A practical guide to prompting Generated Assets
04/21/2026Generated Assets lets you turn any thesis into a fully formed, investable index. Instead of choosing between thousands of off-the-shelf ETFs—each built by someone else, for someone else—you can now build an index that reflects your view of the market.
But like any powerful system, the quality of the output depends on the quality of your input.
This guide walks through how Generated Assets interprets your prompt, how the underlying evaluation agents work, and how to write prompts that produce the most accurate, expressive indices. We’ll also cover how to refine and iterate on your asset using follow-up instructions.
Whether you’re building your first “AI-filtered Nasdaq-100” or exploring something more experimental—like “founder-led companies with improving margins”—this guide will show you how to get the most out of Generated Assets.
How the AI works
When you submit a prompt, Generated Assets dispatches a swarm of AI evaluation agents that work in parallel—researching and screening thousands of stocks against your criteria simultaneously. This isn’t a keyword search or a simple filter. The agents are evaluating companies on the same kinds of qualitative and quantitative dimensions a research analyst would consider: sector fit, financial metrics, growth trajectory, and more. The result is a fully formed index, built to your spec, in a fraction of the time it would take to do it manually.
Once your index is generated, the process doesn’t stop there. You can backtest your asset against benchmarks like the S&P 500® to see how it would have performed historically—giving you a clearer picture of its return profile, volatility, and diversification before you commit a single dollar. And if the first output isn’t quite right, you can refine it with follow-up prompts: tighten the criteria, swap out holdings, adjust weightings, or push the thesis in a different direction entirely. The index is yours to shape.
What makes Generated Assets different from any screening tool or off-the-shelf ETF isn’t just the technology—it’s the creative control. You’re not selecting from a pre-approved list of strategies. You’re expressing a view. The more clearly you can articulate what you’re looking for—and what you’re not—the more precisely the AI can translate that view into a portfolio worth investing in. That’s what this guide is designed to help you do.
Note that this guide is for educational and illustrative purposes only, and the content here should not be viewed as investment advice or recommendations.