How analyst-led social listening works

Machine speed. Human judgment.

We process 320M+ conversations a day at machine speed, then read them with senior human analysts and AI built in regional Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Four layers, one system, run end to end by us. You get the decision—not a dashboard to operate, not noise to translate.

How the system works

Four layers. One system.

Observe, protect, understand, anticipate. The data moves at machine speed; senior analysts read every layer. It all converges on one output: a clear recommendation you can act on.

Epical · one system · 4 layers
Illustrative run · CPG beverages, LATAM
In

The live conversation

73,402mentions / day

Everything said about your brand and your category across social, media and communities—captured in the real slang of each country, not a machine translation of it.

01 · Observe

Social intelligence

2,140relevant

We strip out the noise and surface what matters: which topics are rising, what people complain about, where the opening is. Read in each country's codes by AI trained on regional Spanish—never an auto-translator.

Read by senior analysts
02 · Protect

Reputation intelligence

412actors

We catch adversarial narratives—and who's pushing them—before they escalate. If you need to respond, the play is already drawn. When execution is required, with Alurralde, Jasper & Asociados.

Read by senior analysts
03 · Understand

Consumer intelligence

6findings

The why behind the number: what motivates, what creates tension, which cultural codes move your audience. Not just what happened—why it happened, so you know what to do next.

Read by senior analysts
04 · Anticipate

The decision

1recommendation

We converge the three layers into one recommendation, ready for the table: what's happening, what's likely next, and what to do about it. A decision—not another dashboard.

Owned by senior leadership
↳ Decision enabled
The annual plan was reallocated toward territories with low presence but high affinity. Signed off by the regional C-level.
Who reads it

AI does the volume.
People do the judgment.

The four layers aren't a dashboard you log into. They're run by 22 senior specialists who have already worked through millions of conversations for Fortune 500 brands. Meet them on the Team page.

About our proprietary AI

Every layer is amplified by AI we build and train in-house on regional Spanish—Rioplatense, Mexican, Andean, Caribbean—and Brazilian Portuguese: classification models, narrative-pattern detectors, synthesis modules. We don't sell them as a product or expose them as an API. They're part of the team's craft—the same way an investment fund keeps its own valuation model.

When execution is required

When the read needs to become action—containment protocols, engagement with specialized media, dealings with government actors—we operate alongside Alurralde, Jasper & Asociados, one of the region's most respected firms in reputation and public affairs.

Why analyst-led wins

Not a platform. Not an agency.
Both at once, done better.

Global tools hand you volume with no context—and machine-translated Spanish. Local agencies give you context with no scale. Epical delivers both: 320M+ conversations a day, regional context, and senior human judgment.

Social listening
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Local
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Processes conversations at scale
AI trained on regional Spanish & PT-BR
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Regional cultural and political context
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Senior analysts with Fortune 500 track record
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Works directly with the C-level
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Delivers a decision, not just data
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How clients buy us

Marketing and Insights hire us as the best social listening in LATAM and the US Hispanic market. Strategy and the C-level hire us as the interpretation layer their decisions run on. Both are true.

Regional network

LATAM can't be read from the outside.

Every market has its own language, political context and actors. We read it from inside—senior analysts who know the terrain, backed by AI trained on each region's conversation, not a model that translates it first.
Epical · Regional Network · LATAM
12 markets
LATAM social listening coverage map · 12 markets, operating hub in Buenos Aires
Market covered Operating hub ES · PT · regional variants 12 markets · operated from Buenos Aires
Coverage by market 12 markets · hub in Buenos Aires
AR
Argentina · Buenos Aires
Operating hub
BR
Brazil · São Paulo · PT-BR
Coverage
MX
Mexico · CDMX
Coverage
CO
Colombia · Bogotá
Coverage
CL
Chile · Santiago
Coverage
PE
Peru · Lima
Coverage
UY
Uruguay · Montevideo
Coverage
+5
EC · BO · PY · CR · PA
Coverage
With Epical we went from reacting to anticipating. We make decisions with more precision and more confidence.
Belén Libardi
Social Lead · MODO
Mentions · typical project · 7d
11.4M
Sample of a typical engagement · ES, PT-BR and code-switching
Signal · ratio
2.1%
Of 1,000 mentions, ~21 are decision-grade
Lead time · average
11days
Early warning before the reputational event hits
Decisions · 2025
284
Made by clients · baseline for 2026
How we work

From your question to a decision:
in weeks, not months.

We shape the engagement around what you need: a one-off study, a milestone-based project, or a continuous operation.

01
Phase 1

Executive diagnosis

A working session with your C-level to pin down the strategic questions that matter and agree on scope.

02
Phase 2

Setup

A dedicated team spins up. We configure sources, markets and AI models around your project.

03
Phase 3

First deliverable

Your first read: the conversation mapped, the dominant narratives, the opportunities ranked.

04
Phase 4 onward

On the cadence you choose

A one-off study with a final readout, a milestone-based project, or a continuous operation with alerts and agreed response times.

Your team

Strategic lead, senior analyst, data scientist and industry specialist.

Formats

One-off study · milestone-based project · continuous retainer with monthly follow-up.

Response times

Cadence is set per format. In continuous operation: 24h for a critical alert, 72h for a one-off request.

For which teams

Our studies serve Marketing, Consumer Insights, Strategy, Communications, Public Affairs and Customer Care, among others—and always feed C-level decisions.

Let's begin

What decision do you have on the table?

Tell us what you need to understand. We'll show you what the read would look like for your brand—no commitment.

Let's talk →