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Transient.AI

Transient.AI builds AI associates for trading desks and investment firms. Hedge funds, asset managers, fund managers and banks deploy them inside their own tenant to run governed workflows.

Its Caddie.AI associate supports the trading lifecycle, from telling sales desks who to call through trade management and back office work. It also digests sell side research, surfaces trade ideas and parses term sheets. The company's Declarative Agentic Framework governs the agents with declared data, rules and models, deterministic guardrails, real time oversight and zero external data retention.

Transient.AI closed a Series A led by NEXT Investors, with Nasdaq Ventures participating, in September 2026. It uses Arango for data infrastructure and works with Atyeti as a deployment partner. It is headquartered in New York.

Last VerifiedOctober 2, 2026
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Founded
2024
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Website
transient.ai
Categories
capital-markets-ai, wealth-and-advisory
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 7 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
AA on AI CentralityThe artificial intelligence is the product. Remove the models and there is nothing left to sell.
Vendor Published

Caddie.AI forecasts which counterparties will engage, digests sell side research and parses term sheets across the trading lifecycle. A systems integration cockpit would be left once the models went, useful but not what anyone is buying.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
CC on Autonomy and Oversight ModelAutonomy is claimed and oversight is asserted without a mechanism, or full automation is presented as the entire disclosure. Human in the loop appears as a phrase rather than a described control.
Vendor Published

Associates run research, sales and operations, and the sales engine tells a representative whom to call, what to say and which securities to recommend. Guardrails and real time oversight are asserted, but approval points before a recommendation reaches a client are not named.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
BB on Model Risk Management and TransparencyReal transparency mechanisms are published, such as per alert explainability, confidence scoring or split testing, without the validation package or supervisory mapping behind them.
Vendor Published

Data, rules and models are explicitly declared by the institution in the Declarative Agentic Framework, so a validator can compare what the system was told against what it did. Backtests, model documentation and validation summaries are absent.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
CC on Operational and Outcome EvidenceUnnamed case studies, customer logos, or claims without numbers. Prestige is not measurement: the caliber of the client list describes the buyer rather than the product, and coverage statistics are not adoption statistics.
Vendor Published

Investors, not deployments, fill the September 2026 Series A announcement, which names NEXT Investors and Nasdaq Ventures. Published conversion and research time figures carry no attribution or method, and no customer is named anywhere.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
BB on AI Safety and Data StewardshipA categorical stewardship commitment is published without the retention schedule or the engineering detail behind it.
Vendor Published

Zero external data retention and strict sandboxing are stated in the September 2026 announcement. Retention by any model supplier, and evaluation of the predictive components before deployment, are not described.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
CC on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA standard privacy policy that covers the website rather than the service, or silence on a product that touches limited consumer data.
Vendor Published

Positions, profit and loss and counterparty engagement history are commercially sensitive, and modeling which counterparties to approach builds behavioral profiles of an institution's clients. Privacy terms reaching the service are not visible in published form.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA single footer line, or certifications asserted without being enumerated, which is weaker than naming them because it invites an assumption a buyer cannot check.
Vendor Published

Bank grade governance and deployment inside the client's perimeter are asserted, with no certification, attestation scope or trust portal enumerated. Positions and counterparty intelligence pass through a young company's platform without independent assurance shown.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
Vendor Published

Scripting what a salesperson tells a client and which securities to recommend sits close to suitability and research conduct rules, and the output becomes supervised communication at the firm. Bank grade governance is the positioning, yet no supervisory instrument is named as a design target.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
Vendor Published

Markets and institutional counterparties are the subjects, so accuracy governance is the question, and a compressed analyst report can reach a client with its qualifications stripped. Accuracy for the engagement engine, summarization fidelity and drift detection are unpublished.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
Vendor Published

Declared rules and auditability let a firm reconstruct how a recommendation formed and unwind an error internally. The client who receives a call or a security idea shaped by the system never sees it, and published terms offer no accuracy guarantee or remedy.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
BB on Model Supply Chain DisclosureSubstantial partial disclosure, or a chain that is structurally short: an explicit in house build, on premise deployment, per customer instances, or zero retention at the model layer.
Vendor Published

Arango was named in January 2026 as the data platform, chosen for explainability and verifiable reasoning across entities and events. Reasoning and language model providers, market data and research sources, and a subprocessor list are unnamed.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
BB on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed systems or a documented public API, with the depth or the production evidence left open.
Vendor Published

Unifying fragmented order management, research and risk systems into one layer is the claim, and Atyeti has announced a partnership to deploy the platform. Named order or execution management integrations and public developer documentation are missing.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
BB on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyStated residency commitments or regional hosting options.
Vendor Published

The platform runs inside the client's own tenant and secure perimeter, so data rests in an environment the client controls. Supported clouds and an on premises option are not documented.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
Vendor Published

Engagement starts with contact and no published rate, tier or minimum. Running inside a client's own tenant also puts cloud and inference cost in the client's accounts, outside whatever the license covers.

Institution and Segment Coverage
BB on Institution and Segment CoverageNamed segments with dedicated material behind part of the coverage.
Vendor Published

Hedge funds, asset managers and investment banks are addressed from front office through operations and back office, with expansion announced to London, Singapore and Tokyo. Lending, payments and insurance fall outside a platform built for institutional markets.

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Product updates

Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at Transient.AI, each verified against a live source and tagged to the capability axis it bears on. Funding rounds and awards are not product changes and are not logged.

Sep 15, 2026Product / capability

Transient.AI launched Caddie.AI RIA Prospecting for Hedge Fund Sales. Sales teams can ask in plain language for RIAs matching criteria such as city, AUM threshold and hedge fund allocation, and get back firms with CRD number, city, AUM and custodians taken from ADV filings, plus a map view and a filterable grid with export. Transient.AI states coverage of 11,986 RIAs, 2,717 of them pure RIAs, that it runs in the customer's own tenant with zero data retention, and that it is available on the Azure and AWS marketplaces.

Bears on: Institution and Segment CoverageSource
Our read on this update →Tracked since Sep 2026

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