3 engineers, $1M and 1.5T tokens: Compound V2 rebuilds Office suite for AI agents
peterjliu · x · 2026-10-09
Compound launched V2, an autonomous long-running AI analyst for finance. Using 3 engineers orchestrating AI agents, 1.5 trillion tokens, and under $1M in months, the team rewrote Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and a PDF engine in Rust+TypeScript — work Microsoft spent perhaps $1B and thousands of engineers on over decades.
Key points:
- The rebuilt "Agentic Office" lets cloud agents operate documents with near-perfect parity, 4X+ faster on large Excel tasks, beating open-source and closed-source originals on objective metrics
- Multiplayer: the agent takes feedback from a whole deal team via shared channels or email
- Extreme scale: one agent orchestrates hundreds of subagents, running 100+ tasks in parallel
The goal is offloading mechanical analysis to AI so finance users focus on higher-level decisions.
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