# Public

> Investing for those who take it seriously.

Public is a multi-asset investing platform that lets users trade stocks, bonds, ETFs, options, crypto, and treasuries from a single account with AI-powered tools.

Public provides brokerage, investment advisory, and retirement account services in one platform for individual investors seeking consolidated access to multiple asset classes. Users can automate trading strategies using AI-powered agents, build custom index portfolios through Generated Assets, and earn rebates on options contracts. The platform does not participate in payment for order flow on equity trades, and all brokerage services operate under FINRA and SIPC oversight.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2019-09-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/public

## Products

- [Public](https://thegrid.id/profiles/public): Public is a multi-asset investing platform that allows retail investors in the United States to trade stocks, ETFs, options, bonds, cryptocurrencies, and US Treasuries within a single brokerage account. The platform provides a High-Yield Cash Account that sweeps deposits to FDIC-insured partner banks, a Bond Account that allocates deposits across a portfolio of corporate bonds, and Direct Indexing with automated tax-loss harvesting for customized index tracking. AI-powered features include Generated Assets, which creates investable indices from natural-language prompts with historical backtesting against the S&P 500, and AI Agents, which execute recurring trades and cash movements based on user-defined conditions without requiring code. A Trading API supports programmatic order placement for equities, options, and crypto with commission-free execution and volume-based options rebates. The platform offers Traditional and Roth IRAs, Crypto IRAs custodied by Alto Trust Co, and margin accounts.  (Centralised Exchange, Live, Main Product)

## Links

- [Main](https://public.com)
- [Media Kit/branding](https://public.com/newsroom)
- [Privacy policy](https://public.com/privacy-policy)
- [Terms of Service](https://public.com/terms-of-service)
- [Blog](https://public.com/learn)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/public)
- [Instagram](https://instagram.com/publicapp)
- [Facebook](https://facebook.com/publichello)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/publichello)
- [Medium](https://medium.com/the-public-blog)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/PublicDotCom)
- [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@public)

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## Optional

- [TGS Field Descriptions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-field-descriptions.md): Schema field definitions for The Grid's data model
- [TGS JSON Structure](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-json-structure.md): Data model structure and relationships
- [Product Type Definitions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-definitions.md): Definitions for each product type
- [Product Type Classification](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-classification.md): Guide for classifying products into types
- [Grid MCP Guide](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/grid-search/skills/grid-query/references/grid-mcp-guide.md): How to query The Grid programmatically via MCP