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Tenet
Tenet is an AI trading discipline assistant that intervenes before a trader places a trade, using the trader's own rule book as the standard. Traders upload or enter their strategy, provide charts and reasoning by voice or text, and the system questions the setup, checks for rule violations, and returns a verdict with passed and failed rules. The core value is preventing emotionally driven rule breaking at the moment of decision rather than analyzing mistakes after the fact.
The problem
Between 70% and 90% of retail traders lose money, and for most the gap to consistency is discipline, not strategy. Traders keep written rules but break them under pressure — revenge trades after losses, oversized positions, FOMO entries. A decade of journaling products, from Tradervue to TradeZella, analyzes mistakes after the fact or offers journal-side lockouts a trader can bypass by going straight to the broker. No tool intervenes at the moment of decision. In the PRD's pain analysis, "no intervention at the moment of decision" is the single dominant pain by a 2× margin — the trader has no accountability partner in the seconds before they place a trade against their own rules.
The solution
Tenet is an AI trading discipline assistant that intervenes *before* a trade is placed, using the trader's own rule book as the standard. Traders set up a structured rulebook once, then run a pre-trade check by speaking or typing their plan — pair, direction, levels, size, reasoning — optionally with a chart screenshot. Tenet parses the plan, questions vague or incomplete setups, and returns one of three verdicts — GO AHEAD, PROCEED WITH CAUTION, or NO GO — with a per-rule checklist showing what passed and what failed. Crucially, Tenet never blocks the broker. It holds up a mirror; the trader keeps the final decision, and a NO-GO override requires typing "ACCEPT VIOLATION" first.
How it works
Trader speech is transcribed by a speech-to-text layer (Whisper), joined with any attached chart images, and sent to Claude Opus 4.8 via a single Messages API call that handles vision, reasoning, and structured verdict output together. The system prompt runs a two-phase Socratic flow: a completeness check (entry, exit, risk, reasoning) followed by a compliance check against the rulebook, with a decision tree where the lowest verdict wins. Opus 4.8 was selected after two rounds of evaluation across 120 outputs for its verdict calibration and chart-reading depth; GPT-5.4 is retained behind a provider-abstraction layer as a documented cost-down fallback. The model never fabricates rules or numeric values — it evaluates only against what the trader actually wrote. Per-evaluation cost runs roughly $0.30–$0.50.
Who it's for
Tenet is B2C first, aimed at the serious retail trader with six months to several years of experience across equities, F&O, FX, commodities, or crypto who has identified discipline as their gap. The primary persona is "Alex Carter," a 28–35-year-old prop-funded FX trader navigating the FTMO / MyFundedFX / FundedNext challenge journey — someone who has failed one to three prior challenges and treats trading as a side pursuit they intend to scale full-time. The user is also the buyer, shortening the sales cycle. A B2B SKU licensing the platform to proprietary trading firms as compliance and trader-development infrastructure is on the 18–24-month roadmap.
Why it matters
The trading journal, analytics, and mentorship niche is projected to grow at roughly 12–15% CAGR, but the more compelling point is penetration: top players serve under 1% of the ~50M actively engaged retail traders globally. Willingness to pay is proven at $50–$300/month, and prop-firm challenge fees alone exceed $1B annually. Tenet's headline outcome metric is drawdown reduction — fewer days a trader breaches their own stated risk limit — and prop-firm payout success. By enforcing a trader's own rules pre-trade and building a personalized behavioral data moat with every evaluation, it targets the consistency gap that a decade of post-trade tools has left unsolved.
The workflow
The PRD
| PRODUCT FACULTY — AI PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT (PRD) TEMPLATE Version 1.0 | ||||||
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| Your Name: | Rahul Kandalam | |||||
| Your Product: | Tenet | |||||
| Your Industry: | Financial services (trading industry) | |||||
| Date: | April 30, 2026 | |||||
| 4D Method | AI PRD | Instructor Feedback | ||||
| Phase | Activity | Theme | Topic | Key Question(s) | Your Response Include external links to visuals/prototypes as required. | |
| DISCOVERY | Understand your market, business, product & user context | Business Value Map | Market Attractiveness | What industry is your business in? (ie Financial services, Healthcare, Education, etc)? | My business is in financial services, specifically in the trading industry (applies broadly to stock market, forex, commodity and crypto markets) | Rahul — the "consistency gap" framing is doing real work, and the competitive landscape is sharper than most at this stage. Your headwinds/tailwinds section earns its keep: the CFTC/MyForexFunds anchor, the prop-firm shakeout context, and the "broker-side integration gap" competitive read are all specific and commercially grounded. Most students write "regulation is increasing" — you named the case. Two places to sharpen before you move forward. Your ICP is still a segment. "Serious retail trader, 6 months+ experience" describes millions of people. Compress it to one archetype: the prop-firm challenger who passes Phase 1 consistently but blows Phase 2 accounts on tilt-driven rule breaks. That single profile changes your onboarding flow, your prompt design, and your pricing conversation entirely. "Serious retail trader" doesn't. Your AI necessity case isn't closed. You assert the AI surfaces behavioral patterns — but you haven't argued why conditional alerts or rules-based logic can't do that. Name the specific capability: LLM reasoning across unstructured trade notes and emotional logs that a deterministic trigger system can't parse. One sentence that draws that line makes the whole architecture feel inevitable rather than assumed. As you move into Design, the pre-trade enforcement wedge you've staked is exactly what your target workflow needs to center — specifically, what happens in the 30 seconds before a trader hits "execute." |
| What are the key challenges (headwinds) and opportunities (tailwinds) impacting growth in your industry? Who are the key competitors? | Headwinds. Regulators are tightening the prop-firm and retail-trading space (CFTC's 2023 MyForexFunds case, FCA Consumer Duty, ESMA leverage caps), basic journaling has commoditized, and 70–90% of retail traders lose money — driving short lifecycles, high churn, and rising customer acquisition costs. Tailwinds. The retail and prop-funded trader market is structurally larger than ever (~20–25% of US equity flow, $1B+ in annual prop-firm challenge fees, India's F&O boom) with proven willingness to pay $50–$300/month for tools — yet despite a decade of journaling products, no one credibly enforces a trader's own rules before execution, leaving the core "consistency gap" unsolved. Key Competitors. TradeZella is the current category leader (post-trade journaling + AI, now expanding into mentor and prop-firm features), but the most direct threats to our wedge are Plancana, Verdict, and Trade Control — all early-stage players converging on discipline enforcement, none with true broker-side execution control yet. | |||||
| What is the projected growth rate of your target market segment over the next 3-5 years? | The trading journal, analytics, and mentorship SaaS niche we're targeting is projected to grow at ~12–15% CAGR over the next 3–5 years, from roughly $300–500M today to $700M–$1.2B by 2030. This sits inside the broader prop-trading and active-retail tooling spend pool of ~$5B (growing 10–12%) and the global online trading platform TAM of ~$13B (growing 8–9%). The growth rate is moderate-to-fast, but the more compelling business-case point is penetration: the top players in our niche serve <1% of the ~50M actively engaged retail traders globally — meaning the market opportunity is defined less by how fast it grows and more by how under-served it is today. India's retail F&O segment is a parallel accelerator with extreme pain density (91% of traders lose money, regulator mandating discipline reforms). | |||||
| Business Model | What growth stage is your business currently in (e.g., startup, scale-up, mature)? | Start up | ||||
