The platform enables users to make better decisions faster by identifying and forecasting emerging events on a global scale to mitigate risk, recognize threats, greatly enhance indications and warnings, and provide predictive intelligence capabilities. The artificial intelligence / machine learning models enable rapid access to automated intelligence assessments by fusing, processing, exploiting and analyzing open sources of data (including news, social media, economic indicators, governance indicators, travel warnings, weather and other sources). This system is an immediate and substantial force multiplier that shifts the traditional approach of monitoring and assessing the operational environment to focus on the forecast of the future geopolitical, socio, and economic environment.