# What is an Atomist?

> An Atomist is a strategy designer.

Atomists are curators that design the strategy of the vault. They construct their investment universe by selecting assets, actions, and markets via Fuses and substrates. Atomists can commission an external [Alpha](/build-on-fusion/architecture-overview/what-is-an-alpha.md) or run their own internal Alpha using their own optimization and risk parameters to automate the Vault. \
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An Atomist might be one of the following profiles:

* Risk Curators
* Asset Managers
* Crypto native Funds
* TradFi Funds
* Protocols
* DAO Treasuries
* and so on

Fusion is particularly suitable for [institutional](https://docs.ipor.io/fusion-for-institutions/) use.


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