Pacific Media
Intelligence Platform
Automated ingestion, AI classification, and structured briefing of Pacific region media — delivering actionable intelligence to decision-makers who need to understand what's happening across the world's largest ocean.
AI-powered data solutions — Sydney, Australia
234
Articles
18
Countries
+0.12
Sentiment
14
Sources
Sentiment by Lens
18 Pacific nations monitored
Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia
What is Pulsica?
Pulsica is an AI-powered media intelligence platform purpose-built for the Pacific region. It continuously monitors news sources across 18 Pacific Island nations, classifies every article through four strategic lenses, and delivers a structured daily intelligence brief.
Continuous Monitoring
14 media sources monitored every 2 hours — RSS feeds, news APIs, and web scrapers capture the full spectrum of Pacific media, from national newspapers to regional policy institutes.
AI-Powered Classification
Every article is analysed by AI for sentiment, strategic relevance, thematic content, and geographic attribution. Irrelevant content is automatically filtered out using relevance scoring.
Structured Intelligence Brief
A single-page dashboard answers 'What happened in the Pacific today?' — sentiment trends, country-level analysis, lens breakdowns, source credibility, and notable articles.
How It Works
From raw RSS feed to executive brief in five automated stages. The entire pipeline runs unattended — analysts receive finished intelligence, not raw data.
Ingest
Step 1 of 5Automated collection from 14 configured sources via RSS, web scraping, and NewsAPI. Runs every 2 hours during business hours (6 AM – 10 PM AEST).
Deduplication by URL prevents double-counting. Each article captures title, full content, source, country (when known), and publication date.
Classify
Step 2 of 5Every new article is sent to the AI provider (GPT-4o-mini or Ollama) for structured classification in a single prompt.
Returns: sentiment score (−1 to +1), sentiment label, primary lens, secondary lenses, themes, key entities (people, organisations, countries), summary, author detection, relevance score, and country detection.
Filter
Step 3 of 5Articles are scored 0.0–1.0 for Pacific region relevance. Those below the threshold (default 0.3) are excluded from analytics but retained in the database.
Product ads, domestic Australian news, entertainment, and off-topic content are suppressed — only genuine Pacific intelligence reaches the brief.
Analyse
Step 4 of 512 analytics endpoints aggregate the filtered data into actionable intelligence: sentiment trends, country breakdowns, lens distributions, theme extraction, and more.
All queries respect the relevance threshold. Unscored legacy articles are included for backward compatibility until reclassification runs.
Brief
Step 5 of 5The dashboard presents a structured intelligence brief — executive summary, Australia focus, sentiment analysis, source credibility, geographic coverage, and lens breakdown.
Designed for morning briefings: a single page that answers 'What happened in the Pacific overnight?' with data-driven confidence.
14 Configured Media Sources
A curated network of Pacific-focused media outlets, policy institutes, and news aggregators. Each source is configured with its feed URL, expected country, and collection method.
RNZ Pacific
ABC Pacific
The Guardian Pacific
Lowy Interpreter
DevPolicy Blog
Fiji Times
Islands Business
Samoa Observer
PNG Post-Courier
Solomon Star
Pacific Islands Forum
SPC News
DFAT Pacific
NewsAPI
Collection Schedule
Every 2 hours
Automatic ingestion cycle
6 AM – 10 PM AEST
Active monitoring window
On-demand refresh
Admin-triggered ingestion
Four Strategic Lenses
Every article is classified through one of four analytical lenses, providing a structured framework for understanding Pacific media coverage by strategic domain.
Defence
Military cooperation, security agreements, force posture, AUKUS, naval deployments
Political
Elections, governance changes, diplomatic relations, sovereignty issues, policy shifts
Community
Climate adaptation, health, education, infrastructure, cultural events, aid programs
Foreign Influence
China/Russia engagement, soft power, economic leverage, security pacts, Belt & Road
How lens assignment works
The AI analyses each article's content, entities, and context to assign a primary lens and zero or more secondary lenses. For example, a story about Chinese naval exercises near PNG would receive Defence as primary and Foreign Influence as secondary. The dashboard aggregates by primary lens for clarity, while secondary lenses are available in article detail views.
Scoring & Thresholds
Two key metrics drive data quality and analytical insight. Understanding these scores is essential for interpreting the intelligence brief correctly.
Relevance Score
AI-assigned score measuring how directly an article relates to Pacific region media intelligence. Articles scoring below 0.3 are considered off-topic and excluded from all analytics.
Threshold: 0.3 — Articles scoring below this value are excluded from all 12 analytics endpoints but remain in the database. The Data Quality bar on the dashboard shows how many articles were filtered. Administrators can adjust this threshold or reclassify articles using the updated AI prompt.
Sentiment Score
AI-assigned sentiment indicating the overall tone of the article toward its subject matter. Used to detect shifts in regional media narrative.
