Helios 3.0 is HERE 🎉
The wait is over… Helios 3.0 is finally here!
For the first time ever, agricultural buyers can now monitor global growing seasons for the top 50 fruits and vegetables, shift buying patterns accordingly, and get ahead of price increases.
Onboard yourself instantly to gain access to our software platform, weekly email summaries, and NEW Global Commodity Reports!
Check out the AgFunder article covering our new release!
‘We predicted increases in cocoa prices months before the market.’ Helios taps AI to power forecasting platform for soft commodities
May 14, 2024 | By Elaine Watson
What! How did you pull that off?
Well, we scoured the globe and conducted thousands of hours of research to determine the key regions each soft commodity is grown in, collected them to create our own proprietary database, and then (using complex models and machine learning) display the climate risk, economic risk, and catastrophes affecting each and every single growing region for that commodity. Easy stuff.
Now, you can instantly see which regions are at risk for crop failures and reduced yields this growing season, giving you unparalleled insight into upcoming price and inventory shifts.
That’s incredible - what else can Helios 3.0 do now?
On top of that, you can now:
Interact with our new map view
View, click into, and filter your locations using our new map view instead of a static table
Onboard yourself to the platform within minutes, without any help from us
Just pick what commodities you want and what countries you want to watch, and you’re done.
View risk and climate predictions
We now predict climate and risk 16 days out, so you can get ahead of climate-related disruptions before they even happen.
Link your suppliers to any location you are watching
With a dedicated supplier’s page, you can view how the supplier’s growing locations are performing in one spot.
And much more:
Keep track of surprise frosts: unexpected frosts now appear on the climate tab for all locations!
Take notes on anything and everything: global notes are officially here. Instead of notes being by individual location, you can take and access notes all in one place.
Auto-tags notes and files: If you take a note or upload a file while on a location or supplier insights page, your note will automatically be tagged so you can easily search for the note later on.
Easily update your commodity selections: Forgot a commodity or region? No problem - you can add and remove selections and countries from your dashboard view whenever you want.
Experience a new user interface that is faster, smarter and more customizable
Do I have to log in for all of this? What about reporting?
We were waiting for you to ask about that! As part of the platform release, we have also updated our reporting to match.
Global commodity reports are officially live for each of the 50+ commodities!
For our premium commodities (coffee, cocoa, corn, palm oil, wheat, soybeans), you’ll receive a report weekly. Each report focuses on forecasting commodity prices, identifying climate risk, and monitoring trends on a global scale. For more information about global commodity reports, please visit here.
For our standard commodities, global commodity reports will come out at the beginning of the month, and answer the following key questions for each commodity you are subscribed to:
How is the growing season going? Why?
How does this season compare to previous seasons?
Should I expect any changes in supply or price? If so, how big of a change?
What growing regions are performing better than others?
If a region is underperforming, what is the effect on the total market, if any?
Were there any catastrophic events that would have affected the commodity? If so, what?
You will continue to receive your Weekly Insights Report at the beginning of the week. If you’re unfamiliar with our Insights Reports, they provide a quick rundown of the most important commodity insights and trends from your dashboard.
“Helios has unmatched climate risk signals in the industry that are highly predictive of soft commodity prices.”
If I’m a current user, do I need to do anything?
If you are a current user of our platform - don’t worry, you only need to do one thing: update your bookmark to our new URL of our platform: https://platform.helios.sc.
We are reaching out to our users with additional information about the migration, so check your inboxes. Beginning Tuesday, May 14th, only the new version of the platform will be available. We suggest you log into the new version of the platform just to ensure everything is in order - please reach out to us with any questions or concerns!
