AI Trading · Product Architect
Black Box Trader
Confidence-scored market research across every signal.
5
Crypto venues
3
Asset classes
One
Research pipeline
The Problem
Active traders must reconcile fragmented charts, headlines, sentiment, and venue data fast enough to act without losing the reasoning behind a signal.
The AI Architecture
Black Box Trader brings those feeds into one research pipeline, weighting information by recency and reliability before surfacing confidence-scored setups with their reasoning attached.
What Aaron Shipped
- Equity, crypto, and commodity research in one interface
- Professional charts with trend and volatility overlays
- Cross-venue crypto arbitrage monitoring
- Headline intelligence, sentiment, alerts, and reasoning trails
The Outcome
A terminal-style research product that organizes market complexity into a clearer, inspectable decision surface. It is research software—not a promise of trading performance.
Under the hood
How it was built.
Tech Stack
Implementation Notes
The interface uses a finance-terminal vocabulary while keeping each surfaced setup connected to the inputs and confidence logic behind it.
Funnel Strategy
Public product demonstration → interest capture → guided onboarding → personalized watchlists, alerts, and research workflows.
The growth-engine model
One connected system, not six disconnected vendors.
Extraordinary connects brand, software, content, search, automation, and measurement—then stays close as a growth partner where the fit is strongest.
Browser layer
React 18 · TypeScript 5 · Tailwind
Declarative UI, compile-time type safety, design-token CSS that flips themes from one variable.
Build layer
Vite · esbuild · SWC · imagetools
Native ES modules in dev (instant reloads) and tree-shaken, code-split, hash-versioned bundles in prod.
Edge & delivery
Global CDN · HTTP/3 · TLS 1.3 · immutable caching
Every byte served from the user's nearest PoP. Long-lived caches because filenames are content-hashed.
Backend layer
PostgreSQL · PostgREST · RLS · JWT auth · Deno edge functions
Your schema is your API. Authorization enforced inside the database. Server code without server ops.
The tools are not the advantage. The advantage is seeing the whole engine, choosing what matters, and making every part compound the others.