Disclosures

  • Stocks and other investments: No Arion Research employee holds any individual public technology stocks. Investments are in pooled portfolios and non-stock vehicles like ETFs, mutual funds, and CDs. We hold shares in a limited number of private technology startups including G2 and LocatorX.

  • Artificial intelligence (AI) is used extensively to operate and execute our business. Tools include:

    • Agentic Platform: Lindy,ai

    • Site images like blog post covers, graphics, diagrams, etc. are generated mostly by OpenAI ChatGPT, Napkin.ai, Canva and Anthropic Claude.

    • Research: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Lindy.ai research agents, and Google Gemini

    • Brainstorming, editing, summarization of non-NDA presentations and documents, content, outlining: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT

    • Summarization of NDA material for internal use only: Local instance of Mistral 7B

    • Audio generation: Google NotebookLM

    • Video generation: Synthesia, Adobe Creative Suite

    • Podcast and other transcription, generating social content: Swell AI, Anthropic Claude

    • Email processing: Spark Desktop and Notion Mail

    • Search: Perplexity and Google

  • Survey Platform: Zoho Survey

  • Business Systems used to manage the Arion Research business are provided by the Zoho Corp. All other tools and systems are purchased or on subscription, including Google Workspace, all the listed AI tools, Adobe Creative Suite, Notion, Capacities, Canva, Ulysses and various other software tools.