February 18, 2026
Maritime Defense Weekly: Offshore Enforcement and Baltic Exposure
MAI Expert™ is Windward’s Gen AI-powered maritime intelligence expert, automating core maritime intelligence workflows to deliver real-time assessments, contextual insights, and mission-relevant recommendations from continuous global activity analysis.
Designed for precision and efficiency, MAI Expert™ applies native generative AI to deliver continuous risk assessments, contextual intelligence, and automated analytic workflows across the intelligence lifecycle:
Augment maritime risk analysis with a virtual intelligence expert that applies Windward’s proprietary models to generate actionable recommendations, assess sanctions and compliance risk, and explain underlying behaviors.
Streamline detection, analysis, and reporting through automated assessments and insight summaries that surface the most operationally relevant findings for timely, informed decision-making.
Automate routine monitoring and screening tasks to support sustained coverage, enabling teams to concentrate on higher-value analysis, investigations, and mission planning.
Get started instantly with off-the-shelf MAI Expert™ templates built for key maritime workflows. Available in five major languages – English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian – Native MAI Expert™ delivers actionable, explainable insights in your team’s native language, helping every user make confident, informed decisions with zero setup time.
Tailor MAI Expert™ to fit your organization’s exact needs. Customize templates and languages based on existing Windward templates, integrating private or third-party data sources to enrich decision-making.
Simplify complex maritime decision-making with Gen AI-powered automation. Transform manual tasks into tailored, end-to-end automated workflows by combining your data with Windward’s intelligence and advanced prompt engineering – delivering faster, smarter actions at scale.
Windward is the leading Maritime AI™ company, so Generative AI is a natural evolution in our journey and product strategy. By expanding our portfolio with Gen AI, we harness the power of our patented models and technology foundation to deliver seamless digitalization and rapid, demonstrable return on investment.
What’s the difference between MAI Expert™ and Windward’s core Maritime AI™ platform?
Windward’s core Maritime AI™ platform delivers powerful detection, monitoring, and analytics capabilities. MAI Expert™ builds on this by delivering Gen AI-powered explanations, summaries, and insights, turning complex maritime data into clear, actionable narratives tailored to your mission or workflow.
Do I need to use Gen AI to screen vessels with Windward?
No. All vessel screening, detection, and risk assessments are powered by Maritime AI™. MAI Expert™ simply adds an optional Gen AI summary of different insights to make results easier to interpret and share.
Is MAI Expert™ designed to replace screening and compliance teams?
Not at all. MAI Expert™ enhances human expertise – it explains, contextualizes, and surfaces relevant information faster, so teams can focus on decision-making rather than manual data analysis.
Will Windward use my data to train MAI Expert™ or other models?
No. Customer data remains private and is never used to train our models. Your operational, compliance, and proprietary information stays within your environment and is fully protected.
Who owns the content generated by MAI Expert™?
You do. All Gen AI outputs produced in your MAI Expert™ environment are your organization’s property and can be stored, shared, or archived as you choose.
Can I trust the accuracy of MAI Expert™’s Gen AI outputs?
Yes. However, MAI Expert™ is designed to support, not replace, human judgment. Its outputs are grounded in Windward’s validated Maritime AI™ data, behavioral models, and detection logic, with clear references to the underlying evidence used in each response. While MAI Expert™ provides analyst-grade summaries, explanations, and recommendations, outputs should be reviewed and validated by users as part of standard operational and decision-making processes.
How does MAI Expert™ ensure transparency in its recommendations?
Every recommendation is paired with the behavioral, historical, and contextual data that informed it, so analysts can see exactly why an alert or summary was generated.
How does MAI Expert™ improve compliance workflows?
MAI Expert™ can automatically explain complex risk detections in plain language, prepare shareable summaries for stakeholders, and reduce the time needed to escalate or clear cases, boosting both speed and consistency in compliance operations.
Can MAI Expert™ be customized for my organization’s policies?
Yes. You can align MAI Expert™ outputs with your internal risk models, thresholds, and operational guidelines, ensuring recommendations are relevant to your specific compliance or security posture.
Is MAI Expert™ available on mobile?
Yes. MAI Expert™ is fully accessible via the Windward platform’s mobile interface, so you can get clear, actionable insights anytime, anywhere.
