NelsonAI

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Nelson is an AI-powered research companion with analyst-selected sourcing for criminal networks and forced labor. It was launched by Evidencity's partner Southern Pulse in March 2025 and serves corporate threat intelligence teams, business assurance leaders, wealth managers, modern slavery researchers, journalists, and policy practitioners. Access 20 years of Southern Pulse's proprietary work, and Evidencity's data across 80+ jurisdictions.


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Query criminal networks, forced labor operations, and regional intelligence through natural language conversation. Access to Evidencity datasets, Southern Pulse coverage, and partner intelligence.

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Founded for Latin America, expanding globally and updated daily, monthly, and quarterly with curated analysis and data intelligence.

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Access Evidencity's proprietary structured datasets for illicit networks, criminal organizations, and other unethical business actors (forthcoming 2Q26).

LATEST ARTICLES

Zijin and Huayou's Serbia problem repeats in three more countries

July 22, 2026
New human rights data published on 22 July 2026 name Zijin Mining and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, alongside Tsingshan Group, among 10 Chinese firms that account for nearly two-thirds of all documented abuse allegations against Chinese-backed mineral projects worldwide since 2021.

Congo's cobalt quota system just showed its single point of failure

July 13, 2026
A customs-platform outage put USD1.1 billion in cobalt exports at risk in the country that supplies 70% of the world's cobalt. The failure was administrative, arriving six weeks after Evidencity flagged that every tonne of US cobalt still runs through a single foreign-controlled chokepoint.

We flagged a company in April 2025 that was Sanctioned June 2026

July 9, 2026
In April 2025, Evidencity's Project Tantalus dataset flagged a Rwandan mining company as a suspected handler of minerals smuggled out of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Fourteen months later, the US Treasury sanctioned it.

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