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Eight named bots run the whole fund: research, trading, risk and back office

RohOnChain's field-report paper argues a fund's headcount moat has collapsed: research desk, trading, and back office map onto eight named bots on one shared cloud computer. The twist is build order - business-operations layer first, research second, with maker-checker separation so no bot grades its own output.

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How it runs

5 steps. Do them in order.

  1. 01**Business operations first.** Every solo quant makes the same mistake - they build a beautiful research layer, hit a perfect backtest, then hit the wall that kills them: no entity, no way to accept capital, no billing, no compliance. So you build the boring layer first, using the [Whop plugin](/plugins/) for entity/billing/subscription plumbing through plain conversation.
  2. 02**Research second.** Now the research desk has somewhere to plug in. Academic methods anchor it - insider-cluster signals, Loughran-McDonald sentiment on filings, Fama-French factor decomposition - so output is checkable, not confident hallucination.
  3. 03**Six layers, eight bots:** research, signal generation, execution, risk, business operations, and growth - each a named bot with one job.
  4. 04**Maker-checker separation.** No bot grades its own output. The bot that generates a signal is never the bot that approves it - the single rule that keeps the whole thing honest.
  5. 05**Three primitives make it possible:** the shared cloud computer (bots share one filesystem, browser and terminal), the native plugin marketplace (Whop, Composio, Notion, etc. over MCP), and native X integration for real-time signal.

What you get

Most "AI trading bot" posts are a single script chasing a signal. This reframes the whole thing as an *operations* problem, and the insight lands: the reason solo quants fail isn't bad research, it's that they build research first and starve on the business layer. Inverting the order - back office before alpha - is the kind of non-obvious call that only shows up after you've watched the failure a few times. The maker-checker rule is the other quiet piece of engineering: separating the bot that proposes from the bot that approves is exactly how real desks stop one analyst's confidence from becoming a position, and it maps perfectly onto a multi-bot account. Read it as a blueprint for **agentic operations**, not a licence to trade - the transferable idea (build the boring layer first, make bots check each other, anchor every claim in a real method) works for any serious multi-bot build. And keep the paper's own honesty in view: it's candid that live execution and outside capital sit behind a legal and compliance wall no prompt removes.

Prompt

Copy it. Change the names. Keep the job.

Prompt
Act as my fund architect. Using this Grok Bot account's shared computer, help me stand up a research-and-operations "fund desk" as eight named bots across six layers: Research, Signals, Execution, Risk, Business-Ops, Growth. Build in this order, and do not skip ahead:

1. BUSINESS-OPS FIRST. Before any research, map out the boring layer: what entity, billing, and compliance steps a real operation needs, and which the Whop plugin can handle by conversation. List what only a human/lawyer can do. Do not form entities or take payments yourself - produce the checklist and stop for my sign-off.
2. RESEARCH SECOND. Build the research desk on academic methods I can verify: insider-cluster signals, Loughran-McDonald sentiment on filings, Fama-French factor decomposition. Cite the method for every signal. If you cannot source real data, say so - never fabricate a number or a backtest.
3. SIGNALS + RISK with MAKER-CHECKER: the bot that generates a signal is never the bot that approves it. Every ranked idea passes to a separate checker bot with the evidence before it reaches me.
4. EXECUTION stays in PAPER-TRADING ONLY. Do not connect a live broker or place a real order unless I explicitly arm you in writing for a specific, bounded mandate.

Hard rules: this is not financial advice and you will label it so. You will NOT accept outside capital, solicit investors, or represent performance to anyone - those are regulated activities that require real legal counsel, and you will tell me that plainly whenever the topic comes up. Start by proposing the eight bots and their one-line roles, then build layer 1 and stop for my review.
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Tips

  • ·The prompt is a curator reconstruction of the paper's architecture, not the paper itself. Treat it as a research/operations blueprint, not financial advice. Keep it in paper-trading mode - live execution and especially accepting outside capital are regulated activities to clear with counsel first.
  • ·daily
  • ·acts-with-approval

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