NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / February 3, 2026 / Vico Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of its AI-powered forecasting and scenario simulation platform, giving investors, policymakers, and business leaders access to decision-grade foresight on the world's most critical political, geopolitical, and economic events. Vico's forecasts outperform prediction markets and are now available on the Bloomberg Terminal and at www.vico.io.
Vico generates expert-level probabilistic forecasts, scenarios, simulations and risk assessments of macro, policy and geopolitical events, helping leaders understand what is likely to happen, when, and how to act before markets, governments, and competitors do. Vico's models accurately predicted the Israel strikes on Iran, the Venezuela strike, and other major news events, often ahead of prediction markets.
"We are living through some of the most volatile political, geopolitical and economic times in history," said Anthony Vinci, Co-Founder & CEO. "Vico's system gives decision makers an edge by providing up to date, continuous forecasts so they can know what may happen and allowing them to run scenarios to test their decisions. It's helpful whether you're making a trade, developing a corporate strategy or executing a new policy."
Investors use Vico to test views, identify mispricing, and size risk with greater confidence. Corporate, political and national security leaders use Vico to generate leading indicators and set warning alerts of possible events, as well as run test scenarios and simulate policies or courses of action before they are enacted.
Until now, forecasts and scenario building either required a team of expert analysts, which can be slow and costly; standing up a tailored model which can take months and millions of dollars; or looking at prediction markets, which are limited to betting pools, subject to human error and insider trading, and notoriously capricious. Vico's AI-based forecasting and scenario engine is off-the-shelf, immediate, explainable and backtested.
"We are living through some of the most volatile political, geopolitical and economic times in history," said Anthony Vinci, Co-Founder & CEO. "Vico's system gives decision makers an edge by providing up to date, continuous forecasts so they can know what may happen and allowing them to run scenarios to test their decisions. It's helpful whether you're making a trade, developing a corporate strategy or executing a new policy."
Users can access Vico's platform directly at www.vico.io to begin making their own forecasts and building scenarios of political, geopolitical and economic events.
Vico forecast data is also available on the Bloomberg Terminal at WSL VICO, WSL POLITICS and WSL PREDICT, where Vico data is presented side by side with Polymarket and Kalshi forecasts.
Vico's approach differs fundamentally from both prediction markets and traditional expert analysis. Prediction markets rely on the "wisdom of the crowds" derived from betters, which constrains their coverage to a limited number of orchestrated bets. Prediction markets often follow the mercurial whim of the day's news, and they are vulnerable to manipulation, human error, and insider trading. Whereas Vico can make a forecast of anything, at any time, while limiting such human fallibility. Meanwhile, human analysts and consultancies are slow, expensive, and limited in scale. What once required teams of analysts weeks of work and significant cost, Vico can now do instantly.
All Vico forecast models are backtested and have been shown to perform better than most human experts and prediction markets.
Vico was built by a world-class team of AI, data science, finance and intelligence experts. The team is led by Anthony Vinci, the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Managing Director at Cerberus Capital and member of the Core Management Team at Bridgewater Associates. Anthony is the author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution: The Future of Espionage and the Battle to Save America, one of The Financial Times Best Books of the Year for 2025.
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