Sentinel for diplomats: understanding how a position moves

A position is never in a single text

A ministry communiqué, one sentence in an interview, a committee vote, an editorial in the paper of record, a statement from the rostrum. A capital's position on a file is the sum of signals scattered across several languages, and what counts is what has moved since last week.

What Sentinel does

You define the file and the actors: countries, institutions, people. Sentinel watches 24 hours a day the press of each country, ministry and institutional sites, international organisations, think tanks, specialist newsletters, LinkedIn, podcasts and video. More than 1,000 sources in 50 countries, in their languages.

Every morning, an email that says what has moved: who said what, where, and how it differs from the previous position. Sentinel compares each new statement to what it has already read on the subject and flags the inflections rather than the repetitions. Every quoted sentence links to its source.

Notes exist in French, English and Italian. Every note is reviewed before sending.

For example

A diplomat follows the position of three capitals on a treaty under negotiation. Every morning he receives what has changed: a statement by minister A hardening the tone, a parliamentary vote in country B, an influential editorial in country C, with the links. He knows what to tell his capital before 9.

In five minutes

1. Create one watch per file, with the countries, institutions and people to follow.
2. Add the official sources and the press of the countries concerned.
3. Choose the daily cadence and the language of the note.

Which plan

Team, 149 € a month, for the daily email, flash alerts and five seats for the post. Fifteen-day trial, no credit card.