What PredictNow.ai Inc. does

PredictNow.ai Inc. is a privately held, Toronto-based financial machine learning SaaS company founded in 2020 by Ernest Chan. The firm commercializes a proprietary "Corrective AI" approach (rooted in metalabeling) that uses machine learning to refine — rather than replace — human and algorithmic trading decisions. Its no-code platform allows hedge funds, asset managers, and professional traders to predict the conditional probability of profit for individual trades and to adapt portfolio allocations and strategy parameters to changing market regimes. The patent-pending Conditional Parameter Optimization (CPO) technique underpins this capability, supported by an extensive curated feature library of 600+ traditional market features (sourced from Sharadar, FactSet, and AlgoSeek) and 879 crypto features.

The platform is delivered through a web interface and a REST API, with native integration to Alpaca brokerage for direct P&L data import. Underlying AI capabilities span random forests with boosting, variational autoencoders for latent regime detection, cluster-based feature selection (cMDA), and transformer-based feature transformation. The company monetizes through Premium and Enterprise SaaS subscriptions, API access, trading-signal subscriptions, and select profit-sharing arrangements with institutional customers. Named commercial relationships include QTS Capital Management (co-development partner) and AlgoSeek, Sharadar, FactSet, Alpaca, DV Trading, and Google as data, distribution, and capital partners. As of the latest disclosures, the company has approximately 30 paying customers, ~7 engineers, and has raised roughly $750K of a targeted $1M pre-seed round, with proof-of-concept activity in oil and gas and active discussions in semiconductors indicating early non-financial vertical exploration.

Name

PredictNow.ai Inc.

Legal name

PredictNow.ai Inc.

Website

https://predictnow.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

PredictNow.ai is a Toronto-based SaaS company that provides a no-code machine learning platform helping hedge funds, asset managers, and professional traders predict conditional trade profitability and adapt portfolio parameters to changing market regimes via its proprietary Corrective AI approach.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial Machine Learning Software

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (52394)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Financial Services Personalization (Banking, Investing, Insurance) (HDAAAGAH)

Keywords

• Financial machine learning
• Portfolio optimization software
• Algorithmic trading analytics
• Predictive analytics platform
• Feature engineering tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Ontario

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Subscription-based SaaS platform with Premium Plan and Enterprise Plan tiers. Users pay for access to machine learning platform, pre-engineered features, and API access.
2. Trading Signals Subscription: Institutional investors can subscribe to trading signals from crypto strategy or dynamically optimized long-short crypto portfolio.
3. API Access: REST API allowing users to integrate machine learning predictions directly into their internal trading systems.
4. Profit Sharing Agreements: Some customers have signed profit sharing agreements with the company.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

PredictNow.ai operates a no-code financial machine learning SaaS platform that enables hedge funds, asset managers, and professional traders to predict the conditional probability of profit for individual trades. The platform uses proprietary Corrective AI techniques, including patent-pending Conditional Parameter Optimization (CPO) and metalabeling, to adapt trading strategy parameters and portfolio allocations to changing market regimes. It offers 200+ pre-engineered financial features and a REST API for integration into internal trading systems.

Product overview

PredictNow.ai is a no-code financial machine learning SaaS platform built around its proprietary Corrective AI approach. The core platform enables hedge funds and traders to predict conditional probability of profit for trades using machine learning. Key products include the Metalabeling Service for trade predictions, Conditional Portfolio Optimization (CPO) for adaptive portfolio allocation, and Conditional Parameter Optimization for trading strategy parameter adaptation. The platform is complemented by an extensive library of 200+ pre-engineered financial features (covering stocks, options, ETFs, futures, crypto, and macro indicators), an API for developer integration, and an Alpaca brokerage data integration. The offering serves both professional traders and institutional fund managers across traditional and crypto asset classes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PredictNow.ai SaaS Platform A no-code financial machine learning SaaS platform that enables hedge funds and traders to predict the conditional probability of profit for their trades using machine learning, without requiring coding or data science expertise. Available via Premium and Enterprise subscription plans with a REST API.
• Metalabeling Service ML-based prediction service that calculates the probability of profit for individual trades by training random forest models on historical trade data combined with market features, enabling trade sizing decisions.
• Conditional Portfolio Optimization (CPO) Patent-pending optimization technique using machine learning to adapt portfolio capital allocations to changing market regimes, outperforming traditional Markowitz optimization by incorporating external market features.
• Conditional Parameter Optimization ML-based technique for adapting trading strategy parameters to changing market conditions by training models to predict optimal parameter values based on current market regime features, using supervised ML with random forest and boosting.
• Pre-Engineered Features Library Library of 200+ pre-engineered financial features including 40 stock fundamental features, 197 proprietary time-series features, 616 macro/market features, and 879 crypto features designed for use as ML model inputs.
• PredictNow.ai REST API REST API enabling developers to programmatically train models, make predictions, and integrate PredictNow.ai functionality into internal trading systems and processes, with Python SDK support.
• Generative AI Workshop for Asset Managers Educational workshop recording for asset managers covering the application of generative AI techniques to trading and portfolio management, available for purchase.

