AI assistants have moved from summarizing documents to executing research workflows. In 2026, the most forward-looking investment teams are wiring AI tools directly into live alternative data feeds, allowing a portfolio manager or analyst to ask a natural language question and receive a response grounded in real behavioral signals. This post explains how that works, what it requires, and where Paradox Intelligence fits.
What changed: from document retrieval to live data access
For most of their early history, AI assistants in investment contexts were used for document work: summarizing earnin