NOVASHER™

decoding the everyday impact of geopolitical risk.

NovaSher builds GeoSift™ — a sovereign-deployed, HUMINT-grounded operating picture for law enforcement, defence, and capital markets. Spot the risk in time. Brief on the same picture. Price what matters before the market does.

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Multilingual open sources fused into one picture
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Domains — air, sea, sub-sea, land, information
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Answers in real time — even during your free trial
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Audit-grade provenance on every event
What you get in the Preview Demo

A live operating picture on your actual data — in real time.

The Preview Demo is a structured, no-cost first week designed to validate operational fit and generate decision-grade output against your real use cases — continuing into a paid deployment only if it works for you.

Your data stays private. GeoSift™ does not ingest, store or train on any customer data — you simply assess your own reports and portfolio against our risk metrics and see the gaps.
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Geospatial mapping

Live multi-source mapping of risk events across air, sea, sub-sea, land, and information domains, tagged by severity, confidence, and time-to-impact.

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AI agent survey

Natural-language analyst interface tuned to your specific intelligence questions, with structured outputs and full provenance on every event.

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Cross-reference reports

Continuous comparison of your events against documented analogues across Baltic, Black Sea, Pacific, Sahel, and other case bodies globally.

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Pre-vetted HUMINT

Grass-roots experts and regional analysts validate inputs with chain of custody preserved end-to-end — ground truth no automated feed reproduces.

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Sovereign deployment

Delivered on Canadian-resident OVH Cloud sovereign infrastructure today. Air-gapped and on-prem options on the productionisation roadmap.

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Audit-grade provenance

Every event traceable to its source, every model output reproducible. Output that holds up to a court, a regulator, or an inspector general.

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See GeoSift™ in action.

A sovereign, HUMINT-grounded operating picture for decision-grade geopolitical intelligence.

Background

Why we built GeoSift™.

We were approached by investigative leadership in law enforcement and by hedge fund owners — each wanting an intuitive tool that delivered real-time insights on pressing matters, without risking exposure of classified or sensitive information when sharing documents across stakeholders.

With hate crime rising from small towns to major metropolitan centres — increasingly tied to transnational criminal networks whose money trails lead back to funders based abroad — the demand on first responders and every level of policing has created a growing backlog. GeoSift™ was built to close the gap — a unique approach that responds to cases as they unfold.

Our board members and expert advisors were integral to that beginning too — old friends of our CEO who shared the same grievances: too much bureaucracy, and an urgent need to meet mounting risk in a new way.

Who the Preview Demo is for

Buyers across sectors. One requirement: see the risk, respond in time.

Geopolitics shapes almost everything we interact with day to day. Our clients are executives and leaders across sectors, responsible for decisions that affect everyone — so the Preview Demo is structured around real use cases in each segment, chosen with you during scoping, run on your data and measured against your existing tools.

Law Enforcement

Where the threat lands first.

Federal, provincial, and municipal intelligence, fusion centres, and investigative agencies.

  • Counter-organised-crime augmentation
  • Anti-trafficking, anti-fraud, hate-crime response
  • Grey-zone foreign-influence monitoring
Defence

Where the threat is shaped.

NATO, Allied Ministries of Defence, primes, and intelligence services.

  • Operational intelligence augmentation
  • Arctic, Eastern Flank, Pacific theatre awareness
  • MSS-NATO-class integration on roadmap
Capital Markets

Where the risk is priced.

Pension funds, banks, asset managers, sovereign wealth, exchanges.

  • Sanctions-exposure and AML screening
  • Sovereign and country-risk repricing
  • Critical-minerals supply-chain due diligence
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Dual-Use Spillover

Trace the threat to its root cause.

Threats rarely originate where they surface. Dual-use technology, grey-zone activity and state-linked capital spill across military, civilian and commercial domains — so finding the root cause takes enterprise-risk and business-intelligence analysis across all three segments.

Beneficial-ownership & corporate-structure mapping — who ultimately controls a counterparty, supplier or component.
Sanctions, export-control & end-use exposure traced across the full supply chain.
Dual-use technology-transfer tracing — civilian capabilities repurposed for military or state use.
Financial-flow & front-company analysis — shell entities and illicit funding routes behind an event.
Root-cause linkage — connecting a surface event to the actor, incentive and enabling network driving it.
Enterprise-risk exposure mapping — second- and third-order impact on operations, counterparties and markets.
How the Preview Demo runs

From sign-up, real-time answers to your hardest geopolitical questions — past, present and future.

