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AI Operating System for Investment Firms

We help investment firms turn AI into customized workflows that fit their data, process, and operating model.

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The problem

Generic AI solutions do not fit how investment firms actually operate.

Investment firms want AI, but off-the-shelf solutions are too generic for their proprietary data, specialized research processes, compliance requirements, and investment decision loops. Useful AI needs to be customized around the firm's actual workflow, with visibility and control built in from day one.

Our approach

Customized first. Repeatable over time.

Financial workflows are too specific for a simple horizontal SaaS product. REC Lab follows a Palantir-style motion: understand the firm's nuance, customize the agentic system around its real workflow, then productize the patterns that repeat.

01

Understand the firm's nuance

Learn the firm's investment process, data environment, operating rhythm, and constraints before building around it.

02

Customize the agentic system

Design firm-specific agentic workflows that fit how the team already works across research, operations, reporting, and investor-facing work.

03

Productize repeated patterns

Turn repeated workflows into reusable modules over time, so the product becomes scalable without losing customization.

What we are building

One platform. Customized workflows with built-in observability.

Observability and governance are not separate products. They are embedded across every AI workflow, giving leadership visibility into usage, cost, quality, policy, and risk as adoption scales.

Investment research

Agentic workflows for research synthesis, quantitative research, document review, and strategy development.

Operations and reporting

Customized workflows for internal reporting, investor-facing updates, and repetitive financial operations.

AI observability and governance

Built-in visibility across every AI workflow: usage analytics, audit trails, policy controls, cost visibility, and anomaly monitoring.

Team

Built by founders who have lived finance workflows.

Three founders across quant trading, AI product, financial data infrastructure, and investment workflows.

Vincent Liu

Quant trading background; AI product at OKX across trading and agentic AI.

Kanko Yan

Built financial data and workflow systems at Citadel and Addepar.

Charlie Nie

Quant and investment background at KKR.