The story on the surface.
The one moving underneath.
In India a single post can become a national story within six hours, and by the time it reaches television the decisions that mattered have already been made. MIOS Pinaka reads news and social media continuously, groups what it finds into narratives as they form, and shows you who is moving them, where, and what happens next.
Monitoring tells you what was said. It does not tell you what is forming.
Alerts arrive too late
A keyword alert fires once something is already spreading. By the time it reaches you the response window has closed and you are reacting, not deciding.
Volume is not signal
Ten thousand mentions is not an answer. The questions are which of them belong to the same story, which story is accelerating, and who is pushing it.
Nobody can show their work
A dashboard that asserts a sentiment score without the articles behind it cannot be acted on, and cannot be defended when somebody senior asks why.
How it works
Five stages, running continuously. The work is done before you open the platform, which is why the platform opens instantly.
Ingest
News, wires, regional outlets and social run continuously into one corpus. Sources are pulled on their own cadence rather than a single nightly batch, so a fast-moving story is not held back by a slow one.
Read
Every item is language-detected, then scored for sentiment, emotion and stance. Indian language content is treated as first-class, not translated to English and flattened.
Cluster
Related coverage is grouped into a single tracked narrative. This is the step that turns ten thousand mentions into a handful of things you can actually act on.
Enrich
Each narrative gets an origin trace, a propagation path, the actors moving it, its geographic footprint and a projected trajectory.
Surface
Results are precomputed into read views rather than aggregated on request, so opening a dashboard is a read, not a wait.
What it can tell you
An intelligence platform, not a reporting tool. Every capability exists to answer a question an analyst actually has to answer out loud.
Narrative detection
Clusters related coverage into one tracked narrative as it forms · not a keyword alert fired after something is already spreading.
Origin tracing
Walks a narrative back to its earliest detectable appearance and shows the chain from there to now.
Trajectory projection
Projects where a narrative is heading over the next day, so attention goes to what is accelerating rather than what is loudest.
Actor intelligence
Behavioural fingerprints for the accounts and outlets in play · who originates, who amplifies, who moves in step with whom.
Propagation graph
Who carried what, when, and to whom. The shape of the spread often says more than its volume.
Geographic spread
State and district level mapping, so a regional flare-up is visible long before it reaches national coverage.
Entity graph
Resolves people, organisations and places across the whole corpus and shows how they connect, with a time scrubber to replay how a network formed.
Evidence on every claim
Each assessment carries its provenance. Open any conclusion and read the underlying articles it was built from.
One morning, hour by hour
An illustration of the shape these things take. The value is not the alert · it is having the whole file already assembled when the alert would have arrived.
- 06:40
A claim appears
A post in one district alleges something about a local incident. Volume is negligible. Nothing on any dashboard would flag it.
- 08:15
Pinaka groups it
Four regional outlets and a cluster of accounts publish variations of the same claim. Pinaka groups them into one narrative and starts tracking it.
- 09:30
Shape becomes visible
The propagation graph shows the spread is not organic · a small set of accounts is seeding it in near-lockstep. Trajectory is projected upward.
- 11:00
You already have the file
Origin, the accounts involved, the districts affected and every source article are on one screen · before the first national outlet runs it.
Inside the workspace
The surfaces an analyst actually lives in.
Command Center
The daily read. What changed since you last looked, ranked by severity rather than recency, with the reason each item is ranked where it is.
Narrative Explorer
Every tracked narrative with its timeline, volume curve, sentiment split, origin chain and the actors carrying it.
Actor Intelligence
Per-actor dossiers · posting rhythm, topics, stance over time, co-movement with other accounts, and a watchlist for the ones that matter to you.
India Theater
The geographic view. Choropleth by state, drill to district, and open any region to see what is driving its numbers.
Evidence Library
The underlying corpus, searchable. Full text, source, language, images and the narratives each article belongs to.
Ask the corpus
A question box over your own data that answers from retrieved articles and narratives, and cites what it used.
Alerts and investigations
Standing alerts on the entities you care about, and case files that persist an investigation with notes and attached evidence.
Briefs and exports
A written brief of the current picture, and exports when something has to leave the platform as a document.
Built for people who answer for what happens next
Government departments
Departments answerable for a portfolio, who need to know what is being said about it across languages and regions before it reaches them.
Law enforcement and public safety
Teams whose response window is measured in hours, where a rumour spreading through a district is an operational fact and not a media story.
Public affairs and policy
Units tracking how a policy is landing, who is shaping the reception of it, and where the opposition to it is actually concentrated.
Multi-region institutions
Organisations operating across several states and languages, where the story rarely starts in English or in the capital.
Why you can act on what it says
An intelligence product is only worth having if you can defend its conclusions to someone who did not want to hear them.
Nothing without provenance
Every score, ranking and assessment can be opened down to the articles behind it. A number you cannot trace is a number you cannot defend in a meeting.
Tenant isolation at the query layer
Scoping is enforced where the database is read, not by hiding menu items. A missing sidebar entry is never treated as an access control.
Audit trail
Who looked at what, and when. Queryable, because in an institution the question eventually gets asked.
Stated limits
Where the platform is uncertain it says so, and where a source is thin the confidence reflects it. We would rather be trusted than impressive.
Pinaka or Track?
They share a backend and nothing else. Pick by the question you are trying to answer.
MIOS Pinaka
For institutions. “What is forming, who is behind it, and where is it going?”
- Narrative-level, not mention-level
- Actor behaviour and coordination
- State and district geography
- Evidence trails for every claim
Merdot Track
For brands and comms teams. “What is being said about us, right now?”
- Mentions across social, news and reviews
- Sentiment and share of voice
- A shared inbox for replies
- Android app for alerts on the move
Pre-launch, in active trial
MIOS Pinaka is not generally available. It is running in trial with government and law enforcement users in Gujarat while the platform is hardened for wider release. Ingestion runs continuously against the live corpus, so the figures at the top of this page move every hour.
Access is granted case by case. Tell us what you are trying to see and we will tell you honestly whether Pinaka can see it yet · including when the answer is not yet.
Request accessSee it before it breaks.
The narrative that damages you is already forming somewhere. The only question is whether you find it now or read about it later.
Merdot Technologies · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · contact@merdot.com