The LLM
Not us
Claude or another third-party model can hallucinate, botch the numbers, invent a name. That call is not Helmsman.
Covers
A market with no stop is not fast. It is uncovered. Helmsman opens only if protection leaves with the entry. If the broker or the rule cannot cover, there is no order — even if you already said yes.
The course stays yours
Multi-broker slides · only venues whose APIs the model can speak
«I’ll add the stop next» is the sentence that turns accounts into anecdotes. Here the stop is in the order, or the order does not leave.
Red is the account that «adds the stop later». A spike, a gap, a headline: the line vanishes lower. Gold is the covered entry: the line breathes, the floor is there. It is not magic. It is the order class the venue accepts — bracket, OTO, OTOCO — not a SIMPLE market with a prayer in chat.
After the open Helmsman does not chase the stop for you. It did its job: open covered. Managing the position is your discipline. Anyone promising automatic trailing while you sleep is selling another product — and, usually, another risk you did not read.
You see size and stop before you confirm. L5 does not send a naked entry. On Alpaca it is OTO or a bracket. On Tradier it is OTOCO. On PaperSim the protective legs stay open on the bench. The name changes. The promise does not.
It means refusing. If the rule does not give a stop distance, if the venue will not take that order class, if the data is stale — Helmsman does not «make it work». Your capital is not an experiment to keep you in the conversation.
It also means honesty about afterwards. We do not sell position management. We do not sell trailing. We do not sell autopilot. We sell the entry that is born already protected, on the account you already keep, with your yes.
We are in early access: when a client is in, they operate in paper. Skills and adapters are moving fast. Live comes when this rule still holds with real money — not before, not to «close a deal».
We are in early access. Skills and adapters are moving fast: you can pre-register.
Pre-registerPass-through
Helmsman is middleware: it translates, vetoes, forwards. The LLM proposes. You confirm. The broker — on your account — is the final executor.
Not us
Claude or another third-party model can hallucinate, botch the numbers, invent a name. That call is not Helmsman.
This is us
Routing, rules, covers. If the stop is missing, if size moved, if you did not say yes — the pipe closes. We do not hold your book.
Final executor
Alpaca, Tradier, or the venue you connect. If an order exists, it exists on their book. Helmsman is not your intermediary and not your bank.
If the order exists, it exists on your account, after your yes. Helmsman is the pipe. Not the captain. Not the till.
We are in early access. Skills and broker adapters are moving fast. You can pre-register: not a self-serve paper switch.
Pre-register