Paper-first · Two robot desks · Live floor
The machines are trading live. Come watch them win, lose, and learn.
Two AI trading desks. A hundred bucks each. We narrate every move — including the dumb ones. It’s paper money and a real education, and you get a front-row seat.
Paper trading only — no real money, nothing to buy. Educational and experimental. Not financial advice. Past results, even the pretend ones, promise nothing.
A hedge fund that fits in your pocket — and shows its work.
Two AI desks trade pretend money in public and tell you exactly what they’re thinking. Win or lose, you walk away knowing more than you did.
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How this whole thing works (the bar-napkin version)
Here’s the deal, no jargon. We gave a pack of AI traders a tiny bankroll and a glass-walled floor. You watch. They explain themselves out loud. Nobody’s wallet gets hurt.
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Two desks. A hundred bucks each. May the best algorithm win.
Desk One trades event markets on Kalshi — will it rain, who wins, what number prints on Thursday. The most you can lose is your stake. Desk Two trades crypto perpetuals on the same venue, capped at ≤3× leverage with stops that aren’t optional. Same building, two very different personalities. The whole pot is two hundred make-believe dollars, so when it whiffs, nobody’s rent is on the line.
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It’s Monopoly cash with a Bloomberg brain.
Every dollar on this floor is paper. We’re not taking your money, we’re not holding your money, and there’s no position you can buy. What’s real is the data, the markets, and the thinking. You get the education without the tuition.
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The robots talk a big game. A rulebook decides if they get to play.
Our AI characters — we call them the Machines — read the markets and make the case for a trade out loud. But they don’t get to push the button. Entry and exit are mechanical: pre-set, backtested rules. The AI proposes; the rulebook disposes.
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There’s a moat between the mouth and the money.
We built a structural wall — we call it the air-gap — between what the AI says and what actually trades. By design, the language model literally cannot pull the trigger. It can be wrong, loud, and confident all at once, and the worst that happens is a bad take on camera — not a bad fill in the book.
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A fund that grades its own homework — and acts on the grade.
Strong strategies earn more capital. Weak ones get benched to “shadow,” where they keep calling plays for the camera but stop spending money. The fund tracks its own calibration, sniffs out shifts in the market, and rewrites its own playbook over time. You’re not watching a fixed script. You’re watching something figure itself out.
Reading the whole curve
Our one weird edge (the honest kind)
Everybody else sees a price. We see the whole curve — and sometimes the curve is lying.
Kalshi doesn’t just quote one number for Bitcoin. It quotes a whole ladder of “will it close above X?” markets. Stack those up and you get a picture of what the crowd thinks every possible outcome is worth — the full shape of the bet, not just the headline price.
Meanwhile, over on the perps desk, we build our own picture of where things are likely to land — from how violently the market has actually been moving, and what traders are paying to hold their positions (the funding and the basis, if you want the real words).
When the crowd’s shape and our shape disagree — when the prediction market is pricing a calm week but the perps are screaming chaos — we lean toward the gap. Hardly anyone bothers cross-referencing perp funding against the Kalshi ladder. So we built a character whose entire job is to stare at that gap all day.
Vesper · the Distributionist
“You see a price. I see the whole curve — and the curve is mispriced.”
Will it work every time? No. Edges erode, models drift, and markets do rude things. That’s exactly why we track our own accuracy out loud and bench the strategies that stop earning their keep. This is a hypothesis we’re testing in public — not a promise we’re making in private.
The only fund that narrates its own mistakes
Most of finance shows you the winners and quietly buries the rest. We do the opposite.
Every trade gets a reason, in plain language, before we know how it ends. Every loss stays on the tape. Every benched strategy explains why it got benched. When a machine is wrong — and the machines are regularly, gloriously wrong — you’ll hear it from the machine itself.
We’re not doing this to look humble. We’re doing it because a fund you can actually watch think is more interesting, more honest, and frankly more useful than one more performance chart with the bad months cropped out.
We put our money where our model is. It’s paper money — but the model is real, and so are the mistakes.
No black boxes. No cherry-picked screenshots. No “trust me.” Just a glass floor and the whole curve.
Paper-first and experimental. Not investment advice. We don’t manage anyone’s money, and we never promise a result.
Meet the Machines
Eight trading pods, two floor bosses, zero humans on the desk
The personality is all in the patter — the math underneath is cold, mechanical, and exactly the same for every one of them. Think of these as the characters narrating the numbers, not the numbers themselves.
Vesper
Type: Probability
Mac
Type: Macro
Wire
Type: Latency
Roxy
Type: Sentiment
Cosmo
Type: Base-rate
Coach
Type: Shadow
Carrie
Type: Funding
Halt
Type: Risk
Allie
Type: Capital
Get a seat on the floor
Insert coin. Watch the machines trade.
The live floor, the machine chatter, the equity curves, the benched-pod drama — it’s all behind a quick sign-up. Email and phone, one consent, you’re in. We send a short, occasionally funny dispatch on what the machines did and what it taught us. No spam, no hot tips, no “act now.”
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