The Cognitive Primitives of Investment Banking: An Ontology for AI-Driven Augmentation in High-Stakes Finance
A conceptual ontology for distinguishing the cognitive work performed across high-stakes investment-banking tasks before applying AI augmentation.
01 / Method
What the research does
The paper derives four classes of cognitive primitives and associated truth conditions from public and theoretical sources.
02 / Limitations
What the evidence does not establish
The work defines an ontology rather than reporting a benchmark, production deployment, institutional adoption or autonomous decision system.
03 / Institutional relevance
Why the research matters
Helps institutions identify which parts of financial work can be bounded, tested and augmented without collapsing materially different reasoning tasks into one model prompt.
04 / Full Paper
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05 / Citation & Provenance
Source record
- Suggested citation
- Umran Nayani. (2025). The Cognitive Primitives of Investment Banking: An Ontology for AI-Driven Augmentation in High-Stakes Finance. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5963734
- SSRN record
- SSRN 5963734
- Publication status
- Working paper published on SSRN. It is not described here as peer reviewed.
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- © Little Black Journal LLP / Umran Nayani. All rights reserved. This paper is made available for reading and personal reference. No additional reuse licence is granted unless expressly stated.
07 / Application
From research to institutional work
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