Open-source intelligence (OSINT)
Instagram, including Stories
Facebook, TikTok and X
Websites and public records
Scroll to reveal the story
InflueAnswers presents Shifra
We uncover
the magic.
See what’s shaping
the story.
A creative research and strategic communications firm. We build technology to reveal the hidden connections.
Follow the threadBehind the illusion
Look
closer.
Narratives. Agendas.
The forces behind the story.
Who started it? Who carries it? What interests does it serve? We follow the evidence to find out.
The mechanism is where the story begins.
Every trick has a mechanism.FOLLOW / 01
01 / Where the story takes shape
Scattered signals.
Hidden connections.
Stories unfold across broadcasts, feeds, messages and conversations on the ground. Shifra follows them through four information funnels.
News and wire services
TV broadcasts
Print and radio
Wire services
Messaging platforms
Public groups and channels
on WhatsApp and Telegram
Authorised inputs
Human intelligence
Interviews and field reports
Supplied by people
Recorded for analysis
Put three signals side by side Illustrative records+
Fictional examples · Posts and reports created to illustrate the method.
Instagram Story
A fictional Story shows political analyst Ralph Baydoun with a left-leaning political figure at the 2006 Beirut Arab International Book Fair.
Illustrative image. Photo and account name blurred.
WhatsApp / Authorised group
“The meeting went ahead today.”
Example meeting M-01
Al-Manar / Citing Israel’s Channel 11
“The meeting was cancelled today.”
Example meeting M-01
Conflicting claims: review
Two accounts disagree. That gives the analyst a question to investigate, not a verdict.
02 / Turn collection into context
Give every signal
its context.
500,000
data points collected and enriched
each month across the Middle East
and North Africa (MENA)
OSINTNews + wireMessaging platformsHuman intelligence
Four funnels. One research environment.
Recorded.
Enriched.
Searchable.
Shifra records, tags and classifies incoming material, making the collection searchable.
Ongoing checks surface conflicting accounts as new material arrives.
Human-source reports are submitted, then processed alongside other inputs.
Ask across sources
Search all four funnels with AI
Follow the evidence
Inspect sources, links and gaps
Decide what matters
Apply analyst judgement to the next step
Private client vaults remain separate. Their material is never sent to a commercial model.
Explore the coverage +
Arabic, English,
Hebrew and Persian
Four languages. A regional field of view.
The map shows monitored coverage, not public opinion or incident severity.
03 / The research behind the technology
Who is shaping
the story?
Every narrative has speakers, audiences and a way of framing events. Our method connects those choices to the evidence.
Who is speaking?
Identify the speaker, the audience and the relationship between them.
How is the issue framed?
Examine the language, the emphasis and the position being advanced.
What is being claimed?
Check the claim against the records. Keep corroboration and disagreement visible.
Where does it connect?
Follow the links between people, places and events as the story develops.
A connection gives the research its next question.
Explore the knowledge graph +
Connections do not by themselves establish causation, coordination or the truth of a claim.
A method refined over four years of research, drawing on more than 200,000 pieces of content reviewed by our analysts.
04 / What the record makes possible
A claim travels.
What holds up?
The mandate is public. The briefing is private. The Story may disappear. Shifra brings that context into one investigation.
Illustrative case / A mission’s mandate
“Is the mission taking over border control?”
What the record keeps. What it cannot tell us. +
A record that remainsThe Instagram Story was captured before deletion, so it can still be reviewed.
A gap made explicitNo operational evidence from the ground was analysed. A takeover can neither be confirmed nor ruled out.
Research kept privateThe briefing and the analyst’s questions stay off the open web. Private material never goes to a commercial model.
05 / Your intelligence workspace
Meet
Shifra.
Intelligence for
the People
The bigger picture.
The evidence behind it.
Follow the thread into Shifra
From the research trail to your next question.
06 / Ask the Live Library
An answer is
only the beginning.
Uncover the records behind a finding. See the connections. Keep the open questions in view.
Your question
How has the narrative around our programme changed this month?
The answer
Choose a finding ↘Behind this finding
3 linked recordsThe open question
These records show a change in emphasis. They do not establish what the wider community thinks.
A library that remembers
Follow the month.
