Frequently asked questions

Saorsa is an AI-native social network organised around real-world events rather than people or posts. It combines satellite imagery, weather, and more than 150 other live data sources with content from people on the ground, into a single, continuously updated page for each event. Instead of switching between social media, news sites, weather apps and specialist maps, you follow an event in one place and see what happened, where it is, what has changed, who is affected and what is likely to happen next.

Other platforms are built around people, posts and engagement, so what you see is whatever goes viral, and understanding one real event means stitching together links from a dozen sources. Saorsa is built around the events themselves. Communities gather on a live event page to discuss the real thing as it develops, an object, a place, a change in the world, rather than passing links back and forth. AI decides which live data and imagery actually explain the event and puts it right next to the conversation, so the discussion sits on top of what is really happening instead of next to it.

Saorsa is pronounced "SOOR-SAH", two syllables with the stress on the first (SOOR-sah, where the first part rhymes with "poor"). It is a Scottish Gaelic word, which is why the spelling and the sound look further apart than they are: the "ao" is a single long vowel.

Saorsa (pronounced SOOR-SAH) is the Scottish Gaelic word for freedom, or liberty. We chose it because the product is built around one idea: the freedom to understand what is actually happening anywhere in the real world.

Saorsa is unrivalled at two things: showing you everything about an event in one place, and letting a community discuss and investigate it together. For any event, you get the live satellite imagery, the data layers that explain it (flights, ships, weather and 150+ more), the footage from the ground and the verified reporting, all on one page instead of scattered across a dozen apps. Around that, people can dig into what is actually happening, pull live objects and data into the conversation, and work it out together. No other social network combines the real-world data and the discussion like this.

They are two different things. Radar is the live map of all events happening around the world, so you can see everything at once and jump to whatever matters. The globe is where you investigate a single event or place: turn on the data layers you want, view live satellite imagery updated roughly every 20 minutes, switch between the 3D globe and a 2D map, scrub back to see how things changed over time, and pull live objects like flights or ships straight into the discussion. Radar is for finding what is happening; the globe is for getting to the bottom of it.

When an event is detected, AI agents verify it against official sources and continuously find relevant eyewitness content, articles and updates from across the internet. The best sources differ by location and event type, so the system learns where reliable local information is most likely to appear. Every event carries a trust grade so you can tell confirmed events from ones that are still emerging.

Saorsa is launching in stages on iOS and Android. You can join the early-access list free at saorsa.ai.