SolutionsCrisis Management

Find out before the journalist calls.

Velocity measured against your own baseline, severity that escalates only when a second signal agrees, and a brief that separates what is confirmed from what isn't, with a holding statement drafted from the facts, not a blank page.

ContinuousChecked around the clock
Your baselineNot a flat threshold
MinutesFrom spike to briefed
The problem

What this actually looks like today.

01

You find out from someone outside the company

A journalist, a client, or the CEO's WhatsApp. By then the narrative has formed and you are responding to a story rather than shaping one.

02

Alerts that cry wolf get switched off

A flat threshold fires constantly on a busy brand and never on a quiet one. Within a month nobody reads them, which is worse than having none.

03

The first hour is spent establishing facts

Everyone is in a room asking what is actually confirmed. That hour is the most valuable one you have, and it gets spent on admin.

An alert that fires on everything is the same as an alert that fires on nothing. Escalation has to mean something.

The three hours that decide it

A complaint thread starts forming at 9:12pm on a Tuesday.

By the time it reaches a journalist it is a story. Everything that matters happens in the window before that.

  1. 21:12

    One post

    A customer posts a photo with your hashtag. On its own this is noise, hundreds a week look like this.

  2. +15 min

    Authors typed

    Five first-time posters, one regional news account, one complaint aggregator. That mix matters far more than the count.

  3. +40 min

    A cluster forms

    Your hashtag starts co-occurring with a safety tag. The co-occurrence, not the volume, is the first honest sign this is one issue.

  4. +2 hrs

    Velocity crosses your baseline

    38 posts against a normal 12 an hour. Because every row is a real post, this is a real spike.

  5. +2 hrs 4 min

    Opened at Attention, not Critical

    Social alone doesn't earn a critical. The severity reflects the evidence, which is what keeps the alert worth reading.

  6. +2 hrs 6 min

    Brief and statement ready

    Known and unknown separated, and a holding statement drafted from those facts in the language the story broke in.

  7. 00:20

    Press agrees, it escalates

    Press volume crosses its own baseline independently. Two signals now agree, severity rises, and the on-call escalation carries the brief with it.

What you get

Built for this job specifically.

A velocity clock, per brand

Calibrated to your real history, so the threshold means the same thing for a quiet brand and a loud one.

Evidence-led escalation

Severity rises when a second channel agrees, not when one number shouts louder.

A brief, not an alert

Confirmed facts and open questions kept apart, drawn from the real rows behind the spike.

A statement, already drafted

Built from the brief, in the language the story broke in, waiting for a human to approve.

On-call escalation

Out-of-hours escalation to a person with a response SLA, available as a retainer.

A recorded timeline

Every alert keeps its own sequence, so the post-mortem uses evidence rather than memory.

In the product

The screen you'd open first.

Illustrative numbers. Your workspace runs on your brand's real data from day one.

Brillaince · Crisis

Crisis

1 open · own brand

Live

Velocityvs your baseline

3.1×Attention

Time to alertMedian

4 min

Volume against baselineLast 12 hours

What we know

  • Complaints centre on one product batchKnown
  • Two regional outlets picked it upKnown
  • Whether the batch issue is confirmedOpen
The difference

With and without Brillaince.

Without BrillainceWith Brillaince
How you find outA journalist, a client, or TwitterA velocity alert against your own baseline
Alert qualityFires constantly, gets mutedEscalates only on corroboration
The first hourSpent establishing what's trueStarts from a fact-separated brief
The responseWritten from scratch under pressureDrafted from the brief, awaiting approval

What this deliberately doesn't do

Every monitoring tool's page is wall-to-wall claims. Here is where the honest line sits.

  • Volume is not amplificationWe measure how many real posts and stories exist, not how far they travelled, because platforms don't expose that for third-party content.
  • A competitor's crisis won't wake youVelocity tracking is scoped to your own brand and products. A rival's bad week arrives as intelligence, not as an alarm.
Questions

About crisis management.

What actually triggers an alert?

Volume moving meaningfully past your brand's own baseline on press or social. A social-only spike opens lower and escalates only if sentiment or press confirms it independently.

Can we get a human on call?

Yes, as a 24/7 crisis retainer with a response SLA. The platform detects continuously; the retainer puts a person behind the alert out of hours.

How is this different from a generic spike alert?

Generic alerts use one flat threshold for every brand. Ours learns what normal looks like for yours, and requires corroboration before escalating.

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