hi, I'm Kpler CTO. Indeed the space is crowded. To succeed you not only need strong algorithm on top of AIS data (ML, Operational research) but also lots of hard facts coming from partners in the supply chains (brokers, ship agents, ports authorities) that you need to extract with NLP and other strategies. Having a strong team of analysts with expertise in each commodity market is needed to interpret and complement the automation. Last piece is also to have a strategy not only to cover shipping transportation, but also storage, production, consumption of the commodities, so you can deduce more interesting intel. We for example use satellites and drones images as well to know the crude oil inventories onshore.