risk intelligence
The full risk picture. One platform.
Athenium's Risk Intelligence business unit delivers atmospheric, infrastructure, and maritime intelligence — built originally for the U.S. intelligence community, the U.S. Air Force, and Homeland Security, and now powering risk decisions for commercial carriers, federal programs, and operators worldwide.
core capabilities
Three intelligence layers. One coherent platform.
Athenium Risk Intelligence is built on three connected layers of scientific capability — each a category leader on its own, designed to compose into a single risk picture for your operation.
Atmospheric intelligence
70+ years of gap-free reanalysis, real-time observations, proprietary tropical-cyclone tracking with extended lead times, and a 24/7 meteorological desk that briefs operators during high-risk events.
Infrastructure intelligence
Patented computer vision for roofs, runways and paved surfaces. Hazard exposure and predictive damageability across buildings, transportation networks and federal portfolios.
Maritime intelligence
Sea-state, surface temperature, currents and tropical-track data fused with vessel positioning and award-winning fishing-forecast models — built originally for the U.S. intelligence community.
Products
Four products. API, Dashboard, and MCP delivery.
Use any product on its own, or combine them into a single risk view — same authentication, same governance, same audit trail. Available through the API, a web Dashboard, or any AI agent over MCP.
Hazard Scoring
Gauge
Peril-specific risk at the highest available resolution — built for property underwriting, portfolio aggregation, pricing guidance, and reinsurance.
Weather Forensics
Dexter
Hour-by-hour weather verification for any U.S. address. Drop verified results into claims systems, fraud workflows, or BI.
hurricane forecasting
Beacon
AI-driven hurricane track forecasting with cone-of-exposure overlay on your portfolio — built under DHS infrastructure-protection programs.
Climate Data Archive
Atlas
The world's largest gap-free atmospheric data archive. 2.6 million grid cells, accessible through API and MCP.
capabilities
Three expert capabilities that wrap around the data.
Beyond the four products, Athenium offers operational meteorology, infrastructure analysis and maritime intelligence as expert capabilities — tailored to specific missions, deployed alongside your team.
Capability
Operational Meteorology
On-call meteorologists, recurring briefings, 10-day tropical forecasting, and 14-day surface and upper-atmospheric outlooks delivered through a live weather desk.
Capability
Infrastructure
Patented computer vision for asset condition, hazard exposure, and damageability modeling across buildings, highways and runways — delivered as dashboards, expert consulting and asset databases.
Capability
Maritime
Custom physical regional ocean modeling, sea-state, currents, vessel positioning and award-winning fishery-forecast models — originally built for U.S. intelligence agencies.
AI-native by default
One MCP Server. Every API.
Plug Athenium directly into Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or any AI agent over the Model Context Protocol. Your team doesn't context-switch into a dashboard or hand-roll API plumbing — the agent asks, Athenium answers, with the same governance and provenance the API delivers.
- A single MCP endpoint exposes every Risk Intelligence product: Atlas, Beacon, Dexter, Gauge. Operational Meteorology, Infrastructure, and Maritime are delivered as expert capabilities.
- OAuth 2.1 with Dynamic Client Registration — zero-config onboarding for any compliant AI client.
- Same entitlements, same audit trail as the REST API — every agent call traceable for compliance review.
- Agents can score addresses, verify events, query 70 years of climatology, or pull a hurricane forecast — in chat.
> What was the wind at Wilmington City Hall (929 N Front St, Wilmington NC) during Hurricane Florence landfall (Sep 14–15, 2018)? Athenium · dexter.gridded_history_2km Peak gust: 88.7 mph Max sustained: 40.4 mph Avg sustained: 34.1 mph over 24 hours Gale-force hours: 4 (≥ 39 mph sustained) Gust ≥ 50 mph: 24/24 hours Source: 2 km HRRR · 0.19s · 2 credits > Now give me the Gauge hazard score for the same address. Athenium · gauge.location_weather_risk Hurricane wind: 10/10 Extreme Rainfall: 8/10 High Wind: 6/10 Moderate Hail: 5/10 Moderate Tornado: 4/10 Low Hurricane surge: 1/10 Very low Source: Gauge · 50 credits · 1.2s
Mission Impact
Patented data and services. Proven at federal scale.
Athenium delivers AI-generated infrastructure assessments that are more consistent and accurate than on-ground physical inspections — directly uploaded into systems at the USAF Installation and Mission Support Center and USAF Civil Engineer Center.
84,000+
structures assessed across U.S. Air Force installations
100
USAF installations across North America, Europe and Asia
70+
years of gap-free historical and forecast climatological data
12+
years serving U.S. Government mission-support needs
2.6M
global grid cells of probabilistic natural-hazard risk scoring
Government Stakeholders
Serving government stakeholders for over 12 years.
Athenium launched as a portfolio company of In-Q-Tel, the private venture fund serving the CIA and broader Intelligence Community. We support the U.S. Air Force, Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security and the broader IC by efficiently amassing and analyzing highly granular atmospheric and infrastructure analytics.
Mission Impact
Actionable. Configurable. End-user ready.
Athenium delivers AI-generated infrastructure assessments that are more consistent and accurate than on-ground physical inspections — directly uploaded into systems at the USAF Installation and Mission Support Center and USAF Civil Engineer Center.
Origin
New Hampshire based small business
Our small business is dedicated to scientific and technical innovations with dual-use applications in federal and commercial markets.
Adaptable
Purpose-built solutions
Client centricity enables adaptation of capabilities to specific end-user needs — from severe-weather operations to predictive infrastructure insights.
Embedded
Integrated and performative
Integration with customer systems and databases allows for flexible and efficient solution deployments inside existing decision pipelines.
See Risk Intelligence on your operation.
30-minute working session: bring a sample of locations, assets, or a recent event. We'll show how each Risk Intelligence product and capability fits together for your mission.