Seerist

Last updated: May 29, 2026

Introduction to Seerist

Seerist is a threat and risk intelligence company that helps organizations monitor and anticipate geopolitical, security, and operational risks worldwide. Its content focuses on global threats, risks, and operational intelligence.

Seerist Methodology

Seerist uses AI and machine learning to continuously scan and analyze large volumes of global open-source data for indicators of geopolitical, security, operational, and societal risk. Potential events are validated and contextualized by human analysts, who assess severity, credibility, and likely impact before alerts are issued. Risk levels are determined based on factors such as severity, likelihood, geographic proximity, stability trends, and potential operational impact.

 Seerist Content

Seerist provides Safeture with a variety of content types, including:

• Alerts

• Country Information

• City Information

• Country Risk Assessment

Seerist Alerts

Sources and tools
Seerist collects information from open-source data and historical event datasets. It also uses human analysts and regional experts to verify important incidents and add context. Seerist combines this data with AI models to detect risks, predict instability, and send real-time alerts.

Events, alerts and risk categories
Seerist categorises incidents into three types of events: Breaking events, Verified events and Future events. All three are published as alerts in the Safeture platform. While the event types reflect differences in how incidents are identified, validated, and timed, they are not distinguished for end users in the Safeture platform and are presented simply as alerts.

Breaking events
Coverage focuses on major cities, business and commercial centres, and transport hubs, providing historical context for threats such as war, terrorism, unrest, and crime in specific locations, while enabling trend analysis over time.

Verified events
Covers security-related incidents such as war, crime, terrorism, maritime threats, and unrest, providing historical context (from 2008 onwards) for specific locations to support threat assessments and trend analysis over time.

Alerts on verified events include the following information:

• Location: Latitude/longitude, location precision, country (including a secondary country for bilateral events such as cross-border skirmishes)

• Target: Sector and asset type (the specific type of physical asset or individual affected)

• Attack type: The weapon or method used

• Perpetrator: The specific group involved and/or ideological affiliation, where known

Future events
Covers upcoming events that may present potential security or operational risks, such as planned protests, demonstrations, strikes, and other anticipated disruptions.

Alert Risk Levels
Seerist alerts' risk levels vary based on the type of event:

• Breaking events are always High-risk level.

• Future events have three risk levels: Low, Medium or High.

• Verified events have risk levels based on severity scoring from 1 to 10 set by Seerist analysts. The severity score reflects several dimensions, including sophistication; number of casualties; type of asset attacked; level of disruption; and estimated monetary damage. Safeture maps these severity scorings into risk levels as follows:

Seerist Country Information
Seerist’s country information is organized under the following tabs:

• Overview

• Risk

• Alerts

• Cities Report

Overview: A political and historical overview, including an executive and legislative summary, as well as key security-related issues.

Risk: A summary of the country’s risk assessment, including an overall risk level and detailed assessments across the following risk categories, with a risk level assigned to each:

• Operational

• Political

• Security

• Maritime (where applicable)

The security risk level is used as the overall country risk level.

Please note: Some subcategories may carry a higher risk level than the headline country rating in relevant countries.

Alerts: The alerts tab provides an alert feed with the most recent alerts affecting that country.

Cities reports: City reports provide a high-level guide to security and other issues that may affect visitors. They contain assessments and a short summary of a major city/cities, recommendations and considerations for specific traveller groups, as well as arrival information. Key issues in each city are identified for business travelers to be aware of. These issues include but are not limited to political, stability, operational issues, security and inclusivity. Arrival section provides information on the issues that a visitor may face when arriving or traveling around a city.  

Seerist Country Risk Assessments

Country Risk Categories
Seerist assesses Country Risk across four categories, each assigned its own risk level:

• Maritime (when applicable)

• Operational

• Political

• Security

Please note: The Security risk level also serves as the overall country risk level. This overall rating is displayed on the Security Overview map and in the Risk tab within Seerist’s Country Information.

Political Risk: Political risk evaluates the likelihood of government interference and political instability, and their impact on the business environment. Political risk assesses general political stability and policy issues such as regulatory change, high-level corruption, reputational risk, expropriation and nationalisation, contractual interference, sovereign default and non-payment, and international sanctions

Operational Risk: Operational risk evaluates the influence of societal and structural factors either facilitating or impeding efficient business operations. Factors assessed include infrastructure; ease of establishing and maintaining a functioning business; ease of recruiting and retaining skilled workers; and bureaucratic and business culture. 

Security Risk: Security risk evaluates threats to the financial, physical and human assets of a company, as well as the willingness and capability of public security forces to protect corporate assets and personnel. Factors assessed include military conflict, insurgency, terrorist attacks, strikes and riots, vandalism, kidnapping, and violent and acquisitive crime.

Maritime Risk: Maritime risk evaluates threats to the financial, physical and human assets of an organisation while operating offshore, on inland waterways or alongside a sea port, as well as the willingness and capability of public security forces to protect assets and personnel. Factors assessed include military conflict, insurgency, terrorism, kidnapping of crew from vessels, hijacking of vessels, violent and acquisitive crime, activism, human migration and trafficking, and smuggling of illicit goods. 

Country Risk Levels
Seerist’s five country risk levels have been renamed within the Safeture platform to align with country risk ratings: