Work With Me

The bet

AI changes what one person can do in quant trading. Not as a copilot that autocompletes code, but as the thing that runs the whole loop: read the research, form a hypothesis, test it honestly, kill it when it fails, and put the survivors in front of real markets. The edge is no longer only a better signal. It’s the speed and rigor of the loop that finds signals, kills the bad ones, and validates the rest. I’m building that loop end to end, and I want to build it with someone who sees the same thing.

What I’m building

A full-stack quant operation where every stage is owned, not rented:

• Discovery: agents that scan papers, sources, and market structure for candidate edge.
• Validation: backtesting built to disprove, not to flatter. Real engines, not a toy.
• Execution: live trading on the same engine hedge funds run, with real capital on the line.
• Orchestration: the feedback loop that ties discovery to live results and compounds what’s learned.

Where this honestly stands

I won’t sell you a track record I don’t have.

• The pipeline runs end to end. Its most reliable output so far is conviction about what doesn’t work: it has killed far more “promising” edges than it has kept. That rigor is the point; most retail quant tooling produces beautiful backtests that die live.
• I hold everything to a harder bar than a backtest: it has to survive real markets with real money. That validation is in progress, not finished.
• I have original research behind the thesis and the stack to act on it. What I don’t yet have is the one proven, live edge that turns this from a strong system into a printing press. Finding that is the current job.

If “no track record yet, but a real system and a clear thesis” is a dealbreaker, we’re not aligned. That’s fine.

How I build: shared ownership, no gatekeeping

I’ve been on the other side of a collaboration where the code and the strategy stayed locked behind one person. You pay, you wait, and you never actually own anything. I won’t build that way, and I won’t ask you to.

• We co-develop. Strategies are built together, not handed over as black boxes. If it’s gated, it’s not a partnership; it’s a service, and that’s a different business.
• Shared upside. Collaborators share in what we make: revenue share, and for a co-founder, a real stake in the platform itself, not a paycheck.
• Own the stack. The whole reason this is full-stack and self-hosted is so we depend on no one’s gate. That principle extends to how we work together.

Who I’m looking for

• A co-founder: a real quant with genuine strength in systematic trading (crypto or equities; depth matters more than the market). Someone who wants to build the fund with me, at least half their time. Medium risk appetite: we don’t blow up, and we don’t play so safe we never trade.
• A contributor: someone who wants to build a specific strategy with me on revenue share. Lighter commitment, same principle: co-developed, not gated.

Above the role, one thing matters most: you genuinely believe AI is going to reshape how quant trading gets done, and you want to build on top of that, not watch from the sidelines.

What I bring

The platform, capital (specifics on request), my time, and a way of working that treats you as an owner. What I want back is concrete: ideas I haven’t had, code that works, data I haven’t seen. Let’s find the edge together.

Test me first

Don’t take my word for the rigor. Send me a trading idea: a signal, a strategy, a paper you believe in. I’ll run it through my agent and tell you what’s likely wrong with it. If you like how that conversation goes, we should talk.

Contact: vlad@polyquantai.com

Vlad Rodeski