Research sweeps, data pulls, model refreshes: analyst agents run for days. Handbell gives the team one view of what's running, honest progress, and provenance for every output.
A market sweep runs across filings, transcripts, and news for three days. Progress means progress here: when a source stalls the run shows stalled, and the analyst redirects it mid-flight instead of finding out on deadline day.
The agent rebuilds the weekly dashboards from fresh data. Before anything replaces the numbers leadership reads, a second analyst reviews the run's changes. Review is a step in the flow, not a favor asked over chat.
Every figure in the final deck links back to the run, the sources it read, and the human who approved it. When the CFO asks where a number came from, the answer takes one click and zero archaeology.
The analyst's real deliverable was always trust in the number. The log is how agents earn it.