Public Adds AI Agents for Prediction-Market Trading Through Kalshi
Users can approve fixed strategies that monitor event contracts tied to rate decisions, regulatory approvals and company metrics, then alert or trade when preset conditions are met.
Public will let users deploy artificial-intelligence agents to trade prediction-market contracts through Kalshi, linking event-based markets to automated strategies that can react to real-world developments.
Users can create rules tied to events such as Federal Reserve rate decisions, regulatory approvals and company metrics. The agents can send alerts when market odds change or execute trades when conditions approved by the user are met.
Public’s chatbot turns each request into a visual plan for review. After approval, the strategy runs as fixed code, and the agent cannot trade outside the selected conditions.
Kalshi will provide the event contracts and handle the trades. Public users will access Kalshi’s markets through the Public platform.
“AI agents can do work for you, and in investing, that means they can monitor markets when you’re not looking at a screen,” Public co-founder and co-CEO Leif Abraham said. “They can execute strategies that you might have not been physically even able to execute yourself.”
The launch fits into Public’s effort to position itself as an “agentic brokerage” for active, self-directed investors. Founded in 2019, Public manages billions of dollars in assets across millions of users.
Prediction markets have expanded in the United States since the 2024 presidential election. Kalshi and Polymarket have reached multibillion-dollar valuations, while the sector faces increased congressional scrutiny, including a request for a public Senate Banking Committee hearing on prediction markets.
