Cloudera and Mercy Corps announced the next phase of their partnership by unveiling VERA (Verified Evidence & Research Assistant), an agentic AI solution designed to transform how humanitarian teams gather information and analyze crises. VERA is powered by Cloudera AI Studios, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), using Anthropic’s Claude models. The solution automates research, aggregates information across diverse sources, and generates localized, crisis-specific analysis. Recent applications include agricultural and food security analysis in Sudan, election security reporting in Colombia, and support for disease outbreak monitoring in Central and East Africa. Measurable results include up to 90% time savings in producing security reports for Mercy Corps teams in Colombia, a reduction in secondary research for Sudan-focused reporting from five or six days down to two or three, estimated cost savings of roughly $2,000 per Colombia security report and $1,500 per Sudan analysis report, and expanded reporting capacity. The partnership builds on nearly two and a half years of collaboration.