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AI Layer

Execution that reads the physical world

Our AI layer ingests unstructured data from the physical market and acts inside the trade, from signal through hedge, financing and routing.

What the layer does

Each function below runs against live data and feeds the desk rather than a dashboard.

Signal

Maritime and Spatial Intelligence

Vessel tracking merged with satellite radar imagery measures floating crude and LNG storage and open pit stockpile volumes across copper, titanium and lithium.

Signal

Unstructured Market Parsing

Language models monitor logistics channels, port authority notices and tender boards, surfacing distressed cargo offers as they appear.

Risk

Compliance and Trade Finance

Counterparty sanctions, know your customer and anti money laundering checks run against bill of lading data, taking friction out of letter of credit execution.

Risk

Automated Hedging

Delta hedging agents lock the futures curve on ICE and CME the moment a physical off take or CIF contract is signed.

Logistics

Multi Modal Routing

Predictive agents reroute breakbulk vessels, railcars and reefer containers around port congestion, tariff shifts and weather disruption.

Carbon

Yield and Carbon Intensity Modeling

Multi spectral imagery forecasts regional biomass yield and harvest timing, and life cycle assessment tracking carries carbon intensity through to certificate generation.

The stack, end to end

Three layers, in sequence. Telemetry is ingested from the physical world, resolved into a live model of trade flow, and acted on inside the trade.

Layer one
IoT and logistics telemetryAIS feeds, satellite imagery and fleet sensors.
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Layer two
Physical intelligence graphSupply routing, congestion models and cargo matching.
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Layer three
Execution and charteringFreight decisions, physical contracts and the hedge.

Ingestion and logistics tracking

The desk does not wait for a broker report. Position, inventory and contract terms are read directly, at the source.

Telemetry

Maritime and Rail Movement

AIS and sensor integrations track bulk carriers, barges and railcar fleets, so transit times and emerging bottlenecks are measured rather than estimated.

Inventory

Storage and Stockpile Analytics

Optical and synthetic aperture radar imagery reads tank farms, silos and terminal stockpiles to size regional inventory independent of reported numbers.

Documents

Contract and Specification Parsing

Language models tuned on commercial paper parse contracts, demurrage terms and quality assay certificates into structured, comparable obligations.

The physical intelligence engine

Ingested data becomes one live model of how cargo actually moves, and where that movement is about to cost money.

Graph

Supply Chain Graph Networks

Origin points, transport modes, transshipment hubs and final delivery destinations are modeled as a single dynamic graph of global trade flow.

Forecast

Demurrage and Congestion Models

Machine learning forecasts port queues, weather disruption and freight rate volatility before the delay prices into the cargo.

Agents

Asset Matching Agents

Autonomous agents optimize blending specifications, transloading logistics and arbitrage timing against the current state of the graph.

Signal to trade

Signal only counts when it reaches the cargo

Every model on this page runs against a live position. The output is a routing decision, a hedge or a fixture, not a dashboard someone reads later.

Talk to the desk

Execution and risk management

Signal only matters if it reaches the trade. The execution layer closes the loop between the physical position and the paper that protects it.

Hedging

Physical and Financial Integration

Physical inventory positions are tied to exchange traded futures and options, locking crush and crack spreads at the moment the cargo is committed.

Counterparty

Credit and Reliability Scoring

Supplier performance, logistics counterparties and delivery default risk are scored continuously rather than once at onboarding.

Quality

Specification Verification

Pre shipment independent inspection and automated assay verification confirm that what loads is what was contracted.