Tap a moment to inspect its record.
The highlighted moments connect to your selected finding.
07 / Focused intelligence · IA Debrief
Your brief.
Your field of view.
Every 6 hours
The developments, reactions and emerging signals
within the scope you define.
From a country to a city. From a political circle to a shipping route. IA Debrief brings the developments you need to follow into one focused, source-linked brief.
Set your field of view
What do you need to follow?
Interactive scope example
No live intelligence is generated here.
Start with a country. Narrow to a city. Follow the developments and local perspectives that matter to your team.
IA Debrief / Scope previewEvery 6 hours
Syria / Last 6 hours
Political and security developments
Summarise political and security developments in Syria over the last 6 hours. Include perspectives from all monitored voices.
Selected channels
News & wires · Telegram · Human-source reports
Select at least one source channel to define this brief.
Your brief would cover
- 01
Developments on the ground
Key events in Syria, with dates, locations and the evidence available.
- 02
Reactions in context
How the selected voices describe and respond to those developments.
- 03
What deserves attention
New signals, conflicting accounts and questions to follow in the next brief.
Findings linked to source records. Repetition, disagreement and evidence gaps kept visible.
A country. A city. A political circle. A shipping route.
The scope is yours.
Coverage reflects the sources being monitored and the material your team is authorised to supply.
Define what matters
Combine places, people, political clusters, sectors and platforms. Set the field of view around your team’s priorities.
Stay briefed
A fresh brief every six hours, generated and delivered automatically within your agreed scope.
Keep the evidence close
See what happened, how the voices you follow reacted and what remains unresolved. Trace the findings to their sources.
08 / Keep control of the research
Your research.
Clear boundaries.
Bring sensitive context into your research while keeping private files separate and closed-mode questions off the open web.
Client workspace
Private client vault
A separate vault for every client.
Your private files never go to a commercial model.
Collected source material
Signals from all four funnels
Cited answer
Checked against cited records
before display
No open-web browsing in closed mode.
Optional web research
Only when you request it. External findings are labelled and kept separate.
When the record has a gap
“Not in the corpus.”
In closed mode, Shifra answers only from the corpus: your collected source material.
09 / Intelligence your team can use
A heads-up.
With the evidence.
Follow narratives, dossiers and documented relationships. Keep the source trail in view as the picture changes.
Illustrative case / A claim about your programme
“Programme suspended.”
A TV report announces a suspension.
The claim spreads through social posts and WhatsApp.
Field report:
“Activities continue.”
One source.
A different account.
The repeated claim traces back to the TV report. The field report disagrees. Check whether both refer to the same period and activities.
A spreading claim.
A question to resolve.
The claim is spreading. Check the conflicting evidence locally before deciding how to respond.
Trace every finding back to its source.
A change worth looking into.
Spot emerging narratives and conflicting accounts. See which signals deserve closer attention and where the evidence falls short.
Early warning points to observed changes and unresolved risks. It does not predict events or turn a claim into a fact.
10 / The work behind Shifra
From investigation
to daily use.
Published research. Contradictions flagged in the record. Intelligence used in a working newsroom.
The illusion of corroboration
Lebanese channels cited unnamed Hebrew-language media. Our investigation traced a circular attribution chain that made repetition look like independent corroboration.
Read the investigationSamir Kassir Foundation and InflueAnswers · 9 March 2026
A changed account, flagged automatically
A state outlet attributed different identities to an attacker across broadcasts. Shifra compared the accounts and flagged the discrepancy against the earlier record.
Founder-reported example: flagged by the system before a human noticed.
Intelligence in the newsroom
Shifra supports a regional newsroom every day, collecting and enriching multilingual material and turning it into cited briefs on MENA developments.
Deployment described in the October 2026 product deck.
11 / Shifra by InflueAnswers
Bring us the question
you can’t ignore.
Start with a live issue.
Build a pilot around your team’s next decision.
Name what matters.
A narrative gathering pace. A dossier you need to follow. A claim that could affect your work.
Set the field of view.
Define the sources and context with us. Bring the relevant material into your dedicated workspace.
Put the evidence to work.
Get cited briefs and answers showing what is known, what is disputed and where to look next.
Intelligence you can trace to its sources.
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