Data Infrastructure
for Artificial Intelligence.
Lightyear curates, distributes, and financializes enterprise-grade market data for the agentic economy. Our products distill the price of intelligence into benchmark indices which become the most important emerging asset class.
why intelligence benchmark matters
The market data of frontier technology is becoming a new asset class.
The unit cost of intelligence has thus become one of the most consequential prices in the economy.
AI Financialization
Compute and AI inference are no longer just costs, they are now being analyzed, bought, sold and increasingly hedged. Yet the data layer underneath is still missing and opaque.
Inference Critical
Intelligence data are now direct inputs to the AI agents that make real decisions, and getting this layer right has become production-critical.
Agent Native
The legacy data model was built for a human reading a screen. Agents need a different rail: per-query answers, priced in micropayments, callable over MCP and delivered on an on-chain payment rail.
What Lightyear Delivers
Auditable Data
Every published value recomputes from archived raw snapshots — constituents, quotes, and methodology versions stay inspectable
Benchmark Indices
Quality-adjusted, transaction-validated price indices for the intelligence market, published daily, quoted in one comparable unit and delivered in financial-grade governance
Analytic Toolings
The analytics workspace — dashboards, backtesting, custom charts, alerts — is available to users to make the most out of the curated data
API & Agent Access
One REST API for humans and AI agents alike, with MCP tools and a ready-made Claude skill for instant integration
Who we serve
Compute Investors & Lenders
Underwriters of GPU fleets and neocloud revenue, anchoring collateral values to observable market data.
CFO & Procurement
Teams buying inference at scale — budgeting, negotiating, and truing-up against a neutral market price.
Analysts & Researchers
Academic and market research covering the AI economy: cite a governed benchmark instead of scraping vendor price pages.
LLMs & Data Centers
Supply side of the inference market that needs a credible benchmark to evaluate and hedge product pricing.
AI Agents & Builders
Software that prices its own inputs: the same governed numbers over REST and MCP, integrated in minutes.
Funds & Trading Desks
Desks pricing — and increasingly hedging — exposure to the cost of intelligence as an emerging asset class.
Why us
At Lightyear we treat market data as quiet infrastructure — governed, auditable, and built to be settled on. The result is one comparable price for intelligence, trusted by institutions, cited in research, and consumed natively by AI agents.
Methodology Discipline
Financial-index construction end to end: quality locked at entry, volume weighting, and a versioned methodology with a public changelog.
Technical Foundation
Every published value is recomputable from archived raw snapshots, and one data core serves humans and agents through the same API.
Financial-Grade Governance
Versioned methodology, append-only history, and strict entry and exit rules — built to be cited, priced against, and settled on.
Credible Network
Strategic partnerships across model providers, compute marketplaces, and the research community — the sources the benchmark stands on.
Who we are
Michael Davison
Leads partnerships and index governance, keeping the benchmark neutral, credible, and aligned with the institutions that rely on it.
Dachao Zhao
Owns the data core — collection, the methodology engine, and the API that serves humans and AI agents alike.
Yixiang Zhang
Engineering across the collection pipeline, quality systems, and the product surfaces the data ships through.
Tao Tan
Engineering across the collection pipeline, quality systems, and the product surfaces the data ships through.