Kubro has transformed how we collect and process information – we've become more efficient and can cover many more sources.
Head of Research
A global information business, London
Kubro has enabled us to build a whole new content offering for members. It forms the backbone of our weekly FT Wilshire GLIO Index news service which is distributed to nearly 10,000 contacts.
Fraser Hughes, CEO
Global Listed Infrastructure Organisation
Kubro plays a critical role in automation of our data collection work.
CEO
A specialist data company, New York
Kubro's automation capabilities have been instrumental in ensuring we receive accurate and reliable data on a regular cadence. Their platform has streamlined our workflows, saving time and improving the consistency of our insights.
VP of Product Analytics
Commercial Real Estate Sector
I haven’t seen any other tool as powerful and all-encompassing as Kubro. It effortlessly automates tracking updates, extracting insights and sharing them with the team. A remarkably versatile system!
Cynthia Feng, Founder and CEO
A policy research firm, Beijing
The topic models framework in Kubro was instrumental for us in identifying key market events.
Founder-CEO
A startup data company, New York
With Kubro, it’s like having a team of robo-analysts, working for you 24/7.
Research Director
An investment research firm, Hong Kong
Our efficiency in processing market intelligence has jumped to another level with Kubro at the backend.
Senior Analyst
A research firm, Hong Kong
3 February, 2026
Yesterday in Dubai, we hosted the fifth 'Coffee And Showcase Tour' (CAST) small-group meeting by Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI), focused on 'AI-Enhanced Automation of Market Research'. …
16 February, 2026
Happy Chinese New Year of the Fire Horse from Real Estate Foresight Limited (REF) and Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI), with a quick thought about our niche of market research. …
16 February, 2026
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
9 February, 2026
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
26 January, 2026
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
25 January, 2026
To monitor and collect the 200-page PDFs systematically and efficiently, filter for relevance, extract relevant info and keep it human-analyst-friendly, needs much more than a simple LLM call. Here's how the Kubro(TM) platform assists in such cases, with the module 'Document Explorer'. …
19 January, 2026
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
12 January, 2026
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
11 January, 2026
A 3-minute interview with Robert Ciemniak, on the sidelines of the 7th annual Beryl Elites conference in New York. …
5 January, 2026
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
31 December, 2025
A few reflections on AI applications in data/information businesses and investment research, our thesis for 2026 at Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI). …
25 December, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
19 December, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
15 December, 2025
On November 3 in New York, Robert Ciemniak, Founder-CEO of Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI), moderated a panel discussion, "The New Moats - Building the Quant Stack for a GenAI Era", at the 7th Annual Beryl Elites Alternative Investment, Technology and Innovation - Thought Leadership Conference. …
12 December, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
5 December, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
28 November, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
21 November, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
14 November, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
6 November, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
4 November, 2025
On November 3 in New York, Robert Ciemniak, Founder-CEO of Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI), moderated a panel discussion, "The New Moats - Building the Quant Stack for a GenAI Era", at the 7th Annual Beryl Elites Alternative Investment, Technology and Innovation - Thought Leadership Conference. …
31 October, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
30 October, 2025
The ANREV Young Professionals Committee and Technology & Innovation Committee event on Thursday, 20 November 2025 (Singapore). …
27 October, 2025
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐌𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐬 - 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈 𝐄𝐫𝐚: A research architecture that thrives on unstructured data, interpretable AI, the creative fusion of human & machine intelligence. Migration of quant techniques -- factor modelling, headcount analytics, sentiment scoring -- from public equities into private markets. …
25 October, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
1 October, 2025
