Project Helix
Model what
the network
does next.
Our platform turns fragmented intelligence into systemic foresight: how criminal, political, and economic networks reorganize after a disruption.
A digital fusion center
for strategic intelligence.
Illicit Shadows Media, Technology, & Innovation Convergence (MISTIC) is the institute behind the platform: a fusion center where field investigations, the museum's research, and predictive modeling are brought together.
Helix.AI is one of its projects: the predictive convergence system that examines how criminal, political, and economic networks reorganize after disruption.
From fragments
to a system.
Most intelligence forecasts discrete events. Helix models the adaptation that follows: if a disruption occurs at one node, how do the others reorganize to compensate?
- 01
Gather
MIS assets, artifacts, and mapping enter the intelligence layer.
- 02
Connect
A global graph links actors, routes, and flows.
- 03
Model
Helix.AI applies structural causal modeling and adaptive feedback.
- 04
Test
Reinforcement explores cascading adaptation paths.
One disruption.
Many consequences.
Follow the Rotterdam example from an initial shock to redirected routes, financial activity, and downstream effects. Use the timeline on the map to move between stages.
Understand
the adaptation.
Strategic foresight, rather than a prediction of a single incident.
A disruption can move trade into different routes, entities, assets, and spheres of influence. Helix examines those linked shifts.
The Rotterdam sequence is an illustrative model, not a report of observed events or a validated forecast. Its purpose is to make the logic of a cascade visible.
See the wider connectionsPressure travels
across domains.
Illicit markets connect governance, security, economies, and communities. This is the wider system Helix seeks to model.
Bring the network
into view.
Advisory and briefings for governments, international organizations, and industry, today. Helix.AI is in development.
Request a briefingBe there when the beta opens.