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The TRANSCRIPT (Threat Intelligence Database and Coordination Platform) is a user-friendly digital infrastructure for collective defence against influence operations, integrating the Disruption Framework and Workflows into a single, digital platform.
Three core layers:
- Threat Intelligence Database – Aggregates actor affiliations, cases, narratives, and channels for standardised, collaborative documentation and attribution.
- Smart Text Editor – Lets users draft reports with real-time cross-checking against the database. Pull evidence from existing cases and actor profiles as you write, and feed automatically new insights back into the system.
- “Disrupt” Function – Uses the Framework and Workflows to recommend concrete disruption measures tailored to the specific case you are working on.
Made by the community for the community, with no IT technical knowledge required.
The TRANSCRIPT Platform is a centralised digital system that transforms raw intelligence into actionable defence. It enables users to:
- Document & Map Threats: Standardise case documentation, track narratives, channels, and threat actors, and aggregate fact-checks in a collaborative, searchable database, eliminating redundant research.
- Draft & Validate Reports: Use a smart text editor that feeds links into the system and helps the researcher automatically encode cases and pull in knowledge from previous investigations. If it is documented, the system will provide you with previously aggregated knowledge. The system prevents duplication of existing research while enabling easy qualitative data aggregation.
- Generate Disruption Strategies: The "Disrupt" function analyses the operation and recommends tailored countermeasures from the Disruption Framework and Workflows.
- Share & Coordinate: Facilitate large-scale collaboration, enabling teams to aggregate knowledge, align responses, track progress, and scale impact.
From evidence to action, the Platform turns intelligence into faster, smarter, and unified disruption, efficiently defending democracy.
Terms and Framework Guide
Threat Actor Mapping
The threat actor mapping section of TRANSCRIPT enables organisations to aggregate their understanding of the relationship between, e.g. a state and the entities they own, control, fund, partner with, support, systematically amplify, or are being systematically amplified by.
Asset list
The asset list outlines, e.g. social media profiles and websites that these actors operate.
Meta Narrative and Claims Taxonomy
We are building upon the EU-funded PROMPT taxonomy of Narratives and Claims. This taxonomy will be developed over time with your contributions!
Defender catalogue
A database where organisations can list themselves as Defenders, providing information about themselves, their priorities, competencies, and ongoing projects. Through this system, you will be able to find partners for grant proposals, research projects, or contractors.
Events
The event section enables the aggregation of reports around a specific event that the community collaborated on. At the moment, each event only aggregates reports related to the event, but in the near future, we will also pull data from these events into a dashboard.
DISRUPT Framework
TRANSCRIPT is also where the Disrupt framework lives! The system allows trusted partners to edit the framework, add to it, and create their own versions of it. All contributions are acknowledged and credited to the contributor.
Report Writer
The report writer allows organisations to simply write their reports like they always would. While they write, the system will check every link added to the report to identify if it leads to a web or social media asset that has already been identified as belonging to a known actor. The system automatically adds the asset, the actor it is related to, and the threat actor it is related to, and shows the relationships. The system also detects if you add a DISARM URL to the system and automatically tags the correct TTP for you. At the moment, you can also manually tag legal violations, the country being targeted, the Defenders being involved, the claims and narratives, and the event the investigations were related to. The system will also flag to you any related previous reports that cover some of the same components as yours.