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about quandora

We're building the infrastructure layer for AI-native finance.

Quandora started as a question: what would it take to give any AI agent the research skills, market data, and evaluation rails to work seriously in finance, not just guess from a prompt.

THE PROBLEM
THE PROBLEM

Generic AI agents are good at a lot of things. Finance isn't really one of them — not because they lack intelligence, but because they lack infrastructure. No access to real market data. No structured research workflows. No way to test an idea against evidence before acting on it.

The result is agents that sound confident but work from vibes. That's a problem for anyone who takes markets seriously.

As trading becomes more agentic, it converges toward quant trading. Agents should act from data, statistics, and feedback loops — not emotion or guesswork.

Quandora is our answer to that gap. Open-source alpha research agent infrastructure — the research skills, quant workflows, backtesting tools, evaluation harnesses, and deployment rails that turn a generic AI agent into a professional finance agent.

Generic AI agents are good at a lot of things. Finance isn't really one of them — not because they lack intelligence, but because they lack infrastructure. No access to real market data. No structured research workflows. No way to test an idea against evidence before acting on it.

The result is agents that sound confident but work from vibes. That's a problem for anyone who takes markets seriously.

As trading becomes more agentic, it converges toward quant trading. Agents should act from data, statistics, and feedback loops — not emotion or guesswork.

Quandora is our answer to that gap. Open-source alpha research agent infrastructure — the research skills, quant workflows, backtesting tools, evaluation harnesses, and deployment rails that turn a generic AI agent into a professional finance agent.

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING
WHAT WE'RE BUILDING

Right now, Quandora is an alpha-mining workflow for AI agents. You connect your agent to licensed market data, give it a research route, and it comes back with candidate signals, tested stats, and a performance curve you can interrogate.

The longer arc is bigger: a full infrastructure layer that other agents and finance applications run through — market data access, strategy-testing tools, risk guardrails, deployment rails, and persistent research memory.

Think of it like this. YC gives startups capital, network, and operating playbooks. Quandora gives AI finance agents research skills, quant workflows, deployment rails, and market-data feedback.

Right now, Quandora is an alpha-mining workflow for AI agents. You connect your agent to licensed market data, give it a research route, and it comes back with candidate signals, tested stats, and a performance curve you can interrogate.

The longer arc is bigger: a full infrastructure layer that other agents and finance applications run through — market data access, strategy-testing tools, risk guardrails, deployment rails, and persistent research memory.

Think of it like this. YC gives startups capital, network, and operating playbooks. Quandora gives AI finance agents research skills, quant workflows, deployment rails, and market-data feedback.

How we operate

Trust through transparency
Trust through transparency

Open-source components, inspectable workflows, and public benchmarks. No black boxes, no magic claims.

Evidence over vibes
Evidence over vibes

Every output comes with reviewable stats. If you can't interrogate it, it's not useful.

Risk-aware by default
Risk-aware by default

Backtests are learning tools. We don't promise results. We build guardrails in, not as an afterthought.

Built with builders
Built with builders

We build in public, ship with early users, and treat community feedback as product signal.

The people building Quandora

We come from finance, AI agent infrastructure, and product. We got frustrated watching agents confidently hallucinate market takes, and decided to build the infrastructure that fixes it.

We're a lean team that builds in public, moves fast, and cares deeply about getting the trust layer right.

Get early access

Join the first group of builders testing finance-agent workflows inside Codex. We are opening access to a small early group. Share your details and we will invite you when your use case fits the beta.

Get early access

Join the first group of builders testing finance-agent workflows inside Codex. We are opening access to a small early group. Share your details and we will invite you when your use case fits the beta.

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