How Fast We Catch It
Live median lead time on confirmed alerts, in seconds. The desk beats the mainstream wire chain by this many seconds on average.
Every confirmed alert is timestamped at first-source, first-surfaced, and first-major-wire. Lead time is the gap between first-surfaced and first-major-wire. Published live, not retrospectively.
Lead time target
Intel Desk aims to fire confirmed alerts within 60 seconds of the first public sighting. Lead time is measured against the first major mainstream wire to carry the same story.