Early Warning
Catch the shift before it becomes the headline.
Events rarely arrive silently — coverage patterns shift first. Hizer continuously monitors volume, tone and event activity across your topics, regions and entities and alerts you when something is genuinely unusual, not just loud.
What you get
Anomaly detection you can trust
Unusual spikes and drops in coverage are flagged against each topic’s own baseline, with severity levels — so low-volume stories that suddenly matter are not drowned out by always-busy feeds.
Explainable signals, not noise
Every alert is tied to the underlying articles, events and entities that triggered it — so analysts can assess "is this real?" in seconds rather than hours.
Tuned to your watchlist
Feeds, regions, sectors and entities can all be scoped, so warnings track what matters to your mission — whether that is a country portfolio, an industry, a client base or a crisis.
Where it earns its keep
Crisis and security operations
Detect overnight escalations, media blackouts and sudden spikes in event activity for countries and assets you are responsible for.
Geopolitical and macro desks
Catch shifts in coverage tone and volume across sovereign, sector or thematic watchlists, and use them as leading indicators into traditional risk workflows.
Corporate risk and resilience
Monitor operations, suppliers, partners and regions for unusual movement in the information environment — before regular monitoring would flag it.
Your questions, answered
What counts as an "anomaly"?
An anomaly is a day or period where coverage volume or activity is statistically unusual versus that topic or region’s normal pattern — for example, a sudden spike in articles about a specific country or a sudden collapse in coverage of a contested region.
How do you avoid alert fatigue?
Alerts are scored by severity and scoped to your watchlist — so teams only see what materially deviates from normal for the topics they care about, not every loud news day.
Can we see why something was flagged?
Yes. Every warning is linked to the articles, entities and events behind it, with timeline context and baseline comparison — so analysts can always answer "why did this fire?"
How fast is "early"?
Signals are computed continuously as new coverage flows in, so warnings appear as the information environment changes — not on a daily or weekly batch.