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Jun 10, 2026

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Introducing the AI Thread Assistant

[AI Thread Assistant Launch]

Instantly surface organization-specific threat mentions and critical actor identifiers to accelerate your investigation.

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It's been a little over six months since we released our AI Research Assistant, and in that time, it's answered over 1,780 complex dark, deep, and clear web queries — enabling cyber investigators to reclaim valuable time that was historically spent scouring forums, marketplaces, and encrypted chats to piece together information on an actor.

Following up on this strong uptake, we wanted to help more investigators save time. That's why we've made the AI Research Assistant available directly within the forum thread view, ensuring analysts can unlock additional context and accelerate their threat assessment without ever leaving their central point of investigation.

Key benefits

  • Surface organization and operation-related intelligence faster
  • Connect complex evidence automatically across the thread they are viewing
  • Empower analysts of all levels with natural language search

How it works

Within the forum view, Searchlighters can now ask questions about the thread they are viewing by opening the AI Thread Assistant. The research assistant will automatically query all data related to the specific thread to surface additional information relevant to your investigation.

This is what sets the research assistant apart: unlike AI tools like ChatGPT or internal LLMs, which lack domain expertise and are reliant on archived data, Searchlight's AI Research Assistant enables you to securely surface information on emerging threats in real time within an approved, trusted platform.

Visit our solution page to learn more about our investigation platform or book a demo today.

Introducing the AI Thread Assistant
Alex Blackman

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Alex Blackman

Head of Product Marketing at Searchlight Cyber

Alex Blackman leads product marketing at Searchlight Cyber, where he's responsible for taking the company's Preemptive Threat Exposure Management platform to market. Before joining Searchlight, Alex worked with global brands including Unilever and Allianz. He runs Searchlight's webinar programme and spends most of his time helping security teams understand why preemptive beats reactive and how that works in the Searchlight platform.

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