Illicit Shadows™ Project Helix™: A Crime Convergence Pioneering Digital Fusion Center for Strategic Intelligence and Strategic Foresight
What is the newest Illicit Shadows initiative, Project Helix™?
Project Helix is a predictive convergence tool that helps turns fragmented intelligence into systemic foresight: how criminal, political, and economic networks reorganize after targeted disruptions.
Seeing the Converging Threat Dots: Connecting Them. Making them Matter. Leveraging Actionable Intelligence.
A disruption can move trade into different routes, entities, assets, and spheres of influence. Project Helix examines those linked shifts.
Project Helix helps impacted communities better understand the adaptations within the global criminal underworld.
Strategic foresight, rather than a prediction of a single incident.
Make the invisible undeniable!
Most intelligence tools map who or what is connected. Helix asks the next question: when one node breaks, where does the activity go?
We call this: Predictive Convergence System (PCS)™
It draws on the rest of what we build at Illicit Shadows:
🎥 Our films collect data in the field.
🏛️ The Museum of Illicit Shadows archives and tags what we find.
🌐 Project Helix turns that record into decision intelligence.
Take one illustrative scenario:
A major interdiction in Rotterdam. Routes shift to Antwerp and Hamburg. Money moves into shell companies from Lisbon to the Caribbean. It resurfaces in property in London, Miami and Dubai, and eventually as influence and political funding anomalies across Europe and North America.
One disruption. Many consequences.
Helix is designed to see the whole chain, so corporations, governments, law enforcement, and international organizations can act ahead of the network instead of behind it.
If you are interested in supporting our mission, we would like to talk.
The dark forces shaping the global criminal underworld
We investigate the $6 trillion shadow economy, expose the systems behind it, and model how its networks adapt.
Learn more about the harms and impacts of illicit economies around the world through our new featured short film for the Museum of Illicit Shadows (MIS) theater at: https://illicitshadows.com/
Illicit economies and greed crimes have tremendous human, economic, societal and security costs and consequences to governments, markets, industries, communities, and innocent citizens.
Every year, criminalized trade and trafficking across illicit economies kill hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
From small villages in Africa and Latin America to city streets across America, Europe, and Asia, too many people are harmed by the callous criminality and disregard for human security by organized criminal enterprises, narco-cartels, threat finance syndicates, complicit corrupt officials, market profiteers, and their professional enablers.
Such bad actors and threat networks are involved in the lucrative criminal activities enabling and fueling the multi-trillion-dollar illicit economies include the smuggling and trafficking of narcotics, opioids, weapons, humans, counterfeit and pirated goods; illegal tobacco and alcohol products; illegally harvested timber, wildlife and fish; pillaged oil, diamonds, gold, natural resources and precious minerals; and other contraband commodities. Such contraband and illicit goods are sold on our main streets, on social media, in online marketplaces and on the dark web every minute of every day.
MIS is a first-of-its-kind virtual museum dedicated to educating global communities on the harms and impacts to international security of crime convergence and illicit economies around the world.
As we build MIS as an interactive digital knowledge hub, you will be able to explore the connections between illicit economies, the communities they affect, and the systems that sustain them.
MISTIC Systems: Fighting networks with networks: One platform. Three ways in.
Such intelligence-led partnerships (fighting Networks with Networks) has a name: Illicit Shadows Media, Technology, & Innovation Convergence (MISTIC) Systems, Inc.
1. Field investigations. Follow the global data trails, illicit pathways, inter-connected risks, and dirty money flows.
Find the story.
The routes, people, and hidden systems behind the global illicit economy. Reported from the field.
2. Museum of Illicit Shadows (MIS). Navigate exhibitions, moving infographics, films, and the stories of the impacts and harms of illicit economies — the hidden systems that shape our world.
Discover their connections.
Understand their consequences.
3. Project Helix™. Model what the network does next.
Our platform turns fragmented intelligence into systemic foresight: how criminal, political, and economic networks reorganize after a disruption.
Actionable intelligence.
Its fusion center is where those capabilities are put into practice: field investigations, the museum’s research, and predictive modeling, brought together.
Help bring the hidden world to light.
Illicit Shadows™
Learn more: illicitshadows.com
Illicit Shadows™ initiative, Project Helix™ developed by globally-recognized professionals in national security, anti-crime, innovation and technology: a former U.S. diplomat and a futurist, anthropologist, and deep-tech entrepreneur.
Co-Creators and Founders:
David M. Luna 🦏 🌎 🐘 Threat Convergence ≜ Kine-Dynamics
International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE) / ICAIE Labs
