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Research, engineering notes, and product thinking from the people building Brightwave.
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Giving a Cloud Agent Hands on Your Machine
A cloud agent acting on a user's own laptop has a blast radius you can't sandbox away. Here's the control system we built so it's safe to grant.
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Desktop Agents: Controlled Access to Your Local Files, Apps, and Commands
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Agentic Memory
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Announcing OAuth Connected Apps, Outlook Add-in
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Thirteen Surfaces, One Engine
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Now Available: Brightwave Chrome Extension
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How We Built LLM Infrastructure That Stays Up When Providers Don’t
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Brightwave for Microsoft Office: Excel, Word and PowerPoint
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Now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux
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Brightwave Is Now on iOS and Android
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Scale, Share, Speak, and Switch
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Full-Stack Deal Execution: Skills, Templates, and Integrations
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How We Defend Against Prompt Injection at Brightwave
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Engineering the Compute Foundation for Hyperscale
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How We Built AI Citations That Actually Work
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Word, PowerPoint, and Excel Agents — Plus JSON and XML Support
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Your Brightwave Agent Now Gets Its Own Computer
AI Tools for Financial Research
AI Financial Research Platform: What PE Firms Need to Know
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Excel Agents in Brightwave
How AI Is Reshaping the Private Equity Operating Model
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The Fastest Path from Inbox to Insights
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Big Changes Under the Hood
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Verify Faster, Research Smarter
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Research That's Ready to Use
Brightwave Agents Get a Major Upgrade with Sonnet 4.5
Introducing Research Agents: Advancing Agentic Research for Professionals
From One‑Shot Outputs to Living Intelligence: Why Structured AI Reports Win at Deep Research
Intelligent Highlighting: A Faster Way to Connect the Dots
At the Forefront: How AI Is Changing Investment Research With Brightwave CEO Mike Conover
From Complex Systems to Smarter Investment Decisions: Mike Conover on Born in Silicon Valley
Winning With AI Tools In Private Credit Investment Research
How AI Is Transforming Middle-Market Private Equity Due Diligence in 2025
How AI Is Giving Private Credit a Competitive Edge
Scaling Smart in the Age of AI Agents: What We Learned at Startup Grind 2025
DealMAX 2025 Middle Market M&A Conference Takeaways: Status Quo is Not an Option
Deep Research for Deal Rooms: Unveiling Report Builder & Blueprints
Deep Research for Deal Rooms: How AI is Reshaping Private Capital Due Diligence
SuperReturn North America 2025 Q&A with JP Grant: The Asymmetric Upside of AI
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SuperReturn North America 2025 Recap: Key Trends, Big Conversations and the Rise of AI
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Future Proof Citywide Recap: AI’s Breakthrough Moment
Beyond Chat Interfaces: How Brightwave’s ML Engineer Thet Naing Envisions the Future of AI in Finance
Prompting for Performance Part I: Why Prompts Matter
Prompting for Performance Part II - Crafting High-Impact Prompts
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Brightwave Welcomes Nick von Pentz as New Software Engineer
Brightwave Partners with Quartr to Accelerate Deal Coverage Without Missing Critical Details
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Exec Sum Deep Dive Feature: When AI Meets Wall Street — A Deep Dive on Brightwave
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Brightwave CEO Mike Conover Talks Vision and Innovation With NYSE TV
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Brightwave Receives Special Mention in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024
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Brightwave Named a Top 7 Startup at Money20/20
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Brightwave CEO Mike Conover Speaks at Money20/20, Announces Series A Funding
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Brightwave Secures $15M Series A to Scale AI-Powered Financial Research Platform
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Brightwave Named Finalist for Best Financial Research Company at 2024 Benzinga FinTech Awards
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Brightwave Named Finalist for InvestmentTech of the Year at 2024 US FinTech Awards
Brightwave Insights: Magnificent Seven Stocks Deliver Mixed Earnings Results, Massive Investments in AI
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Bridging the Gap: How Financial Firms Can Overcome Hurdles to AI Integration
Choosing the Best AI Tools for Financial Research
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A Partner in Thought: Why AI Will Make Financial Professionals More Valuable Than Ever
“Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?”: Key Insights from Goldman Sachs' AI Investment Report
Ensuring Trust in AI: The Critical Role of Transparency and Verification in Financial Analysis
Brightwave Named Finalist in WealthManagement.com 2024 Industry Awards
Exclusive: AI financial research startup Brightwave raises $6M
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AI-Powered Financial Research Assistant Brightwave Raises $6M In Seed Funding
Brightwave: AI-Based Financial Research Assistant Company Raises $6 Million
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Brightwave Secures $6 Million Seed Round to Launch AI-Powered Financial Research Assistant
Brightwave's $6 Million Seed Round and What It Means for the Future of Financial Analysis
How Brightwave is Rewriting the Rules of Financial Research
EDGE 2024 Conference: Mike Conover's Take on AI in Wealth Management