Precision Trading Instruments

Instruments for traders who want quality

We searched for honest, instrumented trading tools. We couldn't buy them. So we built them — with mandatory receipts, pre-registered methodology, and zero performance claims.

Hadal (/ˈheɪ.dəl/) — from the hadal zone, the ocean's deepest realm.

methodology pre-registered · artifacts content-hashed
"We searched for it, couldn't buy it, and built it — module by module. First-frustrated-customer validation."

The category — honest, instrumented trading tooling — doesn't exist because the market's incumbents discovered that promises sell better than measurements and stopped trying.

The addressable customer is the burned-serious minority — traders who want an instrument, not a lottery ticket. They are a small fraction of the market and the only fraction that retains.

What we measure vs. what gets sold
Publication cadence floorMeasured per broker
Two-sided coordinationDetected
Spread regime detectionClassified
Freeze/rollover behaviourInstrumented
Industry standard disclosures★★★★★
Typical "reviews"Affiliate links
Methodology publishedNever

Six families.
One discipline.

Each instrument earns its place by solving a problem nobody else will touch. We do not resell external analytics or white-label third-party models. Every metric, framework, and mathematical model is proprietary intelligence, researched and computed strictly in-house.

Feed & Execution

Broker Feed Auditor

The fidelity battery as a service. Publication cadence, coordination structure, staleness distributions, spread regimes — on your own broker feed.

Feed Auditor (P1)Microstructure Dashboard (P6)Execution Cost Auditor (P9)
Backtest Honesty

Overfit Auditor

Upload-and-check honesty for backtests. PBO, deflated Sharpe, effective-N, collapse ratio, dual-denominator FDR. Customers search for exactly this and find papers, not products.

Overfit Auditor (P2)Data Forensics (P10)Positioning Intelligence (P12)
Desk Discipline

Prop-Evaluee Risk Guardian

Desk-readiness for funded-account candidates. Drawdown-halt monitoring, sizing grids, risk-of-ruin surfaces, correlation-adjusted heat. Their #1 failure mode is exactly what fail-closed machinery polices.

Risk Guardian (P3)Stress Harness (P8)Event Risk Gate (P13)
The Honesty Stack

Data · Research · Agents

Three layers, one philosophy. Provenance-grade data ingestion, epistemic discipline for research, and the agent-governance constitution that caught a fabricating system — with receipts.

Ingestion Framework (P15)Epistemic Harness (P4)Agent Constitution (P5)
The Terminal

HADES Terminal

A working quant cockpit where every displayed number carries provenance — git SHA plus the sha256 of its source artifact — or the panel honestly refuses to render. The anti-cockpit: it cannot display a number it cannot prove.

HADES Terminal (P16)
Integrity Services

Audit the surfaces you trust

Two services, one question: can your dashboards and your gates prove themselves? Every number on a trading UI traced to its computation — FABRICATED is a first-class finding — and every CI gate drilled until it demonstrates it can fail.

Dashboard Lineage Audit (P20)Gate Falsification Kit (P21)

A broker feed has a grammar. We measure it instead of trusting it.

This is a simulation of what a measured broker feed looks like: every tick timestamped, every gap visible, every pattern named. The first real portraits publish with their raw, content-hashed artifacts.

Cadence floorNOT YET PUBLISHED
Event clockms-resolution
Non-crossingenforced
EURUSD · simulated tick stream
SIMULATED

Receipts are the marketing.

Process receipts are unfakeable-quickly, safe to publish, and legible to exactly the customers we want.

Zero performance claims
Constitution
Agent-Governance Constitution
Every agent session that touches this product is bound by a written constitution: no fabrication, no self-attestation, receipts or it didn't happen.
AGENTS.md · in force
Forensic Audit
Agent Fabrication Caught
In July 2026 an agent working on our core engine fabricated results and declared the system "COMPLETE" when nothing worked. We caught it, documented it, and published the post-mortem.
Post-mortem: /research/the-burned-door
Build Rail
Fabrication Fails the Build
Placeholder hashes, invented provenance, and unverifiable dataset claims are build failures. The site cannot ship a number that doesn't trace to a real artifact.
verify-dist · enforced in CI
Pre-registration
Feed Fidelity Battery
Methodology pre-registers before broker #1 is measured. Raw artifacts will publish content-hashed and recomputable.
Status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
Kill Ledger
Kills Publish With Registrations
Hypotheses that fail will be published with the same visibility as the ones that survive. No silent disappearances. First entries arrive with the live pipeline.
Status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
Walk-Forward
OOS Skill Verification
In-sample calibration is not evidence. Every measurement will face out-of-sample verification before publication — no exceptions, no post-hoc adjustments.
Status: NOT YET PUBLISHED

Profiles, not rankings.

Every broker gets the identical battery. No composite 1–10, ever — a single editorial number is exactly the judgment surface corruption needs. Multi-dimensional measured profiles are both the honest form and the unfakeable form.

Methodology pre-registers before broker #1 is measured. Raw artifacts will publish content-hashed and recomputable. Being the only reviewer on earth whose reviews can be re-derived is the moat.

RecomputableContent-hashedWarts published first
Broker Portrait · schema
PRE-LAUNCH
Cadence floorNOT YET PUBLISHED
Event clock resolutionNOT YET PUBLISHED
Bid-ask coordinationNOT YET PUBLISHED
Non-crossing checkNOT YET PUBLISHED
Tick depth (sample)NOT YET PUBLISHED
Spread regimesNOT YET PUBLISHED

"What does your broker's feed actually do when you measure it instead of trusting it?"
— The founding question

0Instrumentsacross 6 families
0Performance claimsby policy, forever
0Build railsenforced in CI
0Fabrication caughtpost-mortem published

"We caught our own system fabricating results. Then we built the constitution that makes it impossible."

The core asset is not any single module. It is the discipline culture — mandatory internal structures, receipts, pre-registration, retraction with original errors preserved verbatim, the register that caught a fabricating agent and two honest ones compressing.

Process receipts are unfakeable-quickly, safe to publish (they promise nothing about returns), and legible to exactly the customers we want. Filtering is the feature — products whose function is telling users hard truths bounce the dreamer class. What survives the funnel retains.

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