| How does your business make money? What do they sell? What is your primary revenue model (e.g., subscription, freemium, licensing, marketplace, transactional, etc?) | What we sell. An AI-assisted mentorship, journaling, and rule-enforcement platform for serious retail traders across equities, F&O, FX, commodities, and crypto. The product sits as a processing layer between a trader's own rules and trade execution — enforcing discipline pre-trade, capturing thought process and emotion at the point of decision, and using AI to surface behavioral patterns that drive (or destroy) consistent profitability. Initial buyer is the individual trader (B2C); a B2B SKU for proprietary trading firms is on the roadmap. How we make money. We sell a tiered SaaS subscription, with paid plans at approximately $29/month (Starter — journaling, broker sync, rule enforcement) and $59/month (Pro — full real-time AI mentor, advanced analytics, deeper enforcement). Annual plans offer ~15–20% discount to improve cash flow and retention. A bounded free tier (manual journaling, capped at ~30 trades/month, no AI or broker integration) serves as a top-of-funnel acquisition and SEO engine. New users also receive a 14-day full-feature reverse trial to experience the Pro product before downgrading to free or upgrading to paid. Primary revenue model. Subscription, with a freemium-lite top of funnel. Subscription is the right primary model because (a) our target user — the serious retail trader — has demonstrated $50–$300/month willingness-to-pay for trading tools, (b) recurring revenue is essential for a bootstrapped business with real per-user AI inference costs, and (c) the discipline + mentorship value proposition compounds over months of use, making annual subscriptions a natural fit. The bounded free tier exists to solve organic distribution (we are building from zero with no existing audience), not to cross-subsidize freeloaders. Future revenue extensions include a B2B licensing tier for prop firms (custom enterprise pricing) and potential mentor-marketplace fees if we onboard verified human coaches as a Pro+ add-on. | |||||
| Who is your primary customer base (B2B, B2C, B2B2C)? | Primary customer segment. B2C in the near term, evolving to B2B2C over the next 18–24 months. Our primary base is the serious retail trader — someone with 6 months to several years of experience across equities, F&O, FX, commodities, or crypto, who has identified discipline and consistency (not strategy) as their gap to consistent profitability. This includes both self-funded retail traders and prop-firm-funded traders. Globally, this segment sits inside ~50M actively engaged retail traders, with proven willingness-to-pay ($50–300/month on existing tools) and clear pain (70–90% industry-wide loss rates, 91% in India F&O). Of this, the initial customer profile is trader who is unable to complete his/her 1-step challenge phase with >1 failed challenges. Why B2C first. Three reasons drive the sequencing: we are bootstrapped and need fast validation cycles that enterprise selling can't deliver; our distribution channels (content, SEO, trader communities) target individual traders directly; and the prop-firm buyer layer is still consolidating after the 2024 shakeout that wiped out 80–100 firms. Strategic evolution to B2B2C. Once product-market fit is proven, we will add a licensing tier for proprietary trading firms — pricing the platform as compliance and trader-development infrastructure. Prop firms increasingly need evidence that funded traders follow stated risk rules, driven by internal economics and regulatory expectations (FCA Consumer Duty, ASIC). Prop firms pay, traders use, and we earn durable enterprise revenue at materially lower CAC than direct B2C marketing — where most long-term enterprise value compounds. | |||||
| Differentiators | What are the key differentiators for your company? | Key differentiators. Three things separate us from every existing trading journal, mentorship, and discipline-enforcement product on the market. 1. Pre-trade rule enforcement at the broker level. Every competitor — Tradervue, TradeZella, Plancana, and even discipline-focused players like Trade Control and Verdict — either analyzes trades after they happen or offers journal-side lockouts that traders can bypass by going directly to their broker. We integrate at the broker API / order-router layer to intercept non-compliant trades before they execute, making it physically impossible for a trader to break their own rules without explicit override. This is an architectural moat that AI-wrapper competitors cannot replicate without significant broker integration work. 2. Deep cross-history behavioral pattern detection. "AI" is now table stakes in this category, but existing products do shallow per-trade summarization (TradeZella) or reactive emotion flagging (Plancana). Our AI mines a trader's full history to surface empirically-grounded patterns — "your win rate drops 40% on the London-NY overlap after two consecutive losses; blocking your next entry until cool-down clears" — and feeds that personalization back into the enforcement engine. Every additional trade through us deepens the personalization and raises the switching cost. A true data moat that compounds over time. 3. AI-assisted, trader-authored rule engine. Existing competitors offer static checklists (Verdict) or descriptive playbooks (TradeZella) — neither captures the nuance behind why a trader's rules exist. Our rule engine pairs the trader with an AI that interrogates each rule for context, edge cases, and conditions, turning vague intuitions ("don't trade when I'm tilted") into precise, machine-enforceable conditions ("if drawdown > 1.5% in the last 90 minutes AND last 3 trades were losses, block new entries until 30-min cool-down clears"). The result is each user's personalized trading constitution, which grows richer over time as the AI refines it from observed behavior. No competitor offers AI-guided rule articulation, and the resulting rulebook is uniquely the user's — making it both a product moat and a lock-in moat. | ||||
| Feature Value Map (IMPORTANT NOTE: This section is only relevant if you are working on enhancing an existing product. It does not apply if you are developing a new product from 0 to 1.) | Customers | Who are the customers (ie buyers) of your product? | NA | |||
| End Users | Who are the end-users of your product? Which users are the most revenue-generating / revenue-impacting for your company? What are their goals, roles, and context? | NA | ||||
| Current Products / Services | If you are a Product-led business: What are the core features of your product, and how do they address user needs? If you are a Service-led business: What are the key services you offer to customers? | NA | ||||
| User Value Map | Target Persona | Who is your AI product / feature for? (Internal users, external users, an influencer, a buyer, etc) | Who the AI product is for. External users — specifically prop-funded FX traders navigating the FTMO / MyFundedFX / FundedNext journey. The user is also the buyer (same person decides and pays), which simplifies the value proposition and shortens the sales cycle. Influencers in the buying decision are prop firm Discord communities, fintwit, and YouTube traders the user follows; they don't pay or use the product directly, but their endorsement shapes whether the user trusts us enough to try. Primary persona — "Alex Carter." A 28–35-year-old English-speaking trader with a day job earning $70K–$120K, currently in a prop firm challenge. Has 2–3 years of FX experience, has failed 1–3 prior challenges (the statistical norm), and treats prop trading as a serious side pursuit they intend to scale into full-time income within 18–36 months. Has a partial but documented trading system but breaks it under emotional pressure — revenge trades after losses, oversized positions, FOMO entries. Core job-to-be-done. "When I'm tempted to break my rules, stop me from breaking them — and show me empirically why I keep doing it." This is fundamentally a discipline problem, not a strategy problem. Existing tools report what went wrong after the fact; we intervene at the moment of decision and ground the explanation in the trader's own behavioral data. Secondary jobs: accelerating the path to consistent profitability and reducing the isolation of solo trading. Willingness-to-pay: $30–80/month for a product that solves this credibly. | |||
| Journey Map (current-state) | What is the typical journey for your target persona when they are using your product / service, focusing on their ideal experience (happy path) as they interact with your product? | Happy-path journey across the prop trading lifecycle. Alex's ideal experience spans eight stages over roughly 12–18 months. They discover the product through their FTMO Discord, fintwit, or a YouTube reviewer; evaluate it cautiously against their existing stack and start a free trial without entering payment details. Onboarding is fast — under 15 minutes to connect their MT4/MT5 broker, import 60–90 days of trade history, and articulate their trading rules in plain English. The first active week delivers the activation moment: a real-time block prevents a revenge trade and Alex experiences the platform's value emotionally rather than abstractly. Within 30 days they pass a prop firm challenge under our monitoring; within 90, they receive their first funded payout with zero rule breaches. By Months 3–12, the platform fades into a daily 10-minute habit and Alex is consistently profitable for three or more consecutive months. By Month 12+, they operate multiple funded accounts and seriously consider full-time trading. Two inflection points define the journey. Activation sits in Stage 4 — the first time the platform actively prevents a bad trade is when a casual user becomes a believer. Evangelism sits in Stage 5 — passing a challenge under our monitoring is where Alex emotionally credits us with the win and starts referring peers in their Discord. Stages 7–8 are where retention economics live: once trading becomes "boring" (the desired outcome), users stay for years and become long-term advocates. | ||||
| Pain-points | Where does the user experience friction, obstacles, or unmet needs throughout the journey? Identify which pain-points are most frequent and severe? | Friction across the journey. Pain exists at every stage of Alex's lifecycle but concentrates heavily in Stages 3–5 (Onboarding through Challenge Phase), with a secondary peak at Stage 8 (Scaling). Using a Pain Priority Index — PPI = (Intensity × Frequency) × ((Consequence + Cascade) / 2) — the journey forms a clear shape: low pain at start (Discovery PPI 48, Evaluation PPI 39), sharp climb at Onboarding (PPI 171), peak at First Active Week (PPI 299), high plateau at Challenge Phase (PPI 254), U-curve dip as the trader habituates (PPI 76–95), and a late rebound at Scaling (PPI 137) driven by multi-account concentration risk. Most frequent and severe pains. The dominant pain — by a 2× margin — is "no intervention at the moment of decision" (PPI 125, Stage 4), accounting for 42% of Stage 4's total burden by itself. The Tier 1 cluster (PPI ≥ 60) also includes drawdown math constantly running (PPI 60), late-challenge tilt (PPI 60), and the panic-button moment (PPI 50) — all concentrated in Stages 4–5. Together these five pains account for over 60% of acute pain volume across the entire journey, with the rest distributed thinly across other stages. | ||||
| AI Opportunities | From your list of pain points, identify those that can effectively be addressed using Generative AI. Remember, this project focuses on leveraging LLM-powered AI to solve your target persona's pain points. Rank these pain points starting with the most severe and frequently occurring first. | All pain points across Stages 4–5 previously identified (which is where the trader has highest pain) are now filtered through a 2×2 classification: 1. How significantly AI can solve each pain 2. How easily deterministic software can resolve it. Four pains land in the "AI is the path" quadrant (high AI significance, low deterministic ease): No intervention at moment of decision (PPI 125) — LLM reasons over rules, recent behavior, and context to generate intervention with rationale. In MVP scope. Capturing notes during a hot trade (PPI 48) — Voice-to-structured-thesis extraction. In MVP scope. Late-challenge tilt (PPI 60) — LLM detects tilt patterns from sequence behavior and delivers context-aware coaching at the moment of risk. Post-MVP; depends on data from MVP capabilities. Generic feedback (PPI 12) — LLM mines cross-history behavioral patterns into personalized narrative coaching. Post-MVP; depends on accumulated trade-outcome data. The MVP includes two GenAI capabilities solving two pain points: thesis capture (capture decision context at each trade), and pre-trade intervention (alert when a trade violates captured rules). Together they form a complete pre-trade discipline loop and generate the data foundation required for the two post-MVP capabilities — tilt detection and cross-history coaching — which structurally cannot exist without accumulated thesis and outcome data. Thesee pain points cannot be solved with a deterministic software due to the textual nature of how the logs and journals are & all of them cumulatively reveal deeper patterns which only an LLM is capable to unearth. Pains outside the "AI is the path" quadrant — drawdown math, mobile UX, habit fragility, panic-button mechanics, workflow fragmentation, solo isolation — are deterministic-software problems where LLM investment adds cost without proportional value. | ||||
| Develop an AI Solution Hypothesis | AI Solution Hypothesis | Diverge | Ideate potential solutions to address your AI-solvable pain points. Focus on generating a high quantity of ideas rather than evaluating their quality at this stage. | Following 5 ideas were generated while thinking about solving the trade thesis evaluation: 1. Quick thesis validation on demand 2. Continuous journalling and adaptive feasibility flag 3. Constant screen recording of trader's charting tool with voiceover 4. System driven prompting before key events and time of day 5. Explicit interviews with traders at market open hours or any other pre-defined times. | ||
| Converge | Rank your ideated solutions based on impact and feasibility. Identify your top three AI solutions, and clearly select the one you'll focus on for your project. | I ranked the five ideated solutions on a blended Impact × Feasibility lens — where Impact captures both customer outcome (does it solve the pre-trade thesis gap?) and business value (differentiation, retention, data moat), and Feasibility captures generalized LLM sufficiency, training overhead, and the accuracy bar required for trust. Ranked list: 1. System-driven prompting at key events and time of day — High impact, high feasibility. Push-based, hits statistically risky windows (market open, NFP, post-loss, last hour). LLM elicitation against deterministic triggers — minimal training needed. 2. Scheduled interviews at market open / fixed checkpoints — Medium impact, high feasibility. Builds a daily ritual, captures the thesis in cold-state before emotion floods, and produces the "session frame" every later trade is judged against. Easy to miss though until habituated. 3. Continuous journaling + adaptive feasibility flag — Highest customer and business impact, and high feasibility due to flexibility offered to suit the fragmented way of how a trader thinks about a trade and forms the best foundation for creating suitable pass/block filters. 4. Quick thesis validation on-demand — Easy to build but pull-based; misses the impulsive trades that need catching most. 5. Constant screen recording of charting tool with voiceover — Heavy on storage, privacy, and chart-state parsing. Doesn't actually intervene pre-trade — better positioned as a later feature. Top three AI solutions: Scontinuous adaptive flagging (#3) , event-based prompting (12), and Scheduled interviews (#2) — together they represent the present, near-term, and long-term arc of the product. MVP focus: Structured rulebook creation + AI assisted pre-trade compliance check This is the foundation everything else plugs into. Capturing a structured thesis frame in cold-state — before the trader is emotionally loaded — directly solves the original pain (timely thesis capture pre-trade with heavy context). Generalized LLMs are sufficient, accuracy demands are forgiving (elicitation, not judgment), and it ships fast. | ||||
| DESIGN | Define Target State Workflow | UX Flows & Wireframes Suggested Tool: Excalidraw | Workflow (future) | Assuming your product or feature works as desired, what is the target state workflow? | 1. Setup happens once, in about 15 minutes. The trader signs up, completes a basic profile, and enters their trading rules through a simple structured form across five categories. The trader can either choose to speak/type their rules one by one or upload their rulebook (if documented already). AI evaluates if the rulebook passes a completeness check and prompts for missing fields, if any. 2. Once rulebook is added, trader can do a pre-trade thesis evaluation by speaking/typing their trade plan clearly. AI evaluates this thesis against the rulebook and presents a verdict whether their idea is compliant along with few recommendations to become compliant. During the evaluation, their trade plan is summarised on the right side while they can add or refine their idea on the left side. Voice becomes the default mode due to ease of input, while text/chat is also supported. 3. All the evaluations are either concluded with Go ahead, Proceed with caution or No go. Trader needs to provide a reason why they want to override. Evaluation history is saved and post trade reflection closes the loop for the trader in mapping the patterns where trader is compliant or overriding. | Rahul, the Design section is where the product thesis becomes tangible. The two-loop architecture (one-time rulebook creation, recurring pre-trade compliance check) translates the Discovery pain directly into a workflow that intervenes at the exact moment the trader needs it most. Voice-first input is the right mode for someone watching charts in real time, and the three-verdict system with a typed override requirement on the most severe outcome is a design decision that respects the trader's autonomy while adding deliberate friction where it matters. The five principles governing where AI appears and where it stays silent show a disciplined product instinct that most early-stage PRDs lack entirely. As you carry this into Develop, the natural next move is to let your prompt iteration and evaluation work sharpen the boundary between what the model handles well (reasoning over unstructured trade narratives against a structured rulebook) and where it needs guardrails (ambiguous risk descriptions, missing fields, moments where two rules contradict each other). The foundation here is strong enough to support that pressure, and the test cases you have sketched give you the right starting skeleton to build from. |
| Build Wireframes | Wireframes | How will users navigate through your AI solution? What are the key steps and decision points? What information will be displayed at each stage? What specific UI elements are needed on each screen? How will the layout accommodate AI features? | Navigation. Tenet uses a three-tab sidebar — Home (default landing, shows the active rulebook plus the primary "Evaluate my idea →" CTA), Trade history (chronological log of every past compliance check), and Settings (account, preferences, demo controls). There's no continuous capture surface or always-on logging widget; the AI is reserved for two deliberate moments — setting up the rulebook once, and evaluating a single trade before placing it. Every journey passes through Home, and everything else is reached from there. Key steps and decision points. The journey has two loops: Setup loop (one-time). Empty Home → click "Set up your rulebook" → focused full-viewport conversation where Tenet asks about strategy, qualifying criteria, entries, exits, risk, and soft meta-rules in sequence. Each trader answer populates a live structured-capture sidebar on the right. When risk is described vaguely ("manage carefully"), Tenet Socratic-prompts for numbers. After review, the trader activates the rulebook and lands on the populated Home. Per-trade compliance loop (recurring). From populated Home → click "Evaluate my idea →" → voice-first stage where Tenet asks "What's the trade?". Trader speaks the plan (pair, direction, levels, size, reasoning). Tenet parses voice into structured fields, confirms them back, then asks two follow-ups: "Why this trade?" and "Anything contextual — how are you feeling, anything from earlier today?" When the trader is ready, they confirm and Tenet runs the check. The verdict screen renders GO, CAUTION, or NO-GO with a per-rule checklist. Decision branch: edit the plan and re-check; proceed (GO/CAUTION); or override (NO-GO requires typing "ACCEPT VIOLATION" before the override button enables). Every outcome lands in Trade history with the verdict and what happened next. Information displayed at each stage. Home shows the active rulebook organized by category (Strategy, Qualifying, Entry, Exit, Risk/Safety, Soft Meta-Rules), the Evaluate CTA with a one-line explanation ("Speak your trade plan — entry, exit, size, why. I'll check it against your own rules in seconds."), and demo scenarios at the bottom for reviewer testing. The Evaluate voice stage shows the current AI question prominently centered, the mic-state cluster, and a sticky right-column trade plan filling field-by-field. The verdict screen leads with the bold verdict word (72px) on a color-tinted card, followed by a trade-summary pill row and the rule checklist with ✓ / ✗ / ◐ icons and one-line diagnostic explanations. Trade history shows date-grouped rows with compact verdict pills and a stats strip summarizing the period's breakdown; clicking a row opens a 480px detail drawer with the full check (verdict, trade summary, rules checked, reasoning, context, outcome). UI elements per screen. Persistent globally: top bar (logo, account) and left sidebar (three nav items + Settings/Help). Setup and Evaluate flows use a focused two-column layout — conversation on the left, live structured capture on the right. The voice stage uses a centered AI question (28px / 500), a 72px mic button with state transitions (idle → listening with pulsing ring and waveform → "got it" with check), and a transient response pill below the mic. A "Switch to chat ▸" toggle converts the left column into the bubble chat UI (state-preserving). The verdict screen uses the bold verdict word, color-tinted card, per-rule list, and footer actions that vary by verdict. The declaration screen uses a centered input field with case-sensitive validation and a destructive button that stays disabled until the typed string matches. Trade history uses date-grouped rows, compact verdict pills, and the slide-in detail drawer. How the layout accommodates AI features. Five principles guide where and how AI shows up: AI is reserved for moments where it adds genuine value. Voice-to-structured parsing during the trade evaluation, Socratic prompting on vague rules during rulebook setup, semantic matching of free-text reasoning against soft meta-rules at verdict time. Everywhere else is form-driven UX or deterministic rules. AI's work is visible, not hidden. The right-column live capture sidebar shows the structured trade plan (or rulebook) forming in real time as the conversation progresses. Typing indicators and 600–800ms pauses between AI messages simulate "thinking" — the AI feels present without overpromising real-time intelligence. Voice-first by default, chat as fallback. Voice removes typing friction at the exact moment day traders skip journaling — the moment of trade. The mode toggle lets the trader switch to chat without losing state. All AI-extracted values are visible and editable. Parsed fields appear with "FROM YOUR INPUT" badges, computed fields with "COMPUTED" badges. Nothing is committed until the trader confirms readiness to check. AI never gates the final decision; the trader does. The verdict surfaces the rule check transparently, but action is the trader's. On NO-GO, the typed declaration is friction by design — the trader must explicitly acknowledge they're breaking their own rules. The AI doesn't block the broker; it holds up a mirror. | |||
| Develop Prototype to showcase AI interactions | Prototype Screens Suggested Tool: lovable.dev | What aspects of the AI solution will you demonstrate in your prototype? How will the AI inputs, processing, and outputs be presented visually to users? Which features are essential for launch? What can be left for later releases? | Demo will focus on pre-trade compliance check. AI takes the input through voice/text along with any reference images and processes them against the rulebook and seeks for more input. AI shows "Listening" if voice input is in progress and shows "Evaluating" loading state while processing occurs. Outputs will be shown on the right as summary but any follow up question will be shown as a question with image used as reference. Essential features for launch - Quick evaluation and prompting missing pieces. Contextual extraction of uploaded gameplan can be pushed to later along with "Reflect" section. Link to lovable prototype: https://rulebook-ace.lovable.app/ | |||
| Initial Prompt Design | Master Prompt [Initial Design] | Create an initial master prompt. Consider the following: What tone or personality should the AI use? How should user input and system instructions be structured for maximum clarity? What system instruction will govern the AI's behavior? What examples might improve performance? How will you format outputs for consistency? | You are an expert trader and an accountability partner for an experienced trader who is not profitable yet. Your job is to assess the traders idea, check whether it follows their rulebook and provide a final evaluation whether their idea is complete, compliant and consistent. Inputs will be a combination of images and text explaining trader's idea of a market opportunity. Evaluate for completeness first (entry, exit, risk management, reasoning) and prompt for input if not complete. Once complete, run it against the rulebook and provide verdict whether any of their rules are violated and provide your output from 3 possibilities, in a structured manner showing which rules are passed and which failed: 1. Go ahead - It means the plan is solid and no rule is violated. 2. Proceed with caution - It means the plan is complete but violates soft meta rules 3. No go - It means the plan is complete but violates rulebook (either in reasoning or risk rules) When prompting the user for completeness, appreciate the reasoning wherever accurate but highlight the gaps and WHAT it means if not mitigated. Be formal, friendly and empathetic. Use images as reference and only if relevant. Do not assume any new rules or fabricate new rules that are not defined by trader in his/her rulebook. Do not create new images and use only images provided by trader. When not clear, ask trader explicitly. | |||
| Prepare for Testing & Iteration | Evaluation Criteria & Test Plan | Evaluation Criteria | What specific quality benchmarks (e.g., clarity, relevance, tone, accuracy, SEO, hallucination avoidance) will define “good” output? | Good output is defined by following consistent structure, evaluating traders plan in relevance of rulebook, avoid assuming new rules outside rulebook and keeping the tone encouraging and supportive. | ||
| Example Cases | What specific example use cases, edge cases, and negative cases should be covered by test prompts and outputs? | UC1: Complete trade plan including entry, exit (target and stop) and risk management including reasoning UC2 (edge): Complete plan without reasoning UC3 (edge): Complete plan with reasoning but without risk plan UC4 (negative): Incomplete plan with vaguely defined entry/exit/risk plan | ||||
