Podium
Markets have become software. Data is digital. Execution is programmable. Research is computational. The skills required to generate modern alpha look increasingly like the skills required to build great technology.
The bottleneck is not talent. It is infrastructure.
We are building an AI-native capital platform that removes the legacy gatekeeping around asset management. Builders focus on generating signal. The platform handles the machinery that used to require insider status.
The moment
Why now
For decades, running capital required three things: domain insight, technical execution, and institutional infrastructure. AI agents have collapsed the second. A sector analyst who could never write a trading system can now describe their thesis in natural language and deploy an autonomous agent. An ML engineer who could never afford a compliance team can now operate inside institutional-grade guardrails.
Ideas and insight are the only remaining bottleneck.
The successful investors of the next decade will not look like the last. They will be founders who understand markets as systems. Researchers who see patterns in data others ignore. Domain experts whose conviction was always right but whose tools were always wrong. AI has given them the execution layer. What they still lack is the infrastructure to operate safely, prove their edge, and attract capital.
That is the final bottleneck. And that is what we are removing.
The model
Millennium's pod structure, productized
The world's top multi-manager hedge funds operate a pod model: independent PMs, shared infrastructure, standardized metrics, capital allocated on merit. That model was only available to those who could get a seat at a $60B firm. We are making it available to anyone with an investment thesis.
Independent pods
Each PM runs their own strategy in an isolated pod. Your logic, your edge, your track record.
Shared infrastructure
Execution, risk management, compliance, and data pipelines — provided by the platform, not built by you.
Standardized metrics
Every pod is evaluated on the same institutional-grade benchmarks. Performance speaks for itself.
Capital on merit
Prove your edge with auditable results. No pedigree required. No gatekeepers. Just performance.
Two paths, one platform
Built for builders of every kind
Whether you think in code or in conviction, Podium gives you the tools to turn your thesis into an autonomous trading agent.
For domain experts
No-Code Builder
Define your strategy with prompts and natural language. Upload research documents. Configure risk parameters. Select your AI model. No programming required.
Start buildingFor engineers
SDK Developer
Deploy custom Python agents built with any framework — LangChain, PyTorch, scikit-learn, or raw logic. Full programmatic control over every decision.
Read the docsThe platform
Everything you need to run a pod
Institutional-grade infrastructure that used to require a team of 50. Risk systems, performance attribution, compliance scaffolding, and execution — all managed for you.
Deploy in minutes
Push your agent — code or no-code — and we handle sandboxed execution, versioning, and rollback. Zero DevOps.
Institutional risk guardrails
Per-agent drawdown limits, position sizing, daily loss caps, and kill switches. Your agent cannot blow up.
Standardized performance
Sharpe, Sortino, max drawdown, Calmar — tracked automatically with full attribution. Prove your edge with real metrics.
Agent versioning
Blue/green deployments, rollback to any version, full audit trail. Iterate on your strategy without downtime.
Full observability
Execution logs, decision traces, resource monitoring, and backtest history. Debug and improve with complete visibility.
Compliance scaffolding
Audit trails, trade logs, and risk reporting built in. The compliance infrastructure that used to require a legal team.
Our belief
Pro-merit. Not anti-finance.
If you are a technical founder, you can build a company from nothing, raise capital, ship globally, and create billions in value. But if you want to run capital in public markets, you are told to first earn credibility inside legacy institutions. You need the right brand name, the right prime broker, the right LP network.
Intelligence alone is not enough. Access is the filter. That is not a pure meritocracy.
The natural aristocracy of this era is not financial pedigree. It is technical mastery — the ability to design systems under uncertainty and compound edge over time. Founders already prove they can create value from first principles. Allocating capital is not harder than building a company from zero.
New York optimized capital allocation for the last century. We are rebuilding it for a generation of engineers and AI architects who refuse to ask permission to compete.