Financial Markets · Pilot Program

Price geopolitical risk into your portfolio before the market does.

A four-to-eight week paid pilot for institutional capital — pension funds, sovereign wealth, asset managers, banks, exchanges — delivering real-time geopolitical, sanctions, sovereign-risk, and supply-chain signals into the workflows your desks already use.

40,000+
multilingual sources fused in real time
< 60s
latency from event to confidence-scored alert
100%
audit-grade provenance on every signal
The financial-markets problem

Geopolitical risk has moved faster than the tools used to price it.

Sanctions regimes update in days. Supply-chain shocks reprice commodities in hours. Sovereign and country risk reset on a Telegram post the desk's existing tools never see. Static expert reports age in 24 hours, automated feeds drown analysts in noise, and risk officers, compliance leads, and portfolio managers are stitching the picture together by hand.

Late attribution

Sanctions exposures show up in post-trade reviews, not pre-trade screens. By the time the relationship is mapped, the position has already moved.

Stale country risk

Quarterly geopolitical bulletins miss the inflection points. Trading floors learn about elections, coups, and conflict spillover from headlines, not from intelligence.

Opaque supply chain

Critical-minerals, energy, shipping, and rare-earth exposure inside portfolios is rarely traced to the political conditions of the source countries until a disruption hits.

What the pilot does

Decision-grade output on six core financial-markets use cases.

Each use case below is delivered against your live portfolio, watchlist, or operational data during the pilot. Outputs are structured for direct ingestion into your existing risk, compliance, and trading systems.

Compliance · Sanctions

Sanctions-exposure screening

Continuous cross-check of portfolio holdings, counterparties, and beneficial-ownership chains against OFAC, UN, EU, UK, and Canadian sanctions registries, including shadow-fleet and front-company structures.

Output: ranked exposure list, severity scored, ownership-chain trace, regulator-ready audit trail.
Alpha · Macro

Geopolitical alpha signals

Early-detection signals on FX, commodities, EM equities, and sovereign credit, surfaced from multilingual open-source signal cross-referenced against analogous theatres globally.

Output: time-stamped, confidence-scored events tagged to instrument, with cross-theatre comparison and historical analogue base rate.
Risk · Sovereign

Sovereign and country-risk repricing

Live country-risk metrics across political stability, sanctions exposure, institutional integrity, and grey-zone activity — far more responsive than quarterly bulletins.

Output: per-country risk score with directional movement, drivers attributed, recommended portfolio rebalancing flags.
Supply Chain · ESG

Critical-minerals & supply-chain due diligence

Map portfolio holdings to upstream critical-minerals (REE, lithium, cobalt, nickel, uranium), shipping lanes, and political exposure of producing countries — including foreign-capital-capture patterns.

Output: portfolio-level critical-minerals exposure heat-map with country-political-risk overlay.
AML · KYC

AML & KYC enhancement

Augment existing AML/KYC pipelines with beneficial-ownership analysis, dark-vessel tracking, narrative-amplification monitoring, and cross-jurisdictional actor structure mapping.

Output: enhanced KYC dossier with foreign-state and shadow-fleet indicators, confidence-scored.
Trade Finance · Maritime

Trade finance & shipping risk

Maritime risk intelligence on dark-AIS, course anomalies, port disruption, and undersea-infrastructure events — directly relevant to trade finance, insurance underwriting, and shipping exposure.

Output: vessel-level risk profile, route-level disruption flags, insurance-grade exposure summary.
Who in the firm should pilot

Built for the desks where geopolitical risk actually lands.

The pilot is designed to drop directly into the analytical workflows of five core institutional roles. Sponsors typically come from one of these seats and pull in the others as use cases prove out.

CIO / Portfolio Manager

Alpha and downside protection

Early geopolitical signals into EM, commodities, FX, and sovereign credit positions — with cross-theatre context that gives an information edge before consensus prices it in.

Chief Risk Officer

Real-time exposure mapping

Portfolio-wide geopolitical exposure mapping with confidence scoring — feeding directly into VaR, stress-test, and scenario-analysis frameworks.

Head of Sanctions & Compliance

Regulator-ready audit trail

Continuous sanctions-exposure screening with full beneficial-ownership tracing and audit-grade provenance on every flag, sized for OSFI, OFAC, FCA, and ESMA scrutiny.

Trade Finance / Treasury

Counterparty & shipping intelligence

Counterparty risk and shipping-route exposure intelligence for letter-of-credit, insurance, and cross-border treasury operations.

ESG / Responsible Investing

Indigenous & sovereignty lens

Supply-chain exposure to Indigenous-territory, conflict-zone, and authoritarian-jurisdiction risk — with the depth and provenance ESG mandates increasingly require.

Sovereign Wealth / Pension Lead

Allied-sovereign analytical depth

Institutional-grade geopolitical intelligence with sovereign-deployment posture aligned to fiduciary, regulatory, and national-security obligations of large institutional capital.

Integration story

Drops into the workflows your desks already use.

