Behind 4CastMachine AI

Two decades of dedication. One vision of the future.

4CastMachine AI is the AI-native evolution of ForecastCity, forecasting since 2007.

Our evolution

From a forecasting service to a deep-tech infrastructure.

2007

ForecastCity is founded

A forecasting business built to serve traders, turning market analysis into a service people could rely on.

2010s

A forecasting heritage

Years of refining technical forecasts and the Trend Hunter strategy: the craft and data that would later teach the machines.

2020s

Self-funded R&D

Revenue funds the Quad-AI engine. We were profitable before any outside capital, building the technology on our own terms.

Today

4CastMachine AI

A Deep-Tech AI Infrastructure: prescriptive, transparent, AI-native. The forecasting heritage, rebuilt as a machine.

Built on our own revenue.

Every dollar of R&D behind the Quad-AI engine was funded by ForecastCity. We were profitable before we ever spoke to an investor. That independence is the proof of a sustainable business and a capable team.

From the founder

Why we built 4CastMachine AI

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Navid Jafarian, Founder & CEO

I'm Navid Jafarian. For three decades as a software engineer, I watched traders, retail and institutional alike, drown in reactive tools: dashboards that show what already happened but stay silent on the only question that matters. What happens next?

I saw that not as a market gap, but as an engineering challenge. Two decades ago it became an obsession: what if we could stop guessing and start seeing, using AI not to replay the past, but to draw the most probable future price path as a clear, actionable roadmap, right on the chart?

That work, funded entirely by our own revenue, became 4CastMachine AI and the Quad-AI Architecture. We're not another data-analytics company. We're a deep-tech firm built to turn uncertainty into confident action.

Navid Jafarian
Founder & CEO
The team

The co-founders

4CastMachine AI was built by a founding team of seven, working at the intersection of engineering and financial markets.

Ali Miri

Ali Miri

Co-founder & CTO

Chief Technology Officer. Leads engineering and the technical architecture behind the Quad-AI engine.

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Hadis Seddighi

Hadis Seddighi

Co-founder & COO

Chief Operating Officer. Leads day-to-day operations and the systems that keep forecasts flowing reliably to every trader.

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Arash Jafarian

Arash Jafarian

Co-founder & CBDO
Head of United States and Europe

Chief Business Development Officer. Drives global partnerships, growth, and the expansion of the 4CastMachine AI ecosystem.

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SeyedMahdi Tabatabaei

SeyedMahdi Tabatabaei

Co-founder
Head of Middle East

Leads partnerships and growth across the Middle East and Arabic-speaking markets.

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Dooman Sufiani

Dooman Sufiani

Co-founder
Head of Türkiye and Central Asia

Leads partnerships and growth across Türkiye and the Turkic markets of Central Asia.

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Fateme Mokhtari

Fateme Mokhtari

Co-founder
Head of East and Southeast Asia

Leads partnerships and growth across East and Southeast Asia, including Greater China.

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Leadership

Managers

The managers running day-to-day operations at 4CastMachine AI, team by team.

Sara Kian

Sara Kian

Head of Support

Leads the support team, keeping every trader's question answered and every issue resolved.

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Alex Moore

Alex Moore

Head of Backend & Infrastructure

Leads the backend team and the cloud infrastructure that keep 4CastMachine AI's forecasts running around the clock.

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Mission & vision
We are here to transform uncertainty
into confident action.

Our mission is to make institutional-grade forecasting accessible to every retail trader: a co-pilot, never an autopilot.

What we stand for

Three principles, no exceptions.

A roadmap over a hunch

We don't just say what might happen. We draw the path and the plan.

Transparency over black boxes

Every forecast shows its reasoning: the why, never a hidden bet.

Empowerment over delegation

You stay in control. The AI sharpens your judgment, never replaces it.

Go deeper

See how 4CastMachine AI thinks.

Explore the Quad-AI Architecture behind every forecast, or talk to us about partnerships and capital.

2007Independent since
20+ yrsForecasting
Quad-AIThe engine
Self-fundedR&D