How two hours of AI-powered research landed a $50B hedge fund as a client
aryanXmahajan · x · 2026-09-22
A founder shares how he used Claude and Perplexity to reverse-engineer how quant data buyers think, then cold-pitched a $50B hedge fund and signed them within two hours. Instead of spamming a generic Apollo list, he had AI mine quant forums and papers to learn the buyer's vocabulary, reframing 'we have a unique market sentiment dataset' into '18 years of human-labeled bullish and bearish conviction, orthogonal to standard NLP-derived factors.' The real leverage: understand the buyer so deeply you only need to send one email.
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