Jason Johns • February 2, 2026

In The Harbor -Josh Pantony


In this episode of In the Harbor, we sit down with Josh Pantony, Founder and CEO of Boosted.ai, to explore how AI is reshaping not just investment research—but the business of advice itself.


With a background spanning capital markets, data science, and applied machine learning, Josh has spent his career focused on one core problem: helping advisors and investors make better decisions faster—without sacrificing rigor, transparency, or trust.

Under Josh’s leadership, Boosted.ai has developed Alfa, a conversational and agentic AI platform that integrates directly into real-world investment workflows. Beyond portfolio construction and macro analysis, Josh is especially focused on how AI can help advisors scale their impact—from generating differentiated insights to improving how they identify, engage, and communicate with prospective clients.

Josh is a frequent speaker on the future of AI in wealth management, with a practical, advisor-first perspective on using technology as a force multiplier—not a replacement—for human judgment and relationship-driven advice.



We start with Josh’s career arc and the founding of Boosted.ai, then unpack what agentic AI really means versus traditional large language models. From there, the conversation expands into how advisors are using AI to move faster and smarter across their workflows—from macro research and portfolio construction to prospecting and client acquisition.

Josh explains how AI can help advisors surface timely, relevant insights that spark better conversations with prospects, personalize outreach at scale, and spend less time searching for information—and more time building trust. We also dive into Boosted’s work around voice and conversational interfaces, why spoken interaction is a natural evolution for research and prospecting, and how advisors can stay compliant while embracing these tools.

We close with a forward-looking discussion on what the advisor of the future looks like—and why AI may ultimately make the human side of advice more valuable, not less.

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