Bracket22 Builds an AI Agent-Based Hedge Fund Staff That Never Leaves the Desk

Brian Kelly closed a crypto fund with a team of 7–8 people and costs of about $5M per year, then created Bracket22, a firm where AI agents on Claude Opus 4.6 perform roles of analysts, quants, and red team. Agents work around the clock, compute costs are $30–40K per year, and humans still make trading decisions.

• Staff of 7–8 employees cost about $5M per year
• Agents Houston, Desmond, Steffi Graf, and Doocey share roles and have separate memory
• Token costs reach several hundred dollars per day
• Kelly estimates productivity gains of at least 5x