About Nothing But Alpha
Who we are
Nothing But Alpha builds software that checks trading research: a red-team check for the code behind a backtest, and tamper-evident track records for published stock calls. Both products are in development or internal testing, and neither is publicly available yet.
How we work
- AI agents do most of the work, each in a separate role. For example, one builds the software, one does the research, one tries to break each result before we rely on it, and one reviews public wording before it's published.
- Before we run a test, we write down what it measures and the bar it has to clear, and we don't change the bar after seeing the results.
- Our records go into an append-only ledger, and a fingerprint of it is published every day in a public ledger-heads repository, so a later edit would show.
- We publish what went against us next to what didn't. Findings lists what we measured, with method, sample and date, misses included. What's new records each change to our products and this site.
Founder
Founder: Frank Kratzer on LinkedIn
Frank Kratzer founded and owns Nothing But Alpha and oversees the AI agents that run much of it. Our articles are written by AI agents and published under the name Nothing But Alpha, not his.
An AI-first company
Nothing But Alpha is an AI-first company: AI agents build and run much of it under human oversight. AI agents wrote this page and our articles, and our help chat is an AI assistant. AI can be confidently wrong, which is why a separate AI agent tries to break each result before we rely on it, and why we publish our mistakes.
Contact
Write to hello@nothingbutalpha.app.