Situation & Market Intel - Live Incidents, Official Alerts and Market Exposure

Situation & Market Intel puts live incidents from around the world on your map: armed conflict, protests and riots, shootings and attacks, fires and disasters, outages and closures, and political crises. Each incident shows where it happened, how severe it is, and which stocks and commodities it may affect. An Official Sources tab adds government travel advisories and official alerts for any country.

Incidents are collected automatically from public news sources. Coverage can miss or misplace events. Do not use it as your only source for safety, travel or financial decisions.

Add the kit

You can add the kit from either place:

• Launch Pad: find the Situation & Market Intel card and click Real-time or Delayed.
• Maps & Data: open the Kits tab, find the Situation & Market Intel card, and click Real-time or Delayed.

The first time you add it, read the notice and click I Understand & Accept. Click Decline & Remove Kit if you do not want to use it.

Real-time incidents need a Pro Business plan: click Real-time on the card. On any plan, click Delayed to use the kit with every incident worldwide, 36 hours behind. The panel then says Delayed 36 Hours, and Upgrade For Real Time opens the plans.

What you see on the map

The kit adds a Situation Intel folder to Layers & Data, with one folder for each incident type. Each incident is a marker. The time of the incident shows to the right of the marker. To hide those times, tick Hide time labels in the kit panel.

Click a marker to see the headline, the country's flag, the place, the outlets that reported it, and the stocks and commodities it may affect. Click Save to map to keep that incident in your map as a regular marker.

More info: one brief from every report

Click More info in a marker's popup to read one brief built from all the news reports about that incident. It gives a short summary, the key facts, a timeline, the impact on safety and movement (or, for a positive development, who it helps), the current status, and any claims that conflict or are not confirmed. The reports it drew on are listed at the end, with a link for well-known outlets. The panel shows the incident's type icon and country flag at the top.

The first time anyone opens an incident's brief, our own AI writes it. This takes up to 30 seconds. After that it opens at once, until new reports about the incident arrive. Briefs are written in English and shown in your language.

In the Delayed feed, briefs use only reports at least 36 hours old. AI can make mistakes, so check the sources before you act on a brief.

The live folder updates by itself. It is not saved with your map, so the map stays small and always shows the latest incidents when you open it.

Each marker has data you can filter on in the data table: Incident Type, Severity, Impact Scope, Status, Country, Place, Outlets, First Reported, Last Updated, Equities and Incident Time.

Negative, positive or both

The Show switch at the top of the filters picks what the kit maps:

• Negative (the default): incidents that threaten safety or disrupt movement.
• Positive: developments that improve a place. They sit in four folders: Openings (roads, rail, ports, airports, power and energy, hospitals and clinics, schools, public buildings, parks, factories, logistics centers, hotels), Reopenings & Restorations (roads, flights and services back after a closure, power or water restored, strikes ended), Discoveries (oil, gas, minerals and scientific finds) and Agreements & Investments (ceasefires, trade agreements, sanctions lifted, large investments). Their significance reads Major, Notable or Minor.
• All: both together.

Local developments count, such as a new clinic or a reopened road, so the Positive view helps with real estate and site selection as well as travel. The kit always starts on Negative.

Filter incidents

The kit panel has these filters:

• Impact Scope: Local (City), State / Province, National or Global.
• Severity (called Significance for developments): Critical, Critical & Warning, or all severities (for developments: Major, Major & Notable, or all).
• Event Types: turn incident types on or off.
• Time Window: Last Day, Last Week or Last Month.

The top of the panel shows Live, how many incidents match your filters, and when the next update comes. The kit updates on its own about once a minute. The line under it shows how many news sources the kit monitors.

Live Wire

The Live Wire at the bottom of the map lists the latest incidents. Each row shows the type icon, the time and the place, then the headline. Click a row to fly the map to that incident.

• Switch between Event List and Country View. Country View shows one row per country, with its flag, its name, the number of incidents and an icon for each one. Each country's icons are grouped by severity, most severe first, with a colored outline around each group. Point at an icon to read its headline and summary, and click it to fly the map to that incident. The kit remembers your choice in this browser.
• Sort by Newest or Most severe (Most significant when positive developments are shown).
• Use Minimize and Maximize to change its size.
• Drag the Live Wire or the kit panel by its top edge to move it.

Stocks and commodities ticker

The ticker at the top of the map lists the stocks and commodities that current incidents may affect. Each one is marked as a likely tailwind, a likely headwind, or a mixed effect. Hover over an item to see the incidents behind it, and click an incident to go to it on the map.

Clear the Equities check box in the panel to hide the ticker.

The ticker is for research and awareness only. It is not investment, trading or financial advice.

Official Sources

Open the Official Sources tab in the kit panel:

1. Choose a country in Country, or click Use map center to pick the country in the middle of the map.
2. Read the Travel advisories from the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Each one has a level from 1 to 4. Click Read advisory to open the full advisory.
3. See the Official alerts for that country, such as earthquakes (USGS), disasters (GDACS) and severe weather warnings (US National Weather Service). Click an alert to go to it on the map.

Check Show official alerts on the map (last 7 days) to add official alerts to the map in an Official Alerts folder.

Feed MCP: connect AI assistants and your own tools

With Pro Business, you can send the live feed to AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Copilot, or to your own tools, through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). They can search and filter incidents by type, severity, impact scope, country or map area, check for new incidents, and read official alerts and travel advisories.

1. Click Feed MCP at the top of the kit panel.
2. Click Copy next to the Server URL, and add it to your app as a remote MCP server. For Claude Code, copy the command under Claude Code and run it.
3. When your app opens the Scribble Maps sign-in page, sign in and click Allow. You do not need an API key.

Click Setup guide for every app for the steps for Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and other apps.

Each connection is for one person:

• Your account can have one connection at a time. Connecting another app, person or computer disconnects the previous connection.
• A connection works from one network at a time. When you move to a new network, wait 15 minutes or connect again from the new place.
• Polling is limited per account (10 data requests a minute, 300 an hour). The feed refreshes about once a minute, so asking more often returns nothing new.
• A connection lasts 30 days. Then your app asks you to sign in again.

To disconnect an app, click Feed MCP and click Disconnect next to the app under Connected apps. Its access stops right away.

Ask Scribble AI

Scribble AI can answer questions about incidents, for example:

• "Is anything happening near Lagos?"
• "Any riots in Paris this week?"
• "What might affect $XOM?"

It answers from the same incidents, lists them with their places, and can add the kit to your map.

Remove the kit

Click the X at the top of the kit panel. The live folders leave your map. Incidents you saved with Save to map stay.