CASM Technology LLP

What CASM Technology LLP does

CASM Technology LLP is a UK-based counter-disinformation and online harms technology provider that designs and operates AI-driven tools for monitoring, detecting and analysing influence operations across social media and the open web. Its portfolio is built on Method52, a proprietary visual programming platform with 100 components that allows subject matter experts to assemble data collection and analysis 'architectures' combining NLP, machine learning and network-science techniques. Specialised products include Beam (real-time narrative tracking and election defence across six platforms and 12+ languages), Antidote (an analytical workbench for identifying hostile manipulation of LLM outputs), DISARMer (DISARM-framework-based document tagging using agentic LLM workflows), CatMap (LLM-assisted narrative and category discovery) and Climate Disinformation Dashboards.

The company serves governments and public authorities (UK Cabinet Office, New Zealand Government, Swedish Institute, BBC Monitoring), charities and civic society organisations (ISD, Demos, Purpose, Climate Nexus, Stop Funding Heat, Citizens Advice, GITOC), academic partners (University of Edinburgh, University of Sussex), and selected private-sector clients (WindEurope, News UK), with technology deployed in 10 countries and intelligence delivered to 400+ civil society organizations. Its revenue model is project-based, generated primarily through research contracts and grants from philanthropic and governmental funders (notably the Gates Foundation and the European Media and Information Fund), with go-to-market driven by published research, thought leadership, partnerships with established institutions such as ISD and BBC Monitoring, and direct engagement with EU regulators and policymakers. Notable commercial outcomes include 7 elections defended, 28 public investigations, 150+ media exposés of disinformation, 10,000+ illicit wildlife trade detections, and recognition as joint winner of the Paris-US Tech Challenge and Tech Partner to EcoBotNet's 2022 British Journalism Awards Innovation of the Year win.

Name

CASM Technology LLP

Legal name

CASM Technology LLP

Website

https://casmtechnology.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CASM Technology LLP is a UK-based counter-disinformation technology provider that builds AI-powered tools — built on its Method52 platform — for monitoring and analysing online harms. It serves governments, NGOs, academics and select private-sector clients across 10 countries through products such as Beam, Antidote and DISARMer.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Disinformation Detection Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Spam, Fake Engagement & Content Abuse Prevention (HDADALAG)

Keywords

• Disinformation detection technology
• Online harms analytics
• Narrative tracking software
• LLM poisoning detection
• Coordinated inauthentic behavior

Headquarters

HQ city

Brighton

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Research Contracts and Grants: CASM Technology generates revenue through research contracts with government agencies, EU regulators, and international organizations. They conduct funded research initiatives such as the 18-month EMIF-funded project with ISD and AFP, and Gates Foundation-supported anti-vaccine disinformation research.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CASM Technology LLP develops and operates a portfolio of counter-disinformation software platforms anchored by its core Method52 visual programming platform. Its sellable products include Method52 (modular data collection and analysis platform with 100 components), Antidote (LLM poisoning detection workbench), Beam (real-time cross-platform narrative tracking across six social media platforms and 12+ languages), DISARMer (DISARM-framework LLM-assisted tagging tool), CatMap (LLM-driven narrative discovery and classification), and Climate Disinformation Dashboards deployed to civil-society organizations.

Product overview

CASM Technology LLP offers a portfolio of counter-disinformation and online harm detection products built on their core Method52 platform. Method52 is a modular, graphical platform allowing subject matter experts to combine 100 components for constructing data collection and analysis architectures. Key products include Antidote (LLM poisoning detection and analysis), Beam (real-time narrative tracking and electoral interference detection), DISARMer (DISARM framework documentation tool), CatMap (narrative discovery and classification), and Climate Disinformation Dashboards. These products share NLP, ML, and AI capabilities while serving distinct use cases in disinformation research, election protection, and coordinated inauthentic behavior detection.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Method52: Core platform providing an environment and suite of tools for building 'architectures' that collect and analyse data using natural language processing and machine learning.
• Antidote
• Beam
• DISARMer
• CatMap

