Hedge Fund Bracket22 Operates Entirely on AI Agents

Kelly previously maintained a distributed team of seven to eight employees based primarily in New York. Between competitive salaries, office space, healthcare benefits, and annual bonuses, his overhead reached millions of dollars. By replacing human roles with agentic artificial intelligence, he claims to have replicated the full functional capacity of a hedge fund for a fraction of the original expense.

This shift highlights a broader experimental trend on Wall Street, where firms are testing the limits of automation in high-stakes finance. Kelly reports that the current budget of $30,000 to $40,000 covers his entire compute stack and the maintenance of every AI agent required to run the business. Bracket22 serves as a case study for how lean, automated infrastructure is beginning to challenge traditional staffing models in capital management.