Platform Comparison

Threatwhere vs Ontic

Ontic built the system of record for protective intelligence — cases, investigations, incidents, with serious compliance credentials including FedRAMP Moderate. Threatwhere builds the intelligence itself: grounded AI documentation on a live geospatial platform, with the operational layer attached.

The Gap Between Knowing and Acting

Ontic’s public materials document AI summaries — of signals, incidents and investigations already in the system. Threatwhere’s capability is generation: eleven governed intelligence products, shaped by your organisation’s doctrine where supported, protected before release, and delivered into a permissioned workspace as branded documents.

What it takes to fill their column

The Ontic column spans Risk Intelligence, Incidents & Case Management and Executive Protection modules, an AlertMedia integration for notification, and an announced International SOS alliance for travel risk. Our column is one platform — Overwatch for the operations room, with an Operator licence for the field included in every Overwatch seat.

The Pricing Reality

Quote-only, scoped per deployment. No third-party estimates found — and we won’t invent one.

Threatwhere

$1,999 /seat/month — Overwatch

Every Overwatch seat includes an Operator licence for the field at no extra cost; standalone Operator seats from $199/month. $19,990/seat billed annually. Every number is on our public pricing page.

Ontic

Ontic Platform

No published pricing — “Every Ontic deployment is shaped by your needs. We’ll scope it with you.” Scoped on products, scale, integrations and implementation. source

How you buy

Published pricing and a self-serve 7-day trial — sign up and start without a sales call. Overwatch $1,999/seat/month with an Operator licence included per seat; standalone Operator seats from $199/month.

None of the five vendors on these pages publishes a price; every one routes you to a sales conversation. Third-party buyer-reported estimates — not vendor list prices — show quote-only pricing varies materially by deployment and buyer: Everbridge estimates alone span roughly $15,000 to over $300,000 a year. When the range is that wide, the price is about you, not the product. source

Where Ontic Excels

These are the documented reasons Ontic belongs on a serious shortlist — from their own public materials. The matrix below shows where Threatwhere takes the operation further.

Protective intelligence pedigree: acquired SIGMA Threat Management Associates (2021); Dr. Marisa Randazzo leads its Center of Excellence and Fred Burton its Center for Protective Intelligence. source

Compliance: annual SOC 2 audits, FedRAMP Moderate Authorization, ISO 27001, CSA STAR, per-client isolated databases, 30-day post-contract deletion. source

Backing: a $230 million Series C led by KKR (August 2025) for its Connected Intelligence Platform. source

Analyst recognition: Growth and Innovation Leader in the Frost Radar for Risk Intelligence Solutions, three consecutive years. source

One Platform Against Their Full Stack

These 19 rows compare the documented route to each outcome — including separately sold modules, partner integrations and announced roadmaps. Every affirmative Ontic cell links to its public source; a dash means not publicly documented, nothing more.

