Can an AI honestly beat the stock market?
We're finding out — in public.
Plenty of people claim their AI picks winning stocks. Almost none of them show you the losses, and none of them wrote down their target before they started. We did. This site is a live, year-long experiment — run with pretend money, scored like a science experiment, published win or lose.
🎯 We called our shot first
Before the record went live, we wrote down exactly what "success" means and sealed it with a tamper-proof digital fingerprint. We can't quietly move the goalposts later — you can check.
🚫 The AI can't cheat
An AI has read the internet — it "remembers" which stocks won. So we show it companies with the names stripped out. It has to judge the business on the numbers, like a blind taste test.
📉 We publish our losses
Our very first strategy failed its own test — taxes quietly ate the profits. Instead of hiding that, it's a permanent public exhibit. Losing honestly beats winning on paper.
The scoreboard
Our record went live on July 20, 2026. We don't invest real money and we place no trades — each day we publish timestamped predictions and score them against this "autopilot" benchmark: a simple mix of index funds anyone could buy with zero skill. If our picks can't beat autopilot, we'll say so.
| Series | Yesterday | Since Jul 20, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Our benchmark | -0.60% | +2.67% |
| The market (S&P 500 fund) | -0.52% | +3.26% |
Day one is inception — zero trading days have closed since, so the numbers read blank until the first close lands, then update automatically. The 12-month clock started at inception, July 20, 2026. Full details and every number live on the Results page.
What happens next
Over the next year: the AI analyst studies companies anonymously, makes predictions with reasons attached, a rules-based "referee" sizes the positions, and every prediction gets scored against reality. Monthly, we publish plain-English Lab Notes on how it's going — including how often our confident calls actually came true.
Daily scoreboard after each U.S. market close, monthly plain-English Lab Notes, and the 12-month verdict when it lands. Double opt-in, one-click unsubscribe, never any stock tips or spam.
Curious how the machine works under the hood? How it works →