Sanctions and maritime risk intelligence

When a tanker goes dark, our agents don't stop looking.

Shadow Fleet detects when a vessel goes dark, transfers cargo covertly or spoofs its identity. Then AI agents investigate each event, pulling ownership, port-call history and pattern data to return a confirmed identification, not just an alert.

Case file · 04 / 2026
The 1400-vessel global shadow fleet
How a network of aging tankers moves sanctioned crude across three oceans.
Capabilities

One console for the activity
built to stay hidden.

Five intelligence layers in one console. AI agents work each layer, not just surfacing signals but investigating them and returning conclusions you can act on.

Detection

Dark activity detection

Surface every AIS gap that matters, filtered by region, vessel class and risk. Agents rank each gap by how likely it is to be evasion rather than a routine signal loss, so the watch floor sees the real ones first.

Compliance

Sanctions and policy monitoring

Global sanctions lists mapped to your own policies, monitored continuously by AI agents. When a tracked vessel touches a sanctioned entity, owner or corridor, you get the match and the paper trail to act on it.

Network

Ship-to-ship and ownership mapping

Map ship-to-ship transfers, beneficial ownership and the shell-company layers that hide who really controls a vessel. Agents trace the chain so you see the operator behind the flag.

Live · Strait of Malacca

Vessel "Aurora Star" went dark 04:12 UTC

Last AIS ping near 03°22′N 100°17′E. Predicted course intercept in 11 hours.

The platform · 2 min tour

From dark ping to confirmed track, in under a minute.

See how our AI agents close the gap between a vessel disappearing and a confirmed identification: minutes, not the days a manual OSINT trace takes.

Impact

Numbers from the deep.

What the platform has surfaced for partners across maritime enforcement, defence intelligence and commercial risk.

Coverage
62k+
Commercial vessels under continuous tracking, refreshed every 6 minutes.
Detection
10k/day
AIS gap events detected daily across the global fleet, classified by region, vessel class and risk.
Network
284
Sanctioned ship-to-ship corridors mapped across 41 jurisdictions.
Response
11m
Median time from dark event to AI-confirmed identification.
How it works

From a dropped signal
to a confirmed brief.

Three stages. Detection finds the event, agents investigate it, and you get a brief with the evidence attached.

Step 01

Ingest

Bring global AIS, coastal receivers and port-call data into one stream: 18M positions a day.

Step 02

Detect

Models flag dark activity, spoofing, identity swaps and rendezvous events. Each one gets a confidence score and a plain-language reason it was flagged.

Step 03

Brief

AI agents confirm each event and explain it, then route the brief to your console, OSINT desk or sanctions team with the full evidence trail attached.