Daniel Cheah

Research and data utilities for structured finance, machine-readable law, orbital infrastructure, law-of-the-sea governance, and the space economy.

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DATA PRODUCTS / PROJECTS

Clean, provenance-tracked datasets, legal corpora, orbital registries, and AI benchmarks for financial, space, high-seas, and ocean-governance infrastructure.

Live Data Utility

Orbital Asset Registry (OAR)

A live registry assigning permanent identities to catalogued orbital objects and resolving active satellites to operators, corporate status, and responsible-state attribution.

Orbital data registry
Open Legal Corpus

Space Law Corpus

A provenance-first, machine-readable record of international and national space law, with official sources, content hashes, dated version history, and a HF dataset for downstream AI workflows.

Space Law corpus · Dataset
Open Legal Corpus

Deep Seabed Mining Law Corpus

An open, neutral, machine-readable corpus of deep seabed mining law — UNCLOS, the ISA Mining Code, and the US regime — with official-source provenance and a HF dataset for AI and legal-informatics workflows.

Deep Seabed Mining Law corpus · Dataset
Open Legal Corpus

BBNJ / High Seas Treaty Corpus

An open, provenance-first corpus of the 2023 High Seas Treaty and its UNCLOS legal framework, with official-source provenance, SHA-256 hashes, authentic-language coverage, and a HF dataset.

High Seas Treaty corpus · Dataset
DATASET PROJECT

UK Company Financials

An ML-ready dataset of UK company filings parsed from Companies House iXBRL accounts and normalised across UK GAAP taxonomies.

Dataset project
Open Source

SEC EDGAR Securitisation Connector

A free, open-source Claude/Cowork plugin and local SEC EDGAR connector for loan-level analysis of US ABS and CMBS deals — contributed to Anthropic’s financial-services repository.

Open-source tool
Open Benchmark

UK Accounts LLM Benchmark

A benchmark testing whether frontier and open-weight LLMs can read UK company accounts, and what that means for data defensibility.

Benchmark and article
RESEARCH & THOUGHTS

Working papers, research summaries, and strategic notes across structured finance, tokenisation, geopolitical strategy, and financial infrastructure.

Data & AI

Can LLMs Read UK Company Accounts?

A research note and benchmark write-up testing whether frontier and open-weight LLMs can extract reliable information from UK company accounts — and why clean, verified data remains the scarce asset.

Jun 2026
Geopolitics

The Organism and the Grid

A systems framework for AI, Energy, and Financial Sovereignty. Why the "Techno-National Organism" is the new unit of geopolitical power.

Nov 2025
Geopolitics

Electoral Synchronisation Risk and Strategic Decision Latency in Coalition Systems

ESR captures how overlapping election cycles across allied democracies can temporarily slow coalition decision-making during crises. While military and institutional continuity persists, the authorisation of escalation-capable actions becomes more fragile, increasing SDL at precisely the moments when speed matters most.

Jan 2026
Structured Finance

Blockchain Securitisation Framework

An Australian-compliant model for issuing RMBS on-chain, prioritising the Corporations Act and APS 120.

Oct 2025
Regulatory Update

Addendum A: ASIC Guidance 25-250MR

Analysis of recent ASIC guidance supporting digital asset innovation and clarifying custody obligations.

Oct 2025
Regulatory Update

Addendum B: Digital Assets Bill 2025

Mapping the new "Tokenised Custody Platform" (TCP) legislation to the Smart SPV architecture.

Nov 2025
Regulatory Update

Addendum C: ASIC December 2025 Class Relief and Tokenised Securitisation

ASIC December 2025 Class Relief and Tokenised Securitisation.

Dec 2025
RESEARCH PROJECT

SpaceFi Institute

A personal, non-commercial research project on the space-economy finance.

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