Transforming Analyst Workflows with AI

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2025

Overview

A Fortune 500 financial services firm partnered with Blend to revolutionize their investment research process through AI, creating a scalable solution that dramatically reduced analysis time while maintaining compliance and security standards.​

Challenge

  • Massive amounts of data spread across disparate sources requiring efficient analysis methods​
  • Time-intensive manual process of consolidating data from siloed sources (internal files, public filings, vendor data)​
  • Need for strict compliance, data security, and explainability in a highly regulated industry​
  • Complex requirement to support 300+ investment analysts and portfolio managers while ensuring scalability

Solution

  • Implemented AI-powered research platform​​
    • Natural language query capabilities for structured and unstructured data
    • Advanced retrieval-augmented generation and AI agents​
    • Built-in explainability features for trust and adoption
  • Developed comprehensive data integration pipelines​
    • Connected proprietary files, public filings, and third-party data​
    • Implemented semantic understanding through vector stores​
  • Created modular, scalable architecture for enterprise-wide adoption

Impact

  • Automated Data Gathering
    • Automatically identifies and collects critical data, significantly streamlining analyst review processes.​
  • Research Platform for Interactive Analysis​
    • Provides users with conversational interaction capabilities for analyzing pre-processed data.​
    • Supports analysis of uploaded documents and enables real-time web searches.​
  • Enterprise-wide Adoption & Scalability​
    • Successfully drove enterprise-wide adoption, enabling expansion into multiple use cases.​
    • Established robust organizational trust by meeting rigorous operational standards, ensuring sustained platform usage and performance reliability.​
  • Automated Research Note Generation​
    • Automates analyst note drafting while preserving individual writing styles.​
    • Utilizes an agentic workflow to streamline report consistency, with analyst oversight.

Key Data Points

$10M
efficiency gain per annum, saves 480 hours per analyst each year.
80-90%
reduction in time needed to perform research and draft investment recommendations