Windward

Most risk tools hand you a fixed score. Windward lets compliance teams define their own thresholds, so a vessel that's acceptable for one charterer can still be blocked by a stricter bank policy. The same risk logic carries into the API, which keeps screening decisions consistent across teams.

Windward's models look at how a vessel behaves over time rather than at a single moment. AIS gaps, identity spoofing, unusual flag changes and ship-to-ship transfers get weighed together, and the platform points to the indicators behind each score. The company reports about 75% fewer false positives than rule-based systems, a number it publishes rather than one verified by outside auditors.

The platform blends more than 30 sources: terrestrial, satellite and vessel-based AIS, electro-optical and radar imagery, radio frequency signals, sanctions lists and ownership registries. When one feed degrades or gets manipulated, the others fill the gap. That redundancy is the core selling point for navies and coast guards working in contested waters. It's the difference between watching one feed and real maritime domain awareness.

This module follows containerized cargo across carriers, ports and trade lanes. It validates departure and arrival events, harmonizes every container on the same vessel to one timeline, and raises exceptions for rollovers, transshipment delays and long port stays. Shippers can share a status link with customers, which cuts down on "where is my box" emails.

MAI Expert writes plain-language summaries of detections, answers follow-up questions and drafts case notes for review. It ships with templates in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian, and organizations can add private data and their own prompts. Windward says customer data isn't used to train the models, and every AI answer links back to the evidence that produced it.

The API exposes risk scores, ownership hierarchies, sanctions exposure and behavioral timelines at vessel, company, fleet or geographic level. Because it's GraphQL, you request only the fields you need instead of pulling whole records. Webhooks push risk changes and vessel-of-interest events into internal systems without polling.

Windward keeps a pre-matched ownership database covering seven levels, from the registered owner up to the ultimate beneficial owner. Each profile is reviewed by maritime analysts and refreshed when control structures change. For sanctions work, that saves the manual matching that eats analyst hours.