AlphaLab

Neither. We do research, not trading decisions. You bring a hypothesis, the team investigates it, and you get back a defended result showing what held up, what did not and the evidence behind both. Nothing reaches a live account without your explicit authorisation, and every strategy builds a forward track record on a paper account first. A real edge is what you have that others do not, and anything sold to a crowd stops being an edge the moment the crowd buys it.

The work is yours. Your hypotheses, your backlog, your research history and your forward track records stay with you, and moving from a single desk to a firm desk carries all of it across intact. Firm desks add a shared workspace with attribution and a full sign-off record, so you can see who briefed what and what was approved by whom.

No, and it is one of the more common reasons firms come to us. The Lab Setup program stands up the research function itself: the desk, the data, the validation standard and the working process. A Mentor sits under every seat, teaching as the team works and writing to your level, so the capability builds inside your firm rather than staying with us.

Those give you tools. We give you a team and a desk that is already built. The layer that eats most research time at real firms is licensed and aligned data, an engine whose answers hold up, and validation independent enough to be worth having, and that layer costs more to stand up than the people who sit at it. You also investigate several hypotheses in parallel rather than one at a time.

You get a refutation with the evidence behind it, which is a result rather than a failure. Before anything reaches you it has to survive four questions: does it hold out of sample, does it work only in one regime, does it survive costs, and how much size can it hold. The Risk Analyst is independent of whoever built the strategy, never originates work of its own, and its sign-off is a deterministic robustness run rather than a second opinion.

With a free scoped pilot. One investigation, around thirty days, taken through the full process to a defended strategy or an honest refutation. From there, a standing desk under your direction, contracted rather than checked out, with the researcher count and terms agreed with you. We run a small number of pilots at a time, so ask about the current slot.