AI-powered global risk management refers to the use of artificial intelligence – including real-time data fusion, agentic AI workflows, and predictive analytics – to help organizations detect, assess, and respond to critical events that threaten their people, facilities, and operations. Given the increasingly complex modern threat landscape, where geopolitical instability, extreme weather, cyberattacks, and social unrest can escalate in minutes, the ability to identify emerging risks before they become full-blown crises has become a strategic imperative for enterprises of every size.
On March 18, 2026, two industry leaders stepped up to the challenge. Dataminr, the global leader in AI-powered real-time event, threat, and risk intelligence, and Crisis24, the AI-enhanced leader in integrated risk management under the GardaWorld umbrella, announced a multi-year strategic partnership that aims to create the most advanced Critical Event Management (CEM) platform the industry has ever seen.
In this article, we’ll discuss what this landmark partnership means for the future of enterprise security and risk management. We’ll explore what each company brings to the table, how their combined technologies will integrate with Crisis24’s Horizon platform to deliver a unified “single pane of glass” solution. And we’ll examine the broader industry trends driving this collaboration, and what it signals about the emerging age of agentic AI in corporate security.
TL;DR Snapshot
Dataminr and Crisis24 have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership to build what they describe as the industry’s most advanced Critical Event Management platform. By combining Dataminr’s real-time intelligence capabilities (which scan over one million public data sources across text, image, video, audio, and sensor data in 150 languages) with Crisis24’s established risk management workflows, mass notification systems, and global response infrastructure, the partnership promises to dramatically reduce the time it takes for organizations to detect and respond to critical events worldwide.
Key takeaways include…
- Unified platform: The partnership merges Dataminr’s real-time AI detection and agentic intelligence capabilities with Crisis24’s Horizon critical event management platform into a single integrated environment for enterprise risk teams.
- Agentic AI at scale: The combined solution will be the first to feature Dataminr’s Intel Agents, ReGenAI Live Briefs, and Predictive Intelligence within a CEM platform, enabling organizations to move from reactive incident response to proactive, AI-driven risk anticipation.
- Client-tailored intelligence: Future phases will fuse Dataminr’s signals with each organization’s internal data to customize Live Briefs, Intel Agents, and predictive capabilities to their unique operations and risk profile.
Who should read this: Corporate security leaders, Chief Security Officers, risk management professionals, business continuity planners, and enterprise technology decision-makers.
What Dataminr and Crisis24 Each Bring to the Table
To understand why this partnership matters, it helps to know what makes each company so distinctive. Dataminr has spent more than a decade building one of the world’s most sophisticated AI platforms for real-time event detection. The company pioneered what it calls Multi-Modal Fusion AI, which synthesizes text in over 150 languages along with image, video, audio, and sensor data from more than one million public data sources. Its platform performs trillions of daily computations, and is powered by more than 50 proprietary large language models. The result is a system that can identify the earliest signals of breaking events, including natural disasters, civil unrest, cyberattacks, and infrastructure failures, often before they appear in mainstream news. Today, more than 100 U.S. government agencies, 20 international governments, two-thirds of the Fortune 50, and half of the Fortune 100 rely on Dataminr.
Crisis24, a GardaWorld company, approaches risk from a different angle. As a global provider of travel risk management, mass communications, critical event management, crisis-security consulting, personal protection, and medical concierge services, Crisis24’s strength lies in the operational response side of the equation. Backed by the largest team of private-sector intelligence analysts in the world and a network of advanced Global Operations Centers, Crisis24’s Horizon platform gives organizations the tools to not only understand threats, but actively manage and respond to them. The company serves global enterprises that need to effectively protect employees, travelers, and assets in an increasingly unpredictable world.
In short, Dataminr excels at the “know sooner” side of risk management, while Crisis24 excels at the “act faster” side. This partnership is designed to unite both under a single, seamless platform.
Inside the Technology: Agentic AI, Intel Agents, and Predictive Intelligence
What sets this partnership apart from a typical integration deal is the depth of AI technology being brought to bear. The combined platform will be the first critical event management environment to feature Dataminr’s full suite of advanced AI capabilities, and the centerpiece is a concept called Intel Agents.
Intel Agents represent Dataminr’s breakthrough in agentic AI. Unlike traditional AI systems that passively wait for instructions, Intel Agents are goal-oriented and autonomous. When Dataminr’s platform detects an emerging event, a fleet of AI agents springs into action to autonomously determine what additional context is needed, decide where to look for it across billions of data signals, and synthesize their findings into concise, actionable intelligence. Powered by Dataminr’s domain-specialized large language models, these agents operate collaboratively at a speed and scale that no human analyst team could match. They scan Dataminr’s 12-plus-year archive of event data, ingest new real-time signals, and search the broader public internet. And they do it all within seconds.
Layered on top of Intel Agents are ReGenAI Live Briefs, which use generative AI to automatically produce and continuously update narrative summaries of unfolding events. As new information arrives, Live Briefs regenerate in real time, giving security teams a constantly current picture of what’s happening and why it matters. Then there’s Predictive Intelligence (referred to as PreGenAI in Dataminr’s roadmap), which envisions potential future scenarios, predicts what might happen next, and recommends preemptive actions for the client.
