The Warning Was There. It Was in a Language You Don’t Speak.

Daily intelligence briefings from 100+ local languages, 12-24 hours before international wire services. for commodity traders, mining companies, NGOs, and operations teams.

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Operational Certainty

100+
Languages Your Team Doesn’t Speak
12-24h
Before Wire Services
$499
Starting Price, Cancel Anytime

LIVE. CRITICAL CAMEROON: Cocoa prices plummet 75% from peak, ONCC FOB stagnant at 1,760 FCFA/kg | CRITICAL PAKISTAN: Religious scholar assassinated in Dalbandin, BLA activity corridor | CRITICAL HORMUZ: Iran blockade active, Brent crude $116/bbl, tanker diversions ongoing | HIGH GEORGIA: Patriarch Ilia II dies at 93, political succession implications | CRITICAL AZERBAIJAN: 13th Global Baku Forum, Iran-Azerbaijan tensions at border | HIGH TAJIKISTAN: Severe mudflow warning for Muminabad-Kulob corridor

“Our ground team in West Africa told us the report was wrong. Next day they called back, the report was right, they were wrong. We’d been looking for this kind of intelligence for five years. Nobody could deliver it.”

“The report had clear signals of the global cocoa price crash before anyone else.”

CEO, U.S.-Based Commodity Trading Firm, West Africa Operations
“Better than any security report we’ve ever seen. The relevance is incredible, and it’s a fraction of the cost.”

“When border guards were killed less than 3 miles from where our team was stationed, we knew about it before international news, and were able to act immediately.”

Security Director, International NGO, West Asia Operations
“It is better data and reporting than anything we have ever had available to us. Other companies want to offer a broad area of coverage and charge much more and only send monthly or quarterly reports.”
Security Director, International Nonprofit. 5 Active Deployments: Tajikistan, Tbilisi, Baku, Karachi

“Report was too good. The recent posts from you are what exactly happening in the field currently.”

M.R. Gandamalla, Operations Manager -- Cocoa & Cashew. Ivory Coast (Man & Bouake regions)

Trusted by security teams and commodity desks across 4 continents

As quoted in

Nikkei Asia

Asia’s leading financial publication — the Financial Times of the Asia-Pacific, read by executives, investors, and policymakers across 40+ countries.

“The U.S.-Israel-Iran war has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz” sending Brent crude oil well past $100 per barrel and “inflating diesel costs for a mine that runs entirely on generators in an area already suffering severe [power failure].”

— Sean Hagarty, CEO of Region Alert

Also quoted: Lisa Curtis, Director of Indo-Pacific Security, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

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Full feature based on Region Alert intelligence

Confectionery Production (est. 1934) — the leading international trade journal for the global chocolate and confectionery industry. By Neill Barston.

“The latest regional study, courtesy of market analyst Sean Hagarty, revealed a concerning picture for a nation hit by pricing instability and crop disease… The combination of crashing farmgate prices, severe Black Pod risks from high humidity, and the fuel import suspension creates a compounding crisis. Farmers lack capital for fungicides just as disease risk peaks, while fuel shortages threaten to strand whatever beans are harvested.”
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International coverage

LIGA.net — Ukraine’s leading business news portal, ranked in the top 10 Ukrainian media for business and investment coverage.

“Sean Hagarty, head of analytical company Region Alert, noted that the decision was influenced by the simultaneous layering of several factors, including economic pressure due to the war with Iran and a sharp rise in oil prices.”
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From the field

“What I see in your analysis is exactly as you describe it. On the ground, the workers are definitely afraid of what is happening in the province and in the cities. Your analysis fully matches our daily and weekly security reports.”

Security Manager, Western Pakistan Mining Operations

On location, Balochistan

How It Works

Three steps between you and intelligence your competitors will never see.

01. Tell Us Your Regions

Cameroon cocoa belt, Balochistan mining corridor, Hormuz oil shipping, wherever you operate. Currently active in 8 countries. New regions operational within 48 hours.

02. We Read What Your Team Can’t

12,000+ items daily from local Telegram channels, regional radio, Facebook groups, commodity exchanges, and weather stations in Pidgin, French, Urdu, Farsi, and 96 more languages.

03. You Get a 6 AM Briefing

Threat levels, price signals, port status, security alerts, and forward-looking intelligence, structured for decisions, not just reading. Act before your competitors even know.

Intelligence That Pays for Itself

One missed port closure can cost more than a year of coverage. One early warning can save an operation.

Commodity Traders & International Buyers

Catch supply chain disruptions before they hit prices.

  • Port closures, union strikes, and customs fraud at Douala, from French-language local sources, not Reuters
  • Cross-border smuggling signals that explain why your contracted volume is short
  • ONCC/FRED price data contextualized with on-the-ground intelligence
  • Farmgate price movements from Telegram groups and local radio your broker never monitors
  • Active: Cocoa (Cameroon, Ivory Coast). Pipeline ready for coffee, vanilla, palm oil, tea. Tell us your commodity

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Mining & Extractive Companies

Know about the attack before the evacuation order.

