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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Handraise: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/handraise/, updated 2026-11-12",
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  "title": "Handraise: what it sells, price and AI features",
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    "text": "\"From Media Monitoring to Narrative Intelligence.\" An enterprise platform that tracks news, broadcast, podcast and social coverage with AI-built newsfeeds (no Boolean), groups articles into narrative clusters with brand-centric sentiment, publication tiers and dynamic share of voice, and tests how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and others describe and cite the brand across repeated model runs. It adds risk alerts, recommended actions (amplify, clarify, counter, create), daily briefings, board-ready reports and Herald, a chat assistant that answers questions with a sourced briefing. It has no media database and no pitching tools. Built by the founder of TrendKite.",
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