Quantifiable outcome

• Sharpe ratio improvement: 3.1x over Markowitz method for S&P 500 portfolio optimization
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability6 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AlgoSeekcoreTechnology or IntegrationData provider for high-frequency futures and equities tick data with aggressor tags used for order flow feature engineering
• AI PartnersminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorListed as partner with branding shown on website partners section
• SharadarcoreTechnology or IntegrationData provider for stock fundamental dataset covering 6000+ US listed companies with survivorship-bias-free, point-in-time data
• AlpacacoreTechnology or IntegrationBrokerage platform integration allowing direct import of brokerage data and PNL information into PredictNow.ai platform
• FactSetcoreTechnology or IntegrationData provider for macroeconomic data from US and 12 other major economies; Also listed as accelerator partner
• QTS Capital ManagementcoreTechnology or IntegrationProprietary trading firm; Co-development of features and strategies; Provider of trading signals and portfolio optimization technology
• QTS (Accelerator)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as accelerator partner providing startup acceleration support
• FactSet (Accelerator)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as accelerator partner providing startup acceleration support

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• SigTech: SigTech provides a cloud-based quantitative analytics and backtesting platform for institutional investors. It targets similar quant and asset manager buyers with portfolio analytics tooling, partially overlapping with PredictNow.ai's portfolio optimization capabilities.
• H2O.ai: H2O.ai offers an enterprise AI/ML platform (H2O Driverless AI) used in financial services for credit scoring, fraud, and trading analytics. While broader in scope than PredictNow.ai, it competes for similar financial services ML budgets with automated feature engineering and model interpretability features.

Broad incumbents

• Two Sigma: Two Sigma is a large, well-capitalized systematic investment firm with proprietary ML and data engineering capabilities. While it does not sell software externally, it represents the type of in-house built alternative that competing institutional buyers may choose over buying from PredictNow.ai.
• Kensho Technologies (S&P Global): Kensho, an S&P Global company, applies ML and NLP to financial data analytics for institutional investors. It shares the enterprise financial AI positioning with PredictNow.ai, though it focuses more on analytics and event detection than trade-level profitability prediction.
• DataRobot: DataRobot is an established enterprise automated ML platform used across financial services for predictive modeling. It overlaps with PredictNow.ai on the no-code ML workflow for financial institutions but serves a much broader set of use cases and a more general enterprise buyer.
• WorldQuant: WorldQuant operates a quantitative investment platform and BRAIN network of external alpha researchers, analogous to Numerai's crowdsourced model approach. It targets similar institutional and retail quant audiences with ML-based alpha generation tooling.
• Bloomberg Quant (BBG Terminal): Bloomberg's quantitative analytics and ML features within its Terminal serve the same institutional asset manager base as PredictNow.ai. While much broader in scope, Bloomberg's quant tooling and data feeds represent the incumbent alternative that enterprise buyers benchmark against.

Direct peers

• Numerai: Numerai runs a crowdsourced hedge fund powered by ML predictions submitted by external data scientists on encrypted financial data. Like PredictNow.ai, it builds trading signals from ML models and offers performance-linked compensation to model contributors, making the business model and target audience highly comparable.
• QuantConnect: QuantConnect provides an algorithmic trading platform with backtesting, live trading, and ML capabilities for quants and retail algo traders. It serves the same professional trader and small hedge fund segment with similar self-serve tooling and cloud-based infrastructure.

Others

• Alpaca: Alpaca is a brokerage and data infrastructure partner of PredictNow.ai, providing direct P&L import integration. While not a direct competitor, it serves overlapping algorithmic trader customers with commission-free trading APIs and increasingly offers its own ML-assisted tooling.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PredictNowAI
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCN2z3nRSRKsmHbj44cMNiYw
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/predictnow-ai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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