Mile one: what AI-first actually looks like when the strategy starts paying off

In January, we made a decision.

Not a casual one. A strategic one — the kind you put real resources behind and commit to as a leadership team. We decided that Quantfolio would become an AI-first company. The principle was simple but radical: before solving any task the traditional way, you ask how AI solves it first. Not because it was trendy. Because we believed, if we got it right, it would fundamentally change what a team of our size could achieve.

This week, four months in, we hit company lifetime peak production.

It is Thursday as I write this. And I have already witnessed the most productive four days in Quantfolio's history. Let me be specific, because vague enthusiasm about AI is everywhere and worth nothing.

Product features are being built at 50-100x the speed we considered normal six months ago. Outbound sales is being run by agents, working continuously. We have signal-based market and competitor analysis running in the background at all times. Planning, bug management, config management, reporting — all transformed. This is not a pilot. This is not an experiment. This is how we work now.

None of this happened by accident, and it certainly did not happen in a week. It happened because of four months of deliberate work. Transformation is easy to announce and hard to execute. I am enormously proud of what this team has built.

Three people in particular deserve to be named: Helge Hannisdal, Bjørnar Mundal and Jan Åge Skaathun have led this charge with a level of skill and commitment that is genuinely rare. I believe they are among the best AI operators anywhere. They have not just adopted new tools — they have rebuilt how we think about work itself.

But the whole organisation deserves credit. Every single person at Quantfolio has embraced this strategy with open arms and is creating real value every day. And honestly, the most exciting thing is that we have barely scratched the surface of what is possible — what lies ahead makes this week look like a warm-up.

We are a concentrated team and we will grow. The colleagues who join Quantfolio going forward will operate at a frontier that did not exist a year ago.

And the best thing is that we are still only running mile one of the marathon. The strategic decision we made in January is compounding. The agents, the workflows, the institutional knowledge being baked into our systems — all of it will accelerate further from here. The ceiling keeps moving.

What I have not talked about yet is what we are preparing to release to the market. When that chapter opens, it will speak for itself.

What a time to be alive. 🚀