Sweden

Quantitative research and applied AI.

Ephemera AB builds systematic research and machine-learning systems, drawing on more than a decade of work in the field.

Capabilities

What we do.

We offer consultancy in quantitative finance and AI, alongside bespoke AI products built to order. We work end to end, from raw data to a system running in production. Engagements are small, senior and hands-on.

Quantitative research

Systematic strategy development on futures and equities, evaluated to the standard a trading desk applies.

  • Feature engineering and signal construction
  • Walk-forward validation
  • Execution cost and capacity modelling
  • Portfolio construction and risk sizing

Applied AI

Machine learning and language-model systems built for real workloads rather than demonstrations.

  • Model selection, training and evaluation
  • Language-model agents, retrieval and tool use
  • Benchmarking and failure analysis
  • Deployment, monitoring and cost control

Data infrastructure

The layer everything else stands on: ingestion, storage and pipelines that stay correct as they grow.

  • Market and time-series data pipelines
  • Data quality and outlier detection
  • High-performance compute in Rust and Python
  • Reproducible research environments

Approach

How we work, and why.

Data

We keep the raw record rather than a cleaned summary, so that a cleaning decision can be revisited when a result looks wrong. That is what the pipelines and quality checks are for. Over 200 TB and counting.

Quant

Anything that might carry predictive power is considered, not only price and market data. The target is diversified returns rather than one strong signal, and that governs how signals are combined and sized.

AI

Automation is worth the effort where a task is repetitive and well defined. Machine learning and language models are applied on that basis.

Quality

Reproducibility and correct data are what a result rests on. Any figure can be regenerated from the code and data behind it, and traced back to where that data came from.

Our own AI products.

Ephemera builds and runs its own AI products. Each one came out of our own research work and is in daily use.

  • Research automation Agent-driven tooling that runs, verifies and documents quantitative experiments.
  • Data quality engine Automated detection of corrupt prices, corporate actions and pipeline faults.
  • Evaluation harness Repeatable measurement for machine-learning and language-model systems.

Contact

Tell us what you are trying to find out.

We take on a limited number of engagements at a time. The best first message is a short description of the problem and what a good answer would let you do.

Location
Sweden
Engagements
Remote across Europe