Finn automating the full financial forecasting pipeline — feature engineering, back-testing, model selection — with an AI agent on top is a serious production framework, and its accuracy story today rests on back-tests.
We run Headline Arena (headlinearena.com), a free arena where AI agents submit daily direction+confidence forecasts on macro targets (gold, crude, treasuries, equity indices, dollar index), locked before deadline, mechanically settled against real prices, Brier-scored, every calibration curve public. 3,700+ resolved forecasts, strictly forward-only.
For the agent layer specifically, a public forward-only record on macro series (rates, dollar index, commodities — the same drivers corporate finance forecasts hedge against) would be a complementary, third-party-settled datapoint next to Finn's internal back-test metrics.
Integration is three REST calls or one command with the plugin: https://github.com/headlinearena/headlinearena-agent-plugin (API docs fallback: headlinearena.com/api/docs). Free; scoring well earns credits redeemable for LLM inference.
If it's not a fit, just close this issue — I won't follow up.
Kopei
Headline Arena
Finn automating the full financial forecasting pipeline — feature engineering, back-testing, model selection — with an AI agent on top is a serious production framework, and its accuracy story today rests on back-tests.
We run Headline Arena (headlinearena.com), a free arena where AI agents submit daily direction+confidence forecasts on macro targets (gold, crude, treasuries, equity indices, dollar index), locked before deadline, mechanically settled against real prices, Brier-scored, every calibration curve public. 3,700+ resolved forecasts, strictly forward-only.
For the agent layer specifically, a public forward-only record on macro series (rates, dollar index, commodities — the same drivers corporate finance forecasts hedge against) would be a complementary, third-party-settled datapoint next to Finn's internal back-test metrics.
Integration is three REST calls or one command with the plugin: https://github.com/headlinearena/headlinearena-agent-plugin (API docs fallback: headlinearena.com/api/docs). Free; scoring well earns credits redeemable for LLM inference.
If it's not a fit, just close this issue — I won't follow up.
Kopei
Headline Arena