Dryad Global has launched Verihelm™, its next-generation maritime intelligence platform designed to help organisations understand where global trade flows are exposed to disruption, where pressure is building, and what that could mean for operations, supply chains and commercial risk.
Built for a more volatile global trade environment, Verihelm combines AI-assisted maritime intelligence with Dryad Global’s analyst expertise to support faster, clearer and more defensible decision-making.
The platform has been developed for organisations across shipping, insurance, finance, retail, manufacturing, energy, ports and critical infrastructure. It gives users a clearer view of vessel activity, route risk, sanctions exposure, port and regional threats, and emerging events that could interrupt the movement of goods, commodities and capital.
Maritime risk is no longer a concern for shipping teams alone. Disruption in key sea lanes can quickly affect supply chain continuity, logistics planning, underwriting exposure, compliance decisions, commercial risk and operational resilience.
Recent disruption in the Red Sea, GPS interference, sanctions exposure, shadow fleet activity, piracy, port security concerns, environmental regulation and geopolitical instability have shown how quickly maritime risk can become a board-level issue for any organisation reliant on the movement of goods by sea.
Verihelm has been built to help organisations move beyond monitoring incidents in isolation. Instead, it helps teams understand how maritime risk can affect trade flows, where disruption could emerge, and whether a development changes the risk picture enough to require action.
Verihelm monitors maritime intelligence from official sources, AIS data, news feeds, sanctions lists and open-source channels. AI supports high-volume discovery, classification and scoring, while Dryad Global’s analysts provide the verification, judgement and context needed to turn signals into decision-support intelligence.
This approach is central to Verihelm’s proposition: intelligence should not operate as a black box. Users need to understand where information has come from, how confident they can be in it, and whether it is relevant to the decision in front of them.
Rather than treating every alert as equal, Verihelm helps users assess whether multiple signals are converging into a meaningful change in risk. Its workflow combines automated collection, AI-supported classification, analyst review and scored output to provide a clearer view of threat relevance, source confidence, operational impact and potential trade-flow disruption.
At launch, Verihelm supports users with analyst-reviewed incident intelligence, assessments for ports, maritime regions and countries, email alerting and voyage risk assessments.
Downloadable reports allow teams to brief internal stakeholders, collaborate across departments and support decisions around route exposure, vessel risk, sanctions due diligence, trade-flow disruption and incident response.
The platform includes multiple sources for sanctions screening, allowing users to screen vessels, identifiers and ownership exposure as part of their due diligence workflows. This is combined with wider vessel risk indicators including AIS behaviour, incident history, port state control records and route exposure.
For operators, logistics and supply chain teams, Verihelm provides voyage and regional threat assessments, vessel tracking, environmental regulation visibility and downloadable reports that can be used to brief Masters, shore-based teams, insurers, finance teams, commercial teams and other stakeholders.
For enterprise users, Verihelm offers API access to support integration into existing operational, risk, compliance, underwriting, logistics and supply chain resilience workflows.
Verihelm has been designed for ship operators, CSOs, DPAs, fleet and voyage planning teams, charterers, traders, finance teams, insurers, P&I stakeholders, compliance teams, ports, retailers and industrial organisations with exposure to global supply chain disruption.
Corey Ranslem, CEO of Dryad Global, said:
“Global organisations are not short of alerts. They are short of clarity. 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.
“For insurers and finance teams, that means better visibility of exposure. For retailers, manufacturers and industrial organisations, it means a clearer understanding of where supply chain disruption could occur. For maritime operators, it means knowing whether a development changes the risk picture and what should happen next.
“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.
“Verihelm is the next step in Dryad Global’s mission to give organisations the tools, intelligence and support they need to protect trade, manage disruption and operate with confidence in a fast-moving world.”
Verihelm’s launch proposition is built around three operational principles: helping users see what matters, trust what they are seeing and act with confidence.
The platform builds on Dryad Global’s established position as a maritime risk intelligence and cyber solutions provider. Dryad Global works with organisations across shipping, insurance, finance, energy, offshore, retail, industry and critical infrastructure, combining technology, maritime expertise and analyst support to help clients make sense of complex and shifting maritime risk.
Verihelm is now available for demonstrations and client onboarding.
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To request a demo, visit: https://www.dryadglobal.com/risk-intelligence-system#demo