The intelligence feed that learns your judgement
Watchkeeper grades every alert for reliability and sharpens itself with your verdicts. Built by an OSINT analyst who works as a geopolitical risk analyst — live now.
Live and free, no signup · press / to search · every verdict raises your Watch Rank
WATCH RANK
YOUR MODEL · LIVE
VERIFIABLE FACTS · event data from the GDELT Project and the named outlets’ public feeds · no inflated metrics
The global data grid
Live links to USGS, NASA, Open-Meteo, the ECB, and the WION world wire — seismic activity, Earth events, chokepoint weather, currency drift, and broadcast headlines, all feeding the watch. Major events flow straight into the alert feed, fully graded.
SEISMIC WATCH
USGSEARTH EVENTS
NASA EONETCHOKEPOINT WX
OPEN-METEOMARKET COMPASS
ECB · FRANKFURTERWION WORLD WIRE
WIONEWS · RSSToday's brief, written by the engine
Watchkeeper reads the wires above — GDELT, WION, BBC, Al Jazeera — and drafts a readable situation brief on its own, refreshed automatically. Openly machine-written, every line credited to its outlet, nothing invented. That transparency is the point.
Composing the first draft…
The engine is waiting on the wires. On the live site this fills itself within seconds of the first sweep.
The cross-source verification matrix
One outlet is a claim. Five independent outlets is a fact. The engine clusters the same story across every wire it reads, weighs each outlet's reliability, and computes a transparent probability that the report is true — the core discipline of OSINT, shown openly.
Cross-source corroboration heatmap
PER-OUTLET CONFIDENCE BREAKDOWNSource reliability index
PUBLISHED BIAS & FACTUAL-REPORTING RATINGS · THESE WEIGHT THE SCORES ABOVE · ● = ON THE WIRE NOW
Real-time trend analysis
WATCHING THE WIRES · UPDATES EVERY 20 SECONDS🔥 Hot topics now
⚡ Activity spikes
📊 Category frequency
Every member makes the watch sharper
Watchkeeper is built as a flywheel, not a feature list. Verdicts and corroborations from members feed the grading engine; sharper grading produces alerts worth sharing; shared alerts bring the next members. The longer it runs, the harder it is to replicate.
Set the watch once. It never stands down.
Three steps, modeled on how a real watch is kept at sea.
Define your sectors
Pick regions, themes, and actors in plain language — with full boolean search when you want precision.
Continuous sweep
Watchkeeper polls global open-source event data every 15 minutes, deduplicates coverage, and grades every alert for reliability and corroboration.
Contacts reported
Critical alerts in minutes via Telegram or email. Everything else in a clean daily digest — triaged and graded.
The community steers what gets built
This is the founder's planned build order, shown openly. Members vote to reorder it — your votes start the tally; nothing here is pre-inflated. Propose anything and it goes straight to Mrs Arushi Dayal Sharma.
Propose a feature
The best ideas come from the watch floor. Pitch it — the community decides.
Simple tiers. Recurring value.
Start free. Upgrade when one missed event would have cost more than a year's subscription.
Observer
- Unlimited watch sectors LIVE
- Daily email digest SOON
- Reliability grading on all alerts LIVE
- In-browser alert history LIVE
Analyst
- Full boolean search LIVE · saved sectors
- Real-time Telegram alerts SOON
- Personal learning model LIVE
- 90-day searchable history SOON
- Double-weight community vote
Desk
- Unlimited sectors, 5 seats
- Shared team feed & API SOON
- Weekly PDF situation report SOON
- Full history & CSV export SOON
LIVE features work in your browser today, free. SOON features are the funded roadmap — paid tiers lock in today's price and get them first, in the order the community votes.
FOUNDING MEMBER
One payment. A full year of Analyst, a permanent founding badge, double roadmap-vote weight forever, and your name on the first crew list. When the 50 seats are gone, they are gone.
Speak the language of the watch
Every trade has its vocabulary. Search the terms analysts and submariners actually use — the same ones Watchkeeper is built on.
Open-Source Intelligence — insight produced from publicly available information: news, satellite imagery, shipping data, official releases.
NATO's two-axis grading: source reliability A (reliable) to F (cannot judge) × information credibility 1 (confirmed) to 6 (cannot judge).
The Global Database of Events, Language and Tone — a public project monitoring world news media in real time, refreshed every 15 minutes.
The analyst's first verdict on any report: does it matter (signal) or is it clutter (noise)? Watchkeeper learns from every such verdict.
Independent confirmation of a report by separate sources. Each corroboration lifts an alert's credibility grade.
A defined slice of the world you monitor — a region, theme, or set of actors. The unit of attention in Watchkeeper.
A narrow passage that concentrates global shipping — Hormuz, Malacca, Suez, Bab-el-Mandeb. Where geography becomes leverage.
Sea Lines of Communication — the maritime routes a nation's trade and navy depend on. Securing SLOCs is core naval strategy.
Exclusive Economic Zone — waters up to 200 nautical miles from a coast where a state holds resource rights. A frequent flashpoint.
Low-Frequency Analysis and Recording — sonar technique that reads a vessel's acoustic signature like a fingerprint.
Navy slang for the rare sonar operator who hears what machines miss. The highest Watch Rank in Watchkeeper, earned by judgement.
Situation Report — a structured snapshot of what's happening, what changed, and what to watch next. The Desk tier ships one weekly.
The system of continuous duty at sea — First, Middle, Morning watches — ensuring eyes are always open. Watchkeeper's operating metaphor.
Collapsing fifty headlines about one event into a single graded alert. The first filter between the firehose and your feed.
