How Bridgewater Turned 100 Million Documents Into an Edge - Sam Green & Aaron Linsky, Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates built the Vault: more than 100 million documents from 135 external sources plus the firm's own memos and meetings, cleaned, permissioned and tagged to its internal ontology. Sam Green (team lead, Applied AI) and Aaron Linsky (head of product engineering) share three lessons: humans and agents need different things from search, the biggest wins come from one tool that serves both, and the real prize is agents that proactively bring investors what deserves their attention. Includes how a hand-built benchmark took precision at 10 from about 60% to over 90%. Chapters 00:00 I