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Notes, builds, and research logs.

5/23/2026

what we cut from leverage in two weeks

Notes from a UI declutter pass on a tool we use every day. Half the work was deleting features we shipped a week earlier.

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5/17/2026

leverage gets bitcoin. 24/7 markets and ETF flows.

Adding BTC to the chart tool meant building a second context layer for news and funding rates, not just pointing the camera at a different chart.

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5/8/2026

when the model said the stop wasn't hit. it was.

An incident with the trading tool that changed how we draw the line between what models do and what code does.

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4/28/2026

leverage: a chrome extension for trading gold off tradingview

We started building a chart validation tool for the way one of us actually trades. Vision model on top, deterministic price checks underneath.

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4/20/2026

APEX: open beta ops and execution maturity

In April, we focused on how APEX decides at migration time and how we keep that process reliable when markets are noisy.

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3/14/2026

APEX: strategy loop and call quality work

March work on APEX focused on strategy loops, candidate call quality, and tighter execution gates.

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2/11/2026

VPS AI engineer: alert quality and runbook alignment

In February we improved alert quality and tied AI suggestions to repeatable runbook logic.

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1/16/2026

VPS AI engineer: monitoring phase one

January was about giving operators an AI engineer layer for server monitoring and response prep.

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12/9/2025

Project management summaries across GitHub projects

We built a project management layer that turns scattered repo activity into readable summaries.

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11/12/2025

/Slash: Multi-LLM support and OpenRouter rollout

We moved /Slash from single-provider assumptions to a multi-LLM architecture with OpenRouter support.

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