openbb-finance/experimental-openbb-platform-agent

OpenBB LLM Agents lets you ask plain-English financial questions and get back researched answers using live market data. Instead of digging through financial websites or building spreadsheets, you type something like "What is the current market cap of TSLA?" and the agent pulls the relevant numbers, reasons through the question, and returns a concise answer. It can handle straightforward lookups as well as more complex, multi-step financial analyses. Under the hood, it pairs an AI language model with the OpenBB Platform, which is a toolkit for accessing financial data from various providers. The AI acts as a researcher: it reads your question, figures out which data sources and functions it needs, calls them through OpenBB, then synthesizes the results into an answer. A nice feature is that it can chain questions together, for example, it can first identify Tesla's peer companies, then look up each one's market cap, and finally sort the results for you. The main audience is anyone who wants financial research without manually querying multiple data sources. A startup founder could ask for a fundamentals analysis of a competitor. A product manager might want a quick comparison of market caps across a sector. A hobbyist investor could ask about a stock's peers and their valuations in one go. It's particularly useful for people who want depth beyond a simple search engine result but don't want to learn a specialized financial terminal. To get started, you need an OpenAI API key and credentials for whatever financial data providers you want to use. The project ships with one free provider called yfinance that requires no setup, so you can try it out without signing up for paid data services. For broader data access, you can plug in additional API keys or use OpenBB Hub to manage them centrally. The README notes this is a work-in-progress R&D project, so expect rough edges and ongoing changes.