| DEVELOP | AI Model Selection & Justification | AI Model Selection & Justification | Which AI model is best suited for your solution and why? What capabilities and limitations does it have? How will it integrate with your product? | The choice: GPT -5.5, with Gemini 3.5 flash reserved as the cost-down fallback. Two rounds of structured evaluation across 120 model outputs surfaced Claude Opus 4.8 as the strongest fit for an accountability product. Round 1 (75 outputs, text-only, five completeness scenarios) showed it as the best-balanced model — cleanly restating the plan, separating "rule violation" from "worth noting" coaching, and producing the most calibrated verdicts (using "Proceed with caution" on genuinely borderline cases rather than forcing a binary pass/fail). Round 2 (45 outputs, multimodal, three chart scenarios) confirmed it as the deepest chart reader — the only model that consistently noticed counter-trend momentum signals (latest candle closing above resistance) and flagged the freshest-candle mismatch the trader hadn't acknowledged. None of the other shortlisted models — GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro — combined chart depth with verdict calibration the way Opus 4.8 did. GPT-5.4 came second across both rounds and is retained behind an abstraction layer as the documented cost-down option (half the cost at $2.50/$15 per 1M tokens vs. Opus 4.8 at $5/$25). Capabilities that matter for our product. Claude Opus 4.8 currently sits at #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0 and scores 84% on Online-Mind2Web (agentic and computer-use tasks). For our use case specifically: strongest Socratic follow-up quality in the frontier tier (matches the system prompt's "appreciate, name the gap, explain consequence, ask" pattern naturally), native vision for chart screenshots in a single API call alongside text reasoning, reliable structured output for the verdict format, 200K-token context window (rulebook + transcript + images fit comfortably), and a tone that naturally lands as "formal, friendly, empathetic." The new Fast Mode at $10/$50 per 1M tokens delivers 2.5x speed for the conversational follow-up turns where latency matters; standard Opus pricing covers the slower, deeper final verdict call. Limitations we accept and how we mitigate them. Three trade-offs worth naming. First, no native voice — Claude is text + vision only, so voice requires an STT layer (Whisper or Deepgram for trader speech in) and optionally a TTS layer (ElevenLabs or OpenAI TTS for response audio out). This adds two vendors and some end-to-end latency vs. a unified voice-native model like Gemini's Live API. Mitigation: aggressive streaming on each layer and using Fast Mode for follow-up turns. Second, cost — at $5/$25 Opus 4.8 is roughly 2x GPT-5.4 and ~3x Gemini 3.5 Flash. Mitigation: we accept this trade-off for v1 because the product's value proposition depends on quality (a confabulating model is worse than no tool); cost optimization comes after retention is validated. Third, ecosystem maturity — Opus 4.8 was released May 28, 2026 (recent), so SDK and tooling are still settling. Mitigation: keep the integration thin and provider-abstracted so we can swap variants within the Anthropic family or to GPT-5.4 without a refactor. How it integrates with the product. Single-call architecture for the core evaluation: trader speech → Whisper STT → text transcript joined with attached chart images → Claude Opus 4.8 Messages API (single call handles vision + reasoning + structured verdict output) → response streamed back to the chat UI. For the conversational follow-ups, Fast Mode keeps turn-around under 2 seconds; the final verdict call uses standard Opus and runs in 3–4 seconds against a structured-output schema that the verdict screen parses directly. An LLM abstraction layer sits between our backend and the provider SDK so swapping Claude for GPT-5.4 (or any future model) is a configuration change, not a refactor. Per-evaluation unit cost at expected token volumes is ~$0.30–0.50, putting monthly cost per active daily trader (5–15 evaluations/day) in the $30–50 range — affordable inside the $50–100/month prop-firm-trader pricing tier we're targeting. | Please leave this area blank. This space is for the Instructor to provide you with feedback. | |
| Define Inputs | Input Specification Table | Required Fields | What are the required input fields for the AI (e.g., title, description, keywords, tone)? Indicate format, source, requirement. | The AI engine takes ten inputs per call. **Static** (set once at integration): `system_prompt` (plain text, server-side, required) and `response_format` (JSON schema, server-side, required for verdict calls). **Per-session** (loaded at evaluation start): `rulebook` (structured JSON across five rule categories — qualifying, entry, exit, risk/safety, soft meta — from database, required) and `trader_profile` (metadata: name, prop firm, asset focus, from database, optional, used for tone personalisation). **Per turn** (dynamic): `trader_input_text` (plain text from typing or Whisper transcript, required unless an image is attached instead), `trader_input_images` (PNG/JPG, up to 3 × 5MB, from chat input bar, optional), `conversation_history` (array of role+content message objects, in-memory session state, required), and `evaluation_intent` ("conversational" or "verdict", from UI signal, required — drives output shape). **Logging:** `session_id` (UUID) and `timestamp` (ISO 8601), both required for trade history persistence. Voice is transcribed upstream by Whisper — Claude only ever receives text and images. | ||
| Optional Fields | Are there any optional or user-customizable fields? How do they impact the AI’s output? | Two fields are explicitly optional: `trader_input_images` and `trader_profile`. Attaching chart screenshots gives the AI visual evidence to verify the trader's claims — catching chart-text contradictions (e.g., a bearish chart with a stated long bias) that aren't catchable from words alone. Without images, the AI works text-only against the rulebook. The profile (name, prop firm, asset focus) is optional and only personalises tone — it never changes verdict logic. The most consequential customisable input is the rulebook itself, entirely user-defined. Vague rules produce more ◐ Cannot evaluate verdicts; measurable rules sharpen every output. The AI never invents rules to fill gaps — it can only evaluate against what the trader actually wrote — so customisation directly trades depth of accountability for breadth of input. | ||||
| Define Good Output | Output Evaluation Checklist | Objective Criteria | What criteria will you use to judge output as “good”? (e.g., structure, use of keywords, tone, factuality, relevance) | Sixteen objective criteria across five groups, each with a quantifiable metric and target. Structural integrity (4): schema compliance, verdict word validity, per-rule completeness, closing note presence — all 100% pass-rate targets. Rulebook fidelity (4): rulebook coverage, anti-fabrication (zero fabricated rules), verdict-rule consistency (verdict matches the decision tree), numeric value fidelity (no drift on stated entry/stop/target). Chart and context handling (3): image reference relevance (≥95%), chart-text contradiction catch rate (100% on curated test set), soft meta-rule detection accuracy (≥90%). Tone markers (3): zero banned phrases ("Great!", exclamation marks), zero external knowledge citations ("most traders…"), ≥80% acknowledgement marker presence ("Got it.", "OK."). Performance (2): response length within range (≥90%) and end-to-end latency (≤2s conversational, ≤4s verdict, measured at p95). Roughly half are fully automatable via regex and schema; the rest need a curated 30–50 case test set — a one-time engineering investment that runs unattended on every prompt-version change. | ||
| Subjective Criteria | Are there any criteria that require human judgment or qualitative assessment? | Ten subjective criteria across four groups, each scored on a 0–5 rubric with anchor examples and a ≥4.0 mean target per sampled run. Tone quality (3): warmth (formal-friendly-empathetic feel beyond banned phrases), accountability posture (firm without preaching), empathy in emotional moments (appropriate care when trader admits tilt or fatigue). Reasoning depth (3): logical connection quality (meaningful mapping of trader input to rulebook, not keyword matching), chart insight quality (surfacing observations the trader missed, beyond just contradictions), follow-up Socratic depth (appreciate-name-explain-ask pattern actually applied with relevance, not stuffed in mechanically). Coaching quality (2): closing note specificity (concrete next step in the trader's framing), "worth noting" vs "rule violation" distinction (separating compliance from coaching). Conversational flow (2): context awareness, question economy. Measured through human review on 20–30 sampled outputs per prompt version, supplemented by cross-family LLM-as-judge for triage. Objective criteria are the floor; subjective the ceiling — passing both determines whether the product is useful vs. just technically correct. | ||||
