# Brightwave

> Brightwave builds infrastructure for safely connecting AI agents to business systems, tools and data. Founded in 2023, it developed financial research and diligence agents before shifting toward governed agent access; its open-source Tidebreak desktop app brings document work and coding agents into a local workspace.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Mike Conover (Co-founder; founding CEO), Brandon Kotara (Co-founder and current CEO; founding CTO)
- **Products:** AI financial research and diligence platform, Report Builder and Blueprints, Research Agents, Desktop Agents, Tidebreak
- **Notable:** Raised $21 million across announced 2024 seed and Series A rounds., Reported fourfold revenue growth between its 2024 seed and Series A announcements; absolute revenue was not disclosed., Received a special mention in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024.

## Products & services

- **AI financial research and diligence platform** — Research across filings, transcripts, deal rooms and internal documents, with source-linked analysis.
- **Report Builder and Blueprints** — Customizable reports and reusable research structures for repeated diligence questions.
- **Research Agents** — Background agents plan tasks, produce reports and evidence-linked tables, and audit outputs against requirements.
- **Desktop Agents** — Permission-controlled access to local folders, commands and selected desktop applications, rolled out where enabled.
- **Tidebreak** — Apache-2.0 desktop client for document deliverables and coding-agent workspaces, using a shared Rust runtime.
- **Governed agent infrastructure** — Current development focus: model routes, application access, credential injection, policy enforcement and agent activity records.

## Achievements

- Raised $21 million across announced 2024 seed and Series A rounds.
- Reported fourfold revenue growth between its 2024 seed and Series A announcements; absolute revenue was not disclosed.
- Received a special mention in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024.
- Released the Tidebreak research and coding client under Apache-2.0.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Published the cross-format citation architecture.
- **2026-05** — Published its model routing, failover, caching and accounting architecture.
- **2026-06** — Announced Desktop Agents and described the host broker controlling local-machine access.
- **2026-10** — As checked on October 4, the homepage describes Brightwave as an agent infrastructure company and directs visitors to Tidebreak; the About page lists Brandon Kotara as Founder & CEO. These are observation dates, not announcement dates.

## Links

- Website: https://www.brightwave.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brightwaveio/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/brightwaveio
- GitHub: https://github.com/brightwave-inc

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Last updated: 2026-10-04