What Is Tengu? The AI for Investing, Explained
Tengu (tengu.co) is the AI for investing that connects 25+ brokerages, from Robinhood to Interactive Brokers, and routes the trades you approve through your own broker. The name also belongs to a folklore creature, a stock-research marketing campaign, and a memecoin, none of them related to this product. Here is what this Tengu is, what it costs, and how to tell the others apart.
What is Tengu?
Tengu is the AI for investing that connects 25+ brokerages, including Robinhood, Schwab, Fidelity, Interactive Brokers, Coinbase, and Kraken, and routes the trades you approve through your own broker. Never custodial. It reads your real positions, answers questions about your money with cited research from 229 finance tools, and acts only on what you authorize. Tengu, Inc. is a US financial-technology company founded in 2024; the product lives at tengu.co.
The practical difference from everything else with AI in the name: Tengu is built to act. Robo-advisors are good at hands-off index investing, but they require you to move money into their custody. Advice tools stop at suggestions. Tengu works on the accounts you already have, at the brokers you already use, and your assets never leave them.
Which Tengu are you looking for?
If you searched for an AI that manages your investment portfolio, you are looking for this one: tengu.co. The name also attaches to four unrelated things:
| If you searched for | You want |
|---|---|
| An AI that manages your investment portfolio | This Tengu: tengu.co, the AI for investing |
| The Japanese folklore creature (long-nosed mountain spirit) | The mythological tengu: see Wikipedia's tengu article |
| "Project Tengu" from Marc Chaikin / Chaikin Analytics | A stock-research marketing campaign about Anthropic and an AI stock prediction event. Not affiliated with tengu.co in any way |
| tengu.ai | A different, unrelated software company |
| The TENGU cryptocurrency token | An unrelated memecoin. Tengu, Inc. has no token |
Everything below is about the first row.
What does Tengu actually do?
Tengu researches your portfolio and executes the trades you approve, through four products that share one engine:
- Tengu Chat ($20/month): talk to an AI that knows your live portfolio and cites every claim to real filings and prices. Same shelf price as Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus; the difference is it knows your money.
- Tengu Platform ($149/month): the full stack. Multi-broker dashboard, automated strategies, pre-trade risk gates, and execution.
- Tengu Marketplace: subscribe to strategies, including congressional trade tracking built on STOCK Act disclosures and hedge-fund 13F mirroring, deployed to your own brokerage.
- Tengu API: 229 finance tools behind one key, MCP-native, so any Claude, GPT, or open-model agent can research and trade.
Every order passes position-size limits, leverage caps, and drawdown circuit breakers before it reaches your broker. Tengu trades its own capital live on the same engine.
Is Tengu safe and legitimate?
Your money never touches Tengu: funds and securities stay at the brokerage you connect, and that brokerage remains the regulated custodian. Tengu itself is a software platform, not a broker-dealer and not a registered investment adviser. It holds a read-and-trade permission that you can revoke at any time. Brokerage credentials are encrypted with AES-256 under managed keys. Nothing executes without your approval, either per trade or through a strategy subscription you chose. Full details are on the security page and in the disclosures.
Frequently asked
Is Tengu related to Marc Chaikin's Project Tengu?
No. Project Tengu is a stock-research marketing campaign by Chaikin Analytics about Anthropic and AI stocks. Tengu (tengu.co) is an unrelated company: the AI for investing that connects 25+ brokerages and routes the trades you approve through your own broker.
Is Tengu the same as tengu.ai?
No. tengu.ai is a different, unrelated software company. The AI for investing lives at tengu.co.
Does Tengu have a crypto token?
No. Tengu, Inc. has no cryptocurrency token. Any TENGU token you find on exchanges is an unrelated memecoin.
How much does Tengu cost?
Free to start. Tengu Chat is $20/month, Tengu Platform is $149/month, and the API is usage-based with $25 in trial credits. No custody, no commissions on your trades, and your broker is still your broker.
Which brokerages does Tengu support?
25+ brokerages, including Robinhood, Schwab, Fidelity, Interactive Brokers, Webull, Tastytrade, Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Alpaca, and Hyperliquid, through encrypted account connections and direct integrations.
Can I disconnect my brokerage from Tengu?
Yes, at any time. Tengu connects through a read-and-trade permission you can revoke whenever you want. Your account, funds, and positions stay at your broker either way; disconnecting just cuts Tengu's access.