AI for humans · EQ Robot Ltd · London
We build AI and data products for problems where the signal is human: behaviour, relationships, judgement under pressure.
Twenty years of strategy, analytics, machine learning and data science across startups, B2B organisations and proprietary trading firms. We design and build the platforms, data pipelines and decision tools that improve how a business reaches its most consequential judgements.
Consumer products grounded in psychology and behavioural science, developed through rapid iteration and tested against live user data rather than stated preference.
The deliverable is a functioning system. Engagements are led by a practitioner with an INSEAD MBA and a consulting background as well as an engineering one, so that the commercial rationale and the technical execution sit with the same person.
Every product here is owned and operated by EQ Robot Ltd, on its own domains, for its own account, and not on behalf of any external customer. That includes Headwinds and Headwinds for Teams (playheadwinds.com), Balance of Terror (balance-of-terror.com), Seriously and Know Yourself (dateseriously.com), and every product on this domain.
An LLM-refereed multiplayer business simulation for MBA classrooms. The engine treats each industry as data, so a professor can author a scenario in plain English instead of reverse-engineering a formula.
The Headwinds engine, run as a corporate team session. Three to eight teams each steer a rival company through timed rounds of strategy under competitive pressure, then leave with a strategic profile — risk appetite, time horizon, innovation orientation — and a facilitator debrief. A mini-MBA afternoon for any team, from the exec floor to engineering; in London or remote.
A voice-first dating platform with a deliberately anti-addictive design: voice and photos only, five conversations maximum, no paywall. Matches come from multimodal embeddings rather than preference forms.
Clean equity datasets assembled from free public sources: SEC EDGAR filings, earnings-call transcripts, prices and macro series, behind idempotent ingestion and a React analysis layer.
A prospect research tool for fundraising teams, over openly-licensed 360Giving grants data. The money question — who could give more, or start: it finds the funders who back organisations like yours but not yet you, estimates what they might give and the gap, and flags where your own funding is dangerously concentrated. The relationship question — how to actually reach them: a language model reads public pages and maps the human network around a prospect, the board seats and shared causes that open a door. Every grant figure traces to a filed source; the network to public record.
Every division in the Commons, turned into a map of the House. MPs are placed by the cosine similarity of their voting records, filterable by policy area, and rebellion is scored in bits: defying a party that split 312–2 counts for far more than defying one that split 160–154.
A single-player geopolitical strategy game in the spirit of Balance of Power. Claude writes the briefings, resolves your free-text moves and plays the rival powers across twenty turns, under constant escalation risk.
An AI vault for household paperwork. Photograph a document and a single vision call reads it, classifies it and pulls out the fields for you to confirm.
Conjoint analysis as a three-minute game. Choose who you would rather date and an elastic-net model infers which of roughly 119 attributes are actually driving you, as opposed to the ones you would claim.
TV attribution. Correlate broadcast spot airings with minute-level web traffic, build a counterfactual baseline, model the decay, and split the uplift fairly across overlapping spots.
A wedding platform that runs the admin, then gets the guests talking on the day. The organising is free: RSVPs, guest list, dietary needs, a drinks survey, schedule and travel. Its paid social layer is where the AI lives: it embeds each guest's relationship to the couple and the style of their photo into an interactive graph that seats the room by affinity, then a find-the-guest bingo of secret facts, with a live leaderboard, turns those inferred links into real introductions. AI creates the map; the guests create the connection.
EQ Robot Ltd is led by Skander Ben Mansour, working with specialist collaborators as each engagement requires. Twenty years across quantitative finance, media analytics and strategy consulting: research data platforms at Tower Research Capital, data science at G-Research, Global Head of Data Science at Mindshare, and management consulting before that.
The firm was established on a single principle. Most valuable data problems are commercial questions in disguise, and they are best solved by someone who can reason about the business and build the system, rather than by handing one to the other.
Enquiries
We take on a limited number of engagements: short advisory work, full product builds, or a technical review of a system you already have. Please outline the problem and we will tell you candidly whether we are the right firm for it.
skander@eqrobot.co.uk