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VecViz App on OpenBB makes target prices explainable

June 16, 2026 — 8 MIN

VecViz App on OpenBB makes target prices explainable

Many active investors still rebuild their view of a name by hand after every earnings call. The chart lives in one place, narrative notes live in a document, and the quant view of upside, downside, and odds sits in a spreadsheet or a risk system. Every time the story changes, they have to eyeball channels, re‑read transcripts, adjust a target price, and then explain that change to a PM or an IC with no single surface that ties it all together.

VecViz closes that gap. Instead of treating “technical”, “fundamental”, and “quant” as separate worlds, it links them around one question: where should this ticker trade, given its price structure and the narrative that drove it over time.

VecViz is built for fundamental analysts who want their view of a ticker on the same footing as quant and technical analysis, for PMs and traders who want narratives and probabilities anchored to the chart, and for quants who need an explainable model they can show to non‑quants.

Inside the OpenBB Workspace, that view sits next to whatever else matters to the team and is fully in reach of the OpenBB Copilot, so agents can work across chart, narrative, and probability distributions without leaving the same environment.

OpenBB App Marketplace, a curated set of apps built by financial data providers, available directly inside the OpenBB Workspace. Analysts and researchers can find, trial, and connect to any app in a few clicks.

Inside the VecViz model

VecViz starts from the price chart but does not stop at drawing a couple of trend lines. The Vector Model systematically identifies and scores price channels, links LLM‑sourced and characterised narrative elements (“VecEvents”) to those channels, and pushes both into machine‑learned price probability distributions. The result is a structure where every target price, risk band, and analogue ties back to both the tape and the underlying story.

VNA Target Price

At the centre is the VNA Target Price, VecViz’s Vector Narrative Alignment methodology. It finds where a ticker’s price should sit relative to the centre of its channel trajectories, based on an LLM‑sourced narrative timeline, cross‑ticker adjustments for excess bullish or bearish bias versus the market, and the Vector Model’s 6‑ to 12‑month base‑case probability distributions.

Inside OpenBB, VecViz MCP tools let you pull VNA Target Price odds by forward date from the Price Probability widget and adjust that target directly when your view of the narrative changes, instead of overriding it in a spreadsheet.

V‑Score Spider Chart

To make this explainable, VecViz ships the V‑Score Spider Chart, a machine‑learning‑based ranking of expected forward price return with its drivers visible. Each axis shows the percentile rank of a key channel or probability feature, and the chart overlays the closest historical analogues from the highest and lowest return quintiles. The result is one view that places your current ticker alongside its bull analogue and its bear analogue, spanning six horizons from one day to one year forward.

Price Probability Forecast

Around that core, VecViz adds a few focused panels that make the model usable day to day. A Price Probability Forecast view shows Vector Model price percentiles to the downside and upside across six forward horizons, explicitly reflecting jumpy and asymmetric volatility, with a sigma‑model overlay so you can see where a simple normal approximation diverges.

Vector & Sigma VaROaR History

A VaR and OaR history view gives historical 95 and 99 percentile Value at Risk and Opportunity at Risk for both the Vector Model and a sigma‑based view, which helps you see whether a target or scenario sits inside or outside what the model treats as a typical tail for that name.

For options work, VecViz exposes Vector‑derived option fair value estimates across a wide range of strikes and expiries, so you can compare model‑implied distributions for two tickers without rebuilding the math yourself.

VV Data Table

Finally, the VV Data Table provides about thirteen months of daily history for key VecViz metrics as a structured table you can sort, filter, and combine. You can filter it manually or call the VecViz MCP screener, and because it lives inside OpenBB, it is easy to merge with other data sources via Copilot, whether that is simple valuation ratios, factor scores, or anything else already in your Workspace.

VecViz’s app on OpenBB: analytical widgets and MCP tools

VecViz ships as an OpenBB App with six analytic tools exposed as widgets and a growing set of MCP tools that turn those analytics into building blocks for agents.

In a typical Workspace, an analyst will pin the VNA Target Price panel, V‑Score Spider Chart, Price Probability Forecast, VaR/OaR history, option fair values, and the VV Data Table alongside their own holdings, benchmark, and risk views. Because these widgets live inside the OpenBB Workspace, the OpenBB Copilot and custom agents can pull VecViz data, cross‑reference it with other apps, and write back updated narratives or targets without leaving the dashboard.

Under the hood, the VecViz app also exposes MCP tools such as the VV screener, the VecViz Report, and the VecEvents tool that lets agents read transcripts against the existing narrative timeline. And because the MCP servers are available inside Workspace, teams can add their own skills on top of the same model rather than starting from scratch.

Explore VecViz MCP tools in the AI tab, under "MCP Servers"

App subscribers also receive starter prompts from VecViz that show how to chain those tools together into longer workflows.

