Breaking incidents before AP picks them up.
We listen to every dispatch scanner in your market and surface verified fires, water losses, and structural incidents in real time — to your dashboard, your Slack, or your CMS.
Then $199/mo. Cancel anytime. Multi-market and CMS-integrated deployments below.
- 2:04 PMhigh
Structure fire — 4400 W Vernor Hwy, Detroit
Dispatch + cross-confirmed (WJBK)
- 1:51 PMmedium
Water main rupture — 1180 W Adams, Detroit
Scanner only
- 1:32 PMhigh
Vacant warehouse fire — 2200 Russell, Detroit
Dispatch + social
Local breaking news is won at the scanner.
Three things keep newsrooms behind on local incidents:
Police-band volunteers don't scale
Most newsrooms rely on a handful of scanner devotees and a Twitter list. When something breaks at 3 AM in a market you don't cover full-time, you find out from a competitor's tweet.
AP wire is downstream
Wire copy arrives after a wire reporter reaches the scene. For local fires, water losses, and structural events, that's 30–90 minutes after dispatch — long past the breaking-news window.
Manual triage burns desk hours
An assignment editor scrolling through unfiltered scanner traffic is doing the work a pipeline should do. The signal-to-noise on raw dispatch radio is brutal.
How it works
Detect, filter, push. Designed for assignment desks that need verified incidents the minute they happen.
Detect
We transcribe live dispatch scanners 24/7 across 600+ counties. Fires, water losses, and structural incidents enter the pipeline within minutes of the call.
Filter
AI strips out routine traffic, medical-only calls, and false alarms. Newsworthy incidents are tagged with damage type, address, and severity.
Push to the desk
Verified incidents land in your dashboard on the self-serve plan; enterprise customers also get Slack + email + CMS webhooks scoped to the markets they cover.
Every breaking incident in your market, in one screen.
The assignment-desk feed updates live as scanners detect new dispatches. Severity badges, damage type, and address are right on the card — open one to read the dispatch transcription before you launch a crew.
What's included
Every plan ships with the full detection stack. Enterprise adds Slack delivery, CMS webhooks, and multi-market scoping.
Built for breaking-news speed
Median 4 minutes from dispatch to assignment-desk alert. Every incident is verified before it reaches you — no raw scanner noise, no rumor-mill content, no story you have to walk back.
- Median 4 min dispatch-to-alert
- Cross-confirmed across scanner, news, social
- Source attribution per incident
Market-scoped feeds
Coverage scoped to your county, DMA, or custom footprint. One feed per market or roll up across markets on enterprise.
Dashboard · Slack · CMS
Dashboard on self-serve; enterprise adds Slack delivery, email alerts, and webhook integration into your CMS or live-blog system.
Verified, not raw
Routine traffic, medical-only calls, and false alarms are filtered before they reach your desk. Only newsworthy incidents.
Multi-user desk (enterprise)
Multi-user assignment desks with role-based access, SSO, and audit logs on enterprise deployments.
Confirm coverage in your market
Type your county to check what we've detected in the last 90 days. Scanner monitoring is live in most counties — and we activate new ones the moment you sign up.
Save 40% on every plan your first month.
Every plan is 40% off for 30 days. On day 31 your subscription rolls to the regular monthly price below — and you can cancel anytime from your dashboard. No long-term contract, no surprises.
Then $199/mo. Cancel anytime.
2 standard counties · 1 user
- Dashboard assignment feed
- Severity + damage taxonomy
- Email alerts
Then $349/mo. Cancel anytime.
1 premium + 4 standard counties · 3 users
- Everything in Starter
- SMS alerts for high-severity events
- Multi-reporter access
Then $649/mo. Cancel anytime.
3 premium + 7 standard counties · 8 users
- Everything in Pro
- Priority routing for high-severity events
- Multi-team workspaces
What you actually pay: $119.40, $209.40, or $389.40for your first 30 days — then the regular price kicks in on day 31, only if you don't cancel.
Deploying across multiple markets or stations?
Newsroom deployments include market-scoped feeds, Slack + CMS webhook delivery, multi-user assignment desks, custom severity routing, and SSO — priced per market, not per seat.
Frequently asked
- What's the difference between self-serve and enterprise?
- Self-serve gets you the dashboard assignment feed, severity scoring, and county-level alerts on a per-seat plan. Enterprise adds Slack delivery, CMS webhook integration, multi-market scoping, SSO, role-based access, and per-market pricing.
- Can we limit alerts to our DMA?
- Self-serve plans scope by county. Enterprise feeds scope by DMA, ZIP cluster, or a custom polygon.
- How fast do alerts arrive?
- Median 4 minutes from dispatch radio to assignment desk. Wire services typically take 30–90 minutes for the same local incident.
- Do you alert on every dispatch call?
- No. We filter for newsworthy incidents — fires, water losses, structural events, severe storm damage — and discard routine traffic, medical-only calls, and false alarms before they reach you.
- What integrations are supported?
- Self-serve gets the dashboard + email. Enterprise deployments add Slack, webhooks (JSON push), REST API, and CSV exports. Most newsrooms run Slack for the desk and webhook into their CMS or live-blog system.
- What happens after the first month?
- Self-serve plans move to the regular monthly price ($199 / $349 / $649). Enterprise pricing is custom per market and quoted on first call.
Launch offerBeat the AP wire on local incidents.
Start from $119.40 (40% off your first month). Cancel anytime. No long-term contract.