Case Study | Helios AI

A rival origin's rainfall risk becomes six months of extra export volume

How a Central American plantain exporter used Helios AI to read a competing origin's rainfall risk early, and turned that lead time into four extra containers a month for six straight months.

Seven weeks of warning before the smallest US wheat crop since 1965

How Helios AI flagged Kansas at its lowest rating in the season's first week and held it for 21 weeks, giving buyers seven weeks of warning before USDA's June forecast and time to cover before US wheat export prices rose 24.6%.

An origin marked down in May shipped a third less cocoa

How Helios AI moved Cameroon cocoa to its most severe rating in May and held it all season, months before the origin marketed 19.9% less cocoa and shipped 34.7% fewer beans.

Brazil's corn export price turned within weeks of the June flag

How Helios AI's single in-season rating change on Brazilian corn, a June drought flag across regions carrying 80% of output, preceded a turn in export prices that lifted all 12 published series.

We put our own money behind our own forecast.

Helios AI called US corn yield below USDA trend, backed it with its own capital, and published the full scorecard.

A cashew shortfall identified months before the supply chain could see it

How Freeworld Trading caught a cashew shortfall in the climate data months before it surfaced at processing.

COSA's partnership with Helios AI

How coffee cooperatives in Rwanda and Uganda moved from generational intuition to a weekly, crop-specific climate signal in a Gates Foundation-funded pilot with COSA.

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