About
The world is always in motion.
WatchCrisis helps you keep up.
WatchCrisis is a free, real-time intelligence platform that tracks global crises: conflicts, natural disasters, humanitarian emergencies, and geopolitical developments. Events are plotted on an interactive globe and every morning a downloadable intelligence-style brief summarises the most significant events of the past 24 hours.
The problem
Staying informed about global events is harder than it should be. News is fragmented across dozens of outlets, each with its own framing. Social media surfaces noise faster than signal. Humanitarian and scientific data sits behind institutional portals most people never visit.
The result: most people have a rough sense that the world is chaotic, but no clear picture of where, why, or how serious. WatchCrisis exists to close that gap, one daily brief at a time.
How it works
Continuous ingestion
Every 15 minutes, WatchCrisis pulls the latest reports from nine independent sources spanning news, seismic data, disaster alerts, and UN humanitarian feeds.
AI enrichment and ranking
Each event is analysed and scored for crisis severity using Claude by Anthropic. Events are ranked, clustered by geography, and cross-referenced across sources.
Globe visualisation
Ranked events are plotted on an interactive 3D globe. Dot colour reflects topic category. Click any event to read the summary and source.
Daily intelligence brief
Every two hours a structured crisis brief is generated covering the executive summary, top events with situation analysis, key actors, implications, and outlook. Download it as a PDF or subscribe to receive it by email each morning.
Data sources
A note on AI-generated content
Crisis briefs and event summaries on WatchCrisis are generated by an AI model (Anthropic Claude) based on publicly reported information. They may contain errors, omissions, or mischaracterisations. WatchCrisis is not an official government or intelligence product and should not be used as the sole basis for decisions. Always verify critical information with primary sources.