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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Blink: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/blink/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/blink/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/blink.md",
  "title": "Blink: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Blink is on the AI internal communications software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 6, 2026.",
  "period": "May 18 to Oct. 6, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "site": "https://www.joinblink.com/",
    "summary": "Blink calls itself \"the universal AI platform for frontline work\": a mobile app and intranet with a news feed, chat, tasks, forms, surveys and recognition for staff with no desk or company email. Its AI builders draft forms, pages, surveys and newsletters from a plain-language description. Frontline Assistant and Smart Search answer worker questions, and Blink IQ reports on sentiment and engagement.",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "merged_into": null,
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      "Frontline employee apps"
    ]
  },
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  "summary": {
    "text": "Blink calls itself \"the universal AI platform for frontline work\": a mobile app and intranet with a news feed, chat, tasks, forms, surveys and recognition for staff with no desk or company email. Its AI builders draft forms, pages, surveys and newsletters from a plain-language description. Frontline Assistant and Smart Search answer worker questions, and Blink IQ reports on sentiment and engagement.",
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      "title": "The AI internal communications software map",
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      "name": "Blink",
      "site": "https://www.joinblink.com/",
      "category": "Frontline employee apps",
      "what": "Blink calls itself \"the universal AI platform for frontline work\": a mobile app and intranet with a news feed, chat, tasks, forms, surveys and recognition for staff with no desk or company email. Its AI builders draft forms, pages, surveys and newsletters from a plain-language description. Frontline Assistant and Smart Search answer worker questions, and Blink IQ reports on sentiment and engagement.",
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      },
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      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agent",
          "AI search and answers",
          "Assistant",
          "Comms analytics",
          "Sentiment and feedback",
          "Translation",
          "AI writing"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 3,
      "scale": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Blink says it works with hundreds of companies worldwide. It announced a $17 million round in May 2026.)",
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        },
        {
          "name": "pulse2.com",
          "url": "https://pulse2.com/blink-17-million-raised-from-enlightened-hospitality-investments-and-global-partnership-announced-with-shake-shack/"
        }
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/blink/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-10-06",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Blink adds AI task creation and workforce insights to Task Management",
      "summary": "Blink added a Task Builder that turns a plain-language request into a ready-to-assign task or checklist, and made Task Management part of its Workforce Insights engine. Managers can also use Blink's AI agents in chat to assign work or check status.",
      "kind": "Launch",
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        "name": "The AI internal communications software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-blink"
      },
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      }
    },
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      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/blink/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-09-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Blink releases AI builders for pages, journeys, surveys and forms",
      "summary": "Blink released AI builders that turn a plain-language description into an editable draft of a page, journey, survey or form. The same release adds video in chat and scheduled publishing.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI internal communications software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-blink"
      },
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        "name": "Blink blog",
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/blink/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-05-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Blink raises $17 million from Enlightened Hospitality Investments",
      "summary": "Blink raised $17 million from Enlightened Hospitality Investments and announced a global partnership with a restaurant customer. The money funds more product and engineering staff, faster work on its AI platform and more sales and marketing.",
      "kind": "Funding round",
      "from": {
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        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-blink"
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        "name": "Pulse 2.0",
        "url": "https://pulse2.com/blink-17-million-raised-from-enlightened-hospitality-investments-and-global-partnership-announced-with-shake-shack/"
      }
    }
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