Additional Classification Outputs
Themes
2–5 topic tags per article (e.g. 'military cooperation', 'climate policy')
Key Entities
Named people, organisations, and countries extracted from the content
Country Detection
AI identifies the primary Pacific country when the source doesn't specify one
Author Detection
Identifies the journalist/author and their role from article metadata
Summary
2-sentence AI-generated summary of each article for quick scanning
Sentiment Label
Categorical label: Very Negative → Very Positive, mapped from score
The Intelligence Brief
The dashboard is structured as a morning intelligence brief — each section answers a specific analytical question, flowing from executive summary to detailed breakdowns.
Executive Summary
What's the high-level picture?
Four KPIs at a glance: total relevant articles (with ingestion vs filtered context), Australia mentions as a percentage of coverage, overall sentiment score with period-over-period trend, and number of active sources. The Data Quality bar shows how many articles were filtered by relevance scoring.
Australia Focus
How is Australia being discussed in Pacific media?
Tracks articles mentioning Australia in key entities — by source country, daily trend, and sentiment breakdown. Answers whether Pacific coverage of Australia is positive or negative, and which countries are talking about it most.
Sentiment Intelligence
What's the overall tone of Pacific media?
Donut chart showing sentiment distribution across all articles, with percentages computed from actual totals (not rounded approximations). Accompanied by the 3 most positive and 3 most negative articles for manual review.
Source Intelligence
Which outlets and journalists are driving coverage?
Top 10 media sources ranked by article volume with average sentiment and dominant lens. Top 10 authors ranked similarly — useful for identifying key voices and potential biases in Pacific reporting.
Strategic Lens Breakdown
What domains are getting the most attention?
Per-lens article counts, average sentiment, and top theme. Quickly reveals whether Defence or Foreign Influence stories are dominating the cycle, and what specific topics are driving each lens.
Geographic Coverage
Which countries are in the news?
Country-level breakdown with article counts, average sentiment, and regional grouping (Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia). The interactive map view (separate page) provides spatial visualisation with marker clustering.
Recent Articles
What just came in?
The five most recently ingested articles with source, country, sentiment badge, and direct link to the original. Serves as a quick-scan feed for the very latest coverage.
Connectivity & Deployment
Pulsica is designed for dual deployment: a cloud-connected instance for day-to-day use, and an air-gapped configuration for classified environments. The same codebase powers both.
OFFICIAL Mode
Cloud-connected deployment
Internet connectivity required
RSS feeds, NewsAPI, web scrapers all fetch from public internet
OpenAI GPT-4o-mini for classification
API calls to OpenAI for sentiment, lens, theme, and relevance analysis
AWS Application Load Balancer
pulsica.axiomdata.com.au — sovereign TLS via AWS Certificate Manager, Sydney region, no third-party CDN in path
Docker Compose orchestration
Frontend, Backend, PostgreSQL — single command deployment
SECRET Mode
Air-gapped deployment
No internet connectivity
Pre-loaded data or sneakernet transfer of article archives
Ollama for local AI classification
Runs entirely on-premise — no data leaves the network
docker-compose.secret.yml overlay
Switches AI_PROVIDER to Ollama, disables external fetching
Same PostgreSQL backend
Identical schema, analytics, and dashboard — different data path
Technical Stack
Frontend
Next.js 14 + TypeScript
Tailwind, Recharts, Leaflet
Backend
Python + FastAPI
SQLAlchemy async, Pydantic
Database
PostgreSQL
Alembic migrations
AI
GPT-4o-mini / Ollama
Switchable via env var
How to Use the Brief
The intelligence brief is designed for a specific workflow. Here's how to get the most value from it.
Morning check — Executive Summary
Open the dashboard and scan the four KPIs. Is article volume normal? Is sentiment shifting? How many sources are active? The Data Quality bar tells you if any articles were filtered for irrelevance.
Australia Focus — Track perception
Check if Australia mentions are trending up or down, and whether sentiment toward Australia is shifting. Drill into which Pacific nations are discussing Australia and in what context.
Sentiment scan — Spot anomalies
Review the sentiment distribution pie chart. If negative coverage spikes, check the “Most Negative” articles to understand what's driving it. These often surface emerging crises.
Lens analysis — Strategic priorities
The lens breakdown reveals which strategic domain is dominating the news cycle. A spike in Foreign Influence coverage might warrant a deeper investigation via the articles view.
Geographic drill-down — Country context
Switch to the Map view for spatial awareness. Click countries to see article counts and sentiment. Use the Geographic Coverage table for precise numbers and regional grouping.
Deep dive — Articles view
Filter by country, lens, sentiment, or keyword search. Each article shows AI-generated summary, themes, entities, and a link to the original source for verification.
Time period controls
Use the 7d / 30d / 90d toggle in the top bar to adjust the analysis window. 7-day gives you the current week's picture. 30-day provides monthly trends. 90-day reveals longer-term narrative shifts and seasonal patterns in coverage.
Built by Axiom Data
Axiom Data specialises in AI-powered data solutions for Australian government and enterprise. We design, build, and deploy bespoke intelligence platforms that transform raw data into decision-ready insight.
Pulsica demonstrates our capability to deliver production-grade analytics platforms with AI classification, real-time data pipelines, and dual-deployment architectures — from concept to working product.
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