30+ hours of training
Structured curriculum across market microstructure, statistical methods, risk, execution, and post-trade. Modular video, written, and repo-based.
Founder Contest · Starts May 29, 2026
A serious quant program. Earn a founder seat in 21 days.
30+ hours of training. 3 AI agents. An anti-overfitting plugin. A community of builders. We're selecting 21 founders into the cohort — three per language community.
Two minutes inside The Quant.
What you'll learn, who builds it, and how the 21-day founder selection works.
Four pillars. One program.
Built for people who want a real quant education and a community that takes the craft seriously.
3 AI agents
Specialised assistants for strategy ideation, backtest review with bias detection, and portfolio diagnostics. They assist; they don't trade for you.
Anti-overfitting plugin
Audits your backtests for the failure modes that kill live performance: lookahead, survivor bias, parameter saturation, and multiple-testing inflation.
A community of builders
A Discord server across seven language communities. Daily challenges, peer review, and staff who read every contribution.
What's under the hood.
Two stacks. The strategy engine and the signal library. Every term you can click in your backtest UI is something we teach you to build, audit, and use without overfitting it.
Robot Framework
Custom Indicators
21 founders. Over 21 days. Starts May 29, 2026.
We're filling the founding cohort by activity, not by application form. Three founders are selected per language community — twenty-one in total. The 21-day window is how we tell signal from noise.
Founder seats
Three per language community, seven communities, twenty-one founders total.
Cohort start
Day 0 of the 21-day window. Late joiners welcome until the final week.
Application form
Selection is read from your activity. No CV. No pitch deck. Daily presence + contribution quality.
A clear arc. Day zero to day twenty-two.
Day 0
Join the server
One Discord click. Run /join_competition. Pick your language. You're in.
Days 1 → 21
Daily challenges
A new challenge each day. Answer with /answer. Engage with others. The leaderboard tracks consistency and contribution in real time.
Day 21
Final staff review
Staff reads every contribution from the top tier of each language community. The leaderboard is the shortlist — the final call is human.
Day 22
Founders announced
Three founders per language community. Names on the Founders' Wall. The cohort that builds the next chapter.
What we're actually measuring.
Five dimensions. Each weighted. The leaderboard is the first cut — the final cut is read by hand.
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Quality of contributions
Depth, original angle, structure. Excellence verdicts from admins (+10) lift the signal.
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Daily consistency
Active days, streak length, presence under your locale's challenges.
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Community value
How you help others. Reactions received as a proxy for resonance — but conversation depth matters more.
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Challenge performance
Points awarded on each /answer (5 baseline, 10 for the chronological top 10).
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Final staff review
The leaderboard is a shortlist. The final selection is human, deliberate, and reads every submission of every finalist.
This is not a popularity contest. It's not a who-was-loudest contest. The bot tracks signal; the final decision is read, considered, and made by humans.
What you get when you're selected.
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Permanent founder status
Public, permanent badge across every surface.
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Direct line to staff
Founder-only channel. Real-time access to product decisions.
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Lifetime program access
All 30+ hours of training, plus everything we ship next.
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All 3 AI agents
Strategy, backtest review, portfolio diagnostics. Founder tier.
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Anti-overfitting plugin
Full access. Audit every backtest you run.
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Founder-only voice rooms
Live AMAs with staff. Founder roundtables across languages.
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Early access to new modules
New curriculum and new agents land for founders first.
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Curation rights
Vote on community-submitted strategy ideas, plugins, indicators.
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Founders' Wall
Public, permanent placement. Your name shipped with the cohort.
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Revenue-share & equity
Future conversations when those structures land. Founders are in the room.
Beyond the founders
Ambassador opportunity.
Beyond the twenty-one founder seats, motivated members can apply as language ambassadors — running translated content, hosting their language's challenges, onboarding newcomers in their tongue. It's how the program scales without losing what the founder cohort built.
Ask in DiscordThe questions worth answering.
Is this another get-rich-quick thing?
No, and we'd encourage you to keep looking if that's what you're after. The Quant is a research-backed quantitative program. We teach methodology — risk, statistics, execution. We don't promise income, we don't show audited returns, and we don't sell signals.
What does selection actually get me?
Permanent founder status, lifetime access to the full program (training, the 3 AI agents, the anti-overfitting plugin), direct access to staff, founder-only rooms, and a seat at the table for future revenue-share conversations.
How much does it cost?
Zero. The 21-day founder contest is free, and the founder seat carries the program with it. There is no premium tier and no upsell on this page.
How are founders actually chosen?
A bot computes a leaderboard from participation points, excellence verdicts from admins, daily streak, and engagement signals. The top of each language leaderboard becomes the shortlist. Staff then reads every contribution of every shortlisted participant and makes the final call.
What if I'm not selected?
The program will eventually open to non-founders, with paid access. You can also apply as a language ambassador (see the section above). The founder cohort is the first window — the program lives on after it.
How much time per day?
Fifteen to thirty minutes a day, give or take. One daily challenge to answer, plus whatever engagement feels natural. People who spend hours trying to game the system rarely win — the bot weights quality and consistency, not volume.
When does it start, and can I join late?
Day 0 is May 29, 2026. Late joiners are welcome until the final week — but every missed day costs consistency points and you can't recover them. Earlier is better.
What are the AI agents?
Three specialised assistants. (1) A strategy ideation agent that crosses your idea against a library of failure modes and prior work. (2) A backtest review agent that audits for lookahead, survivor bias, and multiple-testing inflation. (3) A portfolio diagnostics agent that flags concentration, regime risk, and drawdown patterns. They assist — they don't trade or hand over signals.
Before May 29
Lock your Founder seat.
The 21-day window opens on May 29, 2026. Three founders per language. Twenty-one in total. Join the Discord and your seat is real the day Day 1 lands.
Join Discord — Lock your seat