Sean Hagarty
Founder & CEO, Region Alert
Former conflict zone resident • Monitors 100+ languages daily • LinkedIn
Founder & CEO, Region Alert
Former conflict zone resident • Monitors 100+ languages daily • LinkedIn
We had the privilege of living in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. A beautiful country, one hour from Russian-occupied territory.
I was on a guided business trip to meet a farmer outside the city. At some point I noticed tall razor-wire fencing less than a mile from where we were standing. We had been driven to within a mile of Russian troops. A team of Americans, casually meeting a farmer. Weeks earlier, a local man had been kidnapped by those same troops in that same area. It barely made the local news. I had no idea until much later. I could have become the international story.
Months after that, my family drove southeast to visit a monastery near the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan. What we did not know was that war between the two countries had just broken out. We were within an hour of an active conflict zone. The news was in Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaijani. It made international headlines eventually, but not before I had driven my family toward a war zone with no way of knowing.
Then one morning I met new team members at the airport and helped them get settled. I took the metro back to my apartment. When I came up at my stop on Rustaveli Avenue, my eyes started watering from tear gas. There was an overturned police car on fire. Another flying down the main street. Hundreds of thousands of people had been protesting through the night. I walked straight into it, because I did not know.
Later, a close friend told me about a family living near a border region that had been bombed by ISIS. Twelve miles away. They were running a small business in a remote area, and the news only picked it up a week later. He asked me if I could build something to keep them safe.
Something I wished I had.
Something that gathers all of the local news and intelligence, from every source, in every language, and puts it in one place that can be read and understood.
So I built Region Alert.
Four near misses. Four times the information existed somewhere, in a language I could not read or a news cycle that had not caught up yet.
Region Alert now delivers daily intelligence briefs in areas where the gap between what is happening and what you know can get people hurt. Mining corridors. Commodity supply chains. Personnel security for organizations operating far from home.
Not breaking news. Breaking context.
Region Alert is the convergence of thirty years of research, systems engineering, and international business operations.
Member, Owner, and Vice President. Established the LLC, the business framework, and US customer contracts. Built an education and training center serving international clients. This is where I learned firsthand how language, business culture, and ground reality intersect — and how often the “official” story is delayed, translated incorrectly, or simply missing.
Managed approximately $30M in concurrent state-level Medicaid billing system projects, directly resulting in over $3M ARR. The work taught me what attention to detail looks like at scale: in one engagement, methodical billing-data review surfaced a multi-million-dollar oversight that had previously gone unnoticed for years. That same pattern-recognition discipline drives Region Alert’s daily intelligence synthesis.
Pure research and analytics, plus systems engineering, serving title and abstract research clients across New York. Twenty-five-plus years of operating a research-discipline business gave me the workflow rigor that Region Alert is built on: source verification, audit trails, and signal-over-noise filtering before anything reaches a customer.
Five years inside a major insurance carrier built my understanding of how risk industries actually consume intelligence: what they need to act, what they archive for compliance, and what gets ignored. Insurance is fundamentally an information-asymmetry business. So is regional security.
Multiple board positions over the past two decades, including several non-profits I still sit on. Governance experience that shapes how I think about transparency, methodology, and accountability in published intelligence work.
Region Alert’s primary intelligence has been cited in major international financial and trade publications.
Nikkei Asia
“The U.S.-Israel-Iran war has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz... inflating diesel costs for a mine that runs entirely on generators in an area already suffering severe power failure.”
Read the Nikkei Asia article →Confectionery Production
“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.”
Read the Confectionery Production article →LIGA.net
“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.”
Read the LIGA.net article →Multilingual business and cultural fluency that shapes how Region Alert reads regional signals.
Region Alert’s daily intelligence synthesis monitors signals across 100+ languages via large-language-model translation pipelines — my multilingual baseline is what taught me which signals to look for and how often the most important reporting is in a language Western media never covers.
Beyond the published intelligence, I directly assist NGOs and small businesses operating in high-risk areas:
Region Alert is not just a publication. For organizations that cannot afford a full-time analyst but operate where one would be useful, I work with leadership directly — the way I wished someone had been available when I was driving my family toward a war zone with no warning.
I respond to every message personally.