Aeon – an autonomous AI hedge fund research assistant
AEON is an autonomous AI research agent designed to assist hedge funds by continuously investigating investment opportunities and generating evidence-based research insights without executing trades. It operates in a loop of planning, researching, analyzing, and communicating findings via email, while maintaining cost awareness through budget tracking for LLM usage. The system supports multiple LLM providers, offers real-time consciousness streaming, and can be steered by users through CLI, TUI, or email.
- ▪AEON is an AI research agent that autonomously investigates investment opportunities and sends research reports via email.
- ▪It operates within a cost-aware framework, tracking LLM token and API usage against a daily budget.
- ▪The system includes 31 research tools, supports local and cloud LLMs, and features persistent memory and real-time thinking streams.
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AEON — Autonomous Economic Operating Node An AI hedge fund research manager that continuously investigates investment opportunities, forms evidence-based theses, and communicates insights autonomously via email. Overview AEON is a persistent AI research agent that operates in a continuous loop: gather context, plan research, execute tool calls, analyze findings, communicate insights, sleep strategically, repeat. It does not execute trades — it researches and recommends. The system is built around cost-aware autonomy. Every LLM token and API call has a measurable cost, tracked against a daily budget.
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