RBC Capital Markets turns GenAI into a trusted research copilot with Bigdata.com

RBC Capital Markets built Aiden, a proprietary GenAI platform designed to transform how analysts discover, validate, and synthesize financial intelligence. RBC partnered with RavenPack, using its Bigdata.com platform as a single, production-ready intelligence layer that expanded Aiden's reach beyond internal knowledge, without introducing licensing risk, operational drag, or years of engineering work.

The challenge: scaling trusted GenAI

Aiden was built to improve research turnaround time, answer quality, and analyst productivity. As adoption grew, so did expectations. To function as a true research copilot inside a Tier-1 bank, Aiden needed external financial intelligence that was:

• Licensed and compliant for enterprise banking use
• Clean, normalized, and AI-ready, not raw vendor feeds
• Fast to integrate, without long internal build cycles
• Continuously updated and searchable across multiple sources

The solution: a single, governed intelligence layer for Aiden

Bigdata.com became a trusted financial intelligence source. Through a single API platform, RBC integrated licensed, normalized external data directly into Aiden, replacing years of data engineering, vendor management, and enrichment work with a production-ready solution optimized for trusted research. Here's what Bigdata.com delivered:

• Normalized content schemas enabling consistent mapping across vendors
• Automated ingestion and enrichment, improving reliability and usability
• Search and retrieval tooling purpose-built for LLM workflows
• A secure, scalable API layer ready for enterprise deployment

This allowed Aiden to reason over external market information with the same confidence and governance as internal data.

Impact: faster research, better answers and broader coverage

Presented at NVIDIA GTC 2026 by Bobby Grubert, RBC's Head of AI & Digital Transformation, the results are concrete:

• Earnings analysis reduced from 45–120 minutes to seconds
• Complex client inquiries that took hours or weeks now answered in real time
• Analysis across 1,000+ companies cut from 60 minutes per company to seconds
• Up to $1 billion in projected AI-driven benefits

Together, RBC Capital Markets and RavenPack built a scalable foundation for GenAI-powered research, one that combines trusted data, governed access, and measurable productivity gains.