Open core
The operating system for multi‑strategy funds.
It runs on your quant’s machine, against your own data, and records every experiment as it happens. The portal is where that work becomes a decision, a position, and something your investment committee can sign.
Two dependencies. Importing it makes no network call. Your data never leaves the laptop.
- Built for
- Funds under $1B, 5 to 20 people
- Where quants work
- Their own Python, their own data
- What we keep
- The findings, never your data
- What we never do
- Place a trade
Who it is for
Three doors, one system.
A fund runs on work that rarely meets. Research happens in code. Decisions happen in conversations. Reviews happen from memory, weeks later. The gap between them is where reasoning gets lost and where nobody can afterwards say why.
The quant
pip installNothing about how they work has to change.
- Their language, their libraries, their data, on their own machine.
- It runs the experiment they were going to run anyway, and counts how many versions they tried.
- Every run is written down as it happens, including the ones that failed.
- It is allowed to say the idea does not hold up. That is the reason to run it.
The PM
the portalOne place to judge the work and turn it into a position.
- See what was tried this week, on what data, and what came back.
- See what is live, what changed, and what needs an answer today.
- Size against your own limits and your own record, not today's confidence.
- The reason for the size is kept, not just the size.
The CIO
a packetThe review writes itself out of work already done.
- What each sleeve holds, against the limits you set for it.
- Which limits were hit, what you decided, and why.
- A pack for the committee and for diligence, built from evidence already collected.
- Every number arrives with what it was based on attached.
Open core
The engine is free. Always.
Everything that computes a number runs on your machine, offline, with no account, forever. We do not put the tests that keep you honest behind a paywall, because a research tool that hides its own rigour is not one.
pip install alphaengine
Yours, free, offline
- The whole engine: every statistic, every test, every correction.
- Runs your parameter search and counts the versions for you.
- Writes a study file to your own disk that still opens in two years.
- No account, no key, no network call on import.
the platform
What one laptop cannot do
- It persists. Runs, studies and decisions stop living in a notebook.
- It crosses to another person. Your PM can judge the work without rebuilding it.
- It adds up over time. Weeks and months become a review, a letter, a diligence pack.
- It holds the fund together: several sleeves, one set of limits, one record.
A study written on a laptop with no account opens unchanged in the portal. See what a plan costs.
What it replaces
One system instead of five.
Most investment processes are held together by hand. The work is real, but it lives in five places, and the record exists only if someone remembers to write it. We make the process itself the software.
The spreadsheet where the idea gets written up
Ideas are captured in one shape, so nothing gets left out.
The notebook where someone checks whether it works
The test runs the same way every time, and it is allowed to say no.
The ideas that did not work, which nobody wrote down
Every attempt is kept, so nobody spends a week rediscovering last quarter's dead end.
The sizing conversation that happens from memory
Size comes from your limits and your record, and the reason is kept with it.
The scramble before a review
The record is already written, because writing it is how the work gets done.
How it works
Five steps, run the same way every time.
Not because process is virtuous, but because a process you run identically is the only kind you can learn anything from.
- 01
Structure
Write the idea down properly
What has to be true, what it is worth if you are right, what you lose if you are wrong, and the dates that settle it.
- 02
Test
Find out whether it holds up
It runs against its own history and corrects for how many things you tried. Most ideas that look good do not survive that. Which is the point.
- 03
Size
Put on the right amount
Against your limits, and against how your calls have actually paid rather than how confident you feel today.
- 04
Watch
Know when something changes
The system holds what you said would change your mind, and tells you when it does.
- 05
Record
Keep proof you can hand over
Every decision is time-stamped with what you knew when you made it. Nothing is edited after the fact.
Closed positions feed the next one. As the record builds, the system learns what your conviction has actually been worth, and sizes to it.
The record
Proof you did what you said you would.
Diligence does not ask for your returns. It asks how you decide, whether you follow your own rules, and whether you can show it. That record builds itself here, out of work you were doing anyway.
Written before, not after
What would change your mind is recorded at entry, so the exit can be checked against it.
Frozen at the moment of the call
Each decision keeps what you knew when you made it. Later edits are not possible.
Shareable without exposure
Hand someone the reasoning and the record behind a revocable link. Never your positions, never your data.
- EnteredRegional banks, long short2026 06 24
Tested and passed. Sized at half the cap. Two dates to watch.
- TrimmedSemiconductor pair2026 06 11
Did not pass. Held at a starter size and flagged for review.
- ClosedRate cut steepener2026 05 30
Reached the level written down at entry. Closed on the rule, not the mood.
Illustrative. Not investment advice.
Boundaries
What we do not do.
We are not an accounting system
No positions of record, no valuations, no reconciliation, no NAV. Your administrator owns everything after the trade. We sit before it, on the decision.
We do not touch execution
The platform never places, routes or manages an order. It can hand your systems a ranked list; it will never send a share count anywhere.
We are not the source of your edge
We do not invent ideas or hand you names you did not bring. We tell you whether the idea you have holds up, and stop you trading the ones that do not.
We do not keep your data
Your numbers run through the system and are discarded. Nothing to leak, and no licensing to untangle between you and your own data.
Start with the engine. It costs nothing.
Install it, point it at your own data, and see whether your last good idea survives being counted properly. The portal is there when the work needs to reach somebody else.
Computational tooling, not investment advice. The full stored and never-stored line is on the Trust page.