FEATURES The instrument

Every emotion, measured like sound.

Foreshock turns language into geometry, then reads that geometry the way an audio equalizer reads sound: dozens of dimensions, each with its own level, all moving at once. No reasoning, no string matching, no guessing.

01 Emotional spectrum

Over 75 dimensions, mapped and visualized.

We measure and visualize the emotional spectrum the way an equalizer measures and visualizes sound. Each dimension is graduated by intensity, so tone is preserved instead of flattened into a single label.

● SPECTRUM ANALYZER 75 SENSORS · GRADUATED
Joy
+0.42
Anger
0.08
Hedging
0.21
Partisanism
−0.05
02 Signed intent

Outlook and motivation, with a sign.

Signed intent indexes determine the outlook and the magnitude of motivational content. Foreshock tells a call for calm from a call to action, and measures how strongly a message pushes a reader toward doing something. Outlook runs optimistic, neutral, pessimistic; motivation runs from damping to mobilizing.

See the math
INTENT · SIGNED INDEX
Outlook
+0.34
Motivation
+0.22
Calm ↔ act
−0.19

center line = neutral · sign = direction · length = magnitude

03 Community shunts

20 open semantic boundaries your community sets.

Foreshock ships with over 20 community-editable shunt-trip semantic beacons that identify abusive content by similarity, distance and dot product. They are not regexes and not keyword lists. They match concepts, so changing a few words gets a bad actor nowhere, and any member can inspect what the system watches for.

How shunts work
ACTIVE SHUNTS · 20
A
Centroid-weighted

High-nuance, intrinsic. Tuned, not constantly edited.

B
Mean-pooled

Editable every second. Built for shifting tactics.

04 Latent Content Erasure

Subtract identified noise; score any remaining signal.

Advanced Trust & Safety shunts can be projected onto specimen vectors for Latent Content Erasure, scoring the remaining vectors independently of the problematic match. Whatever signal rises above geometric noise after erasure is the specimen's residual numerical value to whatever considers it next. That re-score distribution heavily informs the confidence that a specimen was created with at least benign intent.

The projection, explained
LCE · RE-SCORE
Raw score
82
Shunt match
64
Residual
11

residual near noise floor → reject with confidence

05 Two jobs, one engine

Millisecond safety. Long-range insight.

Classification is cheap and fast enough to keep an organization safe from external threats in real time. The same engine, pointed inward at random samplings of internal communication, surfaces underlying tension, fear or anger well before it erupts into a visible volcano.

Outward, in milliseconds

Resource-cheap scoring runs at event-stream speed, so the firewall never becomes the bottleneck.

Inward, over time

Sample chatter continuously and watch morale move. Read the case studies by org size.

The social seismograph

Tension registers as a tremor on the spectrum long before it reaches the surface as a crisis.

Connect a source

Integrates with whatever you run right now.

RSS and ATOM, Slack, Discord, Bluesky, Mastodon, and a one-shot API.

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