1.
Real-Time Media &
News Monitoring

2.
The story of three guys in a
garage…
David Benigson
CEO
Wesley Hall
CTO
Miguel Martinez
Head of Research

3.
“To deliver highly relevant content to our clients
in real-time, intelligently mined from the world’s
news”
Mission Statement

4.
The story so far…
• Moved out of the garage
• $1.8M seed round raised (as seen on )
• Team grows to 25 members
• 15 paying clients (without a sales team)
• Ramping up sales

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How we work…
• Hyper-agile
• Cross functional teams
• Just-in-time decision making
• Constant refactoring
• Wig of shame (see twitter @signalhq)

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Technology stack…

7.
Architectural Overview

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Adapters receive and
normalise content
• Moreover
• LexisNexis
• NLA
• Twitter (coming soon…)
• Scrapers (coming soon…)

9.
Analysers perform text
analytics tasks
• Summarisation
• Topic classification
• Named entity recognition
• Deduplication
• Clustering

10.
Articles and metadata index
• Elasticsearch
• 18 large data nodes (and growing)
• 250 million articles (and growing)
• Sub-second search in most cases

11.
NodeJS API
• REST(ify)
• RamdaJS (functional programming)
• Allows FE developers to develop end-2-end
features

12.
AngularJS Front-End
• Component based design
• D3 visualisations
• Foundation for apps CSS framework

13.
Coming soon…(?)
• Social
• Sentiment
• Machine Translation
• World domination

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Questions?