// 00Lualdi Advisors · Quantitative Research · Founded 2015

LUALDI·

Quantitative Research · Data Science · Artificial Intelligence

Quantitative discipline at scale. We turn complex, large-scale data into measurable business outcomes.

Founded in 2015, Lualdi Advisors is a research firm built around one discipline: converting complex, large-scale data into measurable outcomes. Through quantitative modeling, artificial intelligence, and operational intelligence, we build the systems that let serious operators reason about markets, assets, regulations, and supply chains with the precision the work demands. Our clients include hedge funds, family offices, trade associations, and global corporations across commodities, energy, real estate, and software.

// 01Doctrine

We do not predict.
We compute against the world.

Most analytics firms ship dashboards. We ship decisions. Eleven years of practice across commodity markets, energy grids, real estate, and industrial operations have taught us one thing: the value in a model is not the forecast — it is the action the forecast unlocks, executed with discipline, before the rest of the market moves. Every model we build is held to three rules.

// PRINCIPLE 01

Grounded

Every output traces back to a row, a tick, a sensor reading, or a regulation clause. No general knowledge. No vibe. If we say it, we can point at it — the data, the timestamp, the source node.

Citation · Source Node
// PRINCIPLE 02

Reproducible

The data pulled, the prompt issued, the model that answered, the math performed — every step recorded. An auditor can replay it. A regulator can verify it. A successor operator can trust it. This is non-negotiable.

Provenance · End-to-End
// PRINCIPLE 03

Approval-Gated

Our models propose. Operators approve. No autonomous write to a system of record — ever. The strongest co-pilot in the room, never the captain. Agentic by design, never unsupervised.

Human · In the Write Path
// 02Models

Pattern recognition.
Operational reasoning.

SIGMA finds the structure that decides where to act. MITHRIL holds the world the action lands on. ORIGINS turns those decisions into purchase orders for coffee operators. Deploy them together, or alone, depending on the work.

Quantitative market data visualisation Model · 01 Single Server · Millisecond Inference
// MODEL · QUANTITATIVE Live · v15

SIGMA — Pattern Recognition & Decision Engine

A proprietary algorithm developed over fifteen years. SIGMA identifies subtle multi-dimensional patterns in noisy data, recognises regime shifts in real time, and outputs optimal action strategies with measurable confidence. Compact, fast, and self-hostable.

Pattern Detection Regime Recognition Sub-ms Inference
Open SIGMA Brief
Industrial operations control room at night Model · 02 Cited · Approval-Gated
// MODEL · ONTOLOGY Live · v0.7

MITHRIL — Ontology Console for Enterprise AI

The structured layer where frontier AI reasons over an operational world. Six ontology packs ship today — Oil & Gas, Mining, Pharmaceutical, Defense, Power, Maritime. Every answer is cited. Every write is approved by a human.

Ontology Layer Cited Reasoning Audit-Bound
Open MITHRIL Brief
Coffee procurement and lot tracking Model · 03 Procurement · Approval-Gated
// MODEL · PROCUREMENT Live · v1.0

ORIGINS — Procurement Intelligence Runtime

The procurement runtime for coffee operators. Pressure-driven buy decisions, multi-supplier scoring, recipe-aware blend coverage, FIFO lot tracking, PO drafts queued for operator approval, and 90-day cashflow projections — built to replace the bulk of a procurement team's daily ops.

Buy Decisions Supplier Scoring PO Drafts
Open ORIGINS Brief
// 03Sectors

Domains of practice.

Our work concentrates in markets where a wrong answer costs real money — soft commodities, energy, industrial operations, real estate, and software. Below is the active surface of practice.

Coffee beans being roasted Sector · 01
// SOFT COMMODITIES Active

Coffee · Cocoa · Sugar · Grains

Price formation, supply-chain signal, certification & origin economics. We hold deep technical relationships with roasters, traders, and origin associations across LATAM, EMEA, and Africa.