🌟 FEATURED SPEAKER: Beryl Elites is excited to welcome Robert Ciemniak, Founder & CEO of Hong Kong based Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) to 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐥 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 & 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, …
29 June, 2025
We are live with a market intelligence tool, 'US REITs Monitor (Showcase)', illustrating some of the Kubro(TM) system research automation capabilities. …
15 June, 2025
We let the two AI avatars (using HeyGen Labs, without any additional prompts/settings) dissect in 3 minutes (unedited) the customer intro deck about what we do at Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI). …
7 May, 2025
Robotic Online Intelligence has joined NVIDIA Inception, a program that nurtures startups revolutionizing industries with technological advancements. …
9 April, 2025
We are delighted to announce that Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) has joined the AI Launchpad programme, developed by FT Strategies and the Google News Initiative. …
20 March, 2025
Showcasing Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) solutions, as part of the pitching session for select startups …
26 February, 2025
In Singapore today, just hosted our 4th CAST (Coffee And Showcase Tour) meeting "LLMs in Research - What Works and What Doesn't", following similar small-group sessions in San Francisco, London, and Hong Kong. …
23 February, 2025
Some lessons we’ve learned at Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) from deploying Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) …
5 February, 2025
A quick note from our small-group Coffee And Showcase Tour (CAST) meeting in Hong Kong today …
3 February, 2025
LLMs: When 90% is not good enough …
27 January, 2025
Our third Coffee And Showcase Tour (CAST) meeting, now in Hong Kong on Feb 5, 2025 …
27 January, 2025
In recent days, the frequency of mentions of DeepSeek in the major media headlines has spiked. In the chart below, we use our relative frequency measure with max=100. …
20 January, 2025
A quick run-through of our views at Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) on the practical (even if less fancy) use cases of LLMs in investment research. …
16 January, 2025
How do you deal with constant innovation in this space …
7 January, 2025
For 2025, on the AI front, the big theme for us at Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) remains 'making LLMs work in practice' against the backdrop of rapid progress and real opportunities on one hand, and the over-hyped ideas and the 'enterprise reality' on the other. …
28 November, 2024
This was a 'what works and what doesn't' session, including an example of a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) deployment... …
29 October, 2024
Our newly released set of tools supports research operations at data, research, and investment firms: Kubro(TM) Document Explorer. …
20 August, 2024
Multimodal LLMs can certainly help sort out and search through the family photos but they can also be useful for research businesses. …
19 August, 2024
RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) continues to be all the rage in LLM deployments. …
12 August, 2024
In our information and research automation business context, the classification of unstructured text lies at the heart of Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI)'s Kubro(TM) Information Engine. …
1 August, 2024
At Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI), we've been testing the use of multimodal LLMs for data extraction from the images of the tables (as opposed to the 'traditional' ways), charts, and other non-text formats. …
16 July, 2024
The UK Companies House is a great source of open-source market intelligence. But how do you systematically tap into it and integrate it into your workflow? …
11 June, 2024
At the vibrant London Tech Week Day One today at Olympia. A truly international mix of participants showcased London as a global hub. …
4 June, 2024
At the SaaStr Europa conference in London (Tobacco Dock in the picture). A very productive format, especially with small group discussions and 1:1 meetings. …
15 May, 2024
How far can LLMs go in automating more complex data extraction? …
25 April, 2024
While the basic RAG is technically relatively straightforward to deploy (incl. open source, as well as pre-packaged solutions), getting it right for a particular use case is a much more complex task. …
22 April, 2024
Here's our attempt to outline in a simplified format what the RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) technique could mean in practice and some major challenges to address. …
2 January, 2024
A few of our practical takeaways from Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) experience in 2023, the year of LLMs and Generative AI, from a perspective of B2B data operations, research, and investment businesses …
28 December, 2023