  • BLA/BLF activity near Reko Diq corridor, from Urdu and Pashto sources
  • Community unrest signals before they become roadblocks
  • Supply route disruptions and alternative corridor recommendations
  • Active: Pakistan (Reko Diq, Balochistan). Insurance and compliance documentation for underwriters and auditors

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NGOs & Humanitarian Organizations

ISO 31030 duty of care compliance from $499/mo.

  • Daily briefings that prove you’re monitoring the threat landscape for your staff
  • Flash alerts for incidents within your operational radius
  • Ground-truth intelligence in local languages your security team doesn’t speak

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Oil, Gas & Energy Operations

Pipeline threats, shipping lane closures, and refinery risk, from Farsi sources.

  • Hormuz Strait blockade intelligence from Iranian-language monitoring
  • BTC pipeline security from Azerbaijani, Russian, and Georgian sources
  • Insurance-grade threat assessments updated daily

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A Kidnapping, a War, a Bombing, and a Riot

Four near misses. Four times the information existed somewhere, in a language I could not read.

On a business trip outside Tbilisi, I found myself a mile from Russian troops. Weeks earlier, they had kidnapped a local man in the same area. I had no idea.

Months later, my family drove toward the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. War had just broken out. The news was in Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaijani. We were an hour from an active conflict zone.

Then I walked out of the metro into a riot on Rustaveli Avenue. Tear gas. Overturned police cars. I walked straight into it, because I did not know.

So I built Region Alert. Not breaking news. Breaking context.

Sean Hagarty, Founder

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Enterprise Intelligence, Startup Pricing

Crisis24 charges $100K+/year. We charge less than one analyst’s monthly coffee budget.

Cancel anytime. No contracts. No cancellation fees. Free sample report first.

NGO & Field Teams

$499/month

Duty of care compliance and daily threat monitoring for humanitarian organizations.

  • 100+ language monitoring
  • Daily email briefings at 6 AM
  • Flash alerts for critical events
  • ISO 31030 compliance documentation
  • Cancel anytime, no contracts
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Operational Standard

Commodity & Enterprise

$999/month

Supply chain intelligence, price signals, and operational risk monitoring for commodity traders, mining, and energy.

  • 100+ language monitoring
  • Daily briefings + flash alerts
  • Slack integration
  • Supply chain & price signal intelligence
  • Dedicated analyst support
  • Cancel anytime, no contracts
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Common Questions

How is this different from Crisis24 or International SOS?

Crisis24 charges $100K-$500K/year and relies primarily on English-language wire services. International SOS bundles medical with security at enterprise prices. We monitor 100+ local languages, Pidgin, Farsi, Urdu, French, Arabic, catching events 12-24 hours before they appear in English. Daily briefings, not monthly reports. From $499/mo, not $50K/yr.

What sources do you actually monitor?

We process 12,000+ items daily from local-language Telegram channels, Facebook groups, regional radio transcripts, commodity exchange data, weather stations, government communiques, and 250+ RSS feeds per region. We read the chatter in languages your team doesn’t speak, and turn it into structured intelligence.

How quickly do alerts arrive?

You receive a structured daily briefing at 6 AM. For critical events, border closures, attacks near operations, major price movements, we issue flash alerts within the hour. Our detection lead averages 12-24 hours before events appear in international English-language media.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. Monthly billing, cancel anytime, no contracts, no cancellation fees. We keep clients because the intelligence is worth it, not because of a contract.

What regions do you cover?

We monitor sources in 100+ languages across Africa, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and South Asia. Active daily briefings currently run for clients in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Pakistan (Karachi and Balochistan), Iran and the Hormuz Strait, the Republic of Georgia (Tbilisi), Azerbaijan (Baku), and Tajikistan (Dushanbe and border regions). New coverage areas are operational within 48 hours. If we can read the language, we can cover the region.

How reliable is the intelligence?

Every claim in our briefings cites its source. We cross-reference across language boundaries, if a Telegram channel reports an event, we verify against local radio, regional media, and government sources before elevating. Human-built classification rules ensure quality. We flag unverified single-source reports explicitly.

Who is this built for?

Commodity traders monitoring supply chain disruptions. Mining companies with remote operations. NGOs needing duty of care compliance. Oil and gas operators watching pipeline corridors. If you have money, people, or cargo in a country where the local news isn’t in English, you need this.

Can I see a sample before buying?

Yes. Tell us which region you care about and we’ll send you a real intelligence briefing within 24 hours. Free, no credit card, no sales pressure. The report sells itself.

Tell Us Where You Operate. We’ll Show You What You’re Missing.

Get a real intelligence briefing for your region within 24 hours. Free, from Sean, the founder. No sales team, no pressure.

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