A real scripting language for algorithmic trading.
Verbatim is non-custodial trading infrastructure for equities and crypto — real conditional logic, real indicators, real exits, traded through your own broker account.
$DSL1 scripting languageequities + crypto, one syntax
No-code builders cap what a strategy can express. Raw-code frameworks hand a trader an entire runtime to maintain. Verbatim's DSL sits deliberately between the two — real conditional logic, real indicators, a constrained surface a self-taught trader can actually hold in their head.
$CUSTODY
Bring your own broker, always
Equities trade through the user's own Alpaca account; crypto through their own Robinhood account. API keys are encrypted at rest and never leave the user's deployment. Verbatim is infrastructure a trader runs, not a fund a trader wires money into.
$REGIME
Market context, not just signals
A continuous trend-strength score, not a blunt on/off flag, feeds directly into how strategies are ranked and promoted — backtested across 1-day, 3-day, and 1-week windows before a script ever touches a live account.
$STAGE
Where this stands today.
Non-custodial by architecture, not by policy — trades execute through each user's own Alpaca or Robinhood account. Credentials are encrypted at rest and never leave the deployment. There is no step in the system where Verbatim is holding funds or standing as counterparty — which keeps this a software company, not a de facto trading service.
Invite-only beta opening at a 10–50 seat cohort — self-service invite links, admin kill switch for platform-wide trading halt.
Production-hardened already — encrypted broker credentials at rest, self-hosted error tracking, real order-failure alerting on every live account.
Infrastructure with no vendor lock-in — runs today via Ansible on bare metal or Docker Compose; the same containerized dashboard and worker processes map directly onto ECS/Fargate + RDS + ElastiCache when a cohort outgrows a single host. An infrastructure decision, not a rewrite.
$NEXT
The full technical deck walks through the architecture, the risk controls, and the roadmap.