SapientSwarm

SapientSwarm App: Our process is inspired by opportunistic schooling behavior of certain predatory fish species such as barracudas as a model for human cooperation. This technology brings out the best aspects of the ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ using gamification and a wiki-like community - each human participant filling in the gaps of knowledge other group members may have. This enables us to come up with truly "sapient" forecasts about both the near future, like stock and commodity price movements, or trends over the longer term, such as in clean technology or geopolitics.

It is our mission to change the way we all trade, invest and save for retirement, moving away from an agent-based system that has failed to a community-based approach where the best skills are constantly challenged and put in the service of the common good. We provide community training and pre-session briefings, enabling teams or groups of various sizes to tap into the collective knowledge. Our swarms are surprisingly flexible and irreverent to popular opinion. A transparent chat exchange and anonymous voting fosters critical thinking and leverages the opinion of unconventional thinkers and mavericks while maintaining checks and balances of the whole group.