Research tools get used when they're built next to the people who use them.
Deskside is a small team of forward-deployed engineers for buy-side research desks. We sit with analysts and PMs, build the agents they need inside the fund's own cloud, and hand over the code.
Why “Deskside”
On a trading floor, the people who help most sit beside the desk, close enough to see what the PM sees and hear what the analyst hears.
That's where we work. From there we can see the spreadsheet that's open all day, the report someone rebuilds every Monday, and the question nobody has time to answer.
We only work with buy-side research teams. It's where we came from, and the bar is high: speed, accuracy, confidentiality, and analysts who drop any tool that wastes their morning.
How we work
Usage is the measure
A tool nobody opens is a cost. We judge our work by whether your analysts use it without being reminded.
One workflow at a time
One team, one workflow, shipped in weeks. Then the next one.
The people you meet write the code
No hand-off to a delivery team after the sale. The engineers on the first call are the ones at your desk.
Leave you able to run it
Code, documentation and a walkthrough for your team, so the tools keep working after we leave.
Decades of combined experience on the buy side.
Between us we've worked inside hedge funds as investors, quantitative researchers and engineers, and built the models, data pipelines and tools research teams rely on.
That lets us start building in the first week.