When embedded within Crisis24’s Horizon platform, all of these capabilities will be accessible through a unified “single pane of glass” that combines visualization tools, automation, analytics, and response workflows. For corporate security teams already managing dozens of disparate tools and data feeds, the promise of a single integrated environment is monumental.
Why Now? The Industry Forces Driving This Partnership
This partnership isn’t happening in a vacuum. Several converging forces are pushing the corporate security and risk management industry toward exactly this kind of AI-powered consolidation.
- First, the global threat landscape is more complex and fast-moving than ever. Crisis24’s own 2025 Global Risk Forecast warned that organizations must prepare for concurrent large-scale crises, from the wider ramifications of geopolitical conflicts and extreme weather events, to economic volatility and the unchecked proliferation of misinformation. These risks don’t arrive one at a time, they compound and intersect, requiring intelligence systems that can track multiple threat vectors simultaneously.
- Second, the speed at which events unfold has accelerated dramatically. Social media, real-time sensor networks, and global connectivity mean that a local incident can become an international concern in minutes. Traditional risk management workflows – where human analysts triage incoming data, write reports, and escalate through chains of command – simply cannot keep pace anymore. This is where agentic AI offers a paradigm shift. Autonomous systems can detect, contextualize, and route intelligence at machine speed while leaving the critical decisions to human operators.
- Third, there’s a broader consolidation trend in the risk management technology market. GardaWorld’s 2024 acquisition of OnSolve, a leading provider of critical event management and mass communication services, and its integration into Crisis24 signaled an appetite for building a comprehensive, end-to-end platform. The Dataminr partnership extends this strategy by adding best-in-class AI-powered detection and intelligence, the one piece that was still missing from the puzzle.
What This Means for Enterprises and What Comes Next
For organizations currently using either Dataminr or Crisis24, or both separately, the immediate promise is a tighter, faster loop between threat detection and operational response. Instead of receiving an alert from one platform, then switching to another to initiate a response, security teams will be able to detect, assess, and act from within a single environment. According to both companies, this integrated workflow will dramatically reduce the time from initial signal detection to coordinated organizational response.
The longer-term roadmap is arguably even more interesting. Both companies have indicated that future phases of the partnership will introduce client-tailored intelligence, which will fuse Dataminr’s signals with an organization’s own internal data to customize the output of Intel Agents, Live Briefs, and Predictive Intelligence to that organization’s specific operations, risk profile, and asset portfolio. This means the platform won’t just tell you what’s happening in the world; it will tell you what’s happening that matters to your company, and what you should do about it.
The two companies plan to publicly showcase their joint vision at ISC West 2026, which is set to take place from March 25th–27th in Las Vegas. Executives from both Dataminr and Crisis24 will be hosting joint meetings at the Crisis24/GardaWorld booth, and will be discussing the immediate and long-term roadmap for their partnership. For anyone in the enterprise security space, it’s a session that’s definitely worth keeping a close eye on.
As Gregoire Pinton, Crisis24’s Managing Director and Global Head of Integrated Risk Management framed it, the goal is to empower leaders to “know sooner, decide faster, and respond with confidence.” With this partnership, that ambition now has a concrete technological foundation behind it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Dataminr is a New York–based AI company that specializes in real-time event, threat, and risk intelligence. Its platform uses Multi-Modal Fusion AI to scan over one million public data sources -including text, images, video, audio, and sensor data – in more than 150 languages. They specialize in delivering the earliest possible alerts on breaking events, emerging threats, and unexpected risks, and serve over 100 U.S. government agencies, two-thirds of the Fortune 50, and half of the Fortune 100.
Crisis24 is a global, AI-enhanced provider of integrated risk management services, operating as a GardaWorld company. Its offerings span travel risk management, mass communications, critical event management, crisis-security consulting, personal protection, and global medical concierge services. They operate advanced Global Operations Centers, employ the largest team of private-sector intelligence analysts in the world, and serve Fortune 500 companies and other global organizations.
GardaWorld is a Montreal-based global corporation focused on building market leaders in security services, AI-enabled security technology, integrated risk management, and cash automation solutions. GardaWorld acquired Crisis24 in January 2023 and subsequently acquired OnSolve in 2024, integrating both into its comprehensive risk management portfolio. Crisis24 operates as one of GardaWorld’s key businesses.
Critical Event Management is a discipline and technology category focused on helping organizations identify, assess, and respond to events that pose a threat to their people, operations, or assets. CEM platforms typically combine threat intelligence, mass notification, situational awareness, and incident management tools into a unified system, enabling security teams to coordinate rapid responses to events like natural disasters, civil unrest, cyberattacks, or other crises.
Intel Agents are Dataminr’s groundbreaking agentic AI technology. When their platform detects an emerging event, Intel Agents autonomously determine what additional context is needed, decide where to look for it across vast data sources, and synthesize their findings into actionable intelligence, all without human direction. They are powered by Dataminr’s proprietary domain-specialized large language models, and represent a shift from reactive, task-based AI to goal-oriented, autonomous AI systems.
ISC West is one of the largest security industry trade shows in the United States, held annually in Las Vegas. The event brings together security professionals, technology vendors, and industry leaders to showcase the latest products, services, and innovations in physical security, cybersecurity, access control, and related fields. The 2026 edition takes place March 25–27.