Your personal scoring profile — category weights trained nightly by your verdicts, deciding what surfaces first for you alone.
A pre-set condition that triggers an instant alert — a keyword, a region, a grade threshold. You define it once; the watch never blinks.
Eight passages the world cannot route around
Most of global trade funnels through a handful of narrow waters. Watchkeeper holds live weather on the four most critical — these are the places where one incident becomes everyone's problem.
Hormuz
The world's most watched strait — roughly a fifth of globally traded oil transits here.
Malacca
The artery between the Indian Ocean and East Asia; a quarter of traded goods pass through.
Suez
Europe–Asia shortcut; a single grounding here once held up nearly $10B of trade per day.
Bab-el-Mandeb
The "Gate of Tears" — Suez traffic must pass here too, within sight of contested shores.
Panama
The Americas' shortcut; drought-driven draft limits ripple through global schedules.
Bosphorus
Black Sea grain and energy exit through a strait narrower than many rivers, mid-city.
Gibraltar
The Mediterranean's front door — naval movements here are read like tea leaves.
Lombok–Sunda
The deep-draft detours when Malacca is closed or crowded — watch them to see stress coming.
Built in the open, one watch at a time
LIVE — THE ENGINE'S OWN CHANGELOG
what this page has changed about itself, as it happensFlagship refit
Search-engine schema, social cards, the field manual, the chokepoint atlas, and a hold full of original artwork.
WION wire + self-healing grid
Sixth data network aboard; every source now auto-retries with backoff and refires on reconnect.
The global data grid
USGS, NASA EONET, Open-Meteo and ECB linked live; major quakes and storms join the graded feed.
Themes, illustrations, sonar pings
Three command themes, hand-drawn instrument art, click-to-ping hero, 3D card tilt.
Captain's Console + cinematic layer
No-code site management with one-click publish; animated network hero, ticker, live counters.
Keel laid
The trainable console, Admiralty grading, community deck, Duty Officer assistant, founding seats.
What the first crew says
Watchkeeper is built and run by a working intelligence analyst (see Command, below). User quotes are kept real — these slots stay empty until genuine members fill them, never stocked with invented names.
Your first real testimonial goes here — a sentence on what Watchkeeper caught that mattered.
A second honest quote — ideally about reliability grading or time saved.
A third — short, specific, true. One strong line beats three vague ones.
⚓ EARLY ACCESS · Watchkeeper is newly launched — be one of the first names on this wall. Use it free, then tell Mrs Dayal what it caught for you.
Arushi Dayal Sharma
GEOPOLITICAL INTELLIGENCE & OSINT ANALYST
Watchkeeper isn't a side project — it's an analyst's own tradecraft, productised. Arushi spent 3+ years in OSINT and SOCMINT, including time as a geopolitical risk analyst, where she built Boolean filtering logic to isolate high-impact events from real-time noise. The reliability grading, the Boolean search, the drafted briefs you see here are the same methods she applied for enterprise clients — every support ticket lands on her desk, not a bot farm.
Why not just use Google Alerts?
A fair question, answered plainly. If the free tools cover you, use them — Watchkeeper earns its price only where they fall short.
| Free alerts Google Alerts, raw RSS | Watchkeeper | |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability grading | None — every link looks equal | NATO Admiralty grade on every item |
| Noise control | Manual; inbox floods fast | Dedupes & learns your signal/noise verdicts |
| Corroboration | You cross-check by hand | Cross-outlet matching, trust that adapts |
| One scannable picture | Scattered emails | A drafted situation brief, refreshed automatically |
| World data alongside news | No | Quakes, events, chokepoint weather, FX in one view |
| Cost | Free | Free console · paid tiers for digests & teams |
No tool replaces an analyst's judgement — Watchkeeper sharpens it, it doesn't pretend to be it.
Before you sign on
What exactly is Watchkeeper?
A monitoring console for global events. It sweeps open-source news data every 15 minutes, grades each alert for reliability using the NATO Admiralty Code, and learns from your signal/noise verdicts so your feed sharpens over time.
Where does the data come from?
The GDELT Project for global news, plus live links to USGS (seismic), NASA EONET (Earth events), Open-Meteo (chokepoint weather), and ECB reference rates. All free, public, fully legal open data — Watchkeeper's value is the triage, grading, and personalization layered on top.
What does a grade like "B2" mean?
It's the NATO Admiralty Code: a letter for source reliability (A reliable → F unjudgeable) and a number for information credibility (1 confirmed → 6 unjudgeable). B2 means a usually-reliable source whose report is probably true — corroboration lifts grades further.
Is it live yet?
Yes — the console above is the working product: define your own watch sectors and it monitors the live wires for you, free, no signup, while the tab is open. Email/Telegram digests and accounts ship next; founding seats and the email list get them first.
What do founding members get?
One payment, four permanent things: a full year of Analyst, a founding badge, double weight on every roadmap vote forever, and a place on the first crew list. Seats are limited to 50 and never return.
Who is behind Watchkeeper?
It's built and run by Arushi Dayal Sharma, a geopolitical intelligence & OSINT analyst with 3+ years in the field — including time as a geopolitical risk analyst — and an M.A. from Goldsmiths, University of London. The grading and Boolean methods here are her professional tradecraft, not borrowed theory. Her LinkedIn is linked in the Command section.
Is my data private?
Your demo model, rank, and votes live on your own device. The only data that leaves this page is what you submit in forms — an email, a proposal, a ticket. No ad trackers, no analytics scripts, nothing sold.
Take the watch beyond the browser
The console works free right now while this tab is open. Email and Telegram digests ship next — leave your email and they arrive on day one, with Analyst free for three months for the first crew. Referrals earn you both an extra month.