Operators. Analysts. Builders.

Valexis Global is a geoeconomic risk technology company. We build the instruments that let institutions measure how state power moves markets — and act before the consequences land.

The intersection of geopolitics and commercial strategy is systematically underserved. Most market intelligence is either too academic to be actionable or too superficial to be reliable. Valexis was founded on a different conviction: that decision-makers deserve products that are rigorous in method, structured in output, and explicit about their assumptions — not one more opinion.

Our work spans economic statecraft, trade and supply-chain fragility, dual-use technology regulation, and the velocity of policy signals. We turn those dynamics into things a decision-maker can act on: a live dashboard tracking sovereign-level risk, an engine that maps that risk onto a specific business's exposure, and an AI decision-support system that compresses cross-domain analysis from months to minutes.


What We Build

Products, not opinions.

Valexis is a product company. Our deliverables are structured, repeatable, and defensible — built on documented methodologies, not analyst intuition. The Geoeconomics Dashboard scores sovereign risk across four dimensions of geoeconomic stress. The GeoShock Engine translates that risk into a specific business's exposure — the suppliers, routes, and markets it depends on. The Strategic Advisory Guidance Engine (SAGE) applies a published grand-strategy ontology to decision questions and produces quantified courses of action with traceable reasoning.

Behind all three is the same conviction: speed without traceability isn't analysis, and rigour without delivery isn't useful. We build for the space in between.


How We Work

Methodology, then output.

Every Valexis product traces back to a documented methodological substrate. SAGE operates on the DIMEFIL-DC ontology and National Power Index knowledge base authored by the Center for the Application of Grand Strategy — a partnership deliberately structured to keep the analytical foundation independent of any single commercial interest, including our own. The Geoeconomics Dashboard draws from authoritative public data — OFAC, BIS, FRED, UN Comtrade, OECD, the IMF — under a transparent scoring layer clients can interrogate.

Engineering is delivered in partnership with VerbaAI on Google Cloud infrastructure. We build systems that keep human authority at the decisions that matter, rather than collapsing hard strategic questions into a single generated answer.


Who We Serve

Built for decision-makers who must act.

Valexis products are built for institutional and corporate decision-makers operating at the boundary of policy and commercial consequence — strategy and risk functions inside multinational firms, government and research organisations, and investors whose portfolios are increasingly shaped by sanctions, export controls, industrial policy, and sovereign-level macroeconomic stress.

We are not a publishing house or a vendor of generic dashboards. We build specific products for a specific kind of question — and we are deliberate about both.

The Team

The people behind the products.

Michael Trudeau

Michael Trudeau

Co-Founder & CEO

A U.S. Navy submarine veteran turned enterprise technology executive, Michael built his career at the intersection of national security, data, and strategic decision-making. At Accenture he originated the firm's U.S. Navy Submarine Industrial Base engagement and led a $15M+ enterprise AI and cloud modernization program spanning 25+ agencies. His Afghan-evacuation advocacy — tracking 20,300+ SIV applicants and publishing longitudinal research — was recognized by the U.S. Secretary of State and cited in both SIGAR oversight and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He holds an MBA in Finance and Economics from Northeastern University.

Nickolaus Kesler

Nickolaus Kesler

Co-Founder; Executive Director, CAGS (Commander, USN)

A U.S. Navy helicopter pilot turned AI strategy executive, Nick built his career at the intersection of national security, artificial intelligence, and grand strategy. As Chief of Staff for Navy AI at the Office of Naval Research, he led 50+ personnel and managed a $500M+ portfolio to develop and deploy AI-enabled capabilities across the Fleet. At Deloitte he co-founded the AI Institute for Government and supported the Navy's Chief AI Officer on integrating AI with strategic risk mitigation. He is the founder of the Center for the Application of Grand Strategy (CAGS), a nonprofit think tank advancing applied research at the intersection of AI and statecraft. He holds degrees from the U.S. Naval Academy, Johns Hopkins University, and the College of William & Mary, and is completing a PhD in Public Policy at George Mason University.

Valexis Global Corporation is a Delaware C-Corporation headquartered in Woodinville, Washington, and a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB).

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