Today, Barebone is announcing our partnership with Public.
Public is building the agentic brokerage for its millions of members to automate investing. Public has raised over $400M in funding from Accel, Greycroft, among others.
For decades, institutional-grade research was reserved for Wall Street.
The Bloomberg Terminal costs over US$30,000 a year. It was built in the 1980s, before the web existed. It was never designed for the public, and it still isn't.
The Investment Research Analyst, Rebuilt
Barebone is an AI research terminal for individual investors.
Our agents generate the ideas. They run deep research on demand. They monitor your portfolio around the clock and tell you what changed and why it matters.
Barebone takes the workflow of an analyst at a bulge bracket bank and rebuilds it for one person, on a phone.
Bloomberg made market data cheap. AI made the analyst cheap.
Research, Not Execution
Barebone doesn't execute trades. Our focus is research, because research is the hard part. Execution is a solved problem. Public solved it, at scale, with millions of members investing daily. Rebuilding that would have cost us years on the half of the problem that already works.
So we partnered instead.
How It Works
Research on Barebone. Execute on Public. Connect your Public portfolio with Barebone, and our agents monitor every position from there.
Research, execution, monitoring. One loop. US users can start researching and trading today.
Where We Are
Barebone launched in March 2025.
Without any venture backing, we reached Top 100 in Finance on the App Store on day one, and Top 10 on Google Play Finance by day 60.
There is over US$100 million in portfolios connected to Barebone today.
Distribution Is Part of the Product
But Barebone was never only a product.
Wall Street's research format assumes a captive reader. An analyst opens a 20-page note because it is their job to. Nobody outside a bank has that obligation, and nobody outside a bank behaves that way.
Research that is never read has no value.
Format is not cosmetic. It excludes as effectively as the price does.
So we treat distribution as part of the product, not as marketing. We publish research every week, in the formats people actually use. Over 130,000 people follow it on Instagram.
What's Next
We're building toward a future where sophisticated investing tools belong to everyone, not just the few.
Public is the first partner building it with us.
Brokerage services: Open to the Public Investing, Inc. All investing involves risk.
