Kensho

When the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in 2016, traders with access to analytics system Kensho had an advantage, according to Forbes. They were able to quickly comb through the firm’s intelligence-grade database and in seconds learn that populist votes such as Brexit historically led to an extended drop in the local currency, washing out any short-term recovery. That’s exactly what happened in the months after the Brexit vote.

The Cambridge, Mass.-based artificial intelligence platform was created by Harvard Ph.D. Daniel Nadler to develop and deploy scalable artificial intelligence systems across critical commercial and government institutions to solve some of the world’s most difficult analytical problems. It can find answers to more than 65 million question combinations by scanning over 90,000 customizable actions and can evaluate everything from earnings releases and economic reports to new product launches and home sales. Recently acquired by S&P Global, the company’s technology is now the backbone of more than a dozen unique index products.

When the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in 2016, traders with access to analytics system Kensho had an advantage, according to Forbes. They were able to quickly comb through the firm’s intelligence-grade database and in seconds learn that populist votes such as Brexit historically led to an extended drop in the local currency, washing out any short-term recovery. That’s exactly what happened in the months after the Brexit vote.

The Cambridge, Mass.-based artificial intelligence platform was created by Harvard Ph.D. Daniel Nadler to develop and deploy scalable artificial intelligence systems across critical commercial and government institutions to solve some of the world’s most difficult analytical problems. It can find answers to more than 65 million question combinations by scanning over 90,000 customizable actions and can evaluate everything from earnings releases and economic reports to new product launches and home sales. Recently acquired by S&P Global, the company’s technology is now the backbone of more than a dozen unique index products.