When you think of your business and the external open source information: one of the oldest problems is how to get the relevant info, from the right sources, at the right time, in the right format, specifically for your domain and interest.... …
15 December, 2023
Here's the video recording of the panel discussion on LLMs and AI in investment management …
14 December, 2023
Here's another example of Kubro(TM) Information Engine in action, monitoring and extracting data from the open-access UK Companies House …
11 December, 2023
Another example of a use case of Kubro(TM) Information Engine …
9 December, 2023
A weekend post. Asking the Large Language Models (LLMs) for some humour about themselves …
7 December, 2023
Here's a simple but practical use case for LLMs in market research, where our 'junior analyst' Roya Ai distills some points on China from a few research reports on the outlook for 2024 …
28 November, 2023
"Robo-Analysts: LLMs in Automation of Market Research" talk at the AI World Congress in London …
16 November, 2023
Sharing our views at a panel session at a conference in Hong Kong …
10 November, 2023
A few takeaways from our panel discussion on the applications of Large Language Models and AI in investment management at the 5th Annual Beryl Elites conference in NY …
7 October, 2023
5th Annual Beryl Elites Alternative Investment & Data Revolution - Thought Leadership Conference on November 6-7 in New York City. …
7 August, 2023
What if the info you need comes via newsletters? …
12 July, 2023
Using AI to summarize the latest AI announcements and news directly picked up at the source …
12 June, 2023
We are introducing a new product module integrating the Large Language Models (LLMs) into the Kubro(TM) Information Engine. The goal is to automate data extraction from text and PDF documents and to build customized robo-analysts and AI agents on the platform. …
12 June, 2023
Robotic Online Intelligence Ltd (ROI), the developer of research automation tools, announces the release of Kubro(TM) AIDE, a powerful AI module that streamlines data extraction from text and PDF files for data companies and research firms. …
24 April, 2023
With all the excitement about GPT and Large Language Models and after months of experimentation, we will soon be releasing Kubro(TM) AIDE, a new module fully integrated into Kubro(TM) Information Engine, the enterprise SaaS platform for data companies from Robotic Online Intelligence. …
14 March, 2023
Here's our 3.14 cents on Generative AI, based on the experiments at Robotic Online Intelligence …
10 March, 2023
It can be hard to stay on top of all the local news and rumors. Here's how Signallium(TM) China Property can assist. …
30 January, 2023
2022 HIGHLIGHTS: 1. PEOPLE INTELLIGENCE - With our new algorithm, the single code works across a range of webpage structures. It allows the monitoring and capture of information about team members/executives directly from companies’ websites. …
26 December, 2022
A lot of action keeps coming on crypto / digital assets from regulators such as SEC and CFTC in the US, and with many more around the world. …
23 December, 2022
China Covid wave and recovery media talk …
8 December, 2022
If you are active in digital assets, in particular from a regulatory and legal angle, or looking at the distress cases these days, or monitoring projects and funding …
22 November, 2022
Digital Assets - Quantifying The Headline Themes. This chart shows the relative word frequencies for the groups of keywords and expressions related to 'bubble' …
10 November, 2022
As the events unfold, Signallium(TM) Digital Assets search and alerts system automatically picks up and filters the relevant announcements and news headlines …
1 November, 2022
Second day today at the Hong Kong Fintech Week, good to …
27 October, 2022
SEC Filings can be a great source of intelligence for digital assets in terms of breaking news and announcements, presentations, and market data disclosed by major listed players. …
30 September, 2022
100,000 or 0? No lack of opinions about the world of crypto. Here's our curated selection of pointers to articles and posts in two sets - the positive vs the negative views …
29 September, 2022
The digital asset world is very fragmented. With 10,000+ tokens (Source: Statista), 50+ centralized exchanges (Source: CoinGecko), 220+ decentralized exchanges (Source: CoinGecko) …
26 September, 2022
The GameFi industry is expected to raise USD 10 billion this year which is a 20% increase from last year and a 135% increase in August alone - according to DappRadar. …
21 September, 2022
Here's a simple example of our automation of market intelligence. In this case, we track what around 40 major central banks around the world directly say/post publicly, automatically picking it up, filtering, organizing it into themes, and packaging it into a handy daily email. …
17 September, 2022
Digital Assets: When new important policy announcements come out, just like in the US a few hours ago, along with subsequent reactions and commentaries, Signallium(TM) Digital Assets picks these up automatically …
