Turnkey Software · Vigil
Social media moved beyond text to video. Most monitoring tools have not.
Vigil is a social media monitoring platform built around video. It transcribes, translates and analyses public social media discourse across the major platforms, turning multilingual video into a single searchable, analysable view.
Key facts
| Scope | Publicly accessible content only. No private accounts, no direct messages, no closed groups. |
|---|---|
| Coverage | The major international social media platforms, plus the regional and Chinese-language platforms that matter in this market. Full list on request. |
| Transcription | Speaker separation, timed subtitles and English translation on every video post |
| Hosting | Your choice: cloud, on-premise or anywhere else. Setup included. |
| Pricing | Subscription, by quotation |
Capabilities
What does Vigil do?
Vigil monitors the public discourse on the keywords and accounts you choose, transcribes and translates any video, classifies and summarises every post, and clusters related posts into narratives, all in one dashboard with live analytics over your filters. Every signal it raises is put to an analyst to assess; Vigil does not make the determination itself.
Transcription & translation
Speaker-separated transcripts with timed subtitles and full English translation on every video post.
Automatic classification
Sentiment, content category and a plain-language summary on every post.
Narrative clustering
Related posts grouped into narratives and tracked over time, across platforms and creators.
How a narrative spreads
Signals about the way a story travels. We would rather demonstrate this view than describe it here.
Continuity of record
The analysis, transcript and metrics stay available after a post leaves the platform.
Comparison
How is Vigil different from a typical social media monitoring tool?
The difference is video and intelligence. A conventional social media monitoring tool indexes captions and hashtags; Vigil transcribes and translates the spoken content of every video post, then reasons over it. Everything downstream, the classification, the summaries and the narrative clustering, works on what was actually said rather than on a caption.
Where that matters most is a market like this one, where much of the conversation happens in video and in more than one language at once. We would rather show you the difference on a topic you already care about than argue it in a table.Ask us for a demonstration and tell us the topic.
FAQ
Vigil: FAQ
- What is Vigil?
- Vigil is a social media monitoring platform built by Aliencode Tech around video. It monitors the public discourse on the keywords and accounts you choose, transcribes and translates the video, classifies and summarises each post, and groups related posts into narratives that can be tracked over time.
- What makes Vigil different from other social media monitoring tools?
- Most social media monitoring tools are built around text and treat video as a thumbnail. Vigil is built around video: every video post is transcribed with speaker separation and translated into English, so multilingual video discourse becomes searchable text rather than something an analyst has to sit and watch.
- What content does Vigil monitor?
- Publicly accessible content only, as any member of the public could see it. Private accounts, direct messages and closed groups are not accessible. Coverage of keyword searches also depends on each platform’s own search behaviour, and engagement statistics come from the platforms themselves.
- Where is Vigil data stored?
- Wherever you want it. Vigil follows backend-agnostic design principles, so the deployment can sit on cloud, on-premise or your own infrastructure, with encryption applied. We can also host it if you would rather not run it yourself. Either way setup is included, we work to the data security requirements agreed for the deployment, and personnel handling the system are trained in the handling of sensitive data.
- How much does Vigil cost?
- Vigil is licensed by subscription and quoted per deployment, against the scope you actually need. Contact us for a written quotation. We accept multiple payment currencies and methods.
- How quickly can Vigil be deployed?
- Vigil is an existing product rather than a build, so a configured dashboard can be stood up on short notice. Onboarding and live training are provided.
Get in touch
See Vigil running on live data.
This page says what Vigil is. What it does on your topics, in your languages, at the refresh and coverage you need, is a conversation rather than a specification sheet. Pick one topic in your market that is genuinely video heavy and genuinely multilingual and ask us to show it to you live: that is the fastest way to separate any two monitoring tools, ours included. Email us and we will set the dashboard up and walk you through it.