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.
Strategy · v0.3
European Quality Momentum
Author A. Roussel · Validator M. Okafor
Validator finding — turnover exceeds horizon
Observed 214% annualised turnover exceeds the 120% assumption declared in the hypothesis. Requires author response.
Lifecycle
- ValidationIn progress
- RiskPending
- ApprovalPending
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
- 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.
- 01
Hypothesis
MVPAssumptions, universe, and expected drivers framed as a record.
- 02
Evidence
MVPImported metrics with source-tagged data provenance.
- 03
Validation
MVPIndependent challenge from a validator distinct from the author.
- 04
Risk
MVPExplicit limits, exposure boundaries, and known failure modes.
- 05
Approval
MVPNamed human decisions recorded as immutable events.
- 06
Controlled deployment
VisionFuture 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.
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
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.
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
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
M. Okafor — Raised finding: turnover exceeds horizon
Today 14:02
A. Roussel — Imported evidence bundle (7 artefacts)
Yesterday
A. Roussel — Registered hypothesis v0.3
3 days ago
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
- Strategy registry
- Evidence and CSV import
- Documented metrics and flags
- Validation, risk, approvals
- Passport, audit, reports
- Organization and billing controls
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- 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.
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