GeoSift is built to fit alongside the tools institutional finance already runs on — not to replace them. Outputs flow into existing risk, compliance, and trading systems through structured APIs and standard delivery formats.

  • Leading financial-market trading terminal in negotiationNative distribution into the institutional desktop most desks already live in.
  • REST API and webhook deliveryProgrammatic access to fused intelligence outputs, event-stream subscription, alert triggering, structured exports (JSON, CSV, PDF).
  • SIEM and risk-system integrationConnector roadmap for Splunk, internal risk-data lakes, and major compliance-platform vendors.
  • Briefing-grade exportsShort-form briefings ready for investment-committee and risk-committee distribution, with full citation and provenance.
Sample output stream
SANCTIONS · HIGHCounterparty XYZ ↔ designated entity (OFAC SDN, 96% confidence)
MACRO · MEDIUMEM bond exposure to country K reprices: 38bp expected move
SUPPLY CHAIN · MEDIUMCritical-minerals route disruption — REE shipment, 14d delay
MARITIME · LOWDark-AIS vessel cluster, Baltic — under analyst review
NARRATIVE · MEDIUMForeign-state campaign signature detected, EM currency K
Compliance & sovereignty

Built for institutional posture from day one.

Deployment architecture, audit trail, and data residency are aligned to the constraints institutional finance actually operates under.

Canadian-resident OVH Cloud sovereign infrastructure, outside US CLOUD Act exposure
Audit-grade trail Every signal traceable to source; OSFI / SOX / SOC 2-ready evidence
Customer-controlled keys Key custody, data residency, model lineage under customer control
Sovereign roadmap Air-gapped and on-premises options on the productionisation path
How the FS pilot runs

From scoping to first decision-grade output in eight weeks or less.

A structured engagement with clear deliverables at each stage and a paid commercial framework from week one.

Week 1

Scoping & access

Use-case definition with your desk lead, portfolio or watchlist data onboarding, sovereign environment provisioning, NDA and pilot agreement.

Weeks 2–4

Configuration

Models tuned to your specific instruments, jurisdictions, and risk frameworks; cross-theatre analogue mapping; integration into existing workflow.

Weeks 4–6

Live operation

Daily intelligence stream into the desk, weekly briefing-grade summaries, analyst-in-the-loop testing against your existing alpha and risk processes.

Weeks 6–8

Review & conversion

Pilot outcomes measured against pre-agreed success metrics (alpha, exposure reduction, time-to-flag), transition to recurring subscription on signature.

Financial Markets Pilot Application

Apply for the FS pilot.

Tell us about your firm, your desk, and the use case you'd like to validate. We typically respond within two business days with next steps and scoping availability.

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Financial-markets pilots, partners, and ecosystem

Canadian banksPilot-stage relationships with major Canadian banking institutions
Pension fundsCanadian institutional pension-fund pilot conversations
Leading financial-market trading terminalDistribution partnership in active negotiation
OVH CloudCanadian-resident sovereign infrastructure
Frequently asked — financial markets

Common questions from institutional buyers.

How is GeoSift different from Eurasia Group, Maplecroft, or Control Risks?

Advisory firms produce vetted depth, but on a slow clock — reports age within hours of delivery. GeoSift collapses the trade-off: pre-vetted HUMINT for ground truth, fused with continuous open-source signal in real time, with confidence and time-to-impact tagged on every event. Decision-grade *and* on-the-clock.

How does it complement Recorded Future or Dataminr?

Pure-automation OSINT feeds deliver volume but no ground truth. GeoSift's pre-vetted HUMINT layer and cross-theatre analytical comparison sit alongside those feeds and convert noise into prioritised, attributable signals. Most customers run GeoSift as the decision layer above their existing OSINT feeds.

Can outputs feed our risk system / VaR / stress-test framework?

Yes. The platform exposes a REST API, webhook delivery, and structured export formats (JSON, CSV, PDF) for direct ingestion into risk, compliance, and reporting systems. Connector work for leading financial-market trading terminals, SIEM, and major risk-platform vendors is on the productionisation roadmap.

What about data sovereignty and regulator concerns?

Deployment runs on Canadian-resident OVH Cloud, structurally outside US CLOUD Act exposure. Model lineage, data residency, and key custody are aligned to customer jurisdiction. EU and additional sovereign-cloud footprints on the roadmap; on-premises and air-gapped options for the most sensitive workloads.

How is the pilot priced?

The pilot is paid; pricing is confirmed during scoping based on use case scope and seat count. After the pilot, customers move to the three-tier subscription model — pilot, $2,500/month, $25,000/year — with annual reflecting roughly a 17% discount over monthly billing.

Are you authorised to handle MNPI or restricted data?

The platform is built around publicly-available open-source signals, vetted expert HUMINT contributions, and customer-supplied watchlist or portfolio data. We do not ingest MNPI or material non-public information from the customer; appropriate information-barrier protocols are part of scoping for any deployment that touches sensitive internal data.