Chicago, IL

Ankit Chandola

I invest in middle market companies by day and build autonomous AI systems by night.

Principal at Queens Court Capital, a special situations PE firm. Previously H.I.G. Capital, Comvest Partners, and Fidus Capital. Michigan Ross BBA.

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Building

Things I'm working on

Autonomous Trading

41K+ lines of code. Regime detection, ML architecture, nightly learning loops. Runs in production daily.

MarketPrior

Prediction market research API. Bracket scoring, Monte Carlo sims, calibration — built for the agent economy.

Agent Infrastructure

AI intelligence APIs, autonomous workflows, and tools at the intersection of finance and AI.

Writing

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ai private-equity experiments

The Principal and the Swarm

How AI agents turned one investor into a research firm — and what the experiments found. An overview of four modes of AI-native intelligence, each built from scratch, for free, in days.

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ai diligence private-equity agents investing

The New Diligence Stack

Seven forms of business and investment diligence that only become practical in the agent era — and how to package them without sounding like AI theater.

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ai diligence private-equity peloton consumer experiments

Stress-Testing Peloton with 100 Synthetic Stakeholders

A time-gated multi-agent probe of Peloton in mid-2021, with Lululemon as a control. Not a prediction engine — a fragility-mapping experiment.