Aidan North: Alt Data in an Agentic World

In this episode of Selling Signals, we’re joined by Aidan North, Commercial Lead at Orbit. Orbit sits at the intersection of unstructured data, AI and institutional investing, helping transform unstructured information into formats that can be consumed within investment workflows.We discuss how hedge funds are adopting AI, Orbit’s position at the forefront of agentic use of alternative data, and what has changed since the early days of pre-LLM systems. Aidan also explains Model Context Protocol (MCP) and why it is becoming an important part of the data ecosystem, enabling smaller funds to access and integrate datasets that were previously out of reach.This episode is essential listening for anyone building or selling data products into the investment industry, or trying to understand where AI is having real commercial impact.