published a report titled "AI Vendor Race: Blackbird Is the Company to Beat for Disinformation Narrative Intelligence. " In the report, Gartner states that "Blackbird's strong brand, defining thought leadership, industry-first feature expansion, and key partnerships make it the frontrunner in the disinformation narrative intelligence AI race."

Source: Gartner Report, "Emerging Market Quadrant for Narrative Intelligence," 26 June 2026: By Alfredo Ramirez IV, Apeksha Kaushik, Akif Khan, Amber Boyes, and David Senf.

Source: Gartner^®, Press Release, 21 October 2025, "Gartner Predicts Enterprise Spending on Battling Misinformation and Disinformation Will Surpass $30 Billion by 2028."

Source: Gartner^®, AI Vendor Race: Blackbird Is the Company to Beat for Disinformation Narrative Intelligence, Alfredo Ramirez IV et al., 8 December 2025

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About Blackbird
BLACKBIRD protects executives and organizations from narrative-based disinformation attacks that cause financial, operational, reputational, and physical harm. Our AI-driven Narrative Intelligence Platform identifies key narratives that impact your executives, organization, and 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 assess narrative threats as they scale and become harmful, thereby improving strategic decision-making. A diverse team of AI experts, threat intelligence analysts, and national security professionals founded Blackbird to defend information integrity and fight a new class of narrative threats. To learn more, visit Blackbird.

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