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The Crowd Difference
Wednesday 13 May 2026
4:00 PM BST · 11:00 AM EDT
45 minutesFree to attendLive platform demoExclusive trial offer
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The Crowd
Difference.

Why desk-based analysis misses too much. Why AI scraping can't be trusted. And why a global network of verified local reporters on the ground is the only model that will consistently capture intelligence before it reaches any public channel.

Plus: an exclusive look at what's coming next with Crowd Survey — 30-day forward stability forecasting built on the same crowd.

📅DateWednesday 13 May 2026
🕓Time4:00 PM BST · 11:00 AM EDT · 8:00 AM PDT
💻PlatformZoom — link sent on registration
Duration45 minutes + Q&A
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What this webinar covers
Three models.
One that actually works.

We'll walk through why the intelligence industry has been running on two broken models — and show you what the third one looks like in practice, live on the platform.

01The Desk

A team of analysts watching news feeds during business hours. Smart people. Wrong model. On a Saturday night there are one or two people watching the planet. That's not a staffing problem — it's structural. And hiring more people doesn't fix it, it just doubles the bill.

02The Shortcut

AI platforms that scrape and re-package feeds from other providers. Fast and cheap — until you realise the data has no provenance, the AI is retrained daily against a flood of synthetic content, and the 'intelligence' you're buying is recycled from the same gaps your team already knows about.

03The Crowd

Local people. On the ground. Where events actually happen. No shift pattern. No collection plan based on client spend. No recycled content laundered through an AI. The event happens, the person who lives there files it, a human verifier checks it, and it's published. That's it.

38%
Pre-incident

Of verified reports capture intelligence before any incident has occurred.

30%
Within 2 hours

Further reports captured within two hours of onset — when most platforms are still silent.

150+
Vetted reporters

Local contributors across 10 countries and growing.

Based on Crowd Threat platform data · Beta period

What comes next
Two signals across every phase.

Each product provides a distinct intelligence function. Together, they are stronger than either alone. This is what we'll show you on the webinar.

Phase
◆ Crowd Threat
◆ Crowd Survey
◆ Combined value
01
Pre-escalation period
No verified incidents — nothing yet observable in open-source channels.
Rising negative sentiment, economic stress, and behavioural change detected across survey dimensions.
Crowd Survey is the only signal. Clients receive early warning before incident spikes are visible anywhere else.
02
Onset of instability
First incidents submitted — low volume, uncertain whether this is noise or genuine escalation.
Survey scores drop sharply across security and sentiment dimensions simultaneously.
Combined signal confirms escalation is genuine, not noise. Confidence elevated beyond either signal alone.
03
Active incident period
High verified incident volume mapped in real-time — strongest CT signal.
Survey participation may fall as reporters reduce movement; negative scores confirm severity.
Incident data is ground truth; survey confirms community experience matches the operational picture.
04
Post-incident
Reports decline — a falling count alone could wrongly suggest normalisation.
Survey tracks real recovery or continued instability — more accurate than incident count alone.
Survey persists as leading indicator of secondary escalation risk when CT data alone suggests the situation has resolved.
05
Claims verification
Asset proximity match fires with incident detail and confidence score — the specific event the underwriter needs.
Pre-existing survey trend provides the contextual baseline for the risk assessment.
Incident = the specific event. Survey = the risk context. Together they support a defensible underwriting decision.
Agenda
45 minutes. No filler.
00:00
The Intelligence Gap

Why the two dominant models — desk analysis and AI scraping — have a structural blind spot that no amount of hiring or retraining can fix.

10:00
How the Crowd Model Works

A live walkthrough of the reporter network, verification process, and what it looks like when a real incident hits the platform before it reaches any open-source channel.

20:00
Live Platform Demo

Real-time incident feed, geolocation mapping, live data. Not a recording. Not a slide deck. The actual platform.

28:00
What's Coming — Crowd Survey

The next layer: 30-day forward stability forecasting built from the same crowd. Weekly sentiment surveys across security, economics, and governance — capturing the pre-escalation signal before any incident occurs.

36:00
The Exclusive Offer

The 90-Day Trial at £1,500. Available only to people on this call. Pricing, what's included, and how to apply.

41:00
Q&A

Open questions.

Your host
Michael McCabe
Michael McCabe
Founder & CEO, Crowd Threat

20+ years in intelligence. British Military Intelligence background. Founded Intelligence Fusion — built it to exit, sold to Sigma7. Now building Crowd Threat: the first threat intelligence platform built on verified local reporters on the ground.

Michael runs the entire 45 minutes himself. Live platform, open Q&A.

Who should attend
For teams with real operational exposure.
Political Risk & Insurance Underwriters
Corporate Security Directors
GSOC & Security Operations Teams
Travel Security Managers
Energy, Mining & Logistics Risk Teams
Threat Intelligence Platform Managers
Exclusive offer
The 90-Day Trial.
Attendees only.

Full platform access, a named account contact, and the option to lock in the beta annual rate at the end of your trial.

Shared exclusively at the end of the live webinar. Not available on the website or in any email campaign.

Trial at a glance
Duration90 days
Price£1,500
Platform accessFull
Account contactNamed, direct
AvailabilityLive attendees · 10 places
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