Skibiski founded Thasos Group,[2] an artificial-intelligence-based data analytics firm that uses real-time locations from mobile phones worldwide to provide information for the financial services industry.

[1][5][6][7][8] Skibiski is named lead[9] inventor on three patent applications for analyzing emerging sensor data streams from mobile phones, culminating in the Macrosense, Citysense, and Cabsense products.

[16] Several years later, Skibiski approached Alex "Sandy" Pentland (Head of Human Dynamics Research at the MIT Media Lab) with the idea that large amounts of location data being collected by mobile phones and GPS devices could be useful to economists.

He further envisioned Web analysis type tools, determining where customers were immediately prior to entering a business locale – essentially a real-world "referring site" concept.

Plotting San Francisco nightlife patterns on the same graph as the Dow Jones Industrial Average showed that, just before the market peak in July 2008, urban party-goers hit the town at later-than-ever times.