What Is Easel

Easel is your autonomous AI equity analyst. Where a chat answers a single question and Deep Research runs a fixed report pipeline, Easel is a conversational agent that plans and carries out multi-step investigations on its own — searching Portrait's document corpus and the live web, pulling market data and Visible Alpha consensus estimates, reading your case studies, primers, and monitors, and synthesizing the result into analyst-quality deliverables.

You will find it at the top of the left navigation as Ask Easel.

ℹ️ Easel is available on every Portrait account. On a trial you get a fixed number of Easel sessions and they do not reset; on a plan, Easel sessions count toward your research usage, the same as Deep Research. Contact the team if you have used yours up.

What makes Easel different

Easel chains steps that a single prompt cannot: search filings, pull the numbers, compare them against estimates, and write up the finding, all in one turn, while streaming its reasoning and activity so you can follow along.

What Easel can do for you:

• Run multi-step research from a single natural-language request — answering ad-hoc questions about a company, filing, transcript, or peer set, or working through a longer investigation, pulling the documents and reasoning as it goes
• Search and read SEC filings, foreign filings, transcripts, presentations, news, and expert calls — plus documents you upload and mention with @ — with inline citations
• Search the live web and cite the primary sources
• Pull daily prices, market-cap / enterprise-value / shares-outstanding snapshots, and Visible Alpha consensus estimates and revision history
• Follow skills you write — your own procedures for how a piece of work should be done. See Easel Skills
• Launch other Portrait features on your behalf — Deep Research, screens, and monitors — and read back your past research, case studies, and company primers to extend work you are already tracking
• Hand back finished deliverables — written reports and memos, charts, and spreadsheets — saved to My Library and exportable to PDF

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Starting & Resuming a Session

Create a new Easel session, follow its progress, and pick a past session back up where you left off.