Live · Real-time geopolitical monitoring

Geopolitics, translated
to your business.

Varsko reads the world on behalf of your company, surfacing what matters with the context, sources, and judgment a decision needs.

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5Georgia · 4m ago
TANAP gas corridor risk elevated
Directly affects your gas procurement margin.
Expert network

Proprietary insight from Varsko's expert network, combined with real-time open-source signals read against your company — delivered as intelligence, foresight, and morning briefings.

How it works

Intelligence that matters for you.

Proprietary insights from Varsko's expert network, combined with real-time open-source signals read against your company, and delivered as real-time intelligence, strategic foresight, and morning briefings.

Proprietary

Expert network

Former heads of government, ministers, ambassadors, and people on the ground.

Open source

Real-time signals

Trusted public sources across the world, monitored continuously.

Read against

Your business

Markets, supply chains, counterparties, and exposure.

Real time

Intelligence

What is happening, and what it means for you.

Ahead of it

Foresight

Scenario planning mapped onto your business.

Every day

Morning briefings

In your inbox at 6 AM, the night's developments distilled.

Our Platform

What is happening, and what it means for you — in real time, scored against your exposure.

Intelligence

Pessimistic, baseline, and optimistic scenarios mapped onto your business before the event lands.

Foresight

The night's developments distilled and delivered to your inbox at 6 AM.

Briefings

Your markets, lanes, inputs, and counterparties, modelled into one live picture.

Exposure
The platform

Live geopolitical intelligence.
Mapped to your exposure.

INTELLIGENCE DOSSIER
Daily intelligence brief
16 Jun 2026
7 new since last visit
GLOBAL RISK INDEX
71ELEVATED▲ 4 · 24h
2 critical
7 live signals
LIVE · 7 EVENTS TRACKED
SIGNAL FEED
5
Georgia · CRITICAL
Georgian Dream alignment with Moscow restructures European gas supply security
5
Yemen / Red Sea · CRITICAL
Houthi attack tempo rising; carriers reroute via Cape of Good Hope
4
Germany · HIGH
EU industrial gas holds near 3× pre-2022 levels into the autumn contracting round
4
Russia · HIGH
OFAC adds 43 designations; metals counterparty review due
4
Guinea · HIGH
Guinea junta tightens bauxite export terms
3
France · ELEVATED
EU CBAM definitive-period thresholds finalised
3
Algeria · ELEVATED
Algeria central-bank FX reserve drawdown accelerating

What the data says about the stakes

AON

37% of organisations took a loss from geopolitical volatility last year. Only a third had a plan to respond.

Global Risk Survey · 2025
MCKINSEY

62% of companies call US–China tensions a material threat. Only 29% have ever quantified what it would cost.

Geopolitics & the Economy · 2026
WTW

Geopolitical risk has climbed to #7 among board-level concerns, up from #15 in a single year.

Reed Smith D&O Survey · 2026
EY-PARTHENON

83% of companies have already changed their investment plans because of geopolitics.

CEO Outlook Pulse · 2026
Team

Intelligence for the world.
Built at Harvard.

Varsko is built by two Nordic founders working at Harvard.

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Alfred Williamson
Alfred Williamson
Co-founder

Harvard College ’28 from Wales and Denmark, studying Applied Mathematics and Government. He leads initiatives at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and has research experience in democracy, law, geopolitics, and AI — including work for NATO and NASA. As a spokesperson for Harvard Students for Freedom he has featured in The New York Times, CNN, BBC, The Guardian, and Reuters. Fieldwork across Nepal, Kosovo, Serbia, Israel and Palestine, and the Venezuelan border. Former Welsh national rower.

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Erik Dalaker
Erik Dalaker
Co-founder

Harvard College ’27, Economics with a concurrent MA in Middle Eastern Studies, Phi Beta Kappa. Founded the IOP Global Affairs Program — Harvard’s first geopolitical think tank — and built its 40-strong mentor network of former ministers and ambassadors. Researches geopolitics and geoeconomics at the Harvard Belfer Center and CSIS. Previously with the European Commission and MSF. Fluent in five languages. Fieldwork in Jordan, Israel and Palestine, and the South Caucasus.

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