Field Notes

No. 001 · August 2026 · Post-mortem

I built a 20,000-line AI trading system. It made less than 1%. Here's everything I learned.

Five engines, LLM judges debating every trade, Bayesian optimization, a beautiful dashboard — and a server that died for four months without anyone noticing. The honest autopsy, and why the only part worth keeping became this company.

2026-08-04

Daleel is live

Auditable halal screening, now with an API.