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Know what changed and why it matters
Every morning, Lefty delivers a briefing that goes beyond what happened — it connects new developments to what you've been tracking, flags emerging patterns, and tells you what to pay attention to next.
Autonomous Research Agents
Hey, Lefty
An AI agent that learns your field and briefs you every morning on what you need to know.
Trending research
What Lefty is digging into right now.
How companies are using autonomous AI agentsHigh signal
Governance isn't a bottleneck, it's a 12x accelerator for production.
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B2B Buyer Criteria Shift for AIHigh signal
AI chatbots now hijack 69% of enterprise software buying decisions.
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AI-Native GTM StrategiesHigh signal
Startups are hitting $100M ARR by smuggling software past enterprise procurement.
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Enterprise AI DisplacementHigh signal
Enterprise software is turning the threat of seat compression into profit.
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GLP-1 Cross-Sector EffectsHigh signal
New hyper-potent obesity drugs are outperforming Eli Lilly, raising urgent safety alarms.
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Global AI Risk & RegulationHigh signal
New EU rules mandate bias testing while restricting the data required.
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AI Infrastructure SpendingHigh signal
Skyrocketing costs are forcing AI giants to buy their own power plants.
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The GLP-1 EconomyRising
A federal legal end-run is quietly subsidizing the obesity drug explosion.
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Private Credit's Quiet Move Into Corporate AmericaRising
Banks are dumping systemic risks onto insurers as AI disrupts software borrowers.
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AI Enforcement Actions and LitigationRising
Lawsuits now target executives personally for prioritizing profits over reporting violent threats.
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Vertical AI in Financial ServicesRising
Retail brokerages let AI trade your money while taking zero liability.
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The Mag 7 DivergenceRising
AI’s runaway costs are forcing tech giants to abandon their self-funding model.
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Public MarketsRising
Qualcomm’s record automotive growth is being overshadowed by the Nvidia panic.
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Fast Food & the Consumer SqueezeEmerging
Restaurant chains are ditching price wars for gamified, high-end customer experiences.
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The US Housing BottleneckEmerging
Luxury buyers remain uniquely immune to the worsening housing affordability crisis.
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Nuclear Energy's ComebackEmerging
The government is repurposing weapons-grade plutonium to fuel commercial reactors.
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Individual stock market investment strategiesEmerging
Memory ETFs are outpacing Bitcoin as investors flee software for physical assets.
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LatAm & SEA Fintech ExpansionEmerging
Integrated local rails are now outperforming credit cards for customer acquisition.
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APAC Data ResidencyEmerging
Japan’s 50% self-reporting discount makes breach response a high-stakes race.
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Oops! All HNEmerging
Developers are now using psychological prompts to keep AI agents from quitting.
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How it works
The expertise you need, delivered daily, while you focus on the work.
Describe what you need to stay sharp on. Lefty gets to work immediately.
What you get
Your personal research agent.
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Build a research asset, not a bookmark folder
Every day's research compounds into a knowledge graph you can search, browse visually, chat with, and feed into other tools. The longer Lefty runs, the more valuable it gets.
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Spot what's coming before it's obvious
Lefty connects patterns across weeks of research and surfaces where things are heading. The more topics you track, the smarter it gets — finding connections between them that you'd never have time to catch tracking each one separately.
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Stay hands-off or get hands-on. Your call.
Let Lefty run autonomously and check in when you want, or actively steer the research, add your own questions, and shape the direction. It works either way.
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Autonomous research for serious work
Lefty is a safe autonomous agent -- it never touches your codebase, your email, your internal systems, or your sensitive data. It researches using high quality sources, will full citations linked throughout for easy verification.
See it in action
Real briefs. Live now.
See how Lefty builds expertise over time in our live research briefs.
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Private credit's quiet move into corporate America
How Apollo, Ares, and Blackstone are displacing bank syndication — and where regulators are starting to push back.
- № 03Fintech
LatAm and SEA: the next fintech expansion map
Licensing shifts, local incumbents, and the partnership signals US fintechs are watching abroad.
- № 04Go-to-Market
How AI-native startups are actually winning GTM
Pricing experiments, open-source wedges, and the launch playbooks displacing incumbents right now.
- № 05AI Regulation
Global AI liability: where the rules are landing
New legislation, enforcement actions, and how liability is being split between AI developers and deployers.
New — Audio Edition
Your morning brief, now in your ears.
Every Lefty workspace ships with a daily podcast — the same researched brief, rewritten for the ear and voiced so it actually feels natural to listen to.
Hey Lefty · Audio Edition
The AI Cash Shuffling Game
Friday, June 5, 2026
The massive capital requirements of the AI boom are forcing a fundamental restructuring of corporate balance sheets, regulatory boundaries, and supply chain leverage.
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Markets edition shown — your topics get the same treatment, every morning.
Your brief, read to you
Not everyone wants to read. Every workspace can now publish its daily front page as an audio episode — the same research, narrated, for a walk or a commute.
The host is Lefty.
Same research, narrated — tuned to feel natural on a walk or a commute, not robotic text-to-speech.
One checkbox to turn on.
Workspace settings → Output formats → Podcast. The newspaper edition is always on; this just adds a daily audio version of it.
Listen wherever you already do.
Every workspace gets its own audio-edition page with a player, a speed dial, and a Subscribe (RSS) link for your podcast app of choice.
Who uses Hey Lefty
Your edge is what you know that others don't.
Investors & Analysts
Markets don't move in isolation. Lefty connects regulatory shifts, emerging tech, competitive dynamics, and macro trends into one evolving picture — so your thesis is built on more than headlines.
Founders & Product Teams
Staying ahead means tracking more than direct competitors. Lefty follows shifts in buyer behavior, new entrants, adjacent technologies, and industry tailwinds so you make decisions with real context.
Strategy & Corp Dev
Understanding a market means understanding the forces shaping it. Lefty builds a compounding view of competitive landscapes, technology trajectories, regulatory pressures, and new opportunities — so your analysis has depth, not just data points.
Legal, Compliance & Risk
Regulatory environments don't change in a vacuum. Lefty tracks how policy shifts interact with industry trends, enforcement patterns, and emerging precedents — so you see what's coming, not just what already happened.
Your first research brief in five minutes.
Describe your issue. Lefty briefs you on what you need to know, based on high quality sources and deep research.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Who's Lefty?
Who's Lefty?
Hey Lefty is named after Wilmarth Sheldon "Lefty" Lewis — a Yale librarian who spent over 50 years collecting, organizing, and connecting the letters and manuscripts of 18th-century writer Horace Walpole. His collection became one of the most extensive archives of British history in the world.
During WWII, Lewis built the information cataloging system used by the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the CIA) to organize intelligence — a system that later became the standard for all U.S. libraries.
We named this product after him because that's exactly what Hey, Lefty does: collects, organizes, connects, and makes information useful over time.
About us
About Us
Hey Lefty is built by the team behind Hanno Labs, where we build AI-powered research and intelligence tools. You can see our original research at hannolabs.ai/research. Hey, Lefty is our take on what autonomous agents should be — useful, safe, and built for people who have real work to do.
Julie Saltman
LinkedIn ↗Former DOJ litigator, who handled some of the department's highest profile cases at the Federal Programs Branch, and Georgetown Law professor of Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing. Julie published a history book after college and was also a lawyer for the Library of Congress, before pivoting to entrepreneurship.
Stephen Solka
LinkedIn ↗Former VP of Engineering at AngelList. Has been building AI/ML and big data systems across DC's biggest startups in healthcare, fintech, and civic tech. Long-time knowledge graph obsessive — his open-source graph analysis tools went viral in the developer community.