High-voltage transmission infrastructure Sector · 02
// ENERGY & POWER Active

Oil · Natural Gas · Power Grid

Day-ahead and intraday markets, dispatch optimisation, generation mix, renewables integration, regulatory exposure. Models tuned for European and North American grids.

Open-pit mining operation Sector · 03
// MINING & INDUSTRIAL MITHRIL

Mining · Pharmaceutical · Maritime · Defense

Operationally complex industries where MITHRIL deploys today. Orebody to vessel, batch to readiness — modeled as one queryable structure.

Server-room infrastructure Sector · 04
// SOFTWARE & AI Active

AI Systems & Custom Software

Build advisory for frontier AI deployments — model selection, eval, ontology design, cost discipline. We ship working systems, not slide decks.

Modern real estate development at dusk Sector · 05
// REAL ESTATE Active

Residential · Commercial · Land

Submarket signal, zoning intelligence, deal screening at portfolio scale. Active across North American gateway markets and select EMEA submarkets.

Financial market data on screens Sector · 06
// CAPITAL MARKETS Active

Hedge Funds · Family Offices

SIGMA deployed inside discretionary and systematic mandates. Compact, self-hosted, integrated within client risk and execution stacks.

// 04Custom Solutions

Bespoke systems.
With full exclusivity.

Beyond SIGMA, MITHRIL, and ORIGINS, the firm builds custom systems for a small number of operators each year — terminals, consoles, decision surfaces wired into existing infrastructure. A selection of recent deployments below.

// 05Clientele

The clientele.

01

Hedge Funds & Family Offices

Discretionary and systematic mandates running SIGMA inside their own infrastructure. Compact deployment, sub-millisecond inference, signal that holds up out-of-sample.

02

Trade Associations

Industry bodies in coffee, cocoa, and agricultural commodities — origin pricing intelligence, supply visibility, certification economics shared across membership.

03

Global Corporations

Energy, mining, pharmaceutical, defense, maritime — operators deploying MITHRIL to give frontier AI a real operational world to reason about, with audit trails and approval gates.

// 06Frequently Asked

Direct answers.

What does Lualdi Advisors do?
Lualdi Advisors is a quantitative research firm founded in 2015. We design predictive models and operational ontologies that convert complex, large-scale data into measurable business outcomes. Our two flagship models are SIGMA (pattern & decision engine) and MITHRIL (ontology console for enterprise AI).
How is SIGMA different from a typical machine-learning model?
SIGMA is not a forecast generator — it is a decision engine. It finds structure in noisy multi-dimensional data, detects regime shifts in real time, and outputs the optimal action with confidence bounds, not just a prediction. It is compact enough to run in milliseconds on a single server inside client infrastructure, keeping data and models private.
How is MITHRIL different from a typical RAG or AI chatbot?
Conventional retrieval treats your business as text to be retrieved and rephrased. MITHRIL treats it as a structured world to be reasoned about. Every assets, regulation, process, and relationship is declared in a unified ontology. Every answer is cited to its source node. Every proposed action is logged, traced, and requires explicit human approval before any write to a system of record.
Which industries do you serve?
SIGMA is most active in capital markets, commodities, energy, and real estate. MITHRIL ships ontology packs for Oil & Gas, Geological Mining, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Defense & Aerospace, Electric Power, and Maritime Operations. Across both models we cover coffee, cocoa, sugar, grains, oil, natural gas, power, real estate, and software.
Where is the firm based?
Headquartered in Miami, FL. Client relations office in New York, NY. Research center and execution facility in Chicago, IL. European office in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (founder's base). EMEA client relations office in Lake Como, Italy. South America client relations office in São Paulo, Brazil. Middle East client relations office in Haifa, Israel. Specialist team members across EMEA, North America, South America, and the Middle East.
How do I engage Lualdi Advisors?
Engagement is mainly by introduction or referral. The fastest path is a one-paragraph brief through the engagement form on our Contact page — the problem, the operational context, the timeline. We respond within two business days.
//Engagement

For operators who need their AI to compute, not improvise.

Onboarding by introduction & referral · Response within two business days