Bigwig – an Agentic News Site for financial markets
Hey HN, For the last couple of months, we have been building an AI agent for continuous statistical analysis, and we're looking for feedback while it's still early in development. We call it BIGWIG - an autonomous agent that is specialised, and very good at, performing advanced statistical analysis, through long traces of iteration and reasoning. As it builds statistical models it also "emits" outputs back to the user that you can then interact with, iterate on and schedule for follow up analysis. While we're still in BETA, we've launched a public analysis site that showcases some of the…
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Hey HN, For the last couple of months, we have been building an AI agent for continuous statistical analysis, and we're looking for feedback while it's still early in development. We call it BIGWIG - an autonomous agent that is specialised, and very good at, performing advanced statistical analysis, through long traces of iteration and reasoning. As it builds statistical models it also "emits" outputs back to the user that you can then interact with, iterate on and schedule for follow up analysis. While we're still in BETA, we've launched a public analysis site that showcases some of the agent's basic capabilities - a sort of "agentic news site" for financial markets: https://www.askbigwig.com/news/ The website is the outputs of BIGWIG running continuous analysis across financial markets. This happens completely autonomously. Bigwig initiates analysis, performs it and updates the website as it finds interesting "stories". The "news site" only shows a small fraction of what BIGWIG can do, since the analysis setup has to be quite generic to cover all of financial markets, but my hope is that it can still 1) bring some real value to people who are interested in financial markets 2) help us improve the underlying agent. To that end, we're particularly interested in feedback around: - the statistical analysis performed(good and bad feedback) - people's view on the usefulness of such agentic analysis - good examples of BIGWIG stories that people find either poor or really good, so we can train it :) Thanks in advanced for any feedback! P.S it has been an intense 2 months and we have learned an enormous amount building this - some of which I have partly written up and hope to share in the next couple of weeks. Building this type of agentic flows is still very much a craft and hopefully we have learned some things that will help others. So stay tuned for that :) (by writing this here I hope to pressure myself to actually do it)
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