Expert judgment.
AI-accelerated.
Weekly.

No model has
his Rolodex.

Richard Lapper spent decades inside Brazil's political and economic machinery as the Financial Times' Latin America Editor. He has covered every presidential cycle from the return of democracy through Lula's third term — watching coalitions form, court cases unfold, and markets reprice in real time.

AI models are trained on public data. Richard has sources, judgment, and thirty-five years of pattern recognition that no language model can replicate. Our AI layer doesn't replace that — it amplifies it: ingesting and synthesizing hundreds of sources faster than any analyst can, so Richard spends his time on what matters — interpretation, context, and the calls that move positioning.