By Ashok Reddy, KX CEO
Here is what I am hearing in nearly every customer meeting, across hedge funds, banks, and asset managers:
Every CIO, Chief AI Officer, and Head of Quant has now authorized agentic AI investment. The boards are pushing. The budgets are real. The models are commoditized and accessible to everyone. So they are sitting down to deploy agents on trading desks, in risk, in compliance, in research.
And then something quietly embarrassing happens. The agent hallucinates. Symbols do not reconcile across venues. Timestamps drift. A corporate action creates a phantom 75 percent crash. The backtest leaks future information. The agent confidently produces an answer the desk cannot trust, and the program stalls.
Hidden costs of QUALITY data: The Data Tax
The model is not the problem. The fuel is. Their internal data is not temporal, not point-in-time, not AI-ready. Quants and AI teams are spending 70 to 80 percent of their time cleaning feeds, mapping symbols, and aligning timestamps before an agent can reason on anything. That is the Data Tax. It is the single biggest obstacle to agentic AI in capital markets today.
KX and OneTick are the only vendor delivering AI-ready, hydrated, temporal market data as a managed service. Pre-normalized across 250+ venues, 30+ years of history, point-in-time with no look-ahead bias, machine-readable from day one, fed natively into Python, SQL, and KDB-X. AI models are commoditizing. The edge is temporal fidelity. Temporal grounding is what eliminates the hallucination problem that generic data creates.
Faster Time to Value
New funds, new pods, and new desks cannot wait 24 to 51 weeks and $150K in CapEx to start up a tick environment when their board has asked for an agentic AI roadmap this quarter. OneTick Cloud compresses that to days. Go to the business, not IT.
Cleaner Fuel for the KDB Engine
If you already use kdb/KDB-X, you already trust our engine. The engine is fast. The internal data pipeline is the bottleneck starving it. We offer the clean fuel for the engine you already own.
AI-ready Market Data as a Service is emerging as the most sought-after offering I am hearing about in the Agentic AI era. OneTick and KX are in a category of one.
Request a meeting with us today to get started, or better yet create a Free Trial OneTick Cloud account today and start querying within minutes.
Best wishes,
Ashok Reddy
CEO at KX
