AI for humans · EQ Robot Ltd · London

The interesting data is about people.

We build AI and data products for problems where the signal is human: behaviour, relationships, judgement under pressure.

Every node is something we built. The same few methods run under all of it. Hover one.

Services

TWO AUDIENCES, ONE METHOD
Enterprise

Analytics platforms and decision tooling

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

Applications and minimum viable products

Consumer products grounded in psychology and behavioural science, developed through rapid iteration and tested against live user data rather than stated preference.

Approach

Working software, not presentations

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.

20
Years in data
4
Continents worked
10k+
People reached
3
Postgraduate degrees

Built

WE RUN WHAT WE BUILD

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.

Headwinds

Simulation · Live

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.

Corporate · Platform and game  ·  an LLM as the engine  ·  Open ↗

Headwinds for Teams

Team experience · Live

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.

Corporate  ·  an LLM as the engine  ·  Open ↗

Seriously

Product · Live

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.

Consumer · Charity · Platform  ·  learned embeddings · statistical modelling  ·  Open ↗

Energy Data Platform

Data & ML · Live

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.

Corporate · Platform  ·  an LLM as the engine · statistical modelling  ·  Open ↗

DonorsDB

Data & ML · Live

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.

Corporate · Charity · Data insights  ·  an LLM as the engine · statistical modelling · network analysis  ·  Open ↗

UK Parliament

Data & ML · Live

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.

Consumer · Data insights  ·  statistical modelling · network analysis  ·  Open ↗

Balance of Terror

Simulation · Live

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.

Consumer · Game  ·  an LLM as the engine  ·  Open ↗

HomeDocs

Product · Live

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.

Consumer · Platform  ·  an LLM as the engine  ·  Open ↗

Know Yourself

Product · Live

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.

Consumer · Game  ·  statistical modelling  ·  Open ↗

Spotlift TV

Product · Prototype

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.

Corporate · Data insights  ·  statistical modelling

mingle

Platform · Live

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.

Consumer · Platform  ·  learned embeddings · network analysis  ·  Open ↗

The firm

DELIBERATELY SMALL

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.

Full background and CV

Based
London, United Kingdom
Entity
EQ Robot Ltd (England & Wales)
Degrees
INSEAD MBA · CentraleSupélec MSc AI · Georgia Tech MSc ECE
Stack
Python · FastAPI · React · MongoDB · GCP · AWS
Consulting
Selective, by availability

Enquiries

If you have a problem that is quantitative and awkwardly human, we should talk.

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
EQ Robot — AI for humans