About Distill Intelligence

What Distill Intelligence does

Distill Intelligence is a company intelligence and news monitoring platform. It follows the companies and topics you care about and tells you when something important happens.

• Track any company or topic

  Follow any company by its website, or create your own topics for anything you want to follow, from open banking to semiconductor supply chains.

• Monitor every source, in any language

  Distill finds updates across news outlets, trade publications, company blogs, newsrooms, and LinkedIn posts, including the ones that never make the headlines. Articles in other languages are translated into English automatically.

• Filter by topic and business impact

  Narrow your feed to events like product launches, funding rounds, or leadership changes, and hide routine posts with little business impact.

• Get updates where your team already works

  Read updates in the web app, or get them by email, in Slack or Microsoft Teams, or through the REST API.

Who uses Distill Intelligence

Teams that need to know when something important happens at the companies and markets they follow.

• Investment firms and private equity

  Tracking portfolio companies, keeping tabs on deal targets, and following specific market sectors.

• Consultancies and corporate strategy

  Monitoring competitors, staying on top of industry movements, and gathering insights for commercial due diligence.

• Market research and intelligence

  Following entire sectors and turning the latest developments into client newsletters, briefings, and landscape reports.

• Product and marketing teams

  Tracking competitor product launches, feature updates, pricing changes, and messaging shifts.

• Sales and business development

  Spotting trigger events, executive hires, and expansions to reach out to prospects at the right time.

• Developers, data teams, and AI engineers

  Pulling structured, deduplicated company news into dashboards, CRMs, or AI applications via the Company News API.

How Distill works

From signup to your first update in a few minutes.

1. Step 1

   Two-minute onboarding

   Start a 14-day free trial with your work email and set up your first watchlists in about two minutes, with no credit card required. Teams can also get help with bulk domain imports and shared workspace setup.

2. Step 2

   Continuous monitoring

   Distill checks every source around the clock. When a company makes an announcement or gets covered in the press, the update is picked up, translated into English if needed, and added to your feed.

3. Step 3

   Automated summaries and impact scoring

   Duplicate reports are clustered into a single event with links to every source. Distill then filters out marketing noise, writes a short summary, and scores the event by business impact.

4. Step 4

   Updates on your schedule

   Get real-time alerts as news breaks, a daily recap of the last 24 hours, or a Friday digest of the week’s biggest developments.

What makes Distill different

Most monitoring tools are built around stock tickers or keyword alerts. Distill is built around companies.

• Full coverage of private companies

  Many tools only cover companies with stock tickers. Distill works for any business with a website, from niche startups to large public corporations.

• Tracks companies, not keywords

  Keyword-based alerts can’t tell Apple the company from apple the fruit. Distill tracks each company as an entity, so you only see news that is actually about it.

• Direct company announcements

  Beyond third-party news outlets, Distill monitors where companies share their own news first, like corporate blogs, changelogs, press rooms, and LinkedIn.

• Only the developments that matter

  Most alert tools send a link every time a name is mentioned. Distill surfaces the developments that are actually important to your business, so nothing critical gets lost in the noise.

• The same data in the app and the API

  The news and company data behind the dashboard is also available through the Company News API, ready to feed into CRMs, internal tools, or AI applications.

• Straightforward pricing

  No sales calls or forced annual contracts. Distill is self-serve, starts at $59/month with monthly billing, and includes a 14-day free trial.

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