Norns AI is a powerful, modular financial research and analytics platform — tailored for modern investors, analysts, and fintech builders.
Built for clarity, insight, and agency, it fuses structured market data with real-world news, advanced risk tools, and conversational AI agents in a clean, open-source workspace.
Whether you're scanning for opportunities, managing portfolio risk, or decoding market chaos — Norns AI helps you act smarter, faster.
- Multi-asset data: equities, crypto, macro, FX, options, fixed income
- Economic indicators: BLS, FRED, IMF, central bank data, liquidity metrics
- Interactive visualizations and AI explanations of economic data
- Earnings call parsing + sentiment (FinBERT + LLM)
Detects and explains price spikes using correlated events, earnings surprises, macro shifts, and sector momentum.
Finds high-alpha setups based on custom screeners, filters, valuation anomalies, and unusual flows.
Surfaces retail positioning from Reddit, Twitter, and short interest trends. Great for detecting froth, fear, or squeezes.
All agents are extensible via config + prompt schema.
- Upload CSV of holdings or connect via brokerage API
- Track P&L, allocation, and sector exposure in real time
- VaR calculator (95%, 99%) using Monte Carlo simulations
- Stress testing: see what happens under 2008/COVID-style scenarios
- Risk distribution curve visualizer (D3.js)
- Notion sync: push trades or performance metrics as widgets
Inspired by the operational flow of a real investment bank, Meta IBD is a multi-agent system that simulates roles like:
- 🧠 Financial Analyst (valuation, DCFs, KPI scoring)
- 📈 Quant (factor screens, risk model analysis)
- 📋 Strategy Lead (competitive analysis, positioning)
- 🧾 Macro Analyst (policy impact, inflation/debt tracking)
This feature uses a MetaGPT-style orchestration layer, turning user input (e.g. "Should I buy AAPL after CPI data?") into structured financial insight across disciplines — generating:
- Investment memos
- Data tables
- KPI diagnostics
- Cross-sector impact analysis All AI activity is locally controlled and customizable per user SOP.
- Integrates with top finance newsletters (Amplify, Finimize, Daily Upside)
- LLM-generated TL;DR of daily editions
- Weekly AI wrap across macro, equities, crypto
- Digest is stored for review and shared via dashboard
- Live tracking of allocation, sector exposure, unrealized gain/loss
- VaR Calculator: Monte Carlo simulations at 95% or 99% confidence
- Stress Tests: See what happens under 2008, COVID, or custom drawdowns
- Risk Curves: Visualize distribution of outcomes over time
- Historical correlation matrix (coming soon)
- Deployable locally or to private cloud (no vendor lock-in)
- Modular extension system: add agents, widgets, or custom APIs
- FastAPI backend with clean REST routes
- All data requests, AI prompts, and dashboards are user-controlled
- Surfaces intelligence from public datasets, regulatory updates, social platforms, and crowd behavior
- Powers Betty Agent (retail sentiment), Holmes Agent (event detection), and Polo Agent (opportunity spotting)
- Expandable architecture: plug in RSS, X (Twitter), Reddit, YouTube, or filings feeds
| Layer | Tools |
|---|---|
| Frontend | React, Tailwind, Next.js, Recharts, D3.js |
| Backend | Python, FastAPI, Redis, Pandas, NumPy |
| AI Models | Qwen, GPT-4, FinBERT, OpenAI (optional) |
| Data Feeds | Yahoo Finance, FRED, IMF, SEC, CoinGecko |
| Portfolio | CSV ingest, SQLite, OAuth (optional) |
| Newsletter | Custom fetchers, Notion API, scraping utils |
| Hosting | Local / Vercel / Railway / Render |
bash
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/norns-ai.git cd norns-ai
cd backend python3 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt uvicorn main:app --reload
cd ../frontend npm install npm run dev
🧠 Philosophy Named after the Norns of Norse mythology — the weavers of fate — this platform helps you understand and shape the forces that move global markets.
Built as a long-term open-source research companion, Norns AI is ideal for:
- Indie quants
- FinTech developers
- Retail investors
- Investment researchers
- AI agents engineers
🛠 Coming Soon Agent chat overlay for direct financial Q&A
PDF export of dashboards
Portfolio simulation via scenario builder
Macro newsletter integration
TradingView-style charting with AI annotations