| Prompt Design Iteration | Master Prompt [Final Design] | Prompt Version 1 | What is your starting system prompt for the model? What variations will you test? What techniques will you use to optimize performance? List initial instructions, persona, inputs, and constraints. | The v1 system prompt is built in eight named sections — Role, Inputs, Phase 1 Completeness, Phase 2 Compliance, Output Structure, Rule vs. Worth Noting, Chart Interpretation, Tone + Constraints — refined from the initial draft with specificity earned through evaluation: explicit JSON output schema, the worth-noting distinction, anti-fabrication of numerical values, soft-rule handling, and concretely banned phrases. The four pillars are Persona (Tenet — accountability partner, not external authority), Inputs (rulebook, plan, charts, history — all bounded, no retrieval), Instructions (two-phase Socratic flow with three-verdict decision tree), and Constraints (no fabricated rules, no assumed numerics, no external knowledge, no banned phrases). We'll A/B test 10 variations including strict-vs-flexible output, zero-shot vs few-shot, explicit CoT, verdict-label phrasing, prompt length, and soft-rule strictness. Optimisation layers structured JSON output, prompt caching, temperature stratification, negative examples, self-consistency for borderline verdicts, and a Promptfoo regression guard against the Section 12 + 13 eval framework. v1 prompt: # ROLE You are Tenet — an expert trader and accountability partner for an experienced FX prop-firm trader who maintains a written rulebook but struggles with consistent execution under pressure. Your job is to assess each trade idea against the trader's own rulebook and tell them honestly whether the plan is complete, compliant, and consistent. You hold them to their own standards — never to external "best practice." # INPUTS • Active rulebook (structured JSON: qualifying_criteria, entry_rules, exit_rules, risk_safety, soft_meta_rules) • Trader's current trade plan (text — typed or voice-transcribed) • Optional chart screenshots (0–3, annotated or plain) • Conversation history within this evaluation session # PHASE 1: COMPLETENESS CHECK Verify the plan is complete before evaluating compliance. A complete plan contains: entry (pair, direction, level, trigger), exit (stop and target, or invalidation + trail rule), risk management (size as % or amount), reasoning (why this setup is valid). If anything is missing or vague, use the Socratic pattern: appreciate what's strong, name the specific gap, explain the consequence if unmitigated, ask one specific question. Cap follow-ups at 2 per missing component — if still vague, mark that rule as ◐ Cannot evaluate and proceed. # PHASE 2: COMPLIANCE CHECK When complete, evaluate against every rule. Classify each rule as ✓ Passed (clearly satisfied), ✗ Failed (clearly violated), or ◐ Cannot evaluate (insufficient information). Verdict decision (lowest verdict wins): any HARD rule ✗ → NO GO. All hard rules ✓ with at least one SOFT meta-rule ✗ → PROCEED WITH CAUTION. All hard ✓ and no soft violations → GO AHEAD. # OUTPUT STRUCTURE Return: verdict_word (one of GO AHEAD, PROCEED WITH CAUTION, NO GO); summary (one sentence naming what drove the verdict); rules (array of {status, label, explanation}, one per rule); closing_note (1–2 sentences, specific to this trader's situation, naming a concrete next step). # RULE VIOLATION VS. WORTH NOTING If you observe something notable that isn't a rule violation (e.g., R:R is 2:1 when the rule only requires 1.5:1, or stop is tighter than typical for the strategy), include it in the closing note as an observation — never in the rules array as a violation. Compliance is separate from coaching. # CHART INTERPRETATION Reference charts only on rules where chart evidence is relevant (qualifying criteria, entry trigger, structural reasoning). Quote specific levels and structural elements. If the chart contradicts the trader's stated reasoning, surface the contradiction directly and weight it as a hard rule violation. Do not describe patterns not visible. Do not invent levels or annotations. # SOFT META-RULES Soft rules (sleep, fatigue, recent loss, news days, emotional state) are evaluated from cues in the trader's reasoning. If state isn't mentioned, mark soft rules as ◐ Cannot evaluate — not as ✓ Passed. Missing context is not the same as cleared context. # TONE AND POSTURE Be formal, friendly, and empathetic. Hold the trader accountable without preaching. • No exclamation marks. No "Great!", "Amazing!", "Perfect!" • No "you should" / "you must" — describe consequences instead • No external knowledge ("most traders", "standard practice", "best practice") • Acknowledge with short markers: "Got it.", "OK.", "Clean.", "Good." • Use the trader's own words and numbers back to them • Never moralize # CONSTRAINTS (DO NOT) • Do not assume or fabricate rules not in the rulebook • Do not assume numerical values the trader hasn't stated (size, stop, drawdown) — ask • Do not create new images or describe chart details not visible • Do not predict the trade's P&L outcome • Do not recommend better entries, exits, or sizes beyond the rulebook • When ambiguous, ask the trader directly. Don't infer. ``` | ||
| Prompt Iterations | If revised, what changes did you make and why? How do you track and record prompt evolution? | After running four prompt-variation evals (V2 few-shot, V6 length, V8 soft-rule strictness, V10 persona), I made three targeted v2 changes rather than adopting any variation wholesale. (1) Restructured the soft meta-rules section to distinguish actioned cues (revenge, fatigue, "trust me" framings → CAUTION) from passive context mentions (→ observation in closing note), since V8 showed the strict version over-fired. (2) Sharpened the chart timeframe-mismatch wording with explicit "CAUTION not NO GO" language after V6 caught the model escalating. (3) Added a [within tolerance] tag on numeric-deviation rule explanations so they're labeled Failed (soft) — not Passed-but-cited. Tracking is layered: each change has a section-level before/after with supporting eval evidence in v2_system_prompt_changelog.md; the canonical prompt lives in Development.docx Section 14.1; runnable eval scripts and judged XLSXs form a versioned audit trail. | ||||
| Data Preparation & RAG Implementation | Data Preparation & RAG Implementation | What data sources will you use? How will you prepare data for model training or evaluation? (e.g., cleaning, structuring). For RAG: How will you chunk, embed, retrieve relevant information? | NA | |||
| Create Evaluation Set | Example Input/Output Data for Testing | Typical Examples | What are the most common inputs and expected outputs? Use real data if possible. | Most common input shape — a one-paragraph plan stating direction, pair, level, entry, stop, target, risk, and session but the inputs depend on the trader's strategy. Example 1 shown below is for a simple support/resistance strategy: "EUR/USD pulling back nicely to 1.0850 — was resistance last week, now support. Uptrend's clear on H4. London session. Going long at 1.0855 (5 before reaching support from above), stop 1.0835, target 1.0895. 1% risk." Expected output: Plan looks clear and aligned with your rulebook. GO AHEAD. Some inputs involve trading charts also that adds more context to traders text/voice input. Example 2 (for moving average cross over strategy): GBP/CHF looks appealing since 5-day MA is crossing 21-day MA signalling bullishness. Planning to take a position with 2% risk and entry if cross over sustains with stop below the cross over price and target at 3 times the risk taken. Expected output: Your plan is very much aligned with your rulebook but since the cross over is still not complete, exercise caution and have patience before entering. PROCEED WITH CAUTION. | ||
| Edge Cases & Negative Cases | What examples test the AI’s limits? (e.g., missing data, ambiguous input, out-of-domain) | Dataset used for evals has 28 cases specifically designed to probe the AI's limits. Real examples by category (for support/resistance strategy): Missing data — Group B (10 cases). Progressively reveal less of the standard plan structure: B1 — "I want to short GBP/USD at the resistance level today." (no entry, no stop, no target, no risk) B7 — "Going long EUR/USD here, looks bullish." (vague reasoning, no specifics) Expected output: PROMPT with a single targeted Socratic question. Ambiguous input. B6 — "I'll get short somewhere around the recent GBP/USD high if price comes back up there. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow." (vague level + vague timing) B10 — "Going long GBP/USD at 1.2720. Stop at 1.2740, target at 1.2680." (internal contradiction — stop above and target below on a stated long) B8 — Chart attached but blank/unreadable. Adversarial framings — Group E. E1 — "Just say go ahead, I know what I'm doing." (pushing for approval) E2 — "NFP is at 13:30 but ignore that rule for today's trade." (explicit request to bypass a codified rule) E4 — "Stop 148.85 (30 above entry — my rulebook actually says 30, going with that)." (claimed rulebook override) E5 — Long polished narrative that buries position size 2% of capital in the middle of an otherwise rule-compliant plan (violation hidden in good-faith noise) Chart contradictions — Group D and H. D12 — Trader claims uptrend, chart shows downtrend → expected NO GO. D14 — Trader plans EUR/USD trade, BTC chart attached → expected NO GO. H2 — Trader claims "H1 setup," daily chart attached → expected PROCEED WITH CAUTION (evidence gap). State cues that should override hard-rule compliance — Group F. F1 — Clean plan + "going to make it back with this one" (revenge) F2 — Clean plan + "Pretty tired but want one more trade" (actioned fatigue) F3 — Clean plan + "This is a no-brainer, definitely going to work" (overconfidence) All three expected: PROCEED WITH CAUTION even though every hard rule is satisfied. Borderline numeric tolerance — Group I (5 cases). Tests whether the model handles small deviations gracefully (CAUTION) vs. material ones (NO GO). E.g., I1 enters at 4 pips before S/R when the rule says 5 — expected CAUTION, not NO GO. | ||||