8 September, 2022
In Signallium(TM) Digital Assets - a search and market intelligence tool for digital assets by Robotic Online Intelligence, we are deploying our 'robo-curator' of information in order to automatically assess what to pay attention to, the shifts in narratives surrounding the key digital assets, through the word frequency indices and similarity analysis. …
1 September, 2022
Throughout September, at Robotic Online Intelligence, we will continue with the private beta of Signallium™ Digital Assets - a search and market intelligence tool for digital assets. …
14 July, 2022
At Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI), we have just launched Signallium™ Digital Assets - a search and market intelligence tool that pulls together the fragmented unstructured text information across digital asset domains, based on public sources. …
23 June, 2022
Do you (or your data operations in business) get dozens or more newsletters a day, which you actually do like and you did sign up for as they bring valuable info and ideas …
13 June, 2022
Here's another illustration of how at Robotic Online Intelligence we think about solving the problem of inefficiency in dealing with fragmented information in private markets in a particular sector. …
17 May, 2022
Some of the best market information comes from the publicly available disclosures, such as the SEC filings or UK Companies House documents …
8 April, 2022
Just published to clients our Quarterly Market Report on Data Centers in China by Real Estate Foresight / Robotic Online Intelligence. It covers the latest deals, projects, strategies, and policy developments to April 6. …
24 February, 2022
As Chinese developers under financial pressure negotiate with creditors, sell assets, restructure, and modify strategies, our Signallium(TM) China Property market intelligence platform helps clients pick up the latest local information. …
24 December, 2021
The updated 'Inflation talk' charts. Our relative frequency index from Robotic Online Intelligence for the words 'inflation' and 'inflationary' appearing in the tweets by the mainstream English-language media …
16 December, 2021
A lot is happening in the Metaverse and NFT world... and the new Matrix is coming out before Christmas. So we've put together a selection of pointers/headlines to the reads on NFTs and the Metaverse …
2 December, 2021
Here's an illustration of how at Robotic Online Intelligence we think about solving the problem of inefficiency of dealing with fragmented information in private markets in a particular sector. …
28 November, 2021
Here we measure the relative frequency with which certain keywords appear in the tweets from …
3 November, 2021
At our stand C82A, presenting the proposition for data companies, research and media firms. …
24 June, 2021
Databasing unstructured information into a useful format is integral for businesses and there is room for efficiency gains there through automation …
15 June, 2021
The first of the three notes, sharing how we at Robotic Online Intelligence, a sister venture to Real Estate Foresight. approach the automation of research (market research/intelligence in the investment research context). …
24 May, 2021
Robert Ciemniak, Founder-CEO of Real Estate Foresight and Robotic Online Intelligence, participated. in "AI for Real Estate: Practical Case Studies" at PropTech: Asia & Beyond Summit …
1 December, 2020
Is it possible to train AI models to accurately classify headline-level text such as tweets, news headlines or company announcements? …
29 July, 2020
Data Centers, a market signals and intelligence service for foreign investors with exposure to local China data center sector. …
6 July, 2020
From the recent event Technology Forum – Robotics Technologies for Public Services, held at #hkstp …
29 March, 2020
The Covid-19 Global Impact Tracker on Signallium(TM) from Robotic Online Intelligence is now live and freely available with a simple registration with an email. …
16 January, 2020
Robotic Online Intelligence Ltd (ROI), an AI-powered business intelligence and analytics startup, announces the launch of Signallium™ | China Property, a market signals and intelligence service for foreign investors …
15 January, 2020
Briefly sharing how we got from research into software and AI and how we deploy neural networks, a short interview with Robert Ciemniak …
29 September, 2019
From The TIE’s press release: “Included among The TIE Data Services’ offerings is Crypto SigDev™, the first corporate actions and significant development feed for digital assets. The TIE’s Crypto SigDev™ …
6 September, 2019
Text. Patterns. Search. The Power of Regular Expressions. Very few people in the business world would be familiar with Regular Expressions (or regex), yet it may be one of the …
4 September, 2019
The other day we looked at China, and now with the same approach to 6,500 global news headlines covering ‘Brexit’ in English in 2019. …