Find VecViz suggested prompts in the AI tab, under "Prompts"

One OXY workflow, end to end

Most PMs update a target price after earnings by juggling a chart, a few ratios, and a transcript in different tools. Inside OpenBB, VecViz turns that manual process into a repeatable agent workflow.

In the example below, VecViz founder Rodger Coyne starts with the VV Data Table screener to find tickers where the VNA Target Price, V‑Score, and upside/downside returns all line up, then calls the VecViz Report MCP tool on a shortlist that includes Goodyear, Freeport, and Occidental. The report shows where each ticker’s key metrics sit on a z‑score basis versus their own history and versus the cross‑section, so Goodyear and Freeport drop out quickly while OXY surfaces with stronger, broadly positive scores.

From there, he pulls OXY’s most recent earnings transcript into context alongside the existing VecEvents and runs a VecViz skill that asks the OpenBB Copilot to re‑read the transcript, confirm or adjust those events, and propose any new ones the model missed. The same workflow works just as well on other text‑based content, whether that is internal analyst notes or external research, as long as you bring it into the Workspace context.

In this case, the agent confirms some events, changes others, and flags a new Middle East operational disruption; VecViz then pushes those changes back through its Vector Model to knock roughly eleven dollars off the original VNA Target Price path, with the reasoning traceable back to specific passages in the transcript.

All of this happens on a single OXY dashboard that also shows VecViz channels, the V‑Score spider, price probability distributions, and VaR/OaR history next to positions and risk. Each quarter, the PM only needs to bring in the new transcript and trigger the skill, and the agent does the rest in a way that can be inspected, explained, and evolved as their process matures.

How to get started

To use VecViz inside OpenBB, connect the app from the OpenBB App Marketplace and add a VecViz API key.

The current VecViz subscription costs $19 per month, billed monthly with no long‑term lock‑in, and it covers all six analytic tools, the associated MCP tools, and around 140 popular US equity and ETF tickers, with more coming online over time.

You can sign up here.

If you are already running your equity process in OpenBB, VecViz gives you one place where chart structure, narrative, and probabilistic targets live together and where both analysts and agents can work against the same model.

Overview

  • Inside the VecViz model
  • VNA Target Price
  • V‑Score Spider Chart
  • Price Probability Forecast
  • Vector & Sigma VaROaR History
  • VecViz’s app on OpenBB: analytical widgets and MCP tools
  • One OXY workflow, end to end
  • How to get started

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August 25, 2026

OpenBB belongs to everyone

Didier Lopes

Founder & CEO, OpenBB


TL;DR: We are open-sourcing the entire OpenBB product suite under a permissive open source license

Today is bittersweet.

On December 20, 2020, over the Christmas holidays, I wrote the first lines of Gamestonk Terminal, what would eventually become OpenBB. My flight home to visit my parents had been cancelled because of COVID, so I stayed in London and started building a tool to streamline my own investment research process.

At the time, the idea was simple: individuals (and firms) should be able to own their research platforms. They shouldn't have to adapt their workflows to whatever a data or software vendor decided to build. They should own the entire experience - from the data they connect to, to the interface analysts and PMs use every day, to the APIs, models, skills, tools and AI agents that increasingly form part of the investment process.

Over the last almost six years, OpenBB evolved far beyond anything I imagined when writing those first lines of code. We started as an open-source terminal and went on to build the SDK (now Open Data Platform), the OpenBB Bot, the OpenBB Workspace, the OpenBB Copilot, the Excel Add-in, and an ecosystem of applications created by our team, our partners and the community.

We kept innovating and being at the forefront of what user experience should be. I was prepared to die on the hill that if we were to become the financial infrastructure software for the buy-side and sell-side, then we could not monetize data. Monetizing data would have made us a data vendor. The margins would have been higher, but the incentive would have shifted from offering a better UI/UX to selling more datasets. Selling an infrastructure platform is incredibly challenging, for many reasons. And so we died on that hill. Along the way, we built an incredible community, reached millions of people through our open-source project, worked with some of the largest financial institutions in the world and assembled a team that consistently built far beyond what should have been possible for a company of 10 people. There is a lot to be proud of.

But despite all of that, we couldn't find the product-market fit needed to build a sustainable business around this vision within the time we had.

As a founder, I've always bet the house on the next customer, the next feature or the next launch to change the trajectory of the company. Until even just last weeks, when we announced self-serve Workspace Lite. If we were ever going to close doors, then we never wanted to look back and think "what if".

In hindsight, we could obviously have made different decisions - e.g., surrounding data, or going more vertical with clients and their workflows. But short-term monetization was not something I was prioritizing over where I thought the industry was heading. Ultimately, I wanted us to stand for something.

