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SEATTLE, WA -- October 20, 2005 -- Insightful Corporation (NASDAQ: IFUL), a leading provider of software solutions for analysis of numeric and text data, announced the company was competitively selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prototype and develop a geographic text processing system in a contract worth $780,000. The geographic text processing system will be based on Insightful�s Infact�, an innovative software product for text analysis.

InFact provides intelligence analysts with software to interactively search, quantify, and perform analysis of hundreds of thousands of relationships among individuals, organizations, geographical locations, monetary amounts and all kinds of other transactions within minutes. Using InFact, knowledge workers can perform relationship search and link analysis to uncover cause-and-effect patterns critical for intelligence decision-making.

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