The context wars in financial services
As AI collapses the enterprise application stack, the context layer becomes the most valuable part of the technology stack in financial services.
As AI collapses the enterprise application stack, the context layer becomes the most valuable part of the technology stack in financial services.
Technical debt is about to hit levels we've never seen.

From weekend POC to production: the 24-month gap nobody talks about.
A few weeks ago, we were at the HQ of one of our largest clients (close to 70bn AUM) for a week and although I had this post in draft for a couple of months, these words resonate even more with me now as we experienced this FDE work first-hand.

At the recent AI Engineering Summit, BlackRock unveiled their Aladdin Copilot - a platform remarkably similar to what we've built at OpenBB, but with a key difference.
While they've invested massive resources into building a closed system, we've created an open-source solution that achieves the same goals: multi-application support, seamless agent integration, explainable AI, and enterprise-grade security. Here's a deep dive into how the world's largest asset manager validated our approach to AI-powered financial workflows.