How fobi's content is made

fobi mixes hand-curation, primary-source data ingestion, and language models with web search. This page is the full methodology — what's human, what's machine, what's cited, and how often everything refreshes.

The data layer

Every quantitative surface on fobi is sourced from a primary feed or a primary source. We don't launder figures through aggregators.

AI-generated content

The weekly sector brief is produced by an AI pipeline constrained to cite a primary source for every factual claim. A second pass verifies each citation and strips passages whose cited source does not support them. Every brief carries a visible AI-generated notice and a citation count.

AI is also used to produce the one-line summary under each article in the news feed, to classify ingested articles by event type and sentiment, to research funding history and catalyst dates, and to produce the per-company bull/bear analysis. The original article headline and source link are always preserved unmodified.

Company profiles

Company profiles are hand-curated. Funding numbers, headcount bands, and leadership claims link to the primary sources they came from (press releases, SEC filings, trade press). Where a figure cannot be sourced to a primary announcement, the field is marked unknown rather than estimated.

The roster

The roster (40 companies per sector) is a working hypothesis about who matters now. Reviewed quarterly against a transparent criteria: relevancy (funding velocity, technical credibility, news mentions, customer traction), and sector fit. Roster changes are logged and publicly readable on each sector dashboard.

News feed and fair use

fobi's news feed renders only the original headline, a fobi-generated one-line summary in original wording, and a link to the source. Article bodies are not republished. Brief citations quote up to 15 words from a source and always link out.

Jobs feed

Open-roles data is pulled from the public job-board APIs of Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby. Roughly 60–70% of tracked companies expose such an API; for the rest, fobi links out to the company's own careers page rather than aggregating.

Amazon affiliate disclosure

The "Further reading" section includes Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, fobi earns from qualifying purchases. This does not influence which books are included.

Not investment advice

Editorial analysis & opinion, not financial advice. fobi publishes journalism and commentary about frontier-tech companies and markets. Nothing on this site — including the "What should you do", "Tailwinds", "Headwinds", "The Angle", or any other module — is investment advice, an offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities, a recommendation, an endorsement, or a statement of fitness for any particular purpose. Past or one-day stock movements shown alongside stories are factual reference points, not forecasts. Coverage of any company reflects sector relevance, not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security.

Do not act on fobi content as if it were tailored advice for your situation. Markets and frontier technology are inherently uncertain; consult a qualified financial, legal, or tax professional before making any investment, trading, or business decision. You are solely responsible for your own decisions and outcomes. fobi, its authors, and Future Opportunity Business Insights make no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information presented, and disclaim all liability for any loss or damage arising from reliance on it to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Spotted a mistake?

Email hello@rickyrichards.com with the page URL and what you'd correct. Funding numbers, exec changes, and roster placements are the usual suspects.