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Governed Quant Operating System

Turn investment hypotheses into governed strategy decisions.

Kalawer brings strategy evidence, independent validation, risk limits, human approvals, and audit history into one controlled institutional workflow.

Decision-support platform. Kalawer does not execute orders and does not provide investment advice.

Illustrative interface

Strategy · v0.3

European Quality Momentum

Author A. Roussel · Validator M. Okafor

In Validation
Evidence completeness82%
7 of 9 artefacts attachedSource-tagged

Validator finding — turnover exceeds horizon

Observed 214% annualised turnover exceeds the 120% assumption declared in the hypothesis. Requires author response.

Lifecycle

  1. Validation
    In progress
  2. Risk
    Pending
  3. Approval
    Pending
Illustrative product workflow. Not a real strategy, customer, or backtest.

Built for

  • Quant research
  • Independent validation
  • Risk
  • Investment committees
  • Audit

Institutional problem

Research moves faster than validation, risk, approval, and audit.

Ideas ship in one system; the evidence, challenge, and decisions that make them investable live somewhere else. Kalawer consolidates them into a single governed record.

  • Notebooks
  • Spreadsheets
  • PDFs
  • Email
  • Chat
  • Ad-hoc approvals

Governed strategy record

One append-only Strategy Passport

Hypothesis, evidence, validation findings, risk limits, and approvals — recorded, attributed, and auditable in one place.

Workflow

One lifecycle from hypothesis to controlled deployment.

Stages 1–5 are the Production MVP. Stage 6 belongs to the future operating-system vision and is clearly labelled.

  1. 01

    Hypothesis

    MVP

    Assumptions, universe, and expected drivers framed as a record.

  2. 02

    Evidence

    MVP

    Imported metrics with source-tagged data provenance.

  3. 03

    Validation

    MVP

    Independent challenge from a validator distinct from the author.

  4. 04

    Risk

    MVP

    Explicit limits, exposure boundaries, and known failure modes.

  5. 05

    Approval

    MVP

    Named human decisions recorded as immutable events.

  6. 06

    Controlled deployment

    Vision

    Future operating-system vision — not part of Production MVP.

Platform outcomes

Operational outcomes, not performance claims.

Kalawer measures itself on what an institutional workflow needs to trust a decision — never on returns, alpha, or backtest bragging rights.

Evidence quality
Source-tagged evidence must be complete before a strategy advances through the workflow.
Independent challenge
Structural segregation of duties: the author of a strategy cannot validate it.
Risk control
Limits and known failure modes are first-class fields, not buried commentary.
Decision traceability
Every approval, rejection, and finding retains its author and moment.
Auditability
Append-only history a validator or auditor can reconstruct end to end.
Committee-ready records
Hypothesis, evidence, findings, and limits in one place — never a partial deck.

Role-based value

One workflow, five perspectives.

Select a role to see its responsibilities, the lifecycle stages it owns, and the record it leaves behind.

Responsibility

Quant Researcher

Register hypotheses, attach source-tagged evidence, and shepherd a strategy through validation without leaving the workflow.

Lifecycle stages

Hypothesis
Evidence

Resulting record

Draft strategy with evidence bundle attached.

Strategy Passport

A decision-ready record for every strategy.

The Passport is the artefact a committee, validator, or auditor opens to reconstruct every input and human decision behind a strategy — no chase across notebooks, chats, or slide decks.

Strategy Passport
Illustrative interface

Identity

European Quality Momentum

Version 0.3 · Draft → Validation

Author

A. Roussel

Independent validator

M. Okafor

Hypothesis

Quality factor + 12M price momentum in Eurozone large-caps generates persistent alpha net of turnover costs.

Approval status

Awaiting validator sign-off

Evidence completeness82%
UniverseEU large-cap
ProvenanceVendor A · CSV
Backtest window2010–2024
Turnover (obs.)214% / yr

Finding · turnover exceeds stated horizon

Observed 214% vs. 120% assumption. Raised by validator.

Risk limits

  • Sector concentration ≤ 25%
  • Single name ≤ 3%
  • Gross exposure ≤ 100%
  • Drawdown alert 8%

Immutable activity

  1. M. Okafor Raised finding: turnover exceeds horizon

    Today 14:02

  2. A. Roussel Imported evidence bundle (7 artefacts)

    Yesterday

  3. A. Roussel Registered hypothesis v0.3

    3 days ago

Illustrative Strategy Passport. Not a real strategy, customer, or backtest.

Production vs. Vision Demo

Target Production MVP, and what remains illustrative.

Kalawer draws a hard line between the target Production MVP — delivered progressively during the paid design-partner pilot with a selected institutional team — and the Vision Demo, which illustrates the broader operating-system direction on synthetic data only. Nothing on this page implies that the authenticated application is generally available today.

VISION DEMO — SYNTHETIC MARKET DATA — NO REAL ORDERS

Target Production MVP
Delivered progressively during the paid pilot
Scope the design-partner engagement will build against real strategy records — not features that ship today.
  • Strategy registry
  • Evidence and CSV import
  • Documented metrics and flags
  • Validation, risk, approvals
  • Passport, audit, reports
  • Organization and billing controls
Vision Demo · synthetic
Synthetic exploration
Illustrative only. Never connected to live markets or real capital.
  • Synthetic Research Studio
  • Visual Strategy Builder
  • Digital Twin
  • Portfolio Studio
  • Simulated Deployment and Mission Control
  • Incidents, kill switch, Quant Graph, Strategy DNA, AI Debate

Vision Demo capabilities do not operate in Production and are not a statement of current or future performance.

Security & governance

Target Production trust architecture — design principles we intend to implement, not certifications we claim.

Two distinct scopes: (1) the lead-intake security controls already active on the pilot enquiry form (server-side validation, atomic rate limiting, honeypot, idempotency, no anonymous database access, minimized network identifiers); and (2) the target Production application trust architecture below — required controls before institutional use, delivered progressively during the paid pilot. Kalawer does not claim SOC 2, ISO 27001, penetration testing, uptime, encryption guarantees, or regulatory certifications.

Tenancy & isolation
  • Tenant isolation architecture

    Organization boundaries enforced at the data layer, not just the UI.

  • Private evidence

    Evidence is scoped to the strategy and organization that owns it.

Authorization
  • Scoped roles and permissions

    Every action key maps to an explicit role, with server-side authorization.

  • Server-side authorization

    Client rendering is never the source of truth for what a role may do.

Governance
  • Segregation of duties

    Author and validator of a strategy must be distinct principals.

  • Human approval

    No automated path advances a strategy without a named human decision.

Auditability
  • Immutable decisions

    Approvals and rejections are recorded as events that cannot be silently edited.

  • Append-only product audit history

    Every artefact, finding, and decision retains its author and timestamp.

Design Partner Pilot

A paid engagement with a small number of institutional teams.

We work with a limited number of design partners to configure the workflow to a real desk, validate the governance model, and establish the operational baseline for a future rollout.

Request pilotServer-validated intake with rate limiting and audit history.
What the pilot evaluates
Paid 8–12 week engagement · one team or desk · one to three strategies.
  • Workflow configuration against a real desk
  • Governance model on one to three strategies
  • Independent validation and risk sign-off
  • Weekly success reviews and final operational impact review

Design partners help shape defaults, permissioning, and the Passport structure. They do not receive equity, performance fees, or preferential access to unreleased Vision Demo capabilities on real data.

FAQ

Answers we owe an institutional buyer up front.