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Centinela exists to answer one question better than anyone else: what does what's happening in Latin America mean for your specific decision. The daily brief is the public proof of our coverage. The Centinela Decision Framework is how we work with clients who have real capital, operations, or exposure at stake.
Three ways to engage Centinela — each built around a real decision, not a subscription.
Tailored threat landscape and cartel zone mapping for your specific region or route.
Board-ready risk assessment mapping your actual exposure before it becomes a crisis.
Bayesian scenario modeling for high-stakes decisions with Latin America exposure.
Every morning you read what Centinela tracks. When you have a real decision — a market entry, an operational exposure, a high-stakes investment — that's when we go to work on your specific situation.
The same caliber of intelligence that Dataminr and Crisis24 clients pay five and six figures for. Actionable, concise, analyst-verified. No filler, no headlines repackaged as intelligence.
The GDL-Tepic corridor disruption follows a pattern of CJNG territorial enforcement actions observed over the past 72 hours. We assess this is linked to an ongoing internal dispute within the organization's Nayarit plaza structure. Recommend all client personnel avoid ground transit on this route for a minimum 96-hour period. Air alternatives via Volaris/VivaAerobus GDL-TIJ remain unaffected. Full route analysis available upon request.
Dataminr charges $20,000/mo for a platform like this. Watch Pro gives you the same live threat map, real-time feed, and flash alerts — built by operators who actually work in Latin America. Starting at $199/mo.
The same daily intelligence, threat monitoring, and analyst-grade assessments that Fortune 500 companies pay six figures for — now accessible to any team with LatAm operations. No annual contracts. No procurement cycles. Start in 2 minutes.
Dataminr, Crisis24, and Seerist charge $50K–$250K/year for capabilities Centinela delivers from $29/mo. And none of them specialize in LatAm.
| Capability | Dataminr | Crisis24 | Seerist | CENTINELA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LatAm Focus (20+ years) | NO | PARTIAL | NO | YES |
| Spanish-Language OSINT Depth | NO | LIMITED | NO | YES |
| Owned GPU Infrastructure | NO | NO | NO | YES |
| Private AI for Client Data | NO | NO | NO | YES |
| Physical + Digital Convergence | NO | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | YES |
| Self-Serve from $29/mo | $20K+/mo | $50K+/yr | $60K+/yr | YES |
| Operator-Built Credibility | NO | NO | NO | 25yr operator |
We monitor the sources Dataminr can't read — WhatsApp grupos, local police radio, narco forums, regional press. That's why we flag threats 47 minutes before English-language platforms.
A GPU cluster we own outright — not rented AWS instances marked up 10x. That's why Secure AI starts at a fraction of the $500K IBM and Palantir charge.
25 years of intelligence tradecraft encoded into our models. IC analytical frameworks, source reliability scoring, threat classification — not just NLP on news articles.
Dataminr is digital-only. Crisis24 is physical-only. We're the connective tissue — the only platform that correlates cyber threats with on-the-ground security events.
Owned GPUs mean our marginal cost per client approaches zero. Profitable at $75K MRR. Dataminr raised $1.24B and still isn't profitable. We are from day one.
Every query to OpenAI or Anthropic trains their models — including your threat assessments and executive travel routes. Our local LLMs on our own GPU cluster means your data never leaves your environment.
Palantir charges $1M+/yr. IBM charges $500K+. We own the GPUs, so Secure AI starts at $2.5K/mo.
See How We Do ItTalk to UsChris Dover — Founder & CEO, Centinela AI
US Marine Veteran. Department of State High Threat Protection. Control Risks Group. Triple Canopy. 20+ years on the ground across Latin America — not analyzing it from a desk in New York.
That's the difference between Centinela and a $200K enterprise platform. Dataminr has AI engineers. We have AI engineers and an operator who's run executive protection programs, coordinated with intelligence agencies, and managed security operations across the most dangerous corridors in the hemisphere. The analysis isn't generated by an algorithm that read some Reuters articles — it's informed by decades of ground truth.
We built this platform because we needed it for the work we already do. The briefs, the threat assessments, the travel advisories — those existed on whiteboards and spreadsheets before we put them on GPUs. Now backed by owned infrastructure and private AI, we deliver the intelligence we always had — at machine speed, with operator judgment.
Centinela AI is a service of Enfocado Capital LLC.
The free daily brief is the proof. When you need the same Centinela lens applied to a market entry, an operational exposure, or a high-stakes investment — that's when we go to work on your specific situation.