Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, two former SoftBank fund managers, are charging financial institutions $25,000 a day to train bankers and analysts on artificial intelligence tools — and they are booked two months out, according to Bloomberg.
Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, former SoftBank fund managers, founded Wall Street Prompt in July 2025 and are already booked two months out
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Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, two former SoftBank fund managers, are charging financial institutions $25,000 a day to train bankers and analysts on artificial intelligence tools — and they are booked two months out, according to Bloomberg.
The pair founded Wall Street Prompt in July 2025. A major investment firm came calling less than two months after Wall Street Prompt opened, and the two men made their way by train from New York to the client's headquarters to lead sessions covering equities, fixed income, and macro, according to Bloomberg. The room included everyone from veteran strategists to entry-level analysts.
Typical training sessions accommodate between 20 and 30 attendees and walk participants through real-world applications, including how to use Google $GOOGL's Gemini to evaluate founders' pitch videos and how OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude can surface market-moving language buried in earnings call transcripts. Among the firms that have hired Wall Street Prompt, according to Bloomberg, are T. Rowe Price $TROW Group, Citigroup $C, and Bank of America $BAC. The engagement with T. Rowe Price centered on training the firm's own investment staff, while both Citigroup and Bank of America brought the pair in to run sessions for outside fund clients. All three institutions declined to address questions about specific training vendors.
Repeat business has been the norm, Sinisterra said, with nearly every client coming back for follow-up work — among them a fund managing over $50 billion that is currently in the final stages of signing a new contract. The pair is also building a live-webinar product aimed at financial professionals willing to pay around $1,500 each.
The demand reflects a widening gap between the tools banks have deployed and the ability of their employees to use them. JPMorgan $JPM has deployed LLM Suite across much of its workforce, Goldman Sachs $GS has partnered with Anthropic on AI agent development, and Bank of America has reported productivity gains of 20% to 25% among its roughly 18,000 developers who have adopted the tools. Even so, the workforce has struggled to keep pace, according to Bloomberg — a gap between available technology and employee fluency that has helped create an opening for outside trainers.
Anthropic has released agent templates targeting financial services tasks including pitchbook building, credit memo drafting, and financial statement auditing, signaling how rapidly the tools available to banks are multiplying — even as the workforce capable of using them lags behind.
Job pressure is compounding the urgency. At Standard Chartered, plans are in place to eliminate thousands of support roles over a four-year horizon, while Citigroup, Wells Fargo $WFC, and Bank of America together shed upward of 5,000 positions in the first three months of 2026 alone, according to Bloomberg.
"What people are really paying for is transformation, not just prompts or templates," Felipe Sinisterra told Bloomberg. "What we do is come in and spark that shift."
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