Charlie Flanagan

Chief AI Officer at Balyasny Asset Management and member of the firm’s Management Committee, leading applied AI work for investment research and enterprise workflows. He joined BAM in 2022 after senior data science and quantitative finance roles at Google, QuantRes Fund, and ICAP.

Balyasny Says Codex Cut Economic Analysis From Two Days to 30 Minutes

Charlie Flanagan says Balyasny Asset Management’s internal AI platform has moved from a coding tool into a firmwide workflow system, with 97% of employees using it daily across investment research, software development and operations. He argues that GPT-5.5 and the Codex harness are shifting AI from systems that search to systems that do work, citing economic analysis compressed from two days to 30 minutes and earnings-report analysis moving closer to real time.

OpenAIJun 8, 20265 min read