Mission and Vision · The Vision
Legible first, automated second.
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Why spreadsheets, on purpose
01Every formula inspectable, every rule auditable, the file owned outright.
An Excel-native system is transparent in a way a service cannot easily be. The operator can open any cell and see the arithmetic that just constrained them, which matters most in the moment they least want to accept the constraint. It is also owned rather than rented: the file does not stop working because a subscription lapsed or a company changed direction. Those are real properties, not a stage the product is embarrassed about.
The inherited constraint
02Nothing gets automated that was not first proven understandable on a sheet.
The platform generation carries the same doctrine forward: the same authority stack, the same rails, and no black boxes. That last one is a design requirement rather than a marketing line, and it is the thing most likely to slow development down. A cloud rewrite that produced a better engine nobody could read would fail this test, and the test is more valuable than the engine.
Where the research goes
03An expanding library of governed strategy ideas, kept outside the live rules.
The roadmap organises forward work into themed groups rather than a feature list: volatility and derivative proxies, cross-asset and relative value, macro and factor tilt, execution and microstructure, and portfolio overlays. Each carries candidate mechanisms such as regime-switching ladders, volatility-conditioned break-even triggers, cross-asset shock gates, session-gated deployment, and drawdown-volatility couplers. All of it sits behind the same R&D boundary the current product enforces: it is research until it is promoted, and promotion has a workflow.
- Themed guilds rather than a feature backlog, so ideas can be compared against each other.
- Every candidate is a scenario before it is a rule, and rejected ones keep their verdicts.
- The boundary does not relax as the library grows; it is the reason the library is safe to grow.
A roadmap is a claim
04Dates are the part most easily promised and least easily kept.
Everything above describes direction rather than a delivery schedule, and it is written that way deliberately. A published roadmap is a claim like any other, and a company that treats its own forward commitments more loosely than it asks its users to treat their trading rules has an obvious credibility problem. What is shipped is on the pricing page. What is not shipped is described here as intent.
How MARS uses this
MARS runs the modeled rules - branch probabilities, payoff structure, gate transitions, tier allocation - across 50,000 alternate histories and keeps the percentile bands as the reference envelope. Every review, live equity is plotted against that envelope, and the position is read together with drawdown bands, gate dwell, and tier behavior before any conclusion is drawn.
How it benefits you
You stop grading yourself by feel. Instead of 'I am behind' or 'this month feels slow', you know whether performance sits inside normal variance, is genuinely outperforming, or is drifting under the model - and whether that drift is edge decay or execution drag. It removes both panic below median and false confidence at a lucky P90.
Equity percentile fan across 50,000 simulated paths. Violet is P10-P90, blue is P25-P75, the gold dash is the median, and the green line is live equity drawn against the envelope.
Reference
The ladder as it stands today
| Tier | Price | What it answers |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | Free | Whether this way of operating suits you at all |
| MARS Lite | $79.99 | Whether your edge is real, measured week by week |
| MARS Core | $199.99 | What the four-workbook compliance and analytics loop reveals |
| MARS Pro | $497 | The full operating system, including simulation, diagnostics, and the benchmark |
Connected inside MARS
This module doesn't work alone.
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Operator briefs on this territory.
Deep dive — 01
A cloud edition can hide its arithmetic, and that is the whole risk of the migration.
The interface is the easy part. Carrying the property that a spreadsheet enforced for free is the hard one.
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Deep dive — 02
The buyer of a workbook holds something permanent. The subscriber to a platform does not.
A governance system that can be switched off by its vendor has a failure mode the workbook does not have.
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Deep dive — 03
A company that grades trading claims for a living has to grade its own.
Shipped, building, intended, considered. The same evidential discipline the system demands of a trading conclusion.
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Every module ships in the complete MARS package.
One price. Eleven workbooks, three TradingView indicators, and the full manual library — $497.