30 August, 2019
Here’s our comparison of the most frequently used words in the major Western media headlines covering China in 2017 vs …
28 August, 2019
Designed for data companies and teams collecting information that feeds into their proprietary databases, the Kubro(TM) system promises major time savings and productivity boost …
14 March, 2019
The interest in the Guangdong – Hong Kong – Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) has been on the rise since the release of the official blueprint on February 18. …
3 February, 2026
Yesterday in Dubai, we hosted the fifth 'Coffee And Showcase Tour' (CAST) small-group meeting by Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI), focused on 'AI-Enhanced Automation of Market Research'. …
16 February, 2026
Happy Chinese New Year of the Fire Horse from Real Estate Foresight Limited (REF) and Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI), with a quick thought about our niche of market research. …
16 February, 2026
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
9 February, 2026
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
26 January, 2026
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
25 January, 2026
To monitor and collect the 200-page PDFs systematically and efficiently, filter for relevance, extract relevant info and keep it human-analyst-friendly, needs much more than a simple LLM call. Here's how the Kubro(TM) platform assists in such cases, with the module 'Document Explorer'. …
19 January, 2026
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
12 January, 2026
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
11 January, 2026
A 3-minute interview with Robert Ciemniak, on the sidelines of the 7th annual Beryl Elites conference in New York. …
5 January, 2026
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
31 December, 2025
A few reflections on AI applications in data/information businesses and investment research, our thesis for 2026 at Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI). …
25 December, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
19 December, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
15 December, 2025
On November 3 in New York, Robert Ciemniak, Founder-CEO of Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI), moderated a panel discussion, "The New Moats - Building the Quant Stack for a GenAI Era", at the 7th Annual Beryl Elites Alternative Investment, Technology and Innovation - Thought Leadership Conference. …
12 December, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
5 December, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
28 November, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
21 November, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
14 November, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
6 November, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
4 November, 2025
On November 3 in New York, Robert Ciemniak, Founder-CEO of Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI), moderated a panel discussion, "The New Moats - Building the Quant Stack for a GenAI Era", at the 7th Annual Beryl Elites Alternative Investment, Technology and Innovation - Thought Leadership Conference. …
31 October, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
30 October, 2025
The ANREV Young Professionals Committee and Technology & Innovation Committee event on Thursday, 20 November 2025 (Singapore). …
27 October, 2025
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐌𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐬 - 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈 𝐄𝐫𝐚: A research architecture that thrives on unstructured data, interpretable AI, the creative fusion of human & machine intelligence. Migration of quant techniques -- factor modelling, headcount analytics, sentiment scoring -- from public equities into private markets. …
25 October, 2025
A weekly Newsletter on technology applications in investment management with an AI / LLM and automation angle. Curated news, announcements, and posts, primarily directly from sources. We apply some of the ROI's Kubro(TM) Engine tools at the backend for production, yet with a human in the loop (for now). It's a start, and it will evolve on a weekly basis. …
1 October, 2025
🌟 FEATURED SPEAKER: Beryl Elites is excited to welcome Robert Ciemniak, Founder & CEO of Hong Kong based Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) to 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐥 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 & 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, …
29 June, 2025
We are live with a market intelligence tool, 'US REITs Monitor (Showcase)', illustrating some of the Kubro(TM) system research automation capabilities. …
15 June, 2025
We let the two AI avatars (using HeyGen Labs, without any additional prompts/settings) dissect in 3 minutes (unedited) the customer intro deck about what we do at Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI). …