Products and services

• Method52 Core platform and visual programming environment with 100 components for graphical, modular construction of architectures that collect and analyse data related to online harms problems, used by subject matter experts and partner organizations.
• Antidote Analytical workbench designed to identify hostile manipulation of LLM outputs; ingests seed narratives, expands them, generates query variants capturing diverse user framing, probes LLM service providers, and identifies vulnerabilities and web assets that facilitate manipulation.
• Beam Counter-disinformation technology for real-time narrative tracking and classification across six social media platforms, multiple news aggregators, hundreds of websites and forums in over a dozen languages including French, German, Italian, Arabic, Dhivehi, Somali and Spanish.
• DISARMer Tool that carries the knowledge of the DISARM framework to reduce cognitive load on analysts, using agentic LLM workflows with step-by-step reasoning and a human-in-the-loop design to produce tag suggestions.
• CatMap Workbench that operationalizes LLMs to automatically discover and map narratives and categories within datasets; domain experts record decisions on documents and receive feedback on classifier performance through an iterative human-in-the-loop process.
• Climate Disinformation Dashboards Dashboards that monitor climate disinformation threats and campaigns, helping analysts pinpoint size, targets, possible intent and attribution, deployed to over 30 climate action organisations via partnership with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

Quantifiable outcome

• 7 elections defended against interference
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• BBC MonitoringcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021CASM Technology and BBC Monitoring worked together over 2021 to study China's public diplomacy on social media. They identified almost 400 public diplomatic accounts and trained algorithms across English, French, Spanish and Arabic to understand their volume of output, thematic focus and level of engagement.
• ISD (Institute for Strategic Dialogue)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term strategic partnership with ISD including co-development of Beam counter-disinformation technology, climate disinformation dashboards serving 30+ organizations, and joint research on extremism, electoral interference, and harmful content. Beam operates across 6 platforms in 10+ languages and has been used in 10 countries since 2015.
• WindEuropecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative research examining how mis- and disinformation targeting Europe's wind energy sector spreads online. Mapped and analysed discourse and networks of more than 570 social media actors across six platforms over a two-year period.
• Agence France-Presse (AFP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with ISD and AFP for an 18-month research initiative funded by EMIF to track and analyze pro-Kremlin influence networks in Europe. CASM provided social media data collections, live monitoring dashboards, thematic mapping, and specialized technical infrastructure for rapid-response dispatches.
• Code for AfricasupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with African civic technology organization for extending disinformation monitoring capabilities to African contexts and civil society organisations.
• EcoBotNetcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCASM Technology serves as Tech Partner to EcoBotNet, which won Innovation of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2022. EcoBotNet focuses on climate disinformation monitoring.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ActiveFence: Trust & safety AI platform providing detection of harmful content, disinformation, and online abuse for platforms and enterprises. Closely aligned with CASM's Method52/Antidote/Beam stack across content abuse, bot activity, and narrative detection.
• Graphika: Social network analysis firm specializing in disinformation, influence operations, and coordinated inauthentic behavior detection for governments and researchers. Direct overlap with CASM's Discourse-Driven Community Detection and coordinated botnet work.
• Cinder: Trust & safety operations platform (formerly Spectrum Labs) providing content moderation tooling and AI policy enforcement for online platforms. Comparable as a horizontally-deployed safety AI platform across online harms categories.
• Yonder (formerly New Knowledge): AI platform for detecting influence operations, toxic narratives, and disinformation campaigns at scale. Direct peer in narrative manipulation and election interference detection.
• Logically: UK-headquartered counter-disinformation and trust & safety company offering AI-driven content analysis and threat intelligence to governments and platforms. Directly comparable in mission, buyer (governments, NGOs), and online-harms detection stack.
• Cyabra: Disinformation and bot detection platform analyzing fake accounts, coordinated inauthentic behavior, and manipulated narratives. Comparable to CASM's bot/sockpuppet detection and public investigations work.
• Blackbird AI: Narrative intelligence platform that tracks disinformation and harmful narratives across social media for enterprises and governments. Directly comparable to Beam/CatMap for real-time narrative tracking and narrative classification.
• Hive: AI-powered content moderation and classification API used by platforms and trust & safety teams. Adjacent overlap in AI-driven harmful content detection that CASM targets via Antidote and CatMap.

Emerging players

• NewsGuard: News reliability rating service that tracks misinformation and credibility of news sources for advertisers, platforms, and enterprises. Partial overlap with CASM's misinformation monitoring on output-use-case rather than underlying detection.

Broad incumbents

• Google Jigsaw: Google's technology incubator focused on geopolitical threats, disinformation, and toxicity — overlapping with CASM's online harms mission at the industry level through tools like Perspective API.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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