Ricky Richards
As a professional product designer and early-stage investor, I built fobi because frontier technology is evolving faster than most people can realistically keep up with. The real bottleneck isn’t access to information — it’s synthesis. fobi exists to organize the chaos and democratize access to the kind of structured, investor-grade intelligence that’s traditionally only been available to professional investors.
Institutional research,
priced for individuals.
Fobi uses data + AI to deliver high-quality insights for just $10/month, or $99 per year.
Start your 7-day free trial.
Founding Member rate: $5/month or $49/year until cancelled, 100 spots left.
Frequently asked questions.
Is there a free tier?
No free tier — but the most recent weekly brief per sector is publicly readable, so you can see exactly what you'd get before paying. Every sign-up also gets 7 days free; cancel inside the week and you're not charged.
What's the Founding Member rate?
The first 100 paid sign-ups, ever, lock in $5/month or $49/year — 50% off standard pricing — for as long as their subscription stays continuously active. You can switch between monthly and annual without losing it. Cancel and your slot is gone for good; re-subscribing later pays the then-current standard price.
How does the company plan work?
Domain capture — no SAML, no provisioning, no Slack-based access requests. One person at the company subscribes ($100/month or $999/year) via Stripe checkout. At checkout, the buyer enters their work-email domain (e.g. acme.com). Anyone with an @acme.com email signs in with a magic link and gets access immediately. The buyer is the billing contact and manages everything via the Stripe Customer Portal — cancel or change cards anytime.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Stripe Customer Portal handles cancel, plan switch, payment-method updates. No retention call, no friction. Cancel inside the 7-day trial and you're not charged at all.
What sectors are covered?
Live now: Robotics, Payments, Creative Tools, DevTools & AI Coding, Health Tech. One more frontier-tech sector rolling in over the next few weeks. Each sector follows the same template — 40 companies, weekly brief, full data surface.
Where does the data come from?
Public sources: SEC EDGAR for filings (Form D, 8-K, 10-Q), USPTO for patents, company press releases for funding rounds, RSS feeds for news. Where the LLM synthesizes (briefs, bull/bear, funding analysis), we cite sources inline.
What if I want to share access with one teammate?
Two ways: take the company plan ($100/month or $999/year) and give them access via your work-email domain. Or buy the individual plan ($10/month or $99/year) and run it on your own. We don't seat-license.
Read full terms and conditions
- Early access. fobi is in early access. Expect rapid iteration, occasional rough edges, and features that change shape as feedback comes in. Subscribers should join with the understanding that this is a work-in-progress, not a finished institutional product.
- Data accuracy disclaimer. Funding rounds, patent grants, headcount data, news classifications, market caps, and AI-synthesized analysis (briefs, bull/bear cases, hard problems, funding analysis) are compiled from public sources and best-effort scraping. Records can be incomplete, misclassified, or temporarily out-of-date. Sector-page data is editorial reference, not investment, hiring, legal, or compliance advice. Verify anything that materially informs a decision against the cited primary source.
- No warranties · liability limited. fobi is provided "as is" with no express or implied warranties. To the maximum extent permitted by law, fobi and its contributors disclaim liability for any losses arising from reliance on the data or analysis presented on the platform. See disclosures for the full methodology and additional terms.
- Billing. All prices in USD. Stripe handles payment, billing, taxes, and the customer portal. We never see card numbers. Cancel anytime via the Stripe Customer Portal — cancellations inside the 7-day trial are not charged.
- Founding Member cancellation. The Founding Member rate ($5/month or $49/year — 50% off standard pricing) is tied to a continuously active subscription. If a Founding Member cancels, the slot is permanently forfeited — re-subscribing later will be at the then-current standard pricing, not the original Founding rate. Switching between monthly and annual while the subscription stays active does not affect Founding Member status. The Founding Member price is not portable, transferable, or restorable once a subscription has lapsed.
- Spotted an error? Email hello@rickyrichards.com — we'd rather hear about it from you than not. Same-day response.