Partnership combines Grist Mill's Commercial Data Infrastructure with RAVEN's localized AI, entity-centric and predictive intelligence capability for defence and intelligence missions

WASHINGTON and CANBERRA, Australia, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Grist Mill, the Commercial Data Infrastructure that powers modern government missions and RAVEN Intelligence Platform, a sovereign intelligence and AI platform, today announced a partnership to accelerate the path from commercial data requirement to mission-ready intelligence.

Grist Mill's Commercial Data Infrastructure gives government teams one neutral foundation to discover, evaluate, license, acquire, and securely deliver data from more than 375 vetted vendors. RAVEN turns that data. alongside government, operational and other mission information, into a connected intelligence picture that analysts can understand, interrogate and act on. RAVEN resolves fragmented records into the people, organisations, assets, locations, accounts, communications, transactions and events that matter; applies localised AI inside the customer environment; and uses predictive capability to surface patterns, emerging indicators and plausible future developments.

"More data does not automatically lead to better intelligence. The real test is whether it sharpens the picture and helps mission teams make better decisions faster," said Jennifer Obernier, CEO of Grist Mill. "By pairing Grist Mill's Commercial Data Infrastructure with RAVEN's ability to resolve entities, uncover relationships, and surface patterns and anomalies, we are giving government teams a more direct path from a data requirement to operational output. Work that once took months can now happen in days."

A combined intelligence capability

Turning commercial data into operational intelligence requires both a reliable path to the right data and a way to analyze it alongside existing mission information. Grist Mill provides the infrastructure for evaluation, licensing, acquisition, and secure delivery, while RAVEN combines the data with government, operational, and other mission information inside the customer's own environment.

• Resolve fragmented records. Connect records to persistent entities such as people, organizations, assets, locations, accounts, transactions, communications, and events.
• Analyze information in context. Examine the same resolved data across network, timeline, geospatial, communications, financial, and document views.
• Surface emerging indicators. Apply localized AI and predictive capabilities to identify patterns, changing risk, anomalies, and plausible future developments for analyst assessment.
• Preserve the evidence. Keep provenance, reversible merges, analyst reasoning, and audit trails visible behind the analysis.

"RAVEN was built around the intelligence problem itself: resolve what matters, connect the evidence, apply AI inside the sovereign boundary and preserve the provenance and human reasoning behind the outcome," said Laura Buckland, Director of RAVEN Intelligence Platform. "The intelligence advantage is the ability to understand what is happening, see what is changing, anticipate what may happen next and put trusted intelligence in front of decision-makers while there is still time to influence the outcome."

Built for defense and intelligence missions

The combined capability can support missions that depend on connecting fragmented information from multiple sources, including:

• All-source fusion, ISR, and indications and warning. Incorporate commercial, open-source, government, sensor, and mission data into ongoing analysis.
• Battlespace and operational understanding. Connect information about adversaries, terrain, infrastructure, populations, capabilities, and activity to support planning and force protection.
• Counterintelligence and networked threats. Reveal relationships and coordinated activity associated with foreign interference, cyber threats, terrorism, illicit finance, and transnational crime.
• Maritime and counterproliferation intelligence. Connect movements, ownership, logistics, actors, and events across complex networks.
• Economic security and the defense industrial base. Examine ownership, supply-chain dependencies, concentration risk, and strategic vulnerabilities.
• Crisis intelligence and rapid assessment. Integrate new information quickly as events and operational conditions change.

RAVEN deploys inside customer-controlled infrastructure and is designed so operational data, AI processing and analytical workflows remain under the customer's control. Together, Grist Mill and RAVEN create a direct path from commercial data access to sovereign intelligence exploitation without trading away control, explainability or analyst judgement.

About Grist Mill
Grist Mill is the Commercial Data Infrastructure that powers modern government missions. CDI is the neutral foundation that gives government organizations the vendor relationships, licensing frameworks, workflows, APIs, and business processes required to use commercial data at scale. Instead of recreating that infrastructure with every new contract or program, mission teams, system integrators, platforms, and AI systems build on what already exists. Teams access our infrastructure through The Mill, Grist Mill's marketplace of 375+ vetted vendors; through Millton, Grist Mill's chat-based AI for analysts; or by integrating GM directly into their own applications and AI systems at whatever layer of the stack they operate. Different points of entry. One underlying infrastructure. Learn more at https://www.gristmillexchange.com/.

About RAVEN
RAVEN is a sovereign, entity-centric intelligence and AI platform built for defence, intelligence, national security and complex mission environments. Built around resolved entities rather than documents or a generic AI interface, RAVEN connects fragmented information into a persistent intelligence picture, applies localised model-agnostic AI, and supports predictive and anticipatory analysis while preserving evidence, provenance and human judgement. RAVEN deploys inside the customer environment, including sovereign cloud, data centre and fully air-gapped deployments. Your data. Your nation. Your control. Learn more at https://www.raven-intelligence-platform.com

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