The Journey
A decade of trading-platform engineering, now operated end-to-end by an AI agent organization — built in public, documented honestly.
The arc
- The decade (2015–2025). From manual trading to a full algorithmic pipeline: signal generation, strategy management as structured content, automated bracket execution against a live clearing broker.
- Year one on real capital (2025). The failure modes you only find with real money: margin calls, order rejections, sizing collisions. Each became a control in the 2026 model.
- The AI organization (2026). A multi-agent AI org took over operations: 26 roles, 98 numbered procedures, continuous work loops, file-based coordination — and its own spectacular failures, each with a public post-mortem.
- The autonomy era (2026). Layered risk defense, nightly self-audit against broker truth, ruthless strategy curation — deployed dark, armed on live proof, rolled back when wrong. And we published the rollbacks.
Our content rule
Every post on this site passes our honesty-first editorial standard: show the good, the bad, and the ugly. Exact numbers, failures as failures, no marketing spin on incidents. If a fix took three attempts, the post says three. If our own forensics published a wrong number before the right one, the post says that too.
Why move off a website builder?
This site itself is part of the story: static pages generated from the same version-controlled markdown our organization already writes, reviewed through the same pipeline as everything else, hosted on our own infrastructure. Easier management, more control, lower cost — and every edit is a commit with an author and a diff.