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Insights on AI agents, automation, and the future of work from the team building Decisional.
Principles of Building Along the Jagged Edges of LLM Intelligence
AI intelligence is jagged—superhuman at coding and research, stumbling at basic tasks. This post proposes five principles for building products that ride those edges without pretending the gaps don't exist.
The Practical Handbook for Building AI Native Products
"Just adding AI" has burned a lot of founders, PMs, and enterprises. This post proposes five principles that define what it means to be "AI Native" - from using AI along jagged edges to achieving 100% workflow completion.
Computer Use vs Tool Use: Why Tools Should Be First-Class Citizens in Agentic AI
Agentic automation with tools outperforms computer use by 10x. METR's research shows AI agent workflows struggle with long action sequences—making agentic process automation with tool-first design the path to reliable agents.
Coding Assistant Wipes Our Mac - What We Learned
An AI coding assistant accidentally deleted all files on our Mac due to a path confusion error. Without strong guardrails, convenience can outweigh safety in a single command.
Knowledge Engines, Now Available to Try
A new way for Financial Professionals to do in-depth work. Decisional has launched Knowledge Engines, an AI-native workspace designed for financial professionals working in private markets.
Production Ready RAG for AI Agents
The future of document workflow automation isn't about better retrieval—it's about agents that think, reason, and complete work. RAG isn't dead; it's just beginning to show what's possible.
Some Notes from the Intelligence Economy
OpenAI's launch of AgentKit & ChatKit and what it means for AI automation. Analysis of the AI startup landscape and the future of business applications.
A Peek into AI Native Work Through the Eyes of OpenAI
Exploring how AI-native workflows are reshaping professional work, drawing insights from OpenAI's approach to building AI-native engineering teams and processes.
Flex the Automation with Agents
How agentic automation flexes to handle complex, variable workflows that traditional rule-based automation cannot. Building systems that adapt at runtime.
The AI Automation Landscape in 2025 & A New Approach
Evaluating the top AI-native workflow automation tools of 2025. Unlike traditional rule-based automation, AI-native tools incorporate runtime reasoning and agent-based automation.
Guide - Picking AI Native Tools for Financial Analysis
Picking the right AI tool for Financial Analysis can save each financial professional up to 30 hours per week. This comprehensive guide helps financial services firms understand AI tools for embedding into their workflows.
RAG Isn't Dead — It's Evolved to Resemble Human Research
Lessons from building an AI agent for financial research. Modern RAG systems have evolved beyond simple retrieval to mirror how human analysts conduct deep research.
The Agentic Knowledge Worker
The art of allocating intelligence. How AI agents are reshaping the role of knowledge workers and enabling new forms of human-AI collaboration in professional services.
Agents Are Just LLMs Running Tools in a Loop
If you run an LLM in a loop and most LLMs are similar, what makes different agents have different capabilities? The answer lies in tools, workspaces, and specialization.
Richard Sutton Doesn't Believe in Hacking AGI
Richard Sutton thinks LLMs are a dead end for AGI. His arguments are valid but hackers and engineers have pragmatic solutions. Exploring the future of AI development.
Deep Research Showdown
A battle test of all the deep research tools available out there. We put the leading AI research tools head-to-head on real financial analysis tasks.
The AI Practitioner That Moved Markets by a Trillion Dollars
Could it be that the AI assisted Financial Professional is already moving markets by $Trillions? Exploring the hidden impact of AI-augmented decision making in finance.
O3 & R1's Bitter Lesson - AI Application Companies Need Model Agnosticism
There have been 21 mentions of Deepseek in earnings calls so far but if you really want to know what is going on - listen to builders using AI. Why model agnosticism is essential from day one.
RAGnarok: How AI Agents are Transforming Financial Work
Decisional achieved a 4.1x improvement in financial AI performance—jumping from 29/150 to 119/150 on Financebench—through strategic optimizations in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tool design.
Prelude to the AI Financial Agent
Introducing Decisional, a Y Combinator and NVIDIA Inception-backed startup building AI agents for financial services. While technology has disrupted financial services externally, internal business processes remain largely unchanged.
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