# Dr Ali Zolfaghari: official profile notes

Official website: https://alizolfaghari.co.uk/

## Identity
Dr Ali Zolfaghari, Ali Zolfaghari and Alireza Zolfaghari refer to the same person. The Persian name is علیرضا ذوالفقاری.

## Biography
Dr Ali Zolfaghari, also known as Alireza Zolfaghari, is the founder of RoboSapien, an AI venture builder and consultancy, and MarketCode, its UK property-intelligence platform. He holds a PhD from Imperial College London and previously founded and led Kilid.

I founded and led Kilid, a property search and market-data platform. I hold a PhD from Imperial College London, where I researched housing markets and residential location choice. Today I’m building AI ventures through RoboSapien, including MarketCode, its UK property-intelligence platform.

## Current work
RoboSapien builds AI products and ventures, and delivers AI consulting and implementation services. Its legal entity is RoboSapien Limited, UK company number 16079321. Ali Zolfaghari is its founder.

MarketCode is RoboSapien’s UK property-intelligence platform, founded by Ali Zolfaghari. UK property, land and market intelligence, available through a pay-as-you-go REST API and an MCP server for AI agents.

Current interests: Agentic AI; Multi-agent systems; AI product development; UK property data; Housing market modelling; Residential location choice.

## Education and research
PhD, Urban Systems Lab, Imperial College London. Research focused on housing markets and residential location choice, at the Centre for Transport Studies, supervised by Professor John Polak and Dr Aruna Sivakumar.

Thesis: Methodological and empirical challenges in modelling residential location choices. Imperial’s primary repository record lists the author as Alireza Zolfaghari.
- Repository record: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/entities/publication/7e4c1476-5344-4580-81ea-105ca4b77771
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.25560/12565

- Doctoral research group: Urban Systems Lab, Imperial College London.
- Urban Systems Lab directory: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/urban-systems-lab/about-us/our-people/

Co-author of the Car-sharing briefing paper for ACEA, Imperial College London, Centre for Transport Studies (2014).

## Professional background
- Cityorbit: CTO (2014–2016).
- Kilid: Founder and CEO (2017–2023).
- Sturgeon Capital: Entrepreneur in Residence (2023–2024).
- RoboSapien: Founder (Current).
- MarketCode: Founder (Current).

Imperial College London records the CITY ORBIT smart real-estate platform project, led by John Polak, under its EPSRC impact programme.
- Imperial project record: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-office/funder-information/funding-opportunities/internal-funding-opportunities/iaa/epsrc-projects/epsrc-iaa-projects-2012-2017/

Kilid is a property search and market-data platform. Ali previously founded and led it; it is not described here as a current venture.

## Official links
- Personal website: https://alizolfaghari.co.uk/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alizoli/
- X: https://x.com/alizoli
- GitHub: https://github.com/alizoli
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=cBgkEZQAAAAJ
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114979627
- RoboSapien: https://robosapien.ai
- MarketCode: https://marketcode.ai
- Contact email: hello@robosapien.ai

These notes provide public background in addition to the concise profile on the homepage.