Neosentience
Case Study · Live sports intelligence

Every ball, a story worth telling.

QRATOR is a real-time AI intelligence system — powered by an AI cricket brain we call the Context Engine — that watches a live cricket match and generates the most valuable analytical story for every ball, grounded in a decade of ball-by-ball history, ranked, deduplicated, and delivered to the broadcast desk in under two seconds. It powered the entire IPL 2026 season.

Designed for
Quidich Innovation Labs
Sports broadcast tech · Live match operations
AI consulting & technical architecture
Neosentience Technologies
System design · Context engine · LLM integration
Commentators at IPL 2026 with QRATOR on tablet
On Air
A commentator's silent expert, running the numbers in real time.
POWERED THE FULL IPL 2026 SEASON · 74 MATCHES
18 yrs
Of IPL data
324M+
Data points analysed
<2s
Ball → screen
35K+
Stories in 74 IPL matches
The Raw Material · Ball-by-ball feed
Every delivery captured across 55+ dimensions. IPL 2026 · MI vs DC · Over 3–4.
Live stream
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1527681 1 Ryan Rickelton 605661 Mumbai Indians Mukesh Kumar 926851 Delhi Capitals 1 0.01 four 4 False 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 0.1 0 4 4 0 1 119 24.0 120 04-04-2026 15:30:00 2026 Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi India Delhi Capitals Delhi Capitals IPL LHB RM pace bowler 4 1 4 False 7 243 6 DOWN_LEG GOOD_LENGTH FLICK 1.0 211.0 63.41 0 4 FLICK
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01 · The product

Not a scoreboard. An expert.

Traditional scoreboards describe what happened. QRATOR contextualises it — every ball viewed through the lens of a decade of cricket history, so a commentator gets the fact that actually matters, at the exact moment it matters.

Kohli batting — IPL 2026
LIVE RCB 156/4 · TGT 187 RRR 12.40
CHASE MATH 🎯 Kohli vs GT
Kohli — Chasing 31 in 10, Only 22% of Teams Get Home From Here
Kohli at 48(31), SR 155. In IPL 2023-26, teams needing 30+ off the final two overs have won just 22% of the time.
31
Runs Needed
10
Balls Left
22%
Win Rate
48*
Kohli (31)
01 Live story generation
200+ specialised generators fire against every ball. Career milestones, chase math, matchup H2H, phase records, dominance moments — each with its own trigger and priority.
02 Pre-match briefings
30+ card deep-dives auto-generated every morning of a match day. Team DNA, venue records, top-order battles, playoff scenarios — producer-ready.
03 Editorial intelligence
The Context Engine ranks, deduplicates and rotates so a commentator gets 12 fresh cards — not 40 raw facts. Human-grade editorial judgement, at machine scale.
Live samples

Real cards, real matches.

02 · How we built it

A cricketing brain, we call the Context Engine.

At the heart of QRATOR sits our biggest bet — the Context Engine. A cricketing brain that watches every ball, weighs it against a decade of history, and decides in under two seconds which story is worth telling. That judgement, made hundreds of times a match across an entire IPL season, is what turns raw data into broadcast intelligence.

CONTEXT ENGINE

The Context Engine

If the generators are QRATOR's voice, the Context Engine is its mind. It continuously classifies every ball across twelve nested dimensions — phase, batter state, bowler state, tournament stakes, historical rarity, matchup type — and decides which stories should even be considered for firing, let alone published.

The engine's real output is not stories.
It is editorial judgement at scale.
The partnership

Quidich brought the sport. We brought the AI.

Over four months of development and three months of live-season operations, our team shipped 300+ system-level improvements based on analyst feedback after every match. QRATOR is now a living reference architecture for real-time sports intelligence.

4 mo
Design + build
3 mo
Live season ops
300+
Fixes shipped in-season
0
Match-day outages