Polestar is an information-sharing and authoring tool that exploits source document metadata, enabling automation of some aspects of evidence gathering and finished intelligence report creation.
FEATURES
Polestar enables analysts to:
- Capture, organize, search, and share snippets of text from cable traffic via a folder-based interface similar to the Windows File Explorer.
- Create finished intelligence reports with automatic source citation and portion marking by dropping collected snippets of information into Microsoft Word.
- Easily view the source documents cited in a finished intelligence report.
- Revert documents to lower classification levels via a process similar to spell-checking that identifies all parts of a document that must be modified or deleted.
Polestar also helps analysts to individually and collaboratively construct more deeply reasoned intelligence reports in less time by making the structure of the argument visible in terms of claims supported by evidence and tempered by caveats. With a more-explicit structure, it’s far easier to zero in on an argument’s weak spots and evaluate its strengths.
Polestar also tracks every piece of information that flows through the system in a repository of links that ultimately enable the system to discover emergent collaborations, put analysts working on similar problems in touch with each other, and find patterns in the use of intelligence information that would otherwise remain invisible.
Polestar features a capability to organize documents by topic and perform “story creep” analysis and human-in-the-loop entity extraction for document tagging.
