The AI-Powered Brokerage: Public’s Vision For Agentic Investing

In this episode of FYI, Brett Winton and Nick Grous sit down with Leif Abraham, co-founder and co-CEO of Public. They examine how the brokerage landscape is shifting as digital-native investors seek more sophisticated tools, and why Public is focused on the top quartile of earners positioned to compound wealth. Leif discusses agentic AI workflows, generated assets, platform design trade-offs, prediction markets, and how Public is balancing short-term monetization with long-term customer lifetime value. Key Points From This Episode: 00:00:00 Public’s positioning in the modern brokerage landscape 00:07:17 The K-shaped economy and focusing on the top quartile 00:09:04 Building a “serious” financial service centered on trust 00:10:06 Product depth vs. simplification in brokerage design 00:11:00 Generated Assets: prompting AI-built custom portfolios 00:13:21 Digital natives as hybrid self-directed investors 00:15:04 How AI is transforming internal product development 00:19:55 Launching agentic workflows for money movement and trading 00:23:38 Compressing the distance from idea to execution 00:27:34 Guardrails, approvals, and trust in AI-driven execution 00:30:26 Short-term trading revenue vs. long-term lifetime value 00:33:32 Agents as retention and lock-in strategy 00:35:05 Replacing financial advisors: automation, advice, and emotion 00:37:54 Tokenization and private asset access 00:40:40 Prediction markets and avoiding sports betting 00:45:55 Building the last investing account customers ever open Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant ( )

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This episode was published on Feb 26, 2026.

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