AI for Peace, Security & Geopolitical Risk

The World's Hardest Decisions Deserve Purpose-Built Tools.

AI Forged by Experts. Built for Action.

Transcend fuses diplomatic, military, intel, economic, and humanitarian insight — grounded in an expert-curated knowledge base — into auditable strategic options across the full decision space. Built for government teams, multilaterals, warfighters, nonprofits, and commercial enterprises operating in the most complex environments.

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Creators of the first-ever UN AI Agent.

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The Platform

See how Transcend turns fragmented information into decision-ready clarity.

A live walkthrough of the agentic workflow — from intelligence ingestion to red-team simulation to auditable recommendation.

01 — Ingest

Fuse diplomatic, military, intel, economic insight

Cross-source synthesis that would take an analyst team weeks — delivered in minutes.

02 — Simulate

Red-team strategic options

Agentic simulation stress-tests each option against adversarial scenarios before you commit.

03 — Decide

Auditable, trusted recommendations

Every output traces back to source — built for institutions where trust is non-negotiable.

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Capabilities

Purpose-built capabilities for the hardest decisions in peace, security, and geopolitical risk.

Transcend's agentic framework functions like an integrated planning cell — diplomacy, defense, intelligence, humanitarian, and economic perspectives working in coordination. Built for governments shaping outcomes and multinationals operating across the world's most volatile markets, Transcend delivers strategic clarity in seconds where traditional analysis takes weeks.

Accelerated Insight

Synthesize diplomatic, military, intelligence, and economic inputs into unified assessments and reports.

Strategic Options

Generate, compare, and stress-test comprehensive decision pathways — de-escalation, negotiation, stabilization, market entry, and contingency planning — before hard choices become the only ones left.

Red-Team and Simulate

Agentic modeling to surface blind spots and refine plans before they cost you.

Auditable AI

Every recommendation fully traceable — source to output. Trust is non-negotiable.

A Holistic View of the Operating Environment

Diplomacy-first. Risk-ready. Mission-aligned.

Conflict Analysis & Mapping

Comprehensive view of political, social, and security risks and drivers.

Time Saved

~3 weeks

vs. traditional analyst workflow

Citations

100%

auditable

Expert-Curated Knowledge Base

An authoritative corpus of the world's most trusted sources of insight and data.

Transcend is grounded in a proprietary, expert-curated knowledge base — the foundation that makes every output credible, citable, and mission-fit.

A Dream Team of Virtual Advisors

The Ambassador. The Intelligence Analyst. The General. The Economist. And your specialized agent.

Built on the DIME framework. Agents work together like a coordinated planning cell — surfacing strategic goals, risks, leverage, and red lines, and moving from problem to solution in minutes.

Human SMEs On Demand

Subject-matter experts in the loop, when it matters.

Human specialists are available on demand to validate findings, strengthen analytical rigor, and support complex planning — combining agentic speed with expert judgment.

What makes Transcend different

Comprehensive strategic options — across the full decision space.

Most AI tools optimize for a single domain — or for force. Transcend surfaces every lever: diplomatic, security, humanitarian, economic, and commercial. Leaders see the full set of pathways before circumstances narrow the options. Lower cost. Higher impact. Less irreversible exposure.

ComprehensiveFull spectrum of political, social, security, humanitarian, economic, and commercial levers — not just a single domain.
De-Escalation FirstDe-escalation, negotiation, and stabilization surfaced alongside — and often before — high-cost, irreversible moves.
Grounded & AuditableEvery option traces back to authoritative, expert-curated sources.
Faster & Cost-EffectiveReduced reliance on expensive, time-intensive external studies.

Strategic Clarity

Decision Superiority

Who We Serve

Government teams, multilaterals, warfighters, nonprofits, and enterprises operating in fast-moving, high-risk environments.

Built for the institutions shaping global outcomes — in agencies, at embassies, inside multilateral bodies, and across mission-driven organizations.

Defense

Operational Planning & Strategy

Course-of-action generation and agentic simulation
Red-teaming and stress-testing of strategic options
Non-kinetic pathways

Diplomacy

Accelerated Negotiation & Strategy

Stakeholder mapping and strategic actionable options
Peacegaming and scenario planning for talks and agreements
Conflict analysis across political, social, and security drivers

Humanitarian & Development

Planning and Programming

Conflict-sensitive program design and risk mapping
Social, cultural, security, economic, and political landscape assessments
Feasibility and lessons learned

Enterprise & Geopolitical Risk

Enterprise Risk & Resilience

Country and sector risk mitigation and solutions for global firms
Scenario planning for second-order geopolitical effects
Social license to operate

Live Product

Civic Engagement — understand citizen perspectives safely and at scale.

