What if you could see a threat 48 hours before it happened? In this interview from the Oracle Defence Tech Summit 2026, Quori COO Adam Brown speaks with Oracle TV’s Shanna Adamic about how Quori gives defence organisations decision advantage — turning fragmented data into forward-looking intelligence across maritime, border, and critical infrastructure security. Watch or read the interview below.
Shanna Adamic: Welcome back to Oracle TV. It’s a pleasure to be sitting next to my next guest, Adam Brown, Chief Operating Officer of Quori. Adam, thank you so much for being here and for being part of the Oracle Defense Ecosystem.
Adam Brown: Thank you. It’s an honour, so I appreciate it. Thank you.
Shanna Adamic: Let’s start with Quori, the work that you’re leading across defence, and the problems you’re solving. Can you share more with us?
Adam Brown: Absolutely. Quori is an operational intelligence system. What we’re doing is empowering global defence organisations with immediate, AI-enabled, data-driven insights, and therefore decision advantage.
The problem we’re solving is that, in this day and age, a lot of threats and state actors make very unpredictable, non-obvious moves. What Quori does is bring fragmented information and data together to make predictions of high-risk areas 24 hours or 72 hours in advance, depending on the problem set.
That means a commander can make an immediate decision. Quori is very quick and easy to use, and fast to deploy. It doesn’t require organisations to reinvent their existing capabilities, because many organisations, including military organisations, already have a lot of sensors.
Where those sensors are, and whether you can use them to best effect, is the challenge. What Quori does is cut through that fog to give decision advantage immediately. At the touch of a button, we can tell you where your highest-risk area is likely to be tomorrow, so you can be intelligence-led and proactive in your decision-making rather than reactive.
Shanna Adamic: Predicting risk, seeing risk early, and being able to act quickly has been part of the defence mission since the beginning of warfare. What makes that challenge even harder today?
Adam Brown: You’re absolutely correct. Steve Rigby touched on this earlier: since the beginning of time, commanders have needed to make faster decisions than the adversary. If you can do that, you’re on the path to success.
Unpredictability, deception and the capabilities an enemy might use are all part of that process. Quori, with its machine learning capability, can make sense of those problems. It is constantly adapting and evolving because an adversary doesn’t stand still. Their movements and unpredictability are constantly changing.
For us, as former military and intelligence end users ourselves, this is a capability we would have wanted in our hands when we were conducting operations 10, 15 or 20 years ago.
We see a lot of grey-state activity now. In our maritime capability, for instance, vessels that do not want you to know where they are going are going dark or using spoofing manoeuvres. But it is about the small crumbs of information and intelligence they leave behind. Our capability can pick those up, make sense of them, and give a commander that immediate advantage by indicating where the problem is likely to be tomorrow.
With UK MOD, we are working on critical national infrastructure on land. We also do border security work across Africa and in some European countries. These are large areas where, essentially, with a sensor, you are looking through a straw. You might have lots of different sensors, but if you do not know where to put them, you cannot be proactive. You are reactive, and that is not what we want in this day and age.
Shanna Adamic: Where can I see this? I’d like to see an example.
Adam Brown: Absolutely. We’re at our booth just around the corner. We have the maritime capability up at the moment, but we can also put the land capability up as well. You can come round and see it. We’d be happy to give a demo.
Shanna Adamic: And on that demo, what is the example? Is it at sea? Is it on land?
Adam Brown: The main demo is at sea, but we can pull up the land example as well.
At sea is a really interesting space at the moment. With the recent conflict, if people were not aware of the Strait of Hormuz before, they are now. We are operating in Southeast Asia, and we are based in Singapore as well as London. It is a heavily contested space.
The Singapore Strait and the Malacca Strait have considerably more traffic coming through than the Strait of Hormuz. People want to know who is there. We also have a lot of underwater infrastructure that is susceptible to potentially nefarious actions that may be unattributable to a state or organisation that does not want to be known.
Again, if you can be forewarned, as the saying goes, you are forearmed. Quori is helping with that problem set.
Shanna Adamic: You are part of the Oracle Defense Ecosystem, which has been built to get innovation to warfighters quickly and efficiently. How is this going to help Quori grow and reach more people?
Adam Brown: It is a fantastic opportunity, and we are thrilled. We have had a lot of support from Oracle over the last 18 months in particular.
The analogy I use is that it is like an older sibling. The older sibling has forged the path previously. As a small company, as an SME, sometimes the doors are difficult to find, and when you do find the door, it can still be difficult to pass through.
With Oracle’s capability, especially as we are seeing a lot of clients wanting sovereign solutions, there are significant benefits. Oracle brings exposure and breadth, as well as the support we receive from them.
There are also a lot of other great companies within the ecosystem. We can all share ideas, bounce off each other, and ultimately move business forward for all parties. It is a team, and it is good to be part of this team.
Shanna Adamic: Absolutely, and we are thrilled to have you as part of the team. Thank you so much for spending time talking with us. Prediction of risk is critical to the defence mission, so we appreciate your time. Thank you for joining us.
To learn more about how Quori supports faster, intelligence-led decision-making across defence, maritime security and critical national infrastructure, get in touch with our team.
