Atlas · A multi-agent research system for a venture firm
A planner-worker-critic agent system that scouts companies, reads filings, and synthesizes weekly memos, replacing 2 analysts of grunt research with one clean inbox.
01/ The challenge
Atlas was hiring junior analysts faster than they could train them, and most analyst time was spent on company scouting and basic diligence, work that hadn't changed in 5 years.
02/ The approach
A three-agent system: a planner that generates research questions, workers that fetch and read filings/news/web, and a critic that scores and rewrites outputs. Wired into their CRM and slack with daily digests.
03/ The outcome
- Analyst FTEs replaced
- 1.5
- Build to launch
- 5 wks
- Eval-driven improvement
- Weekly
Replaces ~1.5 analyst FTEs of routine work. Partners spend their time on judgement and meetings, not literature review. The system continues to improve with weekly evals.
“The agent system gave our partners back judgement time. Five weeks, end to end, and the weekly evals keep it improving without us touching it.”