7 May, 2025
Robotic Online Intelligence has joined NVIDIA Inception, a program that nurtures startups revolutionizing industries with technological advancements. …
9 April, 2025
We are delighted to announce that Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) has joined the AI Launchpad programme, developed by FT Strategies and the Google News Initiative. …
20 March, 2025
Showcasing Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) solutions, as part of the pitching session for select startups …
26 February, 2025
In Singapore today, just hosted our 4th CAST (Coffee And Showcase Tour) meeting "LLMs in Research - What Works and What Doesn't", following similar small-group sessions in San Francisco, London, and Hong Kong. …
23 February, 2025
Some lessons we’ve learned at Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) from deploying Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) …
5 February, 2025
A quick note from our small-group Coffee And Showcase Tour (CAST) meeting in Hong Kong today …
3 February, 2025
LLMs: When 90% is not good enough …
27 January, 2025
Our third Coffee And Showcase Tour (CAST) meeting, now in Hong Kong on Feb 5, 2025 …
27 January, 2025
In recent days, the frequency of mentions of DeepSeek in the major media headlines has spiked. In the chart below, we use our relative frequency measure with max=100. …
20 January, 2025
A quick run-through of our views at Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) on the practical (even if less fancy) use cases of LLMs in investment research. …
16 January, 2025
How do you deal with constant innovation in this space …
7 January, 2025
For 2025, on the AI front, the big theme for us at Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) remains 'making LLMs work in practice' against the backdrop of rapid progress and real opportunities on one hand, and the over-hyped ideas and the 'enterprise reality' on the other. …
28 November, 2024
This was a 'what works and what doesn't' session, including an example of a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) deployment... …
29 October, 2024
Our newly released set of tools supports research operations at data, research, and investment firms: Kubro(TM) Document Explorer. …
20 August, 2024
Multimodal LLMs can certainly help sort out and search through the family photos but they can also be useful for research businesses. …
19 August, 2024
RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) continues to be all the rage in LLM deployments. …
12 August, 2024
In our information and research automation business context, the classification of unstructured text lies at the heart of Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI)'s Kubro(TM) Information Engine. …
1 August, 2024
At Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI), we've been testing the use of multimodal LLMs for data extraction from the images of the tables (as opposed to the 'traditional' ways), charts, and other non-text formats. …
16 July, 2024
The UK Companies House is a great source of open-source market intelligence. But how do you systematically tap into it and integrate it into your workflow? …
11 June, 2024
At the vibrant London Tech Week Day One today at Olympia. A truly international mix of participants showcased London as a global hub. …
4 June, 2024
At the SaaStr Europa conference in London (Tobacco Dock in the picture). A very productive format, especially with small group discussions and 1:1 meetings. …
15 May, 2024
How far can LLMs go in automating more complex data extraction? …
25 April, 2024
While the basic RAG is technically relatively straightforward to deploy (incl. open source, as well as pre-packaged solutions), getting it right for a particular use case is a much more complex task. …
22 April, 2024
Here's our attempt to outline in a simplified format what the RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) technique could mean in practice and some major challenges to address. …
2 January, 2024
A few of our practical takeaways from Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) experience in 2023, the year of LLMs and Generative AI, from a perspective of B2B data operations, research, and investment businesses …
28 December, 2023
When you think of your business and the external open source information: one of the oldest problems is how to get the relevant info, from the right sources, at the right time, in the right format, specifically for your domain and interest.... …
15 December, 2023
Here's the video recording of the panel discussion on LLMs and AI in investment management …
14 December, 2023
Here's another example of Kubro(TM) Information Engine in action, monitoring and extracting data from the open-access UK Companies House …
11 December, 2023
Another example of a use case of Kubro(TM) Information Engine …
9 December, 2023
A weekend post. Asking the Large Language Models (LLMs) for some humour about themselves …
