Collaboration accelerates samdesk’s reach into new markets through a growing partner ecosystem.

Edmonton, AB – November 21, 2025 – Samdesk, the real-time risk detection and situational awareness platform, today announced a partnership with Bent Ear Solutions (BES), a U.S.-based company specializing in integrating technologies to support security operations and critical infrastructure. The partnership reflects samdesk’s continued expansion into new markets through its growing partner ecosystem.

Founded and led by GIS and public safety leaders, Bent Ear Solutions has deep expertise in operational intelligence and geospatial analysis. The company builds tailored dashboards that integrate multiple technologies, giving security teams a unified, real-time view of risk across their environments and helping them make faster, more informed decisions.

“This partnership reflects our continued growth into sectors where real-time risk detection and situational awareness can have the greatest impact,” said James Neufeld, Founder and CEO of samdesk. “Bent Ear Solutions is a trusted name in key verticals, and embedding samdesk into their dashboards means our fast, verified, and contextual alerts now reach decision-makers exactly when and where they’re needed.”

Samdesk combines zero-blind-spot coverage of high-signal OSINT, proprietary AI crisis detection and human verification. The platform delivers trusted alerts up to 90 minutes faster than traditional tools, and each alert is enriched with severity, geolocation, visual confirmation, and asset mapping to help organizations minimize disruption and protect their people and operations.

“Organizations managing critical operations can’t compromise between speed and accuracy,” said Chris McIntosh, co-founder and CEO of Bent Ear Solutions. “Samdesk’s ability to provide verified, contextual alerts in real time makes it a perfect fit for the environments we support.”

The partnership builds on Bent Ear’s strong relationships across critical infrastructure and enterprise markets, creating new opportunities for innovation and faster access to actionable information. Together, samdesk and Bent Ear Solutions are helping organizations strengthen resilience and respond with speed and accuracy in an increasingly complex risk landscape.

About Samdesk

Samdesk is a real-time risk detection and situational awareness platform that delivers analyst-verified alerts within 60 seconds and actionable summaries mapped directly to your people, assets, and operations. By consolidating billions of raw signals into clear, context-rich insights, samdesk turns security from a reactive monitoring function into a proactive driver of resilience and business continuity. Learn more at samdesk.io.

About Bent Ear Solutions

Bent Ear Solutions helps organizations across the public and private sectors leverage their existing technology investments to maximize efficiency and increase situational and operational awareness. To assure success, BES works closely with customers to develop the appropriate processes and procedures for ongoing, effective, and sustainable data-driven decision support. Learn more at bentearsolutions.com.