> [Portrait Research index](https://portraitresearch.com/llms.txt) [Canonical page](https://portraitresearch.com/api/) For AI & engineering teams # Build investment research into your AI stack Give your applications and agents financial context, analytical tools and the capacity to carry out multi-step research. [Discuss your integration](https://portraitresearch.com/demo/) ## Build your edge. We maintain the research stack. Portrait maintains the financial data, company intelligence, retrieval and research execution beneath your product. Your team owns the application and directs the investment process. ### Financial data & retrieval Retrieve company documents and financial data—or run research across public and entitled sources—by company, period or question. ### Company intelligence Add Portrait’s company primers, quarterly analysis and mapped business relationships to your product. ### Multi-step research execution Easel runs specialized financial workflows across Portrait intelligence and the sources available to each assignment. ## Give Easel the research assignment. Get the work back in your product. Run and continue investment research from your application. Easel puts Portrait’s research stack to work and returns source-backed analysis with the memos, spreadsheets, charts and PDFs the assignment calls for. An illustrative Easel workflow: an analyst asks to stress-test Fastenal’s five-year cash flow, references a scenario document and sends the assignment. Easel retrieves company research, reviews filings, compares financials and returns source-backed analysis with an Excel workbook. A citation opens the original filing, highlights its supporting passage and zooms in to read it. The analyst then requests a committee brief and opens the delivered five-page PDF. The film closes with the Portrait symbol and the slogan: Put Portrait intelligence to work in your systems. This demonstration does not execute research or send requests. ## In your app. In your agent. In your terminal. Use Portrait where your systems already run—delegate research to Easel from your application or terminal, or extend your own agents with Portrait intelligence and research tools. ### Easel API Run Easel inside your application. Start or continue research, follow execution and bring generated work into your product. [Explore Easel’s capabilities](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/easel/what-is-easel/) ### MCP Connect your existing agent to Portrait intelligence, existing research and supported research tools through MCP. [Connect with MCP](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/integrations/portrait-mcp/) ### CLI Run and continue Easel research from your terminal or coding agent, using your own documents and generated files. [Get started with the CLI](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/integrations/portrait-cli/) ### Research details Portrait company research · Kohl’s · Q3 2025 #### Turnaround Strategy Effectiveness and Timeline This debate centers on whether Kohl’s current strategic initiatives will successfully return the company to growth and, critically, how long this transformation will take. The company is executing a multi-pronged turnaround focused on three key areas: curating a more balanced assortment, reestablishing value leadership, and delivering a frictionless omnichannel experience. Bull case : Strong operational discipline with inventory down 5% y/y and SG&A expenses declining 4% in Q2 2025. Bear case : Management explicitly stated they won’t provide timing for return to positive comps, suggesting an extended timeline for meaningful recovery. [Download the original research sample (PNG)](https://portraitresearch.com/static/img/company-research/key-debates-desktop.959f3e3b95b2.png) Historical excerpt of existing Portrait-generated research. Illustrative application · Easel research brief #### What would change the Kohl’s turnaround case? Objective : Turn the open questions in the Q3 2025 key debate into a plan the team can investigate. Context : Kohl’s company research, the reporting period and the team’s investment question. Requested result : A research plan with the evidence needed to assess each question. ##### Research plan 1. **Demand:** compare reported comparable sales with management’s commentary on traffic and conversion. 2. **Execution:** examine inventory discipline and expense reductions alongside the sales trend. 3. **Timing:** distinguish observable progress from assumptions about the recovery timetable. Illustrative MCP client · Portrait company research #### Read the research. Keep your own agent. Request : Find Kohl’s company research and explain the Q3 2025 turnaround debate. Portrait returns : Existing company research for the client to use as context. Your agent uses : The distinction between operating improvements and uncertainty over the recovery timeline. ##### Connect your client Copy your server URL from Portrait MCP in the web app, then connect through OAuth. `claude mcp add --transport http portrait-research ` Eligible accounts can also prepare and approve Deep Research requests through a compatible client. [Read the MCP connection guide](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/integrations/portrait-mcp/) Expedia Group · FY2024 · Primary source #### Full-year results The revenue figures shown in the CLI and mobile examples come from Expedia Group’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 results. Revenue by segment · FY2024 | Segment | Revenue | YoY | | --- | --- | --- | | B2B | $4.102bn | +21% | | B2C | $9.274bn | +2% | [Open Expedia investor relations](https://ir.expediagroup.com/news-and-events/news/news-details/2025/Expedia-Group-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2024-Results/default.aspx) Historical data. The research question and follow-up plan are editorial examples using this disclosure. ## A research system built around your firm. Portrait engineers build and maintain Custom Deployments that combine the research capabilities your firm needs with your data, investment framework and controls. Your firm owns its data and directs the research. ### Your data and controls Put your firm’s research, models and data to work. Define what the research system can access and who can use it. ### Your framework and methods Build your investment framework, analyst methods, templates, source priorities and research standards into the procedures that guide the work. ### Portrait engineers, assigned to you Portrait’s Engineering and Product teams build custom workflows, connectors and permissions, then manage orchestration, upgrades and maintenance.