For AI-native hedge funds
Nomais is primary research as a service for AI-native and systematic hedge funds — an expert-network alternative with no analysts to hire. We find the practitioners who know, conduct structured AI-driven interviews to your framework, and deliver pipeline-ready transcripts fast — faster than a traditional EN — with no annual contract.
The problem
Your team built systems to process satellite imagery, parse SEC filings, and extract sentiment from earnings calls. All public. All accessible to every fund running similar strategies.
But there's an entire layer of signal that doesn't exist online: what a supply chain director is seeing on the ground right now. What procurement decisions a manufacturer is about to make. What practitioners think will happen next quarter.
That's primary research. Fundamental funds get it by having analysts pick up the phone. You don't have that function — and the traditional process doesn't fit your workflow anyway.
The solution
You define a research angle — the questions you want answered, the type of practitioner who'd know.
We find that person. Across industries, across geographies. Not from a pre-existing pool — sourced specifically for your question.
AI conducts a 45–60 minute structured interview. It follows your framework, probes dynamically, and tracks whether your questions have been covered.
You receive a full transcript organized by your question structure, a coverage score, and the recording. No annual contract. No analysts to hire. No one on your team spent a minute on it.
Need a single expert call for a thesis? See our expert calls for hedge funds. Building AI? We also source domain experts for AI training.
How it works
Step 01
Chat with your associate agent — no form. Describe your research angle in plain language; we shape it into a structured brief.
Step 02
We actively seek out the practitioners who'd know — wherever they are — and reach out directly. Sourced specifically for your question, not matched from a pool.
Step 03
A 45–60 minute structured conversation, dynamically probing based on your framework and real-time coverage tracking. Multi-language capable.
Step 04
Full transcript organized by your question framework, a per-topic coverage score, and the complete recording. Pipeline-ready.
What changes
| Before — ad-hoc expert calls | With Nomais | |
|---|---|---|
| Barrier to start | Hire analysts, or sign an annual EN contract | $0 — submit an angle |
| Who does the work | Your analyst — which you don't have | No one on your team |
| Output format | Unstructured notes from memory | Structured transcript, coverage-scored |
| Time to first signal | Weeks to source and schedule | Days, not weeks |
| Cost risk | Pay regardless of quality | Pay only for delivered results |
In practice
Channel check
Interview 5 procurement managers across the supply chain in parallel. Get 5 structured transcripts in a week.
Validation
Your model flagged unusual enterprise spend. We interview IT buyers to validate real adoption vs. accounting noise.
No contract
No annual EN contract, no minimum spend. Submit a single angle and get structured intelligence back — accessible to any fund, any size.
Comparative
Run the same angle across multiple experts and compare where they agree — and where they don't.
Questions
Pay only if it covers what you asked for. First results fast.