METHOD

AI does the searching.
Statistics does the deciding.

Beating a market this efficient is a search problem before it is a modelling problem. The ideas worth testing are rare, and they are buried in an enormous space of plausible ones that turn out to be noise. We run that search with AI agents, continuously — and then make it very hard for anything they find to reach a live position.

Agents do the searching.

The space of things that might predict a game is effectively infinite and almost all of it is noise. Agents scout new sources, read the graded book for conditions worth suspecting, and draft testable hypotheses continuously — at a volume no analyst could sustain, and without the ego that makes a person defend last week's idea.

The engine does the arithmetic.

One hard constraint makes the rest trustworthy: a deterministic engine computes every projection, probability and price, and no language model may compute or alter a number. Agents decide what to investigate and how to describe it. They never do the math.

The ledger does the deciding.

Nothing is promoted because it sounds compelling. It is registered, tested walk-forward, corrected for multiple testing, and kept out of the book until a forward record earns its place.

THE LOOP

From feed to verdict.

SOURCESINGESTHYPOTHESISTRIALVERDICTstatsapi.mlb.combaseballsavant.mlb.comretrosheet.orgsports.core.api.espn.comapi.elections.kalshi.comapi.open-meteo.com67,208 GAMES INDEXEDWide spreads hide mispriCROSSTESTING✕ KILLEDGame-total OVERS beat thCROSSTESTINGThin markets over-resolvCROSSTESTING✕ KILLEDLIVEVELO_DROP1 of 12

6 upstream providers wired in · 30 data points live and measurable · 430 points in the index · 117 approved and queued to build

  1. 01ACQUIRE

    Every feed we can source is polled continuously and scored for whether it could plausibly move a price.

  2. 02REGISTER

    A hypothesis is written down — claim, target sample, expected direction, exact filter — before the data exists.

  3. 03TEST

    Walk-forward against real closing prices, corrected for the fact that hundreds of tests are running at once, alongside null controls.

  4. 04SHADOW

    Anything that survives runs forward with no capital behind it, so we find out whether it holds outside the sample that produced it.

  5. 05GRADUATE

    A forward record clearing ROI ≥ 6% on n ≥ 40 is the only way anything reaches the book.

  6. 06RE-GRADE

    Every live rule is re-tested nightly. When the forward record stops paying, the rule dies — currently 6 of 13 are flagged for removal.

PRE-REGISTRATION

This one is designed to find nothing.

Every program is committed as a record like the one beside this — the claim, the target sample, the direction we expect, and the exact filter that selects the fills — before the data exists. It cannot be edited afterwards without leaving a dated entry in the log.

We run null controls on purpose. A coinflip market should show no edge. If this test ever comes back positive, it is not a discovery — it means our harness is broken and everything it has ever produced is suspect.

SEE ALL 40 OPEN PROGRAMS →
{
  "id": "xs-control-fair",
  "sport": "cross",
  "title": "NULL CONTROL — liquid coinflips are fairly priced",
  "hypothesis": "45-55¢ liquid markets should show NO edge. If this fires, the harness is wrong.",
  "min_n": 150,
  "expect": "above",
  "test": {
    "type": "corpus_bucket",
    "when": {
      "price_min": 45,
      "price_max": 55,
      "volume_min": 200
    },
    "side": "yes"
  },
  "added": "2026-08-10",
  "status": "queued"
}
WHERE THE DATA COMES FROM

Named inputs, not a logo wall.

A research lab is only as good as what it ingests, and a list of hostnames is something you can go and check. These are the feeds currently wired into the model.

MLB Stats API
statsapi.mlb.com

live game state, rosters, box scores

Baseball Savant
baseballsavant.mlb.com

Statcast — pitch velocity, spin, contact quality

Retrosheet
retrosheet.org

historical play-by-play back to the 1900s

ESPN core API
sports.core.api.espn.com

NBA/CBB/CFB/NFL results and archived closing lines

Kalshi
api.elections.kalshi.com

settled event markets — our price reference

Open-Meteo
api.open-meteo.com

park-level wind, temperature, humidity

WHAT THE LAB IS WORKING ON TODAY2026-08-20

Hunt the edge: advance the proven signals to real plus-money execution, mine one new watch, and keep the company/brain/product compounding.

Make the company, the business, and the model better — every day. Find an edge.

Rewritten each morning from the state of the book, the open programs and last night's results.