Estuary by Common Ground Strategies

Media intelligence for British Columbia

Every station heard once. Judged for you.

Estuary records and transcribes public radio, television, news and social media across British Columbia, then turns it into the briefings, alerts and dashboards each client needs.

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  • 23 radio and TV stations recorded around the clock
  • 4 languages transcribed: English, Punjabi, Cantonese, Mandarin
  • 1 recording, shared by every client, judged separately for each

01 What you get

  • Subscription

    The morning briefing

    A short briefing in your inbox each morning, on the topics you choose. Every item names its source, and a person reads and approves every send. No app or login needed.

  • Alerts

    Keyword and topic alerts

    Follow names, issues and places, including their spellings in other scripts. A match is confirmed only when the system can quote the line that makes it relevant, and each story alerts once.

  • ORCA

    Monitoring dashboard

    For government offices and caucus: live broadcast transcripts, clip readers in the original language and in English, portfolio alerts and situation tracking.

  • Headwaters

    Campaign command centre

    For provincial campaigns: ridings and polls, field organizing, voting places and get-out-the-vote, mail drops and election night results.

  • Riverbank

    Municipal campaign tools

    For civic slates: past results on city geography, field maps, voting places and get-out-the-vote, without the cost of media monitoring unless you ask for it.

02 How it works

  1. Record

    Stations are recorded continuously, alongside news sites and public social media posts.

  2. Transcribe once

    Speech becomes text in the language it was spoken, with an English translation kept beside the original words, never in place of them.

  3. Judge for each client

    Your tags, priorities and alerts live in your own workspace. What one client follows never reaches another.

  4. Deliver

    By email, on a dashboard, or both. Every line links back to the clip, article or post it came from.

03 Your data stays yours

  • A workspace per client

    Each client runs on its own database. Watch lists, notes and priorities are kept there and are never shared.

  • Public media only

    Estuary monitors what is broadcast or published in public, and points you to the original source for every item.

04 Contact

To start a briefing or see a dashboard, write to

hello@commongroundstrategies.ca