Established Hedge Fund — Elastic Capacity for POCs
Senior quant throughput for proof-of-concept work, on the team's own terms.
A strong internal quant team is fully deployed on live strategies, and new-strategy ideas keep being deprioritised for lack of hours. We would provide senior quant throughput working to the team's own hypotheses, conventions and review standards — framing every POC as a falsification exercise and delivering self-contained artefacts the team can accept, modify or reject on its own terms.
The Challenge
The team is good and busy in equal measure. Every hour goes to running live strategies, so the backlog of new-strategy proofs-of-concept never moves — not because the ideas lack merit, but because there's no spare senior bandwidth to test them properly.
Bringing in outside help usually creates its own friction: work that ignores house conventions, results that can't be trusted without redoing them, and a temptation to sell in every idea. What's needed is throughput that behaves like an extension of the team itself.
The Approach
We would add senior capacity that works to the team's standards and hands back work it can evaluate on its own terms.
1. Work to the team's hypotheses
We would take the team's own hypotheses, conventions and review standards as the brief, so POCs come back in a form the team recognises and can judge immediately.
2. Frame every POC as falsification
We would run each proof-of-concept as a falsification exercise — designed to find the reasons an idea fails, not to advocate for it — so a negative result is as useful and as trustworthy as a positive one.
3. Deliver self-contained artefacts
Each POC would arrive as a self-contained, documented artefact the team can accept, modify or reject outright, with no dependency on us to interpret or maintain it.
How we'd work
Senior quant throughput delivered against the team's own hypotheses, conventions and review standards — every proof-of-concept framed as a falsification exercise and packaged as a self-contained artefact the team can accept, modify or reject, scaled up and down as the pipeline demands.
The Likely Outcome
The backlog of new-strategy ideas would finally move, without pulling the internal team off live strategies. Because every POC is run to the team's conventions and framed to falsify, the results can be trusted at face value — and the elastic model means the fund pays for throughput when it needs it and steps it down when it doesn't.