When Data Friendly Space launched our AI-powered GANNET tools to support humanitarians, we knew we were building something the sector needed. What we didn't fully anticipate was just how quickly you (the humanitarians, analysts, and responders around the world) would embrace these platforms and make them essential parts of your workflows.
As we welcome 2026, we're taking a moment to reflect on the growth of GANNET AI. These numbers tell a story of expanding access, growing trust, and the power of technology built with and for the humanitarian community.
Since we began measuring impact, the GANNET Virtual Assistant has become an increasingly vital tool for humanitarians seeking quick, reliable insights from complex information landscapes.
The numbers speak to real momentum:
What stands out isn't just the scale, it's the patterns of use. We saw massive engagement spikes during disasters such as the Philippines and Myanmar earthquakes. We’ve witnessed spikes in new user sign-ups, suggesting that GANNET Virtual Assistant is increasingly becoming a go-to resource during critical moments when information needs are most acute.
Growth isn't just about user numbers; it's about continuously improving how the tool serves partners. This year, we introduced critical features designed to enhance transparency and analytical depth:
These additions respond directly to what you told us you needed: verifiable information you can confidently use in briefings, proposals, and decision-making processes.
But why does this matter? Every prompt represents a humanitarian professional getting faster access to the information they need. Every new user represents someone who can now navigate complex data landscapes more efficiently. And every country on that list of 101 represents communities that benefit from better-informed decisions.
Launched in October 2024, SituationHub had its first full calendar year in 2025, and the platform quickly proved its value as a centralized resource for crisis monitoring and analysis.
Here's what happened:
Where the attention focused:
Our three SituationHubs saw significant engagement that reflected the evolving humanitarian landscape:
Perhaps most telling are the searches that didn't find existing hubs, at least not yet. Users looked for coverage of Yemen, Ukraine, Somalia, Palestine, DR Congo, India, and Afghanistan. These searches represent real information needs in the humanitarian community, and they're helping us understand where to focus our expansion efforts.
In 2025, we introduced GANNET Workspace, extending our AI capabilities into a new realm of organizational knowledge management. While the GANNET Virtual Assistant serves the broader humanitarian community with publicly available data, Workspace enables organizations to create their own private repositories, transforming their internal documents, reports, and proprietary data into a queryable knowledge base. With robust security features including end-to-end encryption and complete data sovereignty, Workspace functions as your organization's own private virtual assistant, delivering the same powerful AI-driven insights from GANNET, but trained exclusively on your confidential information. This means sensitive operational plans, internal assessments, and proprietary research can now benefit from AI-powered analysis without compromising security or compliance requirements. Workspace represents our commitment to meeting humanitarian organizations where they are: recognizing that not all critical information can or should be public, while ensuring that private knowledge remains as accessible and actionable as our shared humanitarian data.
Behind every statistic is a humanitarian professional trying to understand a complex crisis, make evidence-based decisions, or allocate limited resources where they'll have the greatest impact.
The 167% increase in GANNET Virtual Assistant prompts means that humanitarians have been able to save, on average, 200+ hours of information-gathering time, resulting in faster response times and better-informed strategies. The SituationHub's global reach of 131 countries enables truly global collaboration among humanitarian workers, who can access the same high-quality, centralized information.
Whether you're responding to an emerging crisis, planning long-term programs, or simply staying informed about complex humanitarian situations, our tools are here to support your work. We built these platforms because we believe humanitarian professionals deserve better tools for one of the world's most challenging jobs.
The growth we've seen in 2025 demonstrates clear demand for trustworthy, AI-powered tools in the humanitarian sector. But demand also reveals opportunity and need. For institutional and private donors committed to strengthening humanitarian response, this represents a chance to support proven technology that's already serving hundreds of users across 131 countries, with investments translating directly into better information access for humanitarian professionals making life-saving decisions. The impact we've seen tells us we're on the right track, but we're just getting started. If you are interested in supporting this work, let’s talk about how we can scale this together.