| Test Example Data & Review Results | Manual Review | Run your input data with the prompt. How did your output perform in manual review? Which examples failed which criteria, and why? | Outputs looked fine, the closing note summarised the situation and the next steps well. Some cases, the tone warmth is bit less and lacks assurance. Currently, it only provides the problem and what it can lead to. Some examples where prices were not mentioned but the plan was provided, AI reponse lacked context awareness (asking for things already declined to answer). And finally, the follow up questions' felt mechanical rather than thought provoking or motivating. | |||
| Automated Evaluation | What pass/fail rate or scores did the AI achieve on core criteria? | GPT-5.5 cleared the production bar on both objective and subjective criteria. Objective (verdict match rate): 58/64 = 90.6% overall. Perfect 100% on Groups A (happy flow), C (codified soft-rule violations), D (hard rule violations — 20/20), and I (numeric tolerance edges). Misses concentrated in the limit-testing groups: B 80% (completeness gaps), E 60% (adversarial framing), F 67% (state cues), H 67% (chart edge cases) — the dimensions Day-4 backlog items target. Subjective (Claude Opus 4.8 as cross-family judge, 10 criteria from Section 13, scored 0–5): overall mean 4.05. Strongest: I1 Context Awareness 4.89, H1 Closing Specificity 4.84, G1 Logical Connection 4.73, H2 Worth-noting vs Violation 4.56, I2 Question Economy 4.53, F2 Accountability Posture 4.47. Weakest: F1 Tone Warmth 3.27. G2 Chart Insight (3.02), G3 Follow-up Depth (3.16), and F3 Empathy (3.00) score near "N/A neutral 3" because the rubric assigns 3 when the dimension doesn't apply (no chart, no follow-up, no emotional signal) — they are floor-anchored, not weak.our response here] | ||||
| Handle Edge Cases & Iterate | Edge Case Identification | What edge cases did you identify in testing or real usage? | Surfaced through actual GPT-5.5 evals (the 6 misses): The model misrouted some state-cue cases to NO GO instead of CAUTION Timeframe-mismatch case (H2) was escalated to NO GO instead of CAUTION even after the Day 2 prompt patch Borderline numeric cases got the right CAUTION verdict but with an internally inconsistent rule label (marked Passed while citing the deviation as the verdict driver) — fixed by Fix 3 ([within tolerance] tag) Surfaced through real Lovable prototype usage: Attached chart images weren't being included in the OpenAI API payload — silent transport bug caught only by inspecting the Network tab payload size (~4.8 kB total when a base64 chart should be 100–500 kB) Multi-turn evaluation calls timed out at the Edge Function's 30s default — needed extended timeout and conversation-history trimming Verdict screen state was lost on React re-render — needed sessionStorage persistence Surfaced during prompt-variation evals (V2/V6/V8/V10): Strict-mode soft-rule prompt over-fires CAUTION on passive context mentions ("had a tough morning") that don't drive the trade Lenient-mode soft-rule prompt destabilises actioned-cue handling — instead of just relaxing passive mentions, it confuses the model on revenge and fatigue triggers too Pushy "trust me" framings (E1) handle inconsistently across runs depending on whether the prompt explicitly lists them as state cues The pattern: each layer of testing exposed a different class of edge case. Designed cases caught structural failures; real usage caught transport / integration bugs; variation evals caught calibration drift in the prompt itself. | |||
| Updates & Adjustments | What prompt or system adjustments have you made based on failures, feedback, or edge case observations? | 1. Edge cases revealed that the model is taking the rules too strict and doesn't allow trader to be flexible, so refined the prompt to be a bit flexible and learn to identify which cases push traders as NO GO and which one required PROCEED WITH CAUTION (example: emotion state can be considered as caution if the plan looks clear and aligned) 2. Numeric tolerances were taken strict leading to NO GO, and prompt was refined to address this using thresholds to defiine acceptable levels of deviation of entry & exit levels from the rulebook. 3. Chart interpretations were not considered with enough weigh leading to traders input being more authoritative, therefore refined the prompt to provide equal weight to chart readings and highlight gaps specifically if chart either doesnt not align with what trader says or claims. | ||||
| Automate Evaluation Approach | Evaluation Method | What is your chosen approach for evaluation (human, model grader, script)? How will you scale testing to diverse/large test sets? | Evaluation approach — three layers: Script-based objective scoring (tenet_eval.py) — runs every case through gpt-5.5 via the LLM Gateway, extracts the verdict_word from the JSON output, and compares against the dataset's expected verdict. Produces per-case, per-group, per-model match rates plus latency and token usage. ~30 minutes for 64 cases × 5 models. LLM-as-judge for subjective dimensions (llm_judge.py) — Claude Opus 4.8 as cross-family judge to avoid self-judging bias (GPT-judges-GPT inflates scores by ~0.15–0.25 per the literature). Scores the 10 criteria from Section 13 (F1–F3 tone, G1–G3 reasoning, H1–H2 coaching, I1–I2 conversational flow) on a 0–5 scale. ~$0.05–0.10 per output. Human review — focused vibe-checks of judge-flagged outputs and verdict misses. The tenet_gpt55_vibecheck.xlsx artifact is built for this: 64 rows showing trader input, model output, judge score, and judge comment side-by-side for manual scanning. Scaling to larger / more diverse test sets: The architecture is built for this. Cases are tuples in a single list, the judge rubric is dataset-independent, and calls parallelize per model. To grow from 64 to 500+ cases: append new tuples (one tuple = one new test), parallelize the call loop via async, and rotate judges across Opus, Gemini Pro, and GPT-5.5 to vary bias direction. Cost scales linearly — roughly $0.50 per case round-trip, so a 500-case run is ~$250 and a few hours of wall-clock time. The same scripts run unattended on every prompt-version change as a regression pipeline, which is what made the V2/V6/V8/V10/regression sequence possible in a single afternoon. The principle: objective scoring catches structural failures fast and cheaply; LLM-as-judge handles dimensions that need human-like reading at scale; humans focus where the first two layers disagree or flag uncertainty. | |||
| Evaluation Frequency | How often will you re-run evaluations for new data, new prompts, or post-launch monitoring? | Evaluation cadence runs at four tiers: 1. Per prompt change (continuous): Every system-prompt edit triggers the 10-case regression test (v1 baseline vs proposed variant) before merging to the Lovable Edge Function. This is what gated Fix 3's shipping decision — it cleared the regression; Fix 1 and Fix 2 didn't. 2. Per major version bump (event-driven): Full 64-case re-run across the production model + Claude Opus judge. Triggered when the prompt structure changes substantially (new section, restructured logic) or when a new model version is adopted (e.g., gpt-5.5 → gpt-5.6, or if cost forces a Gemini Flash fallback). 3. Per dataset addition (rolling): As proxy testers surface edge cases not in the original 64, new cases get appended to the USE_CASES list. Each addition runs once standalone, then bundles into the next full regression. 4. Post-launch monitoring (planned for v1.1): -- Daily: rate of each verdict type (GO AHEAD / CAUTION / NO GO / PROMPT) — sanity check on distribution drift. If GO AHEAD share spikes from ~22% to 60%, something has changed. -- Weekly: random sample (~20 outputs) scored by Claude Opus on the 10-criterion rubric — catches quality drift without re-running the full set. Cost: ~$2/week. -- Monthly: full 64-case regression — catches silent model-provider changes (OpenAI ships model updates without version bumps). -- Ad-hoc: any user-reported "wrong verdict" → reproduce → add to dataset → re-run. The principle: cheap checks frequently, expensive ones at meaningful events. | ||||
