About
The best AI tools are built next to the people who use them.
Deskside is a forward-deployed AI engineering firm with decades of combined buy-side experience. We embed with hedge funds and investment firms to turn the promise of AI into tools their teams use every day.
The name
Why “Deskside”
On a trading floor, the people who matter most sit right beside the desk — close enough to see what the PM sees and hear what the analyst hears.
That's how we work. Not from a vendor portal or a quarterly check-in, but alongside your team, where we can see the spreadsheet that's open all day, the report rebuilt every Monday, and the question nobody has time to answer. That's where AI earns its keep.
Funds are where we started, because that's where we came from, and the bar there is high: speed, accuracy, confidentiality, and teams that won't tolerate a tool that wastes their time. If we can build for a PM's desk, we can build for most desks.
What we believe
A few things we hold firm on.
Adoption is the only metric
A tool nobody opens is a cost, not an asset. We measure success by whether your team uses what we build.
Small scope, real users, fast
One workflow, one team, shipped in weeks. Momentum beats a perfect roadmap.
Engineers, not slideware
The people you meet are the people who write the code. No bait-and-switch staffing.
Leave you stronger
We hand off code, docs, and know-how so your team can keep building after we leave.
Who we are
Decades of combined experience on the buy side.
Our team has spent decades inside hedge funds, in quantitative research and in engineering. We've built the models, the pipelines, and the tools investment teams rely on every day.
That's why we can start building in the first week instead of learning your business on your dime. And because we're a small senior team, the people you meet are the people who write the code, from the first call to production.
Work with us