DocumentedPartialVia partner / integrationAnnounced roadmapNot publicly documented (as of 15 August 2026)
CapabilityThreatwhereOntic
Intelligence & AI documentation
AI security documentation (multi-type)
Eleven intelligence products from one platform — briefs, risk assessments, entity profiles, travel dossiers, digests, pattern detection, route analysis, event analysis, NEO evacuation plans, 7-day threat forecasts and trip debriefs.
AI summarization turns high-volume signals into insights, and AI summaries accelerate reporting on incidents and investigations. Multi-type document generation is not publicly documented.Risk Intelligencesource
Conversational AI grounded in its own intelligence corpus
Conversational assistant grounded in the platform’s own intelligence corpus — ask in plain language, receive a finished document.
Not publicly documented.
Country / regional risk scoring
Live scored country-risk baseline held in the platform; AI risk language is anchored to it, not estimated.
Signals can be filtered by region, country, facility or principal; a country risk score is not publicly documented.Risk Intelligencesource
Voice-operated intelligence
Speak a query, hear a summary; the full document renders on screen.
Not publicly documented.
Retraction / provenance controls on AI output
Retract intelligence once and it is excluded from every future document — automatically.
Not publicly documented.
OPSEC output governance
Every deliverable protects sensitive tooling, collection and attribution details before release.
Not publicly documented.
Organisation-doctrine personalisation of AI output
Your own doctrine library and organisation preferences shape supported products, including evacuation plans built on your SOPs.
Not publicly documented.
Operations
Geospatial common operating picture
Live global threat map with an in-map AI assistant — click a threat, ask about it, generate the document.
Signals in context — mapped alongside teams, sites, incidents and threat actors, filterable by region, country, facility or principal.Risk Intelligencesource
Travel risk management workflow
Missions, pre-travel dossiers with verified emergency contacts, scheduled check-ins, and post-mission debriefs that freeze into the record.
An announced alliance with International SOS to jointly develop travel risk management software — previewed at GSX 2024, with full capabilities rolled out in future phases.Intl SOS alliancesource
Evacuation / NEO planning
Generated NEO evacuation plans with facility-validated extraction points and doctrine retrieved from your own library.
Not publicly documented.
Geofencing and location alerting
Draw a geofence; events and incidents inside it trigger alerts with your threat-score threshold, in real-time or digest.
Geo-based Risk Events with dynamic principal profiles covering routines, locations and exposure data.Executive Protectionsource
Intelligence document workspace
A shared intelligence workspace with folders, team sharing at view, comment or edit, and organisation-scoped permissions on every document.
Case management with task assignment, teammate tagging and granular access controls down to the field level for sensitive casework.Incidents & Case Managementsource
Auto-filing of generated intelligence
Completed reports file themselves — mission reports into the mission workspace, personal research kept private.
AI summaries exist for incidents and investigations; automatic filing of AI output into the case record is not publicly documented.Incidents & Case Managementsource
Branded export with report-type banners
Consistent branding across print, PDF and email export, with report-type banners and links back into the platform.
Not publicly documented.
Platform & reach
Enterprise access control
Enforced multi-factor authentication, per-seat entitlement and organisation-scoped access across every intelligence surface.
Fine-grained permissions dictating who can access specific information, with SOC 2, FedRAMP Moderate, ISO 27001 and CSA STAR. Customer-facing SSO is not publicly documented.Platformsource
OSINT collection & public-web augmentation
Multi-source intelligence across open news at global scale, the open web, social platforms and closed messaging channels — without publishing a source inventory. See the note on “dark web” below.
Topics tracked across 10,000+ open sources, from social media to the dark web and fringe platforms.Risk Intelligencesource
Real-time multi-source intelligence feed
Continuous multi-source intelligence delivered live to the dashboard as events, incidents and country risk develop.
Thousands of OSINT sources monitored continuously.Risk Intelligencesource
Mass notification
Multi-channel alerting driven by intelligence triggers — routed to the people the intelligence actually affects. Life-safety broadcast to an entire population is a different category of product.
Notifications created from Ontic signals across text, email, voice, WhatsApp, desktop and in-app — delivered by its AlertMedia partnership.AlertMedia integrationsource
Mobile field / operator app
Threatwhere Operator: acknowledged SOS, scheduled safety check-ins, and dependable background location for field teams.
iOS and Android apps extend the platform, with location-based notifications for nearby activity. SOS and duress functions are not documented in the store listing.Mobile appsource

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Ontic cost?

Ontic does not publish pricing — deployments are custom-scoped, with support and training included per its pricing page. Threatwhere publishes its pricing — Overwatch at $1,999/seat/month, an Operator licence included with every seat, standalone Operator seats from $199/month — all on a public pricing page.

What is Ontic used for?

Protective intelligence: threat monitoring, investigations, incidents and case management on its Connected Intelligence Platform, with FedRAMP Moderate authorization.

Does Ontic generate intelligence reports with AI?

Ontic documents AI summarization of signals, incidents and investigations. Multi-type AI document generation is not publicly documented.

Ontic vs Threatwhere?

Ontic is a system of record with AI summaries and deep compliance credentials. Threatwhere is an intelligence engine with the record-keeping attached — grounded generation, provenance controls, a live map, travel risk management, and a published price.

About Ontic

  • Ontic Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with 300+ employees across two global offices. source
  • Founded in 2017; raised a $230 million Series C led by KKR in August 2025, with JMI Equity, Silverton Partners, Ridge Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures participating. source
  • Acquired SIGMA Threat Management Associates in September 2021, folding behavioral threat assessment methodology into the platform. source

All competitor information on this page was verified against the linked public sources as of 15 August 2026, and is re-verified quarterly. “Not publicly documented” means exactly that — it is never a claim that a vendor lacks a capability. Third-party price figures are buyer-reported or analyst estimates, never vendor list prices. All product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners; comparisons are provided for evaluation purposes. See something outdated? Tell us via our contact page and we will correct it.

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