$550B+
AUM represented by the firms using Portrait
For institutional investors
The intelligence layer for investment research
As general-purpose AI commoditizes the simple answer, the edge moves up the stack. Portrait is the layer that turns thousands of filings, transcripts, and news into high-conviction theses — the orchestrated research, idea generation, and thesis monitoring frontier models can't replicate.
Built by investors from Baupost, Citadel & Millennium
80+ funds
Across hedge funds, long-only, and multi-manager platforms
Cited
Every insight traceable to the exact source passage
Anyone can ask an AI a question
The edge was never the answer. It's the intelligence layer underneath — the proprietary data, the always-on monitoring, and the research pipelines built for how investors actually work.
The Platform
One intelligence layer, across your entire process
Discovery, deep research, and monitoring aren't separate tools bolted together — they're one layer that deepens and accelerates every step, from the first spark of an idea to the moment your thesis is confirmed or broken.
01 / Discover
Find ideas in your strike-zone
Screen for companies that fit your firm's mental models and the trends you care about.
02 / Research
Learn the story behind the chart
Run deep, fully-cited research on a name's business, financials, and bull/bear debates.
03 / Monitor
Catch every key development
Always-on thesis monitors surface what confirms or refutes your view, automatically.
Idea Generation
Screen for what a Bloomberg screen can't capture
Portrait's idea search surfaces companies that fit nuanced qualitative and quantitative criteria — whether that's your firm's mental models or the names most exposed to a developing trend.
- — Combine qualitative theses with hard financial filters
- — Ranked by fit, so you start with the most relevant names
- — Tuned to how your team actually thinks about coverage
Deep Research
Comprehensive, structured reports — every claim cited
Portrait doesn't just answer a prompt. It plans a research outline across all your documents, writes each section in parallel, synthesizes an executive summary, then links every claim to the exact passage that supports it.
- — Business model, financial performance, and the bull/bear debate on any name
- — Key Debates — the differentiated view of what's actually contested
- — Interactive, evergreen reports that stay live as the story evolves
Thesis Monitors
Never miss a read-through again
Set a monitor on a name or a theme and Portrait continuously scans thousands of incoming filings, transcripts, and news — generating AI updates framed against your specific thesis.
- — Always-on, across every document type you care about
- — Confirming and refuting signals, clearly separated
- — Periodic summaries that show how the picture is trending
The Intelligence Layer
What makes the layer durable
Frontier models keep getting better at the simple question — and the simple question was never the hard part of investing. Portrait's value compounds in three places a general-purpose model can't reach, plus one it can never copy: your firm.
Proprietary data depth
Deep transcript coverage, structured document representations, and proprietary signals like Key Debates — context a model querying the open web simply doesn't have.
Always-on monitoring
Monitoring infrastructure that watches thousands of incoming documents continuously and frames every development against your specific thesis. Intelligence that works while you don't.
Specialized research pipelines
Deep Research orchestrates a multi-step pipeline — plan, analyze, synthesize, cite — across your whole document set. Deeper and more reliable than any single prompt to a frontier model.
It compounds with your firm
Every screen, report, and monitor teaches Portrait how your team thinks. The layer gets more valuable the longer you use it — and that head start can't be copied.
Customers
Trusted by analysts at the most demanding funds
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Portrait isn't just another AI chatbot — it's a research solution that actually understands the nuances of investment analysis. It's become essential to our process.
Partner & Portfolio Manager · $440M Long/Short fund
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We've evaluated nearly every AI tool available to investors, but Portrait stands out. The Key Debates feature is genuinely differentiated.
Principal · $6B Long/Short fund
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I've historically struggled to make screens actually useful. Portrait's idea search engine is a powerful tool for my idea-generation process.
Analyst · $9B L/S fund
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After six months, I can confidently say it's in a different league. What used to take our analysts hours can now be done in minutes.
Founder & Portfolio Manager · $1B Long/Short fund
Our Story
We built the research partner we always wished we had
As former investment analysts at firms like Baupost, Millennium, and Goldman Sachs, we were once in your shoes — constantly hunting for new ideas amidst the deluge of filings, transcripts, and news.
Our vision is a future where every investment firm has access to a team of super-powered research analysts, so human analysts can spend more time thinking at the top of their creative powers — leading to differentiated, superior investment judgment.
Built by investors
Baupost · Millennium · Goldman Sachs
Engineered by AI leaders
from Amazon, Bloomberg & beyond
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