Soros – AI for geopolitical macro investing
Hi HN! We are Anshuman and Karén, the co-founders of Lookback Labs and the co-designers of Soros (https://www.asksoros.com/). Soros is a compound AI system built carefully from the ground up to trace a path (multiple paths, really) from a description of a geopolitical event all the way to capital market implications. * Here's how we set it up: Given a description of a given geopolitical event (can be a couple of words; the demo literally has "US-Iran conflict" as the entire string), Soros will - (1) first analyze and perform deep research on it, running scores of searches in…
Soros – AI for geopolitical macro investing launched on March 17, 2026 with 26 votes, #808 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Soros is an AI system designed for geopolitical macro investors that analyzes geopolitical events and traces their implications to capital markets. Users input a geopolitical event description, and the system performs deep research, maps relevant actors and factions, and identifies potential market impacts across multiple scenarios. It conducts parallel searches and weighs information by time relevance, handling both real-world events and hypothetical scenarios to help investors understand geopolitical risks and opportunities.
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From the sources
Faction-level actor maps, Monte Carlo–calibrated scenarios, and market transmission logic for any geopolitical event. Built for macro investors.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN! We are Anshuman and Karén, the co-founders of Lookback Labs and the co-designers of Soros (https://www.asksoros.com/). Soros is a compound AI system built carefully from the ground up to trace a path (multiple paths, really) from a description of a geopolitical event all the way to capital…
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