Our live civic engagement product enables responsible public engagement where mandates require it — helping governments, multilateral bodies, and mission-driven organizations hear from the people their decisions affect, without compromising safety or analytical rigor.

Strategies built with citizen input are stronger and last longer. When the people most affected by a decision are engaged in shaping it, the resulting strategy earns legitimacy, survives political turnover, and succeeds in implementation. Transcend turns thousands of authentic voices into decision-ready intelligence — so the choices leaders make today are the choices that endure.

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Who We Are

Forged by experts. Built for action.

Transcend brings together peace and security strategists, AI engineers, and mission-driven operators who have lived inside the institutions making the world's hardest decisions.

Transcend was founded on a simple conviction: the institutions responsible for peace, security, and geopolitical risk need AI built with the same rigor, auditability, and mission alignment as the decisions they make.

Our founder's path — from war survivor to policy advisor, UN collaborator, and entrepreneur — shapes how we build: grounded in real-world conflict, designed for those operating at the highest stakes. We developed the first UN AI agent to accelerate diplomacy, and are advancing an expanded class of agentic systems for defense, diplomacy, and enterprise risk.

We exist because violent conflict is at record-breaking levels— and the stakes are too high for traditional approaches and generic AI. Our team spans conflict analysis, machine learning, negotiation, and human-centered design — united by a belief that the world's hardest decisions demand purpose-built tools.

The Team

Operators, strategists, engineers.

Ola Mohajer

Founder & CEO

From war zones to high-stakes strategy and diplomacy. Lived conflict. Led negotiations inside the U.S. Institute of Peace and the United Nations. Now building the AI infrastructure that scales that work.

Sam Hopkins

CTO

Serial CTO. Ships AI systems at scale. Builds and runs the data-science teams behind them. Translates research into production reliably.

Pranav Sathyanarayanan

Architect Advisor

Architect of large-scale AI systems. Built production stacks across enterprise and venture-backed SaaS. Designs Transcend's agentic backbone.

Noora Sami

ML Engineer

AI and machine learning. Builds the agentic systems that turn raw intelligence into clear options.

Frank Aum

Peace & Security Strategist

Decades of NE Asia conflict analysis at the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Institute of Peace. Expertise on Korea, peace gaming simulations, and security policy.

Joseph Shamas

GenAI Engineer

Builds the specialized agents inside Transcend's planning cell — diplomatic, defense, intelligence, humanitarian, and economic.

Jose Martinez Saiz

Full Stack & Data Engineer

Data orchestration and full-stack engineering. Owns the pipelines that move intelligence through Transcend cleanly.

Camila Castellanos Forero

Head of Simulations

Peace gaming and simulation design. Ran negotiation exercises out of Harvard. Leads Transcend's red-team and scenario engine.

Natalie Bel

Head of UX / UI

Systems thinking, human-centered design, and user research. Designs the interfaces analysts and decision-makers actually use under pressure.

Advisors

Counsel from the institutions that shape global outcomes.

Our advisor network spans senior leaders across diplomacy, defense, AI research, and enterprise risk.
Full roster to be announced — contact us to learn more.

Partners & Procurement

Backed by trusted institutions. Easy to procure.

From the United Nations to AWS, Transcend is backed by partners who understand the stakes — and available through Carahsoft's federal contract vehicles, accessible through the channels your procurement team already uses.

Insights

Perspectives from the frontlines.

Curated reading on AI, peace, security, and statecraft — from the field and beyond.

Op-Ed · The Hill ↗

Robot diplomacy: How AI could usher in a new era of world peace

On the case for AI as an instrument of diplomacy — and what it takes to deploy it responsibly.

Profile · The Peace Room ↗

Joint Staff in a Box

How a war survivor is building AI to give peacemakers the analytical decision-making power their defense counterparts take for granted.

Podcast · We're In This Shift Together ↗

Peace-Loving Robots with Ola Mohajer

Can AI save us from ourselves? On using algorithms — properly trained — to help prevent wars and mediate conflicts.

Case Study · Coming Soon

Inside the UN AI Agent: what we learned from the first-ever deployment

4 in 5 UN professionals want it in their daily work — and trust it more than a general AI tool.

Perspective · Coming Soon

Auditable AI is the only AI fit for statecraft

Why trust and traceability are non-negotiable for mission-critical institutions.

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