7 December, 2023
Here's a simple but practical use case for LLMs in market research, where our 'junior analyst' Roya Ai distills some points on China from a few research reports on the outlook for 2024 …
28 November, 2023
"Robo-Analysts: LLMs in Automation of Market Research" talk at the AI World Congress in London …
16 November, 2023
Sharing our views at a panel session at a conference in Hong Kong …
10 November, 2023
A few takeaways from our panel discussion on the applications of Large Language Models and AI in investment management at the 5th Annual Beryl Elites conference in NY …
7 October, 2023
5th Annual Beryl Elites Alternative Investment & Data Revolution - Thought Leadership Conference on November 6-7 in New York City. …
7 August, 2023
What if the info you need comes via newsletters? …
12 July, 2023
Using AI to summarize the latest AI announcements and news directly picked up at the source …
12 June, 2023
We are introducing a new product module integrating the Large Language Models (LLMs) into the Kubro(TM) Information Engine. The goal is to automate data extraction from text and PDF documents and to build customized robo-analysts and AI agents on the platform. …
12 June, 2023
Robotic Online Intelligence Ltd (ROI), the developer of research automation tools, announces the release of Kubro(TM) AIDE, a powerful AI module that streamlines data extraction from text and PDF files for data companies and research firms. …
24 April, 2023
With all the excitement about GPT and Large Language Models and after months of experimentation, we will soon be releasing Kubro(TM) AIDE, a new module fully integrated into Kubro(TM) Information Engine, the enterprise SaaS platform for data companies from Robotic Online Intelligence. …
14 March, 2023
Here's our 3.14 cents on Generative AI, based on the experiments at Robotic Online Intelligence …
10 March, 2023
It can be hard to stay on top of all the local news and rumors. Here's how Signallium(TM) China Property can assist. …
30 January, 2023
2022 HIGHLIGHTS: 1. PEOPLE INTELLIGENCE - With our new algorithm, the single code works across a range of webpage structures. It allows the monitoring and capture of information about team members/executives directly from companies’ websites. …
26 December, 2022
A lot of action keeps coming on crypto / digital assets from regulators such as SEC and CFTC in the US, and with many more around the world. …
23 December, 2022
China Covid wave and recovery media talk …
8 December, 2022
If you are active in digital assets, in particular from a regulatory and legal angle, or looking at the distress cases these days, or monitoring projects and funding …
22 November, 2022
Digital Assets - Quantifying The Headline Themes. This chart shows the relative word frequencies for the groups of keywords and expressions related to 'bubble' …
10 November, 2022
As the events unfold, Signallium(TM) Digital Assets search and alerts system automatically picks up and filters the relevant announcements and news headlines …
1 November, 2022
Second day today at the Hong Kong Fintech Week, good to …
27 October, 2022
SEC Filings can be a great source of intelligence for digital assets in terms of breaking news and announcements, presentations, and market data disclosed by major listed players. …
30 September, 2022
100,000 or 0? No lack of opinions about the world of crypto. Here's our curated selection of pointers to articles and posts in two sets - the positive vs the negative views …
29 September, 2022
The digital asset world is very fragmented. With 10,000+ tokens (Source: Statista), 50+ centralized exchanges (Source: CoinGecko), 220+ decentralized exchanges (Source: CoinGecko) …
26 September, 2022
The GameFi industry is expected to raise USD 10 billion this year which is a 20% increase from last year and a 135% increase in August alone - according to DappRadar. …
21 September, 2022
Here's a simple example of our automation of market intelligence. In this case, we track what around 40 major central banks around the world directly say/post publicly, automatically picking it up, filtering, organizing it into themes, and packaging it into a handy daily email. …
17 September, 2022
Digital Assets: When new important policy announcements come out, just like in the US a few hours ago, along with subsequent reactions and commentaries, Signallium(TM) Digital Assets picks these up automatically …
8 September, 2022
In Signallium(TM) Digital Assets - a search and market intelligence tool for digital assets by Robotic Online Intelligence, we are deploying our 'robo-curator' of information in order to automatically assess what to pay attention to, the shifts in narratives surrounding the key digital assets, through the word frequency indices and similarity analysis. …
1 September, 2022
Throughout September, at Robotic Online Intelligence, we will continue with the private beta of Signallium™ Digital Assets - a search and market intelligence tool for digital assets. …
