Ben Hunt
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Ben Hunt reads as The Visionary because his starting point is a refusal to accept inherited frameworks. At Epsilon Theory and Perscient, he does not merely spot market narratives others miss, he builds repeatable methodologies for seeing past them. His AI approach, constraining inputs to direct cognition rather than prompting freely, delivered a documented 100x signal improvement, proof rather than hypothesis. His 'discovery phase' investment philosophy carries the same conviction, that better sight can be engineered.
“The crucial thing is you can't just ask AI an open-ended question. You constrain it dramatically. You don't let it go out and find data. You give it the data. You don't allow it to think — you tell it how to think.”
“We rebuilt all of our software using AI as an operating system, context engineering, control. We thought we'd see five, maybe six x improvement in our signal. It was over one hundred x.”
“What I found in my experience as an investor is that you make the most money on a trade during what I call the discovery phase — when the rest of the world wakes up to something you had noticed and identified before.”
Masters in Business: “Using AI to Find Investing Stories with Perscient Co-Founder Ben Hunt”
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