SOCIAL MEDIA

Brand mention triage: escalate viral negative spikes to on-call

Detects sudden surges of negative brand mentions and pages the on-call comms lead via PagerDuty with a context summary before a complaint becomes a crisis.

CategorySocial Media
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerschedule
Steps5
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerScheduled scrape of recent mentionsApify
  • ActionScore sentiment and compute negative rate
  • LogicFire only on negative-spike threshold
  • ActionSummarize the incident clusterPerplexityPerplexity
  • OutputOpen PagerDuty incident and page on-callPagerDutyPagerDuty

What it does

Tracks the rolling volume and sentiment of brand mentions and watches for an abnormal spike in negative posts. When a likely PR incident is forming, it pages the on-call communications lead with a tight summary of what's blowing up and where, so a human is engaged in minutes rather than hours.

When to use it

When a single viral complaint or a coordinated pile-on can do real damage and you can't rely on someone happening to refresh a dashboard. This is your early-warning siren for reputational fires.

How it works

  1. 1A scheduled scrape collects the latest brand mentions across platforms via Apify.
  2. 2Sentiment is scored and the negative-mention rate is compared against the recent baseline.
  3. 3A branch fires only when the negative spike exceeds the alert threshold.
  4. 4Perplexity summarizes the cluster of posts into a plain-language situation brief with likely cause.
  5. 5A PagerDuty incident is opened and the on-call comms lead is paged with the brief and source links.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect ApifyActors, scrapers, datasets.
  2. 2
    Connect PerplexitySearch-grounded answers with citations.
  3. 3
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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