Disciplined signals, governed swarms, and never your keys.

PROJECT FACTS

Executive summary

Signal intelligence without custody — shipped, governed, and audited.

Staxis came to FACTA with an uncomfortable thesis for crypto: every existing option — pooled funds, retail bots, custodial wallets — asks you to give up your keys, your capital, or eighteen months of engineering time. The product they wanted to build would separate signal intelligence from execution custody: 250 self-learning swarms surface what to trade, when, and where, and the user acts on their own exchange. The keys never leave the wallet.

FACTA embedded across three planes — fractional CAIO direction, CTO advisory architecture, and engineering leadership — and shipped the platform to paper stage in five months: a typed HTTP API and SDK, a five-stage governance pipeline (paper → canary → live → degraded → retired), a 2.5%/3% daily circuit breaker with three-layer enforcement, hash-chained audit logs, and a monthly Calibration Report that publishes misses as well as hits. The first three Argonaut swarms are running; the remaining 247 are staged behind the same governance gate.

OUTCOMES

The client

Staxis — the discipline of a systematic strategy, without the custody.

Staxis is a crypto market-intelligence company built on a premise that contradicts the segment it sells into: a disciplined trader shouldn't have to choose between handing custody to a black box and becoming a full-time quant. The product is not a fund and not a wallet — it is the infrastructure between a user's custody and a systematic strategy: a swarm of typed strategies, a daily circuit breaker, a documented governance pipeline, and a proprietary market-intelligence backbone, exposed through a dashboard, an API, and an SDK.

When FACTA was engaged, Staxis had a founder, a research thesis, and the first three Argonaut strategy sketches (Trend, Mean Reversion, Events). What it did not have was a production architecture, a governance model that a regulated client could audit, or a market-intelligence layer that could feed 250 swarms without one becoming a silent single point of failure.

The challenge

Build governed swarm infrastructure a regulator could read.

The scope went beyond shipping a trading app. Staxis needed an architecture where custody, strategy, and governance were separable — and where each separation was verifiable from a permissions scope, a property test, or a governance log. Every swarm had to pass the same five-stage lifecycle, with promotion criteria documented and demotion automatic. And the platform had to publish what it got wrong, not just what it got right — a Calibration Report with Brier-scored predictions and the misses left in.

CONSTRAINTS

FACTA's approach

One partner across direction, architecture and execution.

FACTA embedded as a single technical partner operating across three planes that, in a regulated fintech, would normally require three separate leadership hires. The same person who defined the governance policy reviewed the property tests that enforced it.

The technical solution

Staxis: five properties, one set of invariants, three surfaces.

The final architecture organizes Staxis into five architectural properties that share one control plane. The dashboard, the API, and the SDK all run on the same non-custodial guarantee, the same circuit breaker, and the same audit log — nothing is hidden behind a second engine.

MODULES

STACK

Results

Five months. Paper stage. Audit-grade transparency.

Staxis reached paper stage on schedule, with the first three Argonaut swarms running against real market data and the remaining 247 architected behind the same governance gate. The first Calibration Report was published with downloadable CSV data, Brier-scored predictions, and the misses left in — no fabricated performance numbers, no curated success stories.

The architecture shipped audit-ready: geoblocking enforced for New York, California gated pending DFAL compliance, and SOC 2 Type I evidence collection running from day one. The non-custodial guarantee is verifiable from the permissions scope — withdrawal is not requested — and the circuit breaker is a documented control, not a guarantee of maximum loss.

METRICS

Replicable lessons

What makes a regulated crypto product shippable in five months.

About FACTA

Fractional AI leadership with production-grade engineering.

FACTA is a consultancy specialized in fractional Chief AI Officer and CTO roles for companies that need to lead the transition to AI without hiring a full-time executive team. Unlike generalist consultants who deliver PowerPoint, FACTA delivers systems in production — including the property tests, the audit logs, and the published misses.

We combine ten years of experience in AI architecture with operational expertise in multi-agent systems, market intelligence, governance pipelines, and a modern stack (Rust, TypeScript, cloud and on-prem infrastructure). We work with post-seed startups through Series B scale-ups across Spanish- and English-speaking regions, with a particular focus on regulated and audit-sensitive products.

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