Case Study: Polpo achieves real-time bespoke political monitoring with IBM Watson

Polpo enables real-time bespoke information for political monitoring

Polpo, a Dutch scale-up, needed to stop political analysts wasting time manually searching disparate, text‑heavy sources and wanted an AI approach to deliver near‑real‑time, bespoke political monitoring. To address this, Polpo worked with IBM and integrated IBM Watson technologies (including IBM Watson Discovery/Watson Explorer and related content‑analytics capabilities) into its platform.

IBM implemented intelligent document processing and AI enrichment to aggregate parliamentary and stakeholder data into Polpo’s subscription web dashboard, enabling smart filtering and context‑aware searches. The result: users typically spend less time searching, 75% of public affairs professionals were immediately convinced by the solution, Polpo can release updates every two weeks, and the platform now delivers scalable, near‑real‑time political insights powered by IBM.

Polpo

Caspar Pille

Co-founder