An independent financial economist has partnered with Kalshi on a new AI tool on top of the prediction-market exchange that aims to help small businesses hedge against everything from bad weather to election shocks—without hiring a Wall Street bank.
The tool, called Blanket, quietly launched in stealth at tryblanket.app and is going live publicly this week, according to materials shared exclusively with Fortune and an interview with its cocreator, Lauris Zminsky, a London-based founder who calls himself a “forward deployed philosopher” on his X account, where he says he wants “markets for all priceable states of the world.”
