Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) and its KubroTM platform help clients dramatically increase analyst productivity in market research and data collection through SaaS-based automation, custom search tools and AI-powered text analytics. RESTful API-ready.

Our Story

A few years ago, we started building software to automate research at our more established Real Estate Foresight (REF) China property research business. Then we carved it out as Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) venture (2017), and started deploying with REF clients as well as external clients (2018), not only on China property.

Today, we have two offerings fully ready and deployed with happy clients: the enterprise SaaS KubroTM system for data and research companies, and customized intelligence briefs for investment firms.

If you are a ...

Data Company

Boost your data collection and research team’s productivity by automating your public information search, collection, filtering and communication – in any language, for any sector, easy to use for non-technical staff. Manage the research and data collection process with workflow and collaboration tools for the analysts and the management, with a highly customizable enterprise SaaS solution.


Research Firm

Save significant time on manual information search and filtering in your research workflow, engage your clients with relevant curated content. Just like we have done first for our China research business.


 


Investment Firm

See through the noise – filter the info in an extremely customized fashion. Integrated into your team’s workflow and focus. Track the news, announcements, filings and posts related to your target themes or companies. Any language, any sector, easy to deploy without technical knowledge.


 


What Our Clients Are Saying

"Kubro plays a critical role in automation of our data collection work"

-- CEO of a specialist data company in New York

"Kubro gets us very handy real time intel on the new sector we are looking at"

-- CEO of a property developer in Beijing

"We like the filtered local headlines we set to arrive just before our morning call"

-- Analyst at a hedge fund in London

"Using Kubro, I can now produce our client newsletters very quickly"

-- Analyst at an independent research firm in Hong Kong

"I get the morning robo-briefs. An essential read on the way to the office!"

-- CEO of a private equity firm in Beijing

"ROI helped us do some innovative analysis of unstructured text from company filings"

-- Analyst at an investment firm in Hong Kong

How Are We Different?

Extensive Customization

You benefit from an extensive customization with rapid deployment, thanks to our innovative backend infrastructure.

The Human Workflow

The integrated solution cares for the analyst workflow as well as the management oversight and collaboration.
 

No Tech Skills Required

Any language, any domain, no coding skills required. We did solve the key encoding issues, incl. for Chinese language.

We Have Been Living It

We are clients too - built this for our China property specialist research business first – where we rely on the system every day.

AI-Empowered Human Analysts

The AI compliments the human. Text classification powered by our AI models achieves even over 90% accuracy (vs human). The AI algorithms (we deploy multi-layer neural networks, using convolutional neural networks and long short term memory networks) are optimized for short text (e.g. headlines, Twitter), with the data labeling toolkit fully integrated into the platform and with the human scoring systems.

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Core Team

Robert Ciemniak
Founder-CEO
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Operating for 20+ years on the intersection of research, business and technology, Robert brings in his earlier 13-year international corporate career at Thomson Reuters in strategy and new venture roles, and the recent 7 years of startup experience.

In 2012, Robert started Real Estate Foresight Ltd (www.realestateforesight.com), an independent analytics and financial technology firm, based in Hong Kong and focused on China housing markets.

You can connect with ROI and Robert directly on LinkedIn.
Gavin Li
Technology Lead
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Gavin is the lead software engineer for ROI, has been on the team with Robert for over 2 years. He is proficient in multiple programming languages including Python, Objective-C, C, Java, PHP, JavaScript.

He has developed a machine learning algorithm in Python to predict online retweet behaviour in social networks, deploying multiple NLP tools.

Holds M.Phil degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, with prior work experience with the University and Deloitte Consulting. Passed CFA Level 1-3 exams on the first attempt.
RONALD TAM
Analyst (R&D)
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Graduated from City University of Hong Kong in business analysis. Focused on R&D efforts for Kubro(TM), topic modelling and AI model training for specific domains.
Erica Chung
Business Analyst
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Erica has been on the team with Robert and Gavin for over 1.5 years. She provides business analysis support for ROI while at the same time she is an extensive user of Kubro(TM) as a Quantitative Analyst at Real Estate Foresight. Graduate of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, she also studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the US.
Lijun Cao
Senior China Advisor
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Lijun helps companies, investors, and new ventures research and capture opportunities in Greater China. 18+ years of experience in China, Hong Kong and London. Advisor on due diligence, business development, media and government relations and strategy projects for Greater China. Former senior editor with EuroFinance and The Economist Events, an award-winning journalist with Xinhua News Agency in China, Afghanistan and the UK. C-level conference producer with The Economist Group in Asia.

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