# Tayyub Yaqoob

> Senior Digital Analyst at 8 Million Stories, based in Stirling, Scotland. Builds analytics, automation, and measurement systems for client teams. Writes about AI, crypto-security, and quantum risk for Cointelegraph and AlphaWire; quoted as an expert source by CCN and Inside Higher Ed; peer reviewer for IGI Global. Independent product: LedgerTouch.

## Pages
- [Home](/): Hero, client list, Codex (the 8MS platform), case-study previews, GitHub activity.
- [Case Studies](/case-studies): Five production systems delivered for client teams — channel and query forecasting, sentiment and topic tracking, AI-search visibility, reporting automation, and a machine-learning competitor content-mapping module.
- [Publications](/publications): Articles for Cointelegraph and AlphaWire, MSN syndications, CCN and Inside Higher Ed citations, IGI Global peer reviews, and an academic citation in the Indian Journal of Law and Legal Research.
- [Labs](/labs): Independent product work. LedgerTouch (live), plus GTM and consent audit modules in development.
- [About](/about): Bio, recognition, training.
- [Contact](/contact): Email form for hiring, consulting, speaking, or press.

## Identity
- Canonical: https://www.tayyubyaqoob.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayyubyaqoob
- GitHub (personal): https://github.com/tayyub-ai
- GitHub (company): https://github.com/Tayyab8ms
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/TayyabY
- Cointelegraph: https://cointelegraph.com/authors/tayyub-yaqoob
- Email: tayyabyaqoob.1@gmail.com
- Location: Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Employer: 8 Million Stories — https://www.8millionstories.co.uk/
- Education: MSc Computing Science, University of Stirling

## Independent product
**LedgerTouch** — a multi-asset portfolio tracker for stocks, crypto, gold, and cash. Includes a what-if simulator, rebalance planner, stress testing, weekly AI briefings, and PDF reports. Free 30-day Pro trial. https://ledgertouch.com/

## At 8 Million Stories
**Codex** — internal competitive-intelligence and site-performance platform for the analyst team. Covers share of search, content alerts, technical health checks, carbon footprint, and data-source monitoring. https://8ms.com/strategy-and-tech/codex

## Recognition
- **Inside Higher Ed** (Ray Schroeder column, 27 September 2023). Named as "Researcher Tayyub Yaqoob" and quoted on Auto-GPT, co-cited alongside MIT Technology Review, Wired, and Datanami. Republished on UPCEA.
- **CCN** — three expert-source commissions on agent wallets, AI trading bots, and AI-generated code risk. https://www.ccn.com/

## Academic citations
My Cointelegraph work has been cited in six scholarly papers across law, engineering, and policy:
- **William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review** (49 Wm. & Mary Env't L. & Pol'y Rev. 763, 2025). Janelle Radcliffe, "Assessing the Accelerated Threat of Bioterrorism in the Age of AI" — cites my Cointelegraph article "What Is OpenAI Code Interpreter, and How Does It Work?" at footnote 92. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol49/iss3/10
- **SSRN** (2023). Richard D. Taylor (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), "Rationalizing AI Governance: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective" — cites my Cointelegraph article on AI ethics at footnote 100, co-cited alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4433175
- **REHVA Journal** (Federation of European HVAC Associations, Issue 01/2024, pp. 35–37). Sasan Sadrizadeh, "Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Indoor Air Quality Management" — cites the AI-ethics Cointelegraph article as reference [19]. https://www.rehva.eu/rehva-journal/chapter/leveraging-artificial-intelligence-in-indoor-air-quality-management-a-review-of-current-status-opportunities-and-future-challenges
- **Indian Journal of Law and Legal Research** (2024). Cited at footnote 42 in a peer-reviewed paper on AI risk and legal reform. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379188778
- **The AI Track** (22 July 2024). Vangelis Moraitis, "The Double-Edged Sword of Generative AI: Stereotypes and Biases" — cites the AI-ethics Cointelegraph article in the Sources section. https://theaitrack.com/generative-ai-stereotypes-impact/
- **ResearchGate** (2024). "The Ethical Considerations of Technology Deployment in Haiti" — cites the AI-ethics Cointelegraph article. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396397663

## Syndication and localization
- **Microsoft MSN** — three Cointelegraph pieces syndicated across MSN Money, Technology, and Personal Finance.
- **TradingView** — Cointelegraph article on Satoshi's Bitcoin and quantum computing syndicated to TradingView News (Nov 2025).
- **Binance Square (Golden Finance)** — articles translated into Arabic and Spanish.
- **BingX News** — dedicated author profile (#299) with translations into Traditional Chinese, Russian, and Arabic.
- **SuperEx Academy** — four bylined educational articles on neural networks, deepfake detection, big data, and data mining.

## Peer review
- **IGI Global** — invited peer reviewer for three book chapters: CBDCs and Financial Stability (2022), Blockchain and Consensus for IoT-Based Banking (2022), AI-Enabled Agile IoT for FinTech (2023).

## Clients
BBC, General Mills (Blue Buffalo), Diligent Pharma, MRI Management, Tesco, Royal London, NerdWallet.

## Currently working on
AI-assisted analytics workflows, AI-search visibility tracking (AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity), ML-driven competitor content mapping using sentence-transformer embeddings, reporting QA, and consent and tracking quality. Plus LedgerTouch.

## Available for
Hiring, consulting, speaking, and press. Replies within two business days.