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Silk for Journalism

Analytics — An all-purpose tool for data journalism [Public Relations, Tech]
AnalyticsPartly defensible · data moat (moderate)saasest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+32.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
8
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+32.0). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 82% of 17 probesavg response 1020 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
skysilk.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Silk for Journalism's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 8 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Observabledev-toolstag-overlap80%48.30.0● live
Schoolzillaanalyticssimilar78%8.00.0— unverified
Graph Commonsanalyticssimilar78%47.10.0● live
WSR | World Situation Roomanalyticssimilar78%40.00.0● live
Incortaanalyticssimilar70%45.30.0● live
Wizdeeanalyticssimilar70%0.00.0■ inactive
MapDanalyticssimilar70%9.00.0— unverified
Datazar 2.0educationtag-overlap70%16.00.0→ redirected

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-28 00:29Z200skysilk.comcloudflare1161alive
2026-08-19 14:25Z200skysilk.comcloudflare1856alive
2026-08-11 00:58Z200skysilk.comcloudflare1356alive
2026-08-08 06:55Z200skysilk.comcloudflare473alive
2026-08-05 19:11Z200skysilk.comcloudflare1552alive
2026-07-30 18:26Z200skysilk.comcloudflare690alive
2026-07-23 09:52Z403skysilk.comcloudflare1471cf_block
2026-07-18 09:01Z403skysilk.comcloudflare589cf_block
2026-07-11 09:15Z403skysilk.comcloudflare339cf_block
2026-07-04 13:10Z200skysilk.comcloudflare1064alive
2026-06-23 14:19Z200skysilk.comcloudflare1993alive
2026-06-21 17:24Z200skysilk.comcloudflare119alive
2026-06-21 17:24Z200skysilk.comcloudflare352alive
2026-06-20 05:13Z200skysilk.comcloudflare1258alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Silk for Journalism · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/silk-for-journalism · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.