What's New in Helios AI: Climate Risk 2.0 and Disruption Email Alerts

We've been shipping fast this quarter, and this release is one we're particularly excited to share. Two major updates are coming live next week: a brand new Disruption Email Alert system and new additions to our Climate Risk engine. Here's what changed and why it matters for how you work.

Join us live: Inside Helios AI - Platform Demo + April Product Updates

Tuesday, April 28, at 7:00 AM PT / 10:00 AM ET. Dominic Aquino (Product Manager) and Dayre Lashnits (Global Head of Sales) will walk through everything in this release with a live platform demo.

Introducing Disruption Email Alerts

Until now, staying on top of climate risk shifts meant logging into the platform and checking. Starting soon, Helios AI comes to you.

We're launching Disruption Email Alerts, a morning digest that lands in your inbox whenever risk has shifted across any commodity and country you track. Each alert is grouped by commodity and shows you exactly what changed, where, and how far it moved, with a direct link back into the platform to dig deeper.

So if corn climate risk in Ukraine jumps overnight, or Brazil's season rating drops sharply, you'll know before you've opened a single dashboard. It's designed to be the first thing you scan in the morning: clear, actionable, and zero noise.

Want to see how to set them up? We put together a quick walkthrough video to get you started.

Climate Risk 2.0: Enhanced Crop Calendars and Deeper Intelligence

Alongside the alert launch, we've updated the Climate Risk engine itself, the most substantial improvement we've made since launch.

• Enhanced crop calendars, including perennial crops

Every crop's growing calendar has been rebuilt with sub-period precision. Helios AI now knows not just that a crop is "in season" but exactly which growth stage it's in, and scores risk against that specific window. For example, the system now knows that May marks the start of Fruit/Crop fill for Cocoa in Peru, and weights risk accordingly.

This release also strengthens perennial crop support. Crops like coffee, cocoa, and citrus have multi-year overlapping cycles that never fit neatly into a single-season model. We've improved the infrastructure to handle that, so the risk scores you see for these commodities are more aligned with how those crops actually grow.

• More granular climate risk drivers

Climate risk scores now surface the most pressing type of risk, not just that risk is elevated, but whether it's heat stress, drought, excess rainfall, or cold temperatures driving it. The dominant risk driver rises to the top, so you understand what's actually happening on the ground, not just that the number moved.

• 500+ historical disruption events powering your scores

When risk spikes, Helios AI now matches current conditions against a database of 500+ confirmed historical disruption events. That means when conditions look familiar, you'll see the context: "The last time conditions looked like this was 2022, and yields dropped 8%."

What's Next

We're already deep into the next wave of product updates. A few things to look forward to:

• Yield prediction at the country level: moving from monitoring into true predictive yield modeling, grounded in climate trajectory data.

• Climate and supply integration: tighter linkage between climate risk signals and supply disruption tracking, so climate events automatically surface their downstream market implications.

• Expanded market data layer: richer integration of market data into climate risk context, bridging what's happening in fields with what it means for prices.

Log in to explore the platform for yourself, and if you want to see everything in action, join us at the webinar on April 28.