Wayne McLaughlin
Founder & CEO
From Fragmented Risk to Enforced Reality
Sphere builds a trust layer for physical assets.
Risk decisions still rely on documents and snapshots, not verified reality. Sphere enforces verification at the source — anchoring every decision to location, inventory, and time.
We don’t generate opinions.
We enforce evidence — by design.
A Note from the Founder & CEO
After more than two decades working inside commodity trading, insurance, and bank-led risk functions, I’ve seen risk managers repeatedly forced to make fast decisions from dense reports and static documents — without a verified link to physical reality.
Sphere was engineered to remove that burden by enforcing verification and evidence directly into the system.
Our Values, Engineered Into the System
Clarity in Complexity
How it shows up in the system:
Complex storage environments are reduced to a single, consistent geospatial risk baseline — not competing reports, interpretations, or narratives.
Driven by Curiosity
How it shows up in the system:
Risk models continuously recalibrate as conditions, evidence, and signals change — without manual reinterpretation.
Collaboration Over Silos
How it shows up in the system:
All parties reference the same verified evidence and geospatial matrix, eliminating parallel versions of reality across documents and teams.
Seeing Opportunity in Risk
How it shows up in the system:
Risk intelligence highlights control maturity, gaps, and improvement paths — turning verification into a commercial and operational advantage.
Integrity Above All
How it shows up in the system:
Evidence cannot drift, be reused, or selectively applied. Once verified, it is locked to place, inventory, and time.
Vinay Malik
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Engineering Risk as a System — Not a Report
Sphere is a verification-first risk platform.
Risk is treated as a living state, recalculated only when reality changes — through new evidence or verified conditions, anchored to the same physical truth.
Verification is not a step.
It is a system constraint.
A Note from the CTO
Sphere is built entirely in-house. We engineer systems that bind data, evidence, and decisions to physical reality.
Risk cannot exist without a verified link to location, inventory, and time — a constraint that makes Sphere scalable and trusted by design.
Designed to Enforce Reality
Integration
All signals — inspections, disclosures, external data, and analytics — resolve into a single geospatial evidence framework, creating one shared source of truth across inventory, location, and time.
Adaptability
Risk models recalibrate as reality changes. New locations, new inventories, new signals — no manual resets, no stale scores.
Security by Design
Raw data never leaves the platform.
Verification is communicated through mathematical proofs and risk signals, not files, images, or documents.
Our Journey
A deliberate progression from risk research and methodology to a fully in-house, verification-led risk platform.
The Realisation
On-land storage risk relied on fragmented reports and point-in-time checks, disconnected from physical reality.
The gap: decision-grade risk needed to be grounded in verified truth, not paperwork.
2022
Foundation & Vision
Sphere was incorporated in Singapore to build a location-anchored storage risk platform.
Risk must resolve to what exists, where it exists, and when it was verified.
2023
Research, Design & Methodology
Focused on risk research, model design, and system architecture — before any platform build.
Core methodologies defined a unified, geospatial, evidence-first risk framework.
2024
Rebrand & Platform Commitment
M.Y. Commodities rebranded as Sphere360IO Pte. Ltd., consolidating platform, IP, and methodology.
The founder exited a senior risk role to pursue Sphere full-time. Singapore became global HQ.
Q1 2025
Global Capability Build-out
Sphere (R&D) India Pvt Ltd launched as the dedicated engineering and research centre.
Sphere360IO UK Ltd launched to support UK and European markets and regulatory alignment.
Q2 2025
AI-Powered Risk Intelligence. Grounded in Reality.
Sphere verifies risk at the source and turns physical reality into trusted intelligence.
Verified at the Source
Evidence is captured where risk actually exists — locked to location, inventory, and time.
No abstract scoring. No paper assumptions. No reusable evidence.
Insight for Both Sides
Cargo owners get a clear, comparable view of storage risk before exposure is taken.
Storage operators get precise, actionable feedback to improve controls and demonstrate resilience.
Neutral by Design
Sphere is independent. One shared, verified reality for all parties — reducing friction, disputes, and re-work across the ecosystem.
More Than Data. Evidence-Driven Intelligence
Sphere combines on-site verification, operator disclosures, and external data with proprietary AI models to produce consistent, explainable risk ratings — without relying on self-reported inputs.
Decisions change only when reality changes.