SOTOS is our flagship integrated SaaS platform featuring Discourse AI, Opinion AI, and Influence AI with search capabilities in the target languages and English. It tracks political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal (PESTEL) issues in the most relevant digital media and social media.
Applied Strategic
Communications
Transforming complex open-source data into actionable strategic communications insights. Our work is supported by decades of expertise in data science, artificial intelligence, and geopolitical analysis.
Core Capabilities
Open-Source
Intelligence
We leverage the power of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) to provide cutting-edge analytics services by harnessing the vast amount of publicly available information.
Bespoke AI Solutions
Novel AI/ML solutions to monitor and evaluate political, geopolitical, economic, environmental, sociocultural, technological, military, and legal trends in the ideational space.
AI + Experts Consultation
PersuMedia’s subject matter experts put the AI and data-driven insights into context in deliverable reports. This could be applied to set issues or ad-hoc requests for information.
SOTOS: A Strategic Intelligence Platform
Iran: John Sotos
Michael Morell speaks with former CIA analyst John Sotos, who’s an expert on Iran. He’s now Chief of Analysis at PersuMedia. They discuss Iran’s goals in the Mideast, its relations with the US, domestic support for the Iranian regime and the modern-day challenges Iran faces since the Iranian Revolution.
Nuclear Deterrence Debate in Iran
Opinion AI highlighted an increased optimism toward nuclear deterrence in Iranian discourse, particularly in X (Twitter), indicating a potential move in that direction. Despite the increased optimism, there remains an undercurrent of doubt regarding the absolute deterrent power of a nuclear capability.