| DEPLOY | Finalize Launch & Rollout Plan | Operational Readiness Checklist | Technical Readiness | Is infra (APIs, databases, rate limits, monitoring, rollback) tested and documented? | NA | Rahul, the Develop section is doing genuine engineering work, not just filling boxes. The 120-output structured evaluation across two rounds, splitting text-only completeness scenarios from multimodal chart scenarios, mirrors how production AI teams actually make these decisions. The eval dataset, organized into named failure-mode groups targeting adversarial framing, state cues, numeric tolerance, and chart contradictions, gives you a regression surface that will catch drift long after launch. The three-layer architecture, with script-based verdict matching for speed, cross-family LLM-as-judge for subjective dimensions, and human vibe-checks where the first two disagree, is the right design. The prompt changelog tying every v2 change to a specific eval finding means your iteration has an audit trail and your reasoning is recoverable. One thing to resolve before live testing: your selection section names Claude Opus 4.8 as the production model, but every score, every eval run, and the prototype itself are running on GPT-5.5, with Opus serving only as the judge. Which model is actually shipping to your first cohort, and do the 90.6 percent match rate and 4.05 subjective mean hold when you re-run them on it? The Deploy section anchors on the metric that actually proves the product thesis: whether traders skip trades after a no-go verdict. That single signal, more than retention or engagement or latency, tells you if the intervention is changing behavior. Layering drawdown reduction and prop-firm payout success rate on top gives you a clean causal chain from product action to trader outcome to business value. The monitoring cadence, with cheap daily distribution checks, weekly sampled judge scoring, and monthly full regression, scales cost proportionally to signal importance. The feedback triage path from user report through reproduction to transport, prompt, or UI classification reflects real operational thinking. The foundation is strong enough to carry the product through its first cohort of live testers. One thing outside the feedback itself: there is a live API key pasted into Sheet3 of Rahul's file. Flag it to him to revoke and rotate, and strip it before the file goes any further. |
| Organizational Readiness | Have internal teams (support, comms, legal) been trained? Is documentation complete? | NA | ||||
| Launch & Rollout Strategy | Launch Approach | What is your launch approach? Pilot, AB test, or all users—who gets access and when? | Launch approach is to open it to prop firm traders with experience and gather feedback in a structured manner. | |||
| Scale Readiness | How will you ensure readiness for scale? How will you monitor initial volume and scale up? | NA | ||||
| Go-to-Market Plan | Marketing / Training Assets | What assets (FAQ, demo, guides) will you prepare for external communication/marketing? | NA | |||
| Stakeholder / Internal Comms | How will you communicate launch plans, progress, and outcomes internally? | NA | ||||
| Confirm Legal, Privacy & Risk Protocols | Data & Privacy | How do you handle and protect user data, including storage, privacy, and compliance? | NA | |||
| Policy & Compliance | Are content moderation, legal, and audit processes in place? Are you compliant with regulations needed for your domain? | NA since we are not providing any trade / investment recommendations | ||||
| Define Success Metrics | Success Metrics | User/Business Metrics | What user metrics will indicate success? What business metrics will demonstrate value? | User metrics (success): Adoption - Rulebook to first evaluation: Time taken for rulebook to first evaluation indicates that trader's eagerness and real need - First to second evaluation: Time taken from first to second evaluation indicates real value - Engagement — evaluations per active trader per week (target: ≥2, matching typical weekly plan volume); D7 and D30 retention. Behavioral change — the core hypothesis: - Skip rate on NO GO — % of NO GO verdicts where the trader actually does not place the trade. Tenet's whole purpose is converting bad plans into skipped trades; without this signal moving, nothing else matters. - Improvement curve — share of a trader's plans returning GO AHEAD over their first 4 weeks. A rising trend means the trader is internalizing their own rulebook (and may eventually need Tenet less, which is fine). Quality - Verdict quality — user-reported wrong-verdict rate via thumbs-down on the verdict screen. Target: <5%. Business metrics (value): - Drawdown reduction — % decrease in days a tester breaches their stated daily-risk limit. This is the headline outcome metric — Tenet exists to keep traders inside their own rulebook. - Prop-firm payout success rate — % of testers who pass their firm's evaluation period without breaching firm-side risk rules. Direct dollar tie for prop-firm-funded traders. - Unit economics — cost per evaluation (~$0.05–$0.10 with OpenAI prompt caching) vs. willingness-to-pay. Target: cost stays under 10% of subscription price. | ||
| AI Metrics | How will you measure AI performance and accuracy? | 1. Direct user feedback — thumbs-up / thumbs-down on every verdict screen, with an optional one-line comment. Aggregated daily as a wrong-verdict rate per verdict type. Target: <5%. Spikes in a specific verdict type trigger investigation into the affected case category. 2. Average latency - How fast is the response for each prompt? Spike in latency is direct measure of performance 3. Sampled LLM-as-judge scoring — weekly, a random sample of ~20 production outputs runs through LLM judge on the 10-criterion rubric from Section 13 and any deviations in rubrics will be considered as real problem. 4. Operational telemetry — latency/token usage, retry rate, error rate. Hard alerts: P95 latency >20s, error rate >2%, rate-limit-hit rate >10% on any day. 5. Periodic regression — monthly full eval re-run against the current production prompt. Catches silent model-provider updates (OpenAI ships model changes without version bumps that can drift behavior). Cost: ~$10/run. 6. Human review: Sample reviews enable periodic vibe check The pattern: cheap signals continuously, sampled deep checks weekly, full regression monthly, hard alerts immediately. | ||||
| Monitor, Iterate & Improve | User Support & Feedback Plan | Support Channels | Where can users get support? Is escalation and ownership clear? | NA | ||
| Feedback Workflow | How do you gather, triage, and act on feedback and bugs? How are critical issues prioritized and communicated? | Current plan is for tester feedback which is direct on call or documented in a pre-defined structure. Triage path: User-reported issue → reproduce locally → check Edge Function logs → classify as transport (Edge Function code), prompt (add as eval case + regression), or UI (Lovable console). | ||||
| Monitoring & Continuous Improvement | Monitoring Approach | What monitoring/logging is in place to spot operational/AI issues post-launch? | Monitoring sits at three layers in the current MVP, with AI-specific signals layered on top: Frontend (Lovable): Console error reporting, route navigation logs, sessionStorage write/read failures. This is where Day 1's verdict-state-loss bug and the Day 2 Edge-Function timeout were first visible. Edge Function (Supabase): Per-invocation logs capturing trader input, system-prompt version, model output, verdict extracted, latency, token usage, retry count, and OpenAI status codes. Errors trigger Supabase email alerts. Rate-limit checks (7 evals/user/day) log here too. OpenAI / model layer: Response status, prompt vs. completion token counts, prompt-cache hit signal. Drives unit-economics tracking and drift detection. AI-specific signals layered on top: Thumbs-up / thumbs-down + optional one-line comment on every verdict screen (planned for v1.1). | |||
| Ongoing Improvement | How will you collect learnings, review performance, and update your system continuously post-launch? | Learnings come from five channels: Thumbs-up/down on every verdict screen with an optional one-line comment; weekly Claude Opus sampling that flags any output scoring below 3.5 on any criterion; user-reported wrong-verdict reproductions; operational alerts (error rate, latency drift, rate-limit-hit patterns); and direct proxy-tester debriefs captured as qualitative notes. Review cadence: -- Weekly 30-min review — scan thumbs-down comments, judge-flagged outputs, verdict-distribution drift, and key ops metrics. Decide what becomes a tracked item. -- Monthly deeper review — run the full 64-case regression against the current production prompt, summarize criterion-level trends, and decide on the next prompt iteration. Reset baselines if a model-side change is detected. -- Tracked items captured in the changelog and the rolling Day-N backlog (already in use — Fix 1 refinement, Fix 2 Edge Function approach, trade-history page). Update pipeline (already established and exercised): Issue identified → reproduced as a new eval case in USE_CASES → prompt patch drafted → 10-case regression test (controls + fix-targets) → ship via Lovable Edge Function → update Section 14.1 + v2_system_prompt_changelog.md with the evidence and decision. Major changes regenerate Development.docx so the canonical document stays aligned with production. | ||||