The moment you’re onboarded, GeoSift™ responds in real time to complex questions about geopolitical events — decoding what’s unfolding now, how it echoes the past, and where it could be heading next.

WEEK 1

Free dashboard access

Enjoy free access to the GeoSift™ dashboard — hands-on from day one, at no cost and with no payment up front.

WEEK 2

Ready to operate

Once you’ve reviewed the training material, you’re ready to use the platform any time of day — assess scenarios, get recommendations, and share reports with fellow stakeholders and colleagues.

Free Preview Demo

Your first week is free.

Law enforcement, defence, and financial-markets teams can try GeoSift™ on their own use cases — the first week of your Preview Demo is completely free, with no payment up front.

GeoSift™ Preview Demo
Free
First week · 2 seats · no payment up front
✓Two user seats for your Preview Demo
✓Sovereign environment provisioned and scoped to your real use cases
✓Same offer for law enforcement, defence and financial-markets teams
✓Continue to a paid engagement only if it’s the right fit
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Who we are

Founded by operators in security and finance.

NovaSher is led by co-founders working at the intersection of geopolitical risk, national security, and capital markets — backed by an advisory board spanning law enforcement, defence and intelligence, cybersecurity, and deep tech.

Shermineh Esmati

Shermineh Esmati

CEO & Founder

Harvard University & University of Toronto. Former VP of Growth for Fintech. Serial entrepreneur with a national-security-policy background.

 Dan Novak

Dan Novak

CFO & Co-Founder

Oxford University. Former Head of Foreign Reserves at the Bank of Canada. Leads NovaSher’s finance and capital-markets strategy.
Meet the full team & advisors
Preview Demo application

Request your GeoSift™ Preview Demo.

Tell us about your organisation and use case. We typically respond within two business days with next steps and scoping availability.

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Infrastructure, partners & programme affiliations
OVHcloud Startup Program
Canadian-resident sovereign infrastructure
Canadian Delegation
to NATO
Sponsored business — Allied innovation ecosystem
VECTOR INSTITUTE
AI research-community member
NVIDIA Inception Program
AI/ML technical advisory partner
Frequently asked

Common questions, briefly.

How is GeoSift™ different from existing risk-intelligence providers?

We built GeoSift™ to close a gap the risk-intelligence market has left unattended for too long. Too many tools optimise for volume and hindsight — surfacing what already happened, or steering teams toward the wrong questions — which can leave even customers of the leading providers exposed to threats they never saw coming, and everyone a little less safe. GeoSift™ is built for foresight: real-time, explainable answers to the questions that actually matter, grounded in pre-vetted HUMINT and audit-grade provenance, so decision-makers can act before risk lands rather than after.

Is the Preview Demo free?

Your first week is free. The Preview Demo gives your team hands-on access for one week at no cost and with no payment up front, so you can validate fit before any commercial commitment. If you continue, it credits toward your recurring plan.

Where is data hosted during the Preview Demo?

On Canadian-resident OVH Cloud sovereign infrastructure today, outside US CLOUD Act exposure, with model lineage, data residency, and key custody under customer-aligned control. Air-gapped and on-premises options are on the productionisation roadmap.

Do you use or store our data?

No. Your data stays private — GeoSift™ does not ingest, store or train on any customer data. You assess your own reports and portfolio against our risk metrics, keeping full control of your information.

Do you handle classified or sensitive material?

The platform is deployed for sensitive-but-unclassified workloads today, with classified-environment hardening on the productionisation roadmap. We work with customers during scoping to align on the appropriate classification posture for their deployment.

Who can apply?

Law enforcement, defence and Allied national customers, capital-markets institutions, critical-infrastructure operators, and academic-research partners. Applications outside these segments are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

What happens after the Preview Demo?

If the Preview Demo proves out, you continue on a paid plan — a fixed-fee Preview Demo or a monthly subscription, confirmed at conversion based on seats and use case.

NOVASHER™ Nexus Podcast

Go deeper on geopolitical risk.

Conversations on the forces reshaping markets, security and the world — from the team behind GeoSift™.

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