Updated July 19, 2026 · after U.S. close

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 buying a single share, 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

We haven't started buying yet — we're still building and testing the machine. When we do, our picks will need to beat this "autopilot" benchmark: a simple mix of index funds anyone could buy with zero skill. If we can't beat autopilot, we'll say so.

Series	Yesterday	Since Jul 17, 2026
Our benchmark	-0.68%	—
The market (S&P 500 fund)	-1.04%	—

The clock on our 12-month test starts with the first purchase. Full details and all the numbers 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.

Curious how the machine works under the hood? How it works →