Dryad Global has launched Verihelm, a new maritime intelligence platform designed to help organisations track disruptions to global trade flows. The platform combines artificial intelligence (AI) with analyst expertise to monitor route risks, sanctions exposure, and regional threats.
The technology is aimed at stakeholders including vessel operators, insurers, financial institutions, retailers, and industrial corporations that are vulnerable to logistics interruptions.
Verihelm tracks data from official maritime sources, Automatic Identification System (AIS) transmissions, international sanctions lists, and open-source intelligence channels.
An automated workflow uses AI to discover, classify, and score threats at a high volume. The data is then verified and contextualised by the company’s analysts to provide risk assessments for specific maritime regions, ports, and transit voyages.
The platform also incorporates a workflow for sanctions screening, allowing users to cross-reference vessels, identifiers, and ownership structures against global compliance registries.
For enterprise users, Dryad offers integration via an Application Programming Interface (API) to feed data directly into existing compliance or underwriting workflows.
“Verihelm has been built to help teams understand how maritime risk affects global trade flows, supply chains and the ability to keep operations moving when conditions change,” said Corey Ranslem, Chief Executive Officer of Dryad Global.
“Our approach combines the scale and speed of AI with the judgement of experienced maritime analysts. That matters because intelligence cannot be a black box. Clients need to know where information has come from, how confident they can be in it, and whether it is relevant to the decision in front of them.”