In the last phase of the company, I explored many paths to give OpenBB a better home. We spoke with larger companies that shared parts of our vision and tried to find a home where the products, and ideally the team behind them, could continue to grow. Ultimately, we weren't able to make that happen.

I left London with my wife to build OpenBB and dedicated almost six years of my life to it. So did the team. We built at the intersection of finance, AI, open source and software infrastructure, often working on problems before they became obvious to the broader market.

Before MCP existed, we had created our own API protocol so agents could interact with the data and analytics widgets in the workspace. In 2023, we built askobb, which let anyone ask investment research questions in natural language that required joining multiple different datasets together.

What this team created deserves to continue existing.

More importantly, I still believe the original vision is inevitable. The future of financial software is not a single platform every firm is forced to use. It is thousands of firms building environments that reflect how they actually work - their own data, internal systems, investment processes, risk models and compliance requirements. Increasingly, their own APIs, MCP servers, models and AI agents too.

If that future is coming, then the technology we built shouldn't disappear simply because we weren't able to commercialize it successfully.

It should become available to everyone.

Today, with the support of the team and OSS Capital, we are committing to releasing the entire OpenBB product suite under a permissive license. This includes OpenBB Workspace, Open Data Platform, OpenBB Copilot and the OpenBB Excel Add-in.

These products represent over 5 years of engineering, millions of dollars invested in R&D and thousands of decisions, experiments and iterations with users. They will become a foundation that individuals, startups, data providers and financial institutions can freely use, modify and build on top of.

We will share more details about the order and timing of each release as we complete that work. In parallel, we will determine the right long-term structure to steward the projects, support contributors and preserve what made OpenBB special in the first place. Existing customers and users of the hosted products will hear from us directly about timelines.

For the partners who built applications for the OpenBB ecosystem, I hope this decision makes your products even more valuable. You already did the work of turning your datasets and analytics into applications that users can interact with. Now, those applications will be able to run inside infrastructure that firms can fully own, extend and customize, while combining them with data and tools from other providers across the ecosystem.

The same applies to the broader community. Developers will be able to use the entire OpenBB stack as a starting point rather than rebuilding the same infrastructure from scratch. Firms will be able to deploy it, adapt it to their requirements and connect it to the systems where their differentiated knowledge already lives.

Over the years, many talented people helped make OpenBB what it is today - employees, contributors, partners. Every one of them left a mark on the product.

But I want to recognize the people who carried OpenBB to the very end. Through the uncertainty and the final stretch, they kept building. They are engineers, product builders, designers and operators who have worked across financial data, AI, developer infrastructure and open source. In alphabetical order, they are:

  • Andrew Kenreich, Head of Product Engineering - LinkedIn
  • Darren Lee, Software Engineer - GitHub, LinkedIn
  • Ihsan Saracgil, CPO - LinkedIn
  • José Donato, Software Engineer - LinkedIn, X, GitHub, Website
  • Juan Alfonso, Software Engineer - GitHub, LinkedIn
  • Minh Hoang, Head of Product - LinkedIn, GitHub
  • Ogonna Nnamani, DevOps - LinkedIn, Medium
  • Rita Figueiredo, Head of Marketing - LinkedIn, Website
  • Rita Soares, Head of Design - LinkedIn, Website
  • Theodore Aptekarev, CTO - LinkedIn, GitHub

To our customers: thank you for trusting a small team with such an ambitious vision.

To our partners: thank you for building alongside us and helping create a more open financial data ecosystem. I hope the next chapter gives you even more freedom to serve your users.

To our investors: thank you for believing in us, including when OpenBB was little more than an idea being built from my living room in London. In particular, I want to thank OSS Capital and Joseph Jacks for supporting this decision and enabling the technology to live beyond the company. Two people I want to name separately: Justin Hoffman and Larry Augustin - working with both of you made me a better founder, but more importantly, a better person.

To every contributor who opened a pull request, reported a bug, wrote documentation, answered a question in Discord, built an integration or simply told someone else about OpenBB: thank you. OpenBB would not have been possible without you.

Finally, to every person who spent part of their career building OpenBB: thank you. We pushed the industry forward and proved that world-class financial infrastructure can be built in the open. The commercial outcome doesn't change the quality of the work.

OpenBB didn't become the company I imagined when I started this journey. But the mission was always larger than the company, and I still believe the ideas behind it are right.

If, ten years from now, firms around the world are using OpenBB as the foundation for software they truly own - connecting their own data, building their own workflows and deploying their own AI agents - then what we built will have achieved something that lasts far beyond us; which was my goal all along: have an impact.

Thank you for one hell of a ride.

Didier Lopes
(LinkedIn, X, GitHub)