Imagine for a moment you can predict the outcome of major global events.
You know who will win the next U.S. presidential election. The outcome of the Brexit vote. You know how consumers will react to the next Apple product launch.
Would that information be valuable to you as an investor?
Now imagine you manage a multi-billion dollar hedge fund. Or a global bank with trillions of dollars in assets. How much more valuable would that information become?
The answer of course is extremely valuable. But until now, firms have had to answer these questions with surveys that are at best – biased – and at worst – hopelessly flawed.
Enter RIWI Corp (RIW:CSE / RWCRF:PINK), an undiscovered technology company out of Toronto. Their breakthrough technology is able to randomly survey all over the world at enormous scale and efficient cost.
And most important, their predictions are dead-accurate. They predicted Donald Trump’s victory. Six of the eight US primaries. The list goes on and on.
This unmatched track record has gathered interest from the world’s premier brands, financial institutions and government agencies. And with each successful prediction, that interest is turning into lucrative recurring revenue contracts.
With a massively scalable model and disruptive technology, we feel RIWI is one of the most exciting, and least discovered, investment opportunities we’ve seen in a long time.
Business Overview
While browsing the web, have you ever misspelled the website you were trying to access?
Everyone has at some point. And usually you arrive at a blank site that prompts you to fix the web address to continue browsing.
Now imagine instead of an error message, the page asks you to rate your feelings towards the recent US-China trade war tensions.
Your mind fills with curiosity, wondering how you got to this page in the first place. Under the comfort of anonymity, you share your views and click submit.
The page disappears forever. Your personal information is untouched. No thank you page or Amazon gift card offer is displayed.
This is how RIWI’s Random Domain Intercept Technology (RDIT) works. The technology was first developed at the University of Toronto to tackle a unique challenge from the Ministry of Health.
The H1N1 virus was spreading and the Ministry of Health needed to act quick. Which messages would resonate? Which would get civilians to act quick?
RIWI was able to quickly survey and find the best global messages for disease prevention.Their work saved lives.
And so they wondered... how else could we use this technology?
Turns out there’s almost no limit to the power of what they built.
The RIWI Advantage
RIWI’s RDIT technology solves the biases and flaws that plague conventional survey methodologies.
Compared to competing methods, RIWI’s RDIT wins by being:
- Random. Clients are chosen purely from random behavior during the interaction with their browser’s URL bar. There are no biases introduced while defining populations to survey.
- Global. RIWI can – and has – surveyed in 224 countries. That’s almost every country that exists, including restricted ones like Nigeria, Egypt, and China. RIWI can even target to the city level and sometimes even more granular than that.
- Cost effective & scalable. Traditional surveys cost millions to find participants and incentivize them to take the survey. RIWI’s surveys incur only server costs and domain licensing fees – so they’re a fraction of the cost.
- Anonymous. The user has no context for the survey and thus feels safe behind anonymity. This is important for getting accurate reads on sensitive topics like cannabis legalization and same-sex marriage.
- Privacy compliant. RIWI does not collect or sell any personally identifiable information (PII) like email addresses or zip codes. This is a big advantage with the recent regulatory crackdown on PII collection requirements.
- Dynamic. Many surveys report only a point-in-time read on sentiment. But opinions change and only RIWI’s technology can continuously monitor to identify these key inflection points.
- Fast. Competing methods can take weeks or even months to collect and analyze data. RIWI insights are delivered instantly.
- Easy to use. Conventional surveys require 15-25 minutes to complete. RIWI’s surveys are designed with ~15 concise questions and require only a single click to submit. This is crucial in a world where over 50% surveys are now taken on mobile devices.
One of the biggest advantages RIWI has is they can access participants that don’t often – or rather never – take surveys. Over 40% of RIWI’s respondents say they’ve never taken a survey before.
Conventional methods are biased by relying on participants who “opt-in” to surveys. They’re non-random and plagued by online and general coverage biases.
This is why the American Association of Public Opinion (AAPOR) says it’s impossible to calculate margin of error for traditional methods.
RIWI has built a better mousetrap. And with better data, they generate better insights.
Predictive Results
RIWI’s technology is impressive. Their surveys have generated over 1.5 billionvisitors since inception.
But their clients all asked two big questions....
Are the predictions accurate? And are the insights real?
Turns out they are.
RIWI has predicted major global events with accuracy no other firm in the world can claim. And that’s landed them coverage in major publications like the Washington Post and Huffington Post.
Here are their big wins over the last 7 years:
2011 Fall of Hosni Mubarak — RIWI sees the shock event of 2011 nobody in Egypt saw
This was the call that put RIWI on the map.
On February 7th, 2011, as anti-Mubarak protesters occupied Tahrir Square, daily RIWI data showed that the Arab street had turned suddenly against Mubarak. Rapid volatility ensued in Egypt.
On February 11th, 2011 Mubarak was forced out as President of Egypt. RIWI’s predictive data were presented at the November 2011 CASIS Conference on Security and Intelligence in Ottawa.
