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A chat assistant inside the Brandwatch social listening platform that answers plain-language questions about online conversation data.
Current-name note: Acquired — current parent recorded as Cision; current Brandwatch packaging applies.
Brandwatch Iris is a chat assistant built into Brandwatch, a social listening and consumer intelligence platform. A user asks questions in plain language about social media and online conversation data the platform has already collected, rather than building manual reports and queries, and Iris summarizes trends, sentiment, and consumer opinion across large volumes of social data. Brandwatch is owned by Cision, a broader PR and communications software company. Pricing is enterprise, quote-based, as part of a Brandwatch subscription.
This fits a company already using, or evaluating, Brandwatch for social listening and consumer research, where asking questions in plain language saves real time versus manually building queries and reports. It is not a standalone product, so its value depends on the underlying Brandwatch platform being a good fit for your monitoring needs in the first place. Confirm current Brandwatch and Iris pricing and functionality directly with Cision.
These estimates cover licensing, setup, integrations, staff time, security, administration, and support.
| Cost measure | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| First-year total | $18.4K | $29.8K | $49.3K |
| Three-year total | $34.1K | $53.4K | $85.6K |
| First-year cost per unit | $920 | $1.5K | $2.5K |
| Average annual cost per unit (over three years) | $569 | $889 | $1.4K |
| Component | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licensing and usage | $1.1K | $1.4K | $1.9K |
| Implementation | $4.8K | $8K | $13.6K |
| Integration | $3.3K | $6K | $10.8K |
| Staff time and change management | $3.2K | $4.5K | $6.3K |
| Security | $2.5K | $3.5K | $5.3K |
| Administration | $1.9K | $2.5K | $3.4K |
| Support | $900 | $1.2K | $1.6K |
Estimate assumptions: Based on 20 enabled users. This is a planning allowance, not verified product pricing. Confirm the vendor’s billing unit and current price or quote before budgeting.
Benefits have not been estimated: The current research does not estimate potential savings, return on investment, or how long it would take to recover the cost. Earlier benefit estimates are excluded.
Confirm current product identity, commercial packaging, data processing terms, sign-in and access rules, retention, integrations, support model, implementation effort, and rollback conditions.
Verify identity, package, availability, ownership, pricing, and security evidence before approving a pilot
Do not approve a pilot yet. Verify the current product identity, package, availability, owner, pricing, and security evidence; then define one workflow, a baseline, and rollback criteria.
Define what success looks like for a test of Brandwatch Iris and assign someone to lead it.
Once the requirements above are met, compare a small trial with how your team works today.
Track adoption, output quality, business results, and actual costs against the estimate.
Use the results to decide whether to stop, adjust, or expand the pilot.
Confirm encryption, how the vendor uses your data, customer data separation, how long data stays and how to delete it, activity records, sign-in and user setup, where data is handled, other companies that process data, past incidents, and what your team must manage.
Review before rollout: confirm how to export your data, revoke access, and return to your existing workflow. Assign an owner and test the rollback plan before expanding use.
Do not approve a pilot yet. Verify the current product identity, package, availability, owner, pricing, and security evidence; then define one workflow, a baseline, and rollback criteria.
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