What You’ll Learn in This Guide
1. RiskRank: A Comprehensive Framework for Systemic Risk Assessment
RiskRank is a next-generation risk scoring framework developed by Neural Earth that quantifies not just the severity of individual risks, but also how those risks interact with and influence one another. In today’s increasingly interconnected and volatile world, understanding systemic risk is essential. Risks no longer exist in isolation—they interact, amplify, and propagate across domains.
By integrating concepts from economics, network theory, and real-time data analysis, RiskRank delivers a unified 1–10 score that helps users prioritize, compare, and respond to complex risks across industries such as finance, insurance, public health, infrastructure, and geopolitics.
RiskRank offers a simplified yet powerful framework for understanding complex risk environments. It integrates modern methodologies with a user-centric design, producing scores that are:
Actionable.
Cross-comparable.
Adaptable to new data.
Whether applied to real estate, insurance, infrastructure, disease control, or climate resilience, RiskRank enables smarter decisions in a riskier world.
2. Methodology Foundations
Most risk models simply add things up (i.e. aggregate). But in the real world, two small problems together can be worse than one big one. RiskRank uses mathematical methods that account for how risks combine and influence each other, rather than treating them independently.
Additionally, we adapt tools originally used in economics to measure inequality. These help us identify how risk is unevenly distributed—for example, when a small number of risks account for most of the danger. We use these insights to normalize all risk scores onto a clean, intuitive 1–10 scale, allowing decision-makers to compare risk clearly across locations, sectors, or systems.
RiskRank is not static. It is a living, adaptive platform that continuously integrates new data to reflect the evolving nature of risk.
3. RiskTime (The Risk Timeline)
Every risk monitored by RiskRank is tracked over time using a component called RiskTime. This is a dynamic system that records changes in:
Severity of the risk.
How it interacts with other risks.
The structure of those relationships.
This temporal capability allows for:
Trend detection: Spotting rising risks early.
Impact tracking: Seeing how events or interventions changed outcomes.
Forecasting: Predicting how risks may unfold based on history.
4. RiskGraph (The Risk Network Graph)
Risks don’t exist in silos. RiskRank models them as a graph—a network of nodes (risks) and edges (influences). This structure reflects how a risk like drought can amplify wildfire, which in turn impacts infrastructure, insurance, or migration.
The graph database enables:
Cascading risk simulation: Modeling the ripple effects of a single disruption.
Influence (“Impacts” vs “Has”) identification: Finding which risks exert the most systemic pressure.
Risk clustering: Grouping interrelated threats for strategic mitigation.
5. Why This Architecture Matters
By combining RiskTime and the RiskGraph model, RiskRank can:
Continuously monitor and update risks in real time.
Show not just what’s risky, but why it’s risky and what might be next.
Enable intuitive, ranked scores usable by analysts, policymakers, and insurers alike.
This architecture makes RiskRank ideal for:
Insurance underwriting and pricing.
Financial markets modeling.
Public health and disease spread modeling.
Infrastructure resilience and emergency planning.
Geopolitical analysis and conflict forecasting.
Climate change modeling.
6. Comparison to Traditional Risk Models
Feature | Traditional Models | RiskRank |
Mathematical Method | Additive & Independent | Interactive, Non-Linear, & Recursive |
Network Modeling | Rare or Static | Dynamic Graph of Risk Relationships |
Scoring Output | Raw loss, Probabilities | Normalized 1–10 Scale |
Risk Interaction | Limited | Modeled Explicitly via Compounding & Links |
Real-Time Updates | Often Static Snapshots | Continuously Updating with New Data |
Applications | Insurance & Finance | Broader: Climate, Disease, Infrastructure, Geopolitics |