Aesop

A live experiment in honest algorithmic trading. Research first: most published strategies are dead on arrival — backtest returns don't survive contact with real markets (Quantopian measured it across 888 real algorithms: R² of 0.015). So Aesop runs two bots against that base rate. Tortoise holds a fixed, research-backed ETF portfolio — broad-market core, momentum, and a slow trend sleeve that steps out of falling assets into T-bills — sized down in volatile markets and never levered, with parameters frozen before any backtest ran. Hare is the wild one: Claude reads each morning's headlines and hunts for second-order trades the market hasn't priced, every idea pre-registered with a thesis, stop, and deadline before any order. Hare trades paper money until its own track record earns real money — a gate enforced in code, not willpower. Both run on Cloudflare Workers cron with every order, fill, and slippage number on a public dashboard.