Exergy International

What Exergy International does

Exergy International is a boutique political risk consulting firm headquartered in Arlington, Virginia (Washington, DC metro), founded in 2017 by Scott Siler. The firm serves executives operating across developed, emerging, and frontier markets, and is structured around two product lines. The first is PRR (Political Risk Resilience), a patent-pending reasoning framework that observes how individual firms' market values transmit political and geopolitical events — tariffs, sanctions, conflict, export controls, capital controls — controlling for broader market movement. PRR is built on an Evidence Database covering 477 firms, 530 events, 5,705 assessments, and 252,810 potential observations across 12 risk channels, with the methodology positioned as observational evidence rather than forecast. The second is PRDM (Political Risk Demystified), a content and community platform that bundles a free Slack community, the PRDM Insider newsletter (beehiiv), self-paced courses on Teachable (Intro to Political Risk Analysis at $25, PRA Accelerator at $497, Executive PRA at $297), a field manual on Gumroad, a job board aggregating 24+ sources, a talent directory, and 1:1 career advisory.

The firm monetizes through a diversified revenue stack: enterprise advisory including Chief Political Risk Officer (CPRO) engagements and Corporate Political Risk Training (CPRT) sold via direct sales; self-serve courses on Teachable; subscriptions for community premium tiers ($4.99–$39.99/month) and talent directory employer access ($199/month or $499/quarter) on Gumroad. GTM blends sales-led enterprise outreach, community-led demand generation via the PRDM Slack community and newsletter, and a product-led growth motion through the PRR beta console demo. Customer segments targeted span Insurance & Reinsurance, M&A/Credit/Investment, Corporate & Board, AI & Technology, and individual political risk professionals. The team is 1–10 people, with Dr. Rebecca Murphy (ex-Fiserv SVP Geopolitical Analysis; senior roles at First Data and JPMorgan) as advisor and Scott Siler sitting on the Society for Geopolitics (S4GEO) advisory board. The firm is privately held, bootstrapped, and operating as a Virginia LLC.

Name

Exergy International

Legal name

Exergy International, LLC

Website

https://exergyintl.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Exergy International is a boutique political risk consulting firm that helps executives in developed, emerging, and frontier markets assess geopolitical exposure. It sells a patent-pending PRR evidence framework, the PRDM training and community platform, and enterprise advisory including CPRO and CPRT services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Political Risk Consulting

NAICS

Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (541910)

SIC

International Affairs (9721)

akta.pro primary industry

Risk Management Consulting (Enterprise & Operational Risk) (FSAEADAG)

Keywords

• Political risk consulting
• Geopolitical risk advisory
• Risk resilience framework
• Corporate risk training
• Geopolitical intelligence

Headquarters

HQ city

Arlington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Corporate Political Risk Training (CPRT): Digital courses tailored to specific job functions, training employees to recognize political and non-market risk. Includes role-based training and organization-wide onboarding. Delivered as licensed digital content for enterprise L&D integration.
2. PRDM Courses - Educational Platform: Self-paced online courses: Intro to Political Risk Analysis ($25), PRA Accelerator ($497), Executive PRA ($297). Pay-over-time options available. Lifetime access with updates included.
3. Political Risk Advisory Services: Advisory engagements including Chief Political Risk Officer (CPRO) services and bespoke political risk assessments for organizations seeking to decentralize political risk assessment.
4. Premium Subscriptions - PRDM Community: Career Insider ($9.99/month) - Full jobs roster and insider-only roles; Talent Board ($4.99/month) - Featured placement on talent directory; Premium Membership ($39.99/month) - All above plus early access to analysis, office hours, and priority on events.
5. Talent Directory Employer Access: Full profiles of political risk professionals searchable by region, function, sector, skills, and availability. Employer access subscription at $199/month or $499/quarter.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Exergy International is a boutique political risk consulting firm that helps executives in developed, emerging, and frontier markets identify non-market forces—policy changes, regulatory shifts, and political instability—that drive business risk. Its centerpiece is the patent-pending Political Risk Resilience (PRR) framework, an observational evidence database that measures how firm value transmits political and geopolitical events across 477 firms and 530 events in 12 risk channels. Surrounding offerings include the PRDM platform (courses, newsletter, community, jobs and talent boards), Corporate Political Risk Training (CPRT), Chief Political Risk Officer (CPRO) advisory, and one-on-one political risk career advisory.

Product overview

Exergy International offers a dual portfolio: (1) PRR (Political Risk Resilience) — a patent-pending beta framework measuring how firms transmit political and geopolitical risk through observational evidence, covering 477 firms and 530 events across 12 risk channels; and (2) PRDM (Political Risk Demystified) — a content and community platform including training courses on Teachable, PRDM Insider newsletter, free Slack community, career advisory services, talent board, and job board. Supporting services include Chief Political Risk Officer (CPRO) advisory and Corporate Political Risk Training (CPRT) for enterprise clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PRR (Political Risk Resilience): Patent-pending political-risk reasoning framework that observes how firms transmit political and geopolitical risk events.
• CPRT (Corporate Political Risk Training)
• Political Risk Career Advisory
• PRDM University

