Why Finn works in email, and what the app is for

Finn has an app, but most of the work does not happen there.

The daily loop runs through email, calendar, spreadsheets, and documents - the tools a PM already has open. The app is mainly for monitoring: what tasks Finn has scheduled next, what themes it is monitoring, what it knows about your thesis, and what assumptions and conclusions it has recently made.

The daily loop runs through your existing tools

Reports arrive in your inbox, and communication happens via the means you would normally use with your analyst - email, WhatsApp, voice messages. For example, you can forward a broker note or a transcript, and Finn gets the document with the surrounding thread attached. Or you can add Finn to a calendar invite the same way you would a colleague, and prep arrives before the meeting does.

Your financial models are updated as spreadsheets as they normally would. Deep dives arrive as documents you can read on a plane, annotate, and hand to a partner. WhatsApp carries voice notes for the people who think out loud between meetings.

A regulated fund already archives and monitors email, so Finn's traffic is already in a secure environment by default. Where the data actually lives is also covered in Data, privacy, and security at Finn.

What the app is for

The app is for things that are more permanent than daily work. The app holds the state Finn holds (every position it monitors, the thesis on each, the KPIs, the events on the calendar, the work booked in this week) and gives an overview of what Finn has done in recent days and what tasks and events it has scheduled.

Portfolio and watchlist show each name with its thesis, KPIs, and next catalyst. Recurring monitors show routine tasks and their cadences, the dated events being tracked, the threads Finn is carrying across weeks, and whatever is waiting on a reply from you.

All reports are collected into a searchable library where you can easily look up every report Finn has written and every document you have sent it.

Why does Finn take so long to reply?

Finn is best at tasks you would normally hand to an analyst. Finn works autonomously on the tasks you assign, and does in-depth research whenever you ask. The most important goal Finn optimizes for is the quality of the data and the depth of the insight. This means every number is double and triple-checked by multiple tools, critical conclusions are reviewed by an LLM council, and the report is rewritten multiple times until it meets the quality benchmark.

All this means that Finn is not instant like a chatbot. Scheduled work arrives on time, but ad-hoc requests sometimes take hours to complete.

This design works best for value investors who make long-term bets and hold their positions for months or years.

See it on your own book: request access, send one or two names you cover, and the first report is back the next morning.