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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, \"Pulsar: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pulsar/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pulsar/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pulsar.md",
  "title": "Pulsar: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Pulsar is on the social monitoring map. We record 9 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 21, 2026.",
  "period": "2021 to Oct. 21, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
    "id": "C424806",
    "slug": "pulsar",
    "name": "Pulsar",
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    "site": "https://www.pulsarplatform.com/",
    "summary": "Enterprise audience-intelligence and social listening: TRAC (search and listening), CORE (owned-channel analytics), TRENDS, Narratives AI, and AI agents. An agent would use the GraphQL API or the AI agents on Pulsar's own data.",
    "founded": 2013,
    "categories": [
      "listening-suite"
    ],
    "status": "active",
    "price_note": null,
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "merged_into": null,
    "category_names": [
      "Social listening suites"
    ]
  },
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  "summary": {
    "text": "Enterprise audience-intelligence and social listening: TRAC (search and listening), CORE (owned-channel analytics), TRENDS, Narratives AI, and AI agents. An agent would use the GraphQL API or the AI agents on Pulsar's own data.",
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-pulsar",
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      "name": "Pulsar",
      "site": "https://www.pulsarplatform.com/",
      "category": "Social listening suites",
      "what": "Enterprise audience-intelligence and social listening: TRAC (search and listening), CORE (owned-channel analytics), TRENDS, Narratives AI, and AI agents. An agent would use the GraphQL API or the AI agents on Pulsar's own data.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "pulsarplatform.com",
        "url": "https://www.pulsarplatform.com/"
      },
      "price": "No published price. TRAC 'is priced on an enterprise basis'; 'no published tier list and no self-serve checkout'. API 'typically' included in enterprise contracts; no plan named.",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "Platforms",
        "items": [
          "X",
          "Facebook",
          "Instagram",
          "TikTok",
          "YouTube",
          "LinkedIn",
          "Threads",
          "Bluesky",
          "News",
          "Forums",
          "Reviews",
          "Podcasts",
          "Discord"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed user or customer base (Owned by Pulsar Group (formerly Access Intelligence plc, London-listed); acquired Oct 2019.)",
      "founded": "2013",
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pulsar/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-10-21",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Pulsar STORY autonomous research agent enters public beta",
      "summary": "The renamed Saga agent became open to all users in public beta after a five-month private beta.",
      "kind": "Beta",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-pulsar"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "pulsarplatform.com",
        "url": "https://www.pulsarplatform.com/blog/2026/pulsar-story-public-beta"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pulsar/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-07-28",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Narratives AI Just Got Better: Introducing Bluesky Data, Location Filtering & Narrative Spotlight",
      "summary": "Bluesky added as a source inside Narratives AI, clustered with X data. Also location filters and LLM-written Narrative Spotlight context.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-pulsar"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Pulsar blog",
        "url": "https://www.pulsarplatform.com/blog/2025/narratives-ai-new-features-bluesky-location-insights"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pulsar/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-07-08",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Pulsar introduces Saga, an autonomous research agent for social and media intelligence",
      "summary": "Saga accepts a standing brief, monitors the live data lake, and delivers scheduled or event-driven finished analysis.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-pulsar"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "pulsarplatform.com",
        "url": "https://www.pulsarplatform.com/blog/2026/introducing-saga-autonomous-research-agent-that-never-clocks-out"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-4",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pulsar/#event-4",
      "on": "2026-02-16",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Introducing Pulsar Workspaces",
      "summary": "Search Folders (public or private) and access controls in TRAC. First step of Workspaces.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-pulsar"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Pulsar blog",
        "url": "https://www.pulsarplatform.com/blog/2026/introducing-pulsar-workspaces-a-new-foundation-for-enterprise-insights-teams"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-5",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pulsar/#event-5",
      "on": "2026-02-04",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Pulsar Launches Crisis Oracle to Help Brands Anticipate Reputational Risk Before It Breaks",
      "summary": "Groups conversations from social, forums and news into narratives, scores risk by volume, visibility and velocity, and alerts only on change. Part of TeamMates.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-pulsar"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Newswire (Pulsar release)",
        "url": "https://www.newswire.com/view/content/pulsar-launches-crisis-oracle-to-help-brands-anticipate-reputational-22722470"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-6",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pulsar/#event-6",
      "on": "2025-10-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Pulsar Launches Insights Agents for Media and Social Intelligence",
      "summary": "AI 'TeamMates' on a Pulsar dataset: Sentinels (monitor, escalate), Oracles (forecast), Custodians (compliance), Analysts (research). Available to Pulsar customers; no price or API stated.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-pulsar"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "ACCESS Newswire (via FinancialContent)",
        "url": "https://markets.financialcontent.com/worldnow.ktul/article/accwirecq-2025-10-14-pulsar-launches-insights-agents-for-media-and-social-intelligence"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-7",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pulsar/#event-7",
      "on": "2025-07-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "LLM upgrade adds Products, Brands and Events entities",
      "summary": "TRAC entity extraction now covers Products, Brands and Events as well as People and Organisations.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-pulsar"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Pulsar guide",
        "url": "https://www.pulsarplatform.com/guides/what-is-pulsar-trac-features-pricing"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-8",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pulsar/#event-8",
      "on": "2025-03-26",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Pulsar Launches Narratives AI - the First Search Engine for Public Opinion",
      "summary": "Search-style tool that groups billions of social and news posts into narratives with briefings. No Boolean needed. Freemium version planned.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-pulsar"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Newswire (Pulsar release)",
        "url": "https://www.newswire.com/view/content/pulsar-launches-narratives-ai-the-first-search-engine-for-public-22544847"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-9",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/pulsar/#event-9",
      "on": "2021-01-01",
      "date_precision": "year",
      "title": "Introducing Pinterest Data on Pulsar",
      "summary": "Pinterest data added to TRAC with Visual AI auto-tagging of images.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The social monitoring map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-pulsar"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Pulsar blog",
        "url": "https://www.pulsarplatform.com/blog/2021/pinterest-data-pulsar-trends-insights-visual"
      }
    }
  ]
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