ARTE One

Period is Q2 2025

As we finished our journey with Chainraizer, Gregory which had his own hedge fund in the past, was looking after the rise of AI agents and their application to finance.

Indeed, AI Agents have been around for about 3 years now, and the cost of intelligence has dropped enough for them to finally be sustainable.

So he dropped a question: with the right tools at disposal can they replace traders (both quantitative and discretionary), portfolio managers and analysts?

With that idea in mind, we got to work!
As ARTE One is currently ongoing and a regulated activity, I cannot share as much about the internal stories as I did for other companies. Thus, this article will be a focus on the technicalities of the company.

The Trading Tools

Agents are intelligent. But intelligence only works if they have the right data points to connect. Ask any governmental agency. So we created several tools for them to leverage:

News access: a native chrome instance powered with a custom scraper gets the news of popular news outlets. It then saves every article in database, creates a three liner blurb, and ranks them by importance.
Securities database: powered by a popular data provider, can retrieve and save securities with automatic retrieval of their future/options contract chains. Powerful enough to save equities, bonds, futures, options, structured products.
Order Management System: a 4 step (DRAFT, PENDING, SENT, EXECUTED) system which allocates every order to a specific broker with their prices, to keep an eye on who we bring the money.
Portfolio Management System: portfolio wide and securities wide indicators for positions with code is saved in DB. This way agents can create new indicators without touching the codebase.
Securities Pricer: prices the fair value of stocks, bonds, newly issued bonds, futures, forwards, options and structured products on the fly.
Data Provider Access: as our data provider is pretty well documented, we also added a way for agents to directly query it in case they need anything not planned on the infrastructure.

All the tools created also come with a nice UI, so the work of agents is human reviewed. Now, all agents can follow the strategy of a single portfolio as it is defined and have access to the macro data and financial data they need!

The Compliance Tools

As we were incorporating the fund, the asset manager and onboarding counterparties, we saw a great flow of compliance work. So we followed the same practices and created the toolbox:

E-mail: a simple gmail connector allows all emails to be saved on our database, triaged by importance and attached to the relevant project.
Projects Management: if the email needs a to-do item (eg. a simple response, or the need to send a document), it is created.
Internal Drive: the drive contains all documents related to the company. They are all embedded so the agent can retrieve what he needs easily. The agent has capabilities of creating documents as well.

What we then saw was an incoming lawyer email asking for a document. The agent categorized the email, attached to the incorporation project and create the to-do list. Another agent picked it up, found the appropriate document and drafted the email. The human sent the email after review.

When a counterpart asks for a document which does not exist, the agent gathers the relevant verified information. It then drafts a new document from scratch reviewed, submits it for approval by a human before anything leaves the company

Early Feedbacks

The company has been around for almost a year now. As we continue to grow our fundraising efforts in accordance to the state of the compliance, it is already clear our agent infrastructure is doing a lot of the heavy-lifting.

Our systems already respond to partners for information, and handle the analysis as well as booking of all trades from a simple copy pasted chat with every outbound response and every trade reviewed by a human before execution.

Thanks for reading me!
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