14 July, 2022
At Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI), we have just launched Signallium™ Digital Assets - a search and market intelligence tool that pulls together the fragmented unstructured text information across digital asset domains, based on public sources. …
23 June, 2022
Do you (or your data operations in business) get dozens or more newsletters a day, which you actually do like and you did sign up for as they bring valuable info and ideas …
13 June, 2022
Here's another illustration of how at Robotic Online Intelligence we think about solving the problem of inefficiency in dealing with fragmented information in private markets in a particular sector. …
17 May, 2022
Some of the best market information comes from the publicly available disclosures, such as the SEC filings or UK Companies House documents …
8 April, 2022
Just published to clients our Quarterly Market Report on Data Centers in China by Real Estate Foresight / Robotic Online Intelligence. It covers the latest deals, projects, strategies, and policy developments to April 6. …
24 February, 2022
As Chinese developers under financial pressure negotiate with creditors, sell assets, restructure, and modify strategies, our Signallium(TM) China Property market intelligence platform helps clients pick up the latest local information. …
24 December, 2021
The updated 'Inflation talk' charts. Our relative frequency index from Robotic Online Intelligence for the words 'inflation' and 'inflationary' appearing in the tweets by the mainstream English-language media …
16 December, 2021
A lot is happening in the Metaverse and NFT world... and the new Matrix is coming out before Christmas. So we've put together a selection of pointers/headlines to the reads on NFTs and the Metaverse …
2 December, 2021
Here's an illustration of how at Robotic Online Intelligence we think about solving the problem of inefficiency of dealing with fragmented information in private markets in a particular sector. …
28 November, 2021
Here we measure the relative frequency with which certain keywords appear in the tweets from …
3 November, 2021
At our stand C82A, presenting the proposition for data companies, research and media firms. …
24 June, 2021
Databasing unstructured information into a useful format is integral for businesses and there is room for efficiency gains there through automation …
15 June, 2021
The first of the three notes, sharing how we at Robotic Online Intelligence, a sister venture to Real Estate Foresight. approach the automation of research (market research/intelligence in the investment research context). …
24 May, 2021
Robert Ciemniak, Founder-CEO of Real Estate Foresight and Robotic Online Intelligence, participated. in "AI for Real Estate: Practical Case Studies" at PropTech: Asia & Beyond Summit …
1 December, 2020
Is it possible to train AI models to accurately classify headline-level text such as tweets, news headlines or company announcements? …
29 July, 2020
Data Centers, a market signals and intelligence service for foreign investors with exposure to local China data center sector. …
6 July, 2020
From the recent event Technology Forum – Robotics Technologies for Public Services, held at #hkstp …
29 March, 2020
The Covid-19 Global Impact Tracker on Signallium(TM) from Robotic Online Intelligence is now live and freely available with a simple registration with an email. …
16 January, 2020
Robotic Online Intelligence Ltd (ROI), an AI-powered business intelligence and analytics startup, announces the launch of Signallium™ | China Property, a market signals and intelligence service for foreign investors …
15 January, 2020
Briefly sharing how we got from research into software and AI and how we deploy neural networks, a short interview with Robert Ciemniak …
29 September, 2019
From The TIE’s press release: “Included among The TIE Data Services’ offerings is Crypto SigDev™, the first corporate actions and significant development feed for digital assets. The TIE’s Crypto SigDev™ …
6 September, 2019
Text. Patterns. Search. The Power of Regular Expressions. Very few people in the business world would be familiar with Regular Expressions (or regex), yet it may be one of the …
4 September, 2019
The other day we looked at China, and now with the same approach to 6,500 global news headlines covering ‘Brexit’ in English in 2019. …
30 August, 2019
Here’s our comparison of the most frequently used words in the major Western media headlines covering China in 2017 vs …
28 August, 2019
Designed for data companies and teams collecting information that feeds into their proprietary databases, the Kubro(TM) system promises major time savings and productivity boost …
14 March, 2019
The interest in the Guangdong – Hong Kong – Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) has been on the rise since the release of the official blueprint on February 18. …
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