For ETF Issuers

Indexing the Unindexable.

Thesis-driven indexing. Your investment thesis becomes a working index. We keep running it with you: methodology, operations, research, regulator docs.

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In the last 12 months alone

Issuers launched + new ETFs with us.

AUM grew by +.

Partners like

Roundhill Investments
VanEck Australia
Morgan StanleySwap counterparty

Why do leading issuers come back for product after product?

Here's why

This actually happened.

$0 to $1B AUM. In 12 months.

Mirae Asset TIGER 30Y US Treasury Bond Premium Active ETF powered by Akros Engine hit $1 billion in AUM within a year.

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Why Issuers Switch to Us

Not a vendor.
A Product Partner.

We co-invest in your product success with data-driven market research, relentless iteration, and outcome-aligned incentives.

Methodology
Vendor sectors, market-cap sort, keyword themes
Akros
Thesis-driven indexing: your thesis encoded systematically
Feasibility
Weeks for a feasibility report · 1–2 backtests
Akros
Thesis to feasibility in 24 hours · 20+ backtest rounds
Product & sales research
You do market research, hire a quant team, build decks
Akros
ARMS accelerates product ideation & sales-idea research
Operations
Excel files and PDF reports by email · engagement ends at launch
Akros
AIMS handles live ops, rebalancing, proforma, marketing data, ongoing events
Marketing materials
You build factsheets and client decks yourself
Akros
Auto-generated factsheets, client packs, performance attribution
Regulatory
You assemble regulator responses ad-hoc
Akros
IOSCO-compliant methodology spec ready on day one
Fee structure
They earn fees regardless of your AUM
Akros
Outcome-aligned. Your AUM milestones are ours too.

The Akros Platform

Other providers sell an index file.
We hand you the platform that runs it.

AIMS
Akros Index Management System
Live

The operational backbone every licensed partner runs on.

AIMS is where day-to-day index operations actually happen. Your team logs in to rebalance, pull marketing data, and watch every constituent move. The alternative is a PDF in your inbox.

Index ops
Rebalancing, corp actions, target portfolio
Proforma
Pre-trade modeling, replication checks
Marketing data
Client packs, fact sheets, performance
Daily telemetry
Ops health, deviation alerts
ARMS
Akros Research Management System
Beta

Accelerates product ideation & sales-idea research.

  • Product idea generation
  • Sales-idea research at scale
  • Market sensing & white-space mapping
Tracker
Akros Public Intelligence
Public

Open transparency for licensed indices.

  • Live iNAV & holdings
  • Event timeline
  • Methodology disclosure

Thesis-Driven Indexing

Your thesis, written into
a launch-ready methodology.

You bring a sentence and the axes you care about. We turn it into a sector gate, a multi-criterion rubric run against every audited filing, and a quarterly index that 3,000+ companies are screened through.

01You bring

Your thesis and your concerns.

  • ·A sentence describing your conviction
  • ·The axes you care about (risk, theme, exposure)
  • ·Constraints (sector caps, holdings count, region)
02We build

A documented methodology that runs.

  • ·Sector gate from revenue-anchored classification
  • ·Each axis becomes a scored criterion against 10-K filings
  • ·Value & quality screen · selection rules · weights
03You get

A live, audited, IOSCO-ready index.

  • ·A 12-page methodology document
  • ·Quarterly rebalances across 3,000+ companies
  • ·Audit trail per constituent · ETF-licensable
Worked example · HALO

Heavy Assets, Low Obsolescence.

“Companies anchored to physical assets, generational infrastructure, and iconic brands stay structurally insulated from AI-era disruption.”

— Client thesis (one sentence)

We took a discretionary stockpicker's gut check and turned it into a 12-page IOSCO methodology. Run quarterly across 3,000 companies.

How we built itUS Equities · NYSE / NASDAQ
UniverseTop 3,000 by market cap · volume filter · PP&E intensity floor
Sector gateHALO-eligible activities only · >50% qualifying revenue
Fitness ratingHigh / Medium / Low gate based on four objective conditions
Scored criteriaFour axes from the thesis · each company scored on each (below)
Value & qualityEV/EBITDA · OCF/Total Assets · Net Debt/EBITDA caps
Final 100Free-float market cap · 10 per sector · quarterly rebalance
Four axes from the thesisEach · a question · a value · ranked
C1
AI Displacement ImmunityCan AI replicate the core business?
C2
Physical Value AnchoringIs revenue tied to tangible assets?
C3
Generational Moat DurabilityHow deep is the moat?
C4
Revenue PurityHow clean of AI-vulnerable revenue?
RankedCompanies are compared on each axis in turn. Ties broken by market cap. A deterministic rule, no analyst discretion, reproducible from filings.

The methodology is the start, not the finish.

$0 → $1B in 12 months comes from partnership at every step: methodology design, daily ops, the regulator's follow-up call long after launch.

01Pre-launch

Methodology design

Thesis → sector mapping → multi-criterion rubric → screens.

02AIMS

Index operations

Rebalancing, corporate actions, proforma. Run in a live workspace.

03ARMS

Product & sales research

Idea generation, white-space mapping, sales-deck data on tap.

04Marketing

Sales materials

Factsheets, client packs, performance attribution. Generated from live data.

05Methodology

Regulatory docs

IOSCO specs, calculation manuals, governance records.

06Daily ops

Ongoing intelligence

Constituent news, sentiment, telemetry. You see it before the market.

Every constituent event,
surfaced in real time.

We watch every Akros index and every name inside. You see it before the market does.

Latest from our indices

This is why partners come back. The methodology is a starting line. The AUM milestones come from the operations, research, sales materials, and regulatory muscle that compound with every cycle.

Worked Methodologies

Real client theses, encoded.

Each one started as a sentence from a portfolio manager. We turned it into an IOSCO-compliant rule set running across thousands of names. AI-resistant real-asset portfolios. Weekly covered-call income blends. Same engine.

Latest · 2026-04

HALO: Heavy Assets, Low Obsolescence

Companies anchored to physical assets, infrastructure, and iconic brands. Structurally insulated from AI-era disruption.

Key Rules

  • Sector gate: physical goods, infrastructure, brand-anchored commerce, leasing.
  • >50% revenue from HALO-eligible business segments (10-K verified).
  • Four scoring criteria: AI immunity · physical anchoring · moat durability · revenue purity.
  • Tournament-style waterfall ranking. No opaque composite score. Final 100, sector-capped.
01/05

The Team

Sharpest minds in indexing.
Focused on your next ETF.

Every member of this team has shipped ETFs that scaled. Yours is the next one.

Justin Gim

COO / CO-FOUNDER
Orchestrating comprehensive operations spanning finance, legal, and client relations

BACKGROUND

  • Former hedge fund manager
  • CMO of Qraft Technologies

EDUCATION

  • BBA, Yonsei University
01/09

Request a Build

From thesis to index in 24 hours.

Share your investment idea and receive a detailed feasibility analysis, prototype index, and operational roadmap within one day.

Contact: akros@index.engineering

How we work
  1. 01Thesis intake and scope alignment
  2. 02Feasibility analysis within 24 hours
  3. 03Prototype index delivery and review
  4. 04Ongoing operations through AIMS

Launch is just the start. Every licensed partner keeps running daily operations through AIMS, with research support from ARMS.