---
title: "Introduction"
description: "World Monitor is an open-source, real-time global intelligence dashboard that aggregates news, markets, military and maritime activity, infrastructure data, and AI-powered analysis into a single map-first interface."
---

World Monitor is a real-time situational-awareness platform for people who need to understand what is happening in the world beyond traditional news headlines. The core surface is a 3D globe (or flat map) with toggleable data layers for conflict, military, maritime, aviation, infrastructure, and natural events; a panel system for synthesised intelligence and markets; a daily AI brief; and two flagship workflows (Route Explorer and Scenario Engine) for reasoning about supply-chain disruption. It ships as six specialised variants from one codebase — geopolitics, technology, finance, commodities, positive global trends, and energy — each pre-configured for its audience.

The platform is designed for journalists, security analysts, researchers, PRO subscribers running operational workflows, and anyone who needs a faster read on a complex global situation than open-web searching allows.

## What you can do

- **Monitor global events in real time** on a 3D globe or flat map with toggleable data layers for military flights, naval vessels, satellites, earthquakes, wildfires, cyber threats, disease outbreaks, radiation, and more
- **Read an AI-generated daily intelligence brief** that synthesises the day's headlines into a structured, source-attributed summary — viewable in the dashboard, as a public share link, or as a social-ready image carousel
- **Screen country-level risk two ways**: the [Country Instability Index](/country-instability-index) for a high-frequency stress signal on a curated country set, and the [Country Resilience Index](/methodology/country-resilience-index) for the 196-country public rankable universe across 6 domains and 20 active dimensions (grouped into 3 pillars, plus 2 retired dimensions kept for schema continuity), refreshed every 6 hours
- **Plan shipments with [Route Explorer](/route-explorer)** — a full-screen keyboard-first workflow that resolves chokepoint exposures, alternative corridors, land routes, and country-level impact for any origin-destination-commodity combination
- **Run disruption scenarios with the [Scenario Engine](/scenario-engine)** — pre-built conflict, weather, sanctions, and tariff-shock scenarios that paint impact across chokepoints, sectors, and countries directly on the map
- **Analyse financial signals** including market quotes, commodity prices, prediction markets, central-bank rates, EU macro indicators, and Gulf-economy dashboards
- **Connect your own agent** via the [MCP server](/mcp-overview) — Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients can call curated WorldMonitor tools over OAuth 2.1 or a direct API key
- **Run entirely in your browser** with optional offline AI capabilities via ONNX Runtime Web, keeping your data on your device

## Quick links

- **New here?** Start with [Getting Started](/getting-started) for installation and setup
- **Want the quick tour?** [Features & Interface](/features) walks through the map, layers, panels, and Cmd+K
- **Want to understand the system?** Read [Architecture](/architecture) for how the pieces fit together
- **Building an integration?** Start with the [Quickstart](/usage-quickstart) and browse the [API Reference](/api-reference)
- **Connecting an AI agent?** Set up the [MCP server](/mcp-overview)
- **Interested in the data sources?** See [Data Sources](/data-sources)
- **Want to contribute?** Read [Contributing](/contributing) for code style and PR process

## License

World Monitor is open source under [AGPL-3.0-only](/license). Commercial use is permitted under the AGPL when you comply with its copyleft and source-availability terms. Separate commercial licensing is available as an alternative option for private-source or custom contractual terms.
