Shotspotter, INC: management transactions · United States · SEC (Form 4)

About Shotspotter, INC

ShotSpotter, Inc. is now known as SoundThinking, Inc., a U.S.-based public safety technology company listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market (NASDAQ: SSTI) in the United States. For French, Belgian and Swiss investors, the name change matters because it reflects a broader strategic platform: the company has moved beyond its original gunfire-detection niche into a wider suite of law-enforcement and security workflow tools. SoundThinking was founded in California in 2001, later reincorporated in Delaware, and rebranded in 2023 to better represent its expanded mission. Its headquarters are in Fremont, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company’s legacy and still-core business is ShotSpotter®, an outdoor acoustic gunshot detection, location and alerting system. This is the flagship product and remains the most recognizable part of the franchise. SoundThinking has built a broader SafetySmart™ platform around that core, combining multiple data-driven solutions for police departments, civic leadership teams and security professionals. These include CrimeTracer™ for searching cross-jurisdiction criminal justice records, CaseBuilder™ for case management and collaboration, ResourceRouter™ for resource deployment optimization, PlateRanger™ powered by Rekor for license plate recognition and vehicle identification, and SafePointe™ for discreet weapons detection in sensitive venues. From a market positioning standpoint, SoundThinking occupies a specialized niche with relatively high barriers to entry. Its competitive edge is built on system reliability, real-time operational value, data integration and long-term customer relationships rather than on broad enterprise software scale. The company emphasizes a recurring, subscription-based model and a growing installed base across public-safety agencies and selected private or institutional customers. In its most recent SEC reporting, SoundThinking stated that its contracted footprint reached 178 cities and 22 universities and corporate sites as of year-end 2025. That supports the view that the company is a leading niche provider in gunshot detection, with a growing adjacent software and security portfolio. Recent developments reinforce the diversification story. In 2025 and early 2026, SoundThinking highlighted new AI capabilities for CrimeTracer, contract renewals and extensions with the NYPD, progress in PlateRanger through a strategic partnership, and increasing traction for SafePointe in healthcare and commercial security settings. Management also pointed to solid underlying demand, even as some contract timing issues affected bookings and reported revenue. For investors, the key takeaway is that ShotSpotter/SoundThinking is a U.S.-listed NASDAQ technology company with a public-safety focus, a differentiated product suite, and a strategy centered on cross-selling into adjacent law-enforcement and security markets.