Jake Schneider Joins Bloomberg Surveillance to Discuss Atlas Analytics’ Real-Time View of the Economy
Founder & CEO Jake Schneider joined Tom Keene and Paul Sweeney to discuss how Atlas’ macro intelligence signals help investors measure the economy in real time
On Friday, Atlas Analytics Founder & CEO, Jake Schneider, joined Tom Keene and Paul Sweeney on Bloomberg Surveillance to discuss how real-time economic intelligence is changing the way investors understand markets.
For decades, investors have relied on government economic data that is often delayed, revised, and backward-looking. Atlas Analytics was built around a different idea: that satellite imagery, computer vision, and machine learning can help measure the physical economy closer to real time. By observing patterns in construction, transportation, infrastructure, and other activity on the ground, Atlas aims to give investors a faster read on where growth is accelerating, slowing, or being mispriced by markets.
Jake’s conversation with Tom and Paul comes at an important moment. Markets are wrestling with questions around growth, inflation, interest rates, productivity, and whether traditional macro indicators are still moving fast enough to capture today’s economy. Atlas’ work sits directly at that intersection, using alternative data to help investors identify turning points before they appear in consensus forecasts.
Across the interview, Jake returned to one central idea: the economy is constantly changing, but the tools used to measure it have not kept pace. Atlas is working to close that gap by translating observable activity in the physical economy into real-time macro signals for investors, economists, and market participants.
The conversation centered on three key takeaways:
Why satellite data matters: Jake framed Atlas as a new way to measure the economy: not by waiting for delayed reports, but by observing real-world activity as it unfolds.
Why real-time GDP matters: The segment underscored a core Atlas argument: markets move continuously, but the economic data investors rely on often arrives months late.
Why macro mispricing matters: Jake framed Atlas not simply as a data platform, but as a way to detect disconnects between market expectations and underlying economic activity. By using satellite imagery and AI to observe physical activity directly, Atlas is helping close that gap for investors, economists, and market participants.
We’re grateful to Bloomberg Surveillance and their broadcast team for the opportunity to share Atlas’ perspective with a broader audience. For those interested in real-time GDP signals, market valuation work, and the future of macroeconomic intelligence, get in touch below.
This article was written with valuable assistance from Morgan Reppert, Chief of Staff for Atlas Analytics.