Compound V2 launches agent-native Office engines, tops PE Bench at 80.5% with 34% lower cost

peterjliu · x · 2026-11-14

Compound released V2 of its buy-side finance AI platform:

Compound Office: in-house Excel, PowerPoint, and Word engines built for agents, producing real Office files in a familiar editor.
Multiplayer: share an agent with your team or spin one up per deal; comment on a cell or slide and the agent makes the change.
Scale: drop in 15,000 files at once; hundreds of tasks run in parallel via subagents with click-to-trace numbers.
PE Bench leaderboard: Compound scores 80.5% overall (#1 of 12 agents), at $4.46 model cost per task — 34% cheaper and 29% faster (16 min) than runner-up Claude Code · Opus 5.5 (78.1%, $6.79, 22 min).
The platform claims 500B+ tokens processed, 10M+ PDFs analyzed, 100K+ deliverables, $3T+ in assets managed by user firms, plus SOC 2 Type II and VPC deployment.

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