Products and services

• Political Risk Resilience (PRR) A patent-pending political-risk reasoning framework and evidence database that observes how firms' values respond to political and geopolitical events (tariffs, sanctions, conflict, export controls, capital controls), with broader market movement controlled for. Delivers evidence-based expectations about which firms are vulnerable, resilient, or benefit from specific events, and is sold to insurance/reinsurance firms, M&A and credit professionals, corporate boards, and AI/technology companies.
• Chief Political Risk Officer (CPRO) Advisory Executive-level advisory engagement providing political risk leadership and strategic guidance to organizations. Acts as an outsourced political risk function for executives and boards operating across global markets.
• Corporate Political Risk Training (CPRT) Digital training courses tailored to specific job functions, teaching employees across an organization to recognize how political and non-market risk intersects with their responsibilities. Includes role-based training and organization-wide onboarding, licensed as digital content for enterprise L&D integration.
• Political Risk Career Advisory One-on-one advisory service to align a professional's experience with the demands of the political risk and intelligence market, including CV review and outreach strategy. Targeted at individuals pursuing or pivoting into political risk careers.
• PRDM Community Free Slack workspace for political risk practitioners and aspiring analysts, featuring weekly analysis challenges, templates and frameworks, current events discussion, professional guidance, and job posts. The community acts as a stand-alone engagement channel with optional paid premium tiers.
• PRDM Insider Newsletter Weekly newsletter delivering actionable political risk insight, career strategies, and tools to analysts, strategists, and operators worldwide. Published via the beehiiv platform.
• PRDM Jobs Board Political risk job board aggregating roles from 24+ sources with daily updates. Free public access; subscription required for insider-only listings.
• PRDM Talent Board Public directory of political risk professionals from the PRDM community, enabling members to be discovered by employers and recruiters. Premium subscription offers featured placement, with employer-side subscription access at $199/month or $499/quarter.
• Intro to Political Risk Analysis Course Self-paced foundational course on political risk analysis frameworks with applied exercises, delivered on Teachable and priced at $25. Includes 7 lectures, 5 PDFs, and lifetime access with updates.
• PRA Accelerator Course Full 11-module self-paced course with applied exercises, capstone project, and certificate of completion. Priced at $497 (with monthly payment plan option) on Teachable.
• Executive PRA Course Six focused modules for leaders who need to evaluate, commission, and act on political risk assessments. Priced at $297 (with monthly payment plan option) on Teachable.
• Navigating the Uncertainty Business Field Manual Concise digital field manual on how political risk works inside companies and how to build credibility in the field, sold as a digital download via Gumroad.

Quantifiable outcome

• Observational evidence, not forecast - PRR provides expectations based on observed firm response to event classes
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Society for Geopolitics (S4GEO)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 April 2026Scott Siler joined the Society for Geopolitics (S4GEO) as an advisory board member. The Society connects practitioners, academics, and the policy community. Exergy/PRDM expects collaborations including joint events and potential research opportunities.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• S-RM: Global intelligence and risk management consultancy with a dedicated political and security risk practice serving corporate, financial, and legal clients; comparable boutique-to-mid-market positioning to Exergy with similar CPRO-style advisory offerings and embedded intelligence deliverables.
• Oxford Analytica: Founded in 1975 as a geopolitical risk analysis firm serving Fortune 500 clients, governments, and financial institutions; daily political risk briefings, country outlooks, and bespoke analysis directly parallel Exergy's enterprise political risk advisory and PRDM educational content.
• Eurasia Group: Founded in 1997 by Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group is the largest pure-play political risk advisory firm, serving the same corporate, financial, and insurance buyer base with geopolitical forecasting, country risk analysis, and political due diligence — directly competing with Exergy's advisory and CPRO engagements.
• The PRS Group: Long-established political risk data and advisory firm producing the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) and political risk services for government, financial, and corporate clients; comparable data-driven political risk heritage to PRR's framework and similar insurance/finance end markets.
• Verisk Maplecroft: Verisk Maplecroft provides political risk indices, country risk analytics, and firm-level exposure data; its data-driven, evidence-graded political risk products overlap most directly with the PRR framework's firm-level transmission methodology.
• Control Risks: Premier independent political and security risk consultancy founded in 1975; offers bespoke political risk advisory alongside embedded intelligence platforms to multinationals, overlapping with Exergy's CPRO advisory, CPRT training, and PRR platform offerings.
• Geopolitical Intelligence Services (S&P Global): Geopolitical Intelligence Services, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, sells geopolitical advisory, country risk analytics, and political risk subscriptions to corporate, financial, and government clients — directly competing with PRR for the same enterprise and investor personas.

Broad incumbents

• Fitch Solutions Country Risk: Fitch Solutions Country Risk provides political, economic, and operational risk research and ratings within the larger Fitch Group; serves financial institutions, corporates, and government entities with country-level and increasingly sectoral political risk insight comparable to PRR's firm-level lens.
• Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU): EIU is the country and political risk research arm of The Economist Group, providing forecasting, country risk services, and bespoke political analysis to multinationals; broader research portfolio but overlapping buyer base and political risk analytic product.
• KPMG Geopolitics: KPMG's geopolitical and political risk practice delivers risk advisory to multinational clients as part of its broader Big Four advisory portfolio; competes for the same C-suite and enterprise risk buyer that Exergy targets with CPRO advisory and CPRT training.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/exergy-international

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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