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Quant Merger

The role AI just made possible: five quant functions, merged into one person.

A paid four week accelerator that teaches a newly defined role: one person operating as quant researcher, analyst, developer, trader and strategist at once, using AI to hold the mechanical work while personally holding the judgment across the full lifecycle of a trading or research idea.

The curriculum is revised several times a year as the role moves. Enrol once and you keep every future revision: your access does not expire, and neither does the material.

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Length
4 weeks
Modules
Five
Prerequisites
Python, Statistics, Probability and Markets
Price
Announced soon
What a Quant Merger is

Five people used to pass one idea between them

01

Researcher

Formulates the question.

02

Analyst

Tests it against data.

03

Developer

Builds it into working code.

04

Trader

Executes it.

05

Strategist

Decides whether it fits the broader portfolio.

The merge

Every handoff between those people is a place where context gets lost. AI collapses the need for five separate people: it does not collapse the need for the judgment that used to travel between them.

A Quant Merger is the person who holds that judgment continuously, across the whole lifecycle, using AI to execute the mechanics underneath.

What it is not

It is not a quant who uses AI tools. It is a restructured way of thinking: a specific discipline about what to delegate, what to never delegate, and how to stay accountable for a model's real world behaviour rather than its backtest.

No handoffs, so no context lost between question and position.
One person accountable for the whole chain, so no weak assumption hides inside someone else's half of it.
The three gates

What to delegate, and what to never delegate

The framework at the centre of the program. Three tests a task has to pass before AI is allowed to own it.

I

Reversibility

If it goes wrong, can you undo it. Delegate freely where the cost of being wrong is a rerun, never where it is a filled order.

II

Time gated verifiability

Can you check the output in the time you actually have. Work you cannot verify before you need it is work you have not delegated: you have simply stopped looking.

III

Model ownership

Someone has to be able to defend every assumption in the model. That someone is you, whatever wrote the code.

Why the gates matter

This program teaches you how to think, not how to prompt

MIT Media Lab researchers gave the failure mode a name: cognitive debt. Measured with EEG, participants who wrote with an LLM showed the weakest neural connectivity of any group, recalled little of what they had produced, and reported a diminished sense of ownership over it. The effect persisted once the tool was taken away.

In quant work that debt has a price attached. A model you did not think through is a position you cannot defend. The three gates exist so the leverage compounds and the judgment does not atrophy.

Read the MIT study
How we work against it
You form the hypothesis before any tool is opened Every delegated output is verified against the gates You defend the model, line by line, as if you wrote it The reasoning stays yours: the labour is what moves
Program structure

Five modules, four weeks

01
Introduction

The role, and the framework behind it

How AI is restructuring quant work at a structural level. The three gate framework for what to delegate and what to never delegate: reversibility, time gated verifiability, model ownership. How to think alongside a model without letting it think for you, and the Quant Merger role explained plainly, diagrammed, and shown through a real project carried end to end.

02
AI integration

Orchestrating AI around real quant work

Agentic tools, connectors and skills as a working pattern rather than a product tutorial: how to arrange them around research, analysis and execution so the workflow holds together when the tools change.

03
Artifacts

What the role actually produces

Real project examples of the output: strategies, backtests, research notes, code, and the full path from idea to deployed product. The standard your own work is measured against.

04
Crypto for the quant

The quant side of crypto

Most requested

The module people kept asking for: where quantitative method meets crypto market structure, taught from real DeFi and options protocol work rather than as a survey of the space. Same maths, different plumbing, and the plumbing is where the money is lost.

AMMs

Constant product and concentrated liquidity, impermanent loss as a short volatility position, and what an LP is actually being paid for.

Derivatives protocols

Perpetuals and funding, on chain options and vaults, and how a protocol's own mechanics reprice the risk you thought you had.

Lending & yields

Rate curves, collateral and liquidation mechanics, and how to decompose a yield into the risks that pay it.

The TradFi bridge

Which models carry over intact, which need recalibrating, and which assumptions simply do not hold in a market that never closes.

Market structure & data

On chain and exchange data quality, liquidity fragmented across venues, MEV and the real cost of getting a trade filled.

Crypto native risk

Smart contract, oracle, bridge and counterparty exposure: the risks with no equivalent in equities and no line in a standard risk report.

05
LinkedIn positioning

Visibility is the new currency

Live, first cohort only

Visibility is the new currency: the work is the asset, and being known for it is what the market actually pays on. Capability nobody can see does not get hired, funded or asked to speak. A live one hour call each week on positioning yourself as a quant on LinkedIn: rebuilding the profile around the role you want, what to publish from your own work and what to keep, and compounding a following made of the right people rather than a number.

Profile and positioning rebuilt around the role you want
What to post, why anyone reads it, and how often
Turning your Module 3 artifacts into things people can see
Live and not recorded: bring your profile and your drafts
Included with the program

The SQV3 quant recruitment network

Access to the desks, funds and protocols we work with, and the recruiters who staff them. Not a job board: introductions into a network built over years of consulting, where most roles are filled through someone who already knows the work.

Module 3 gives you the artifacts, Module 5 makes you visible, and this is where both are pointed at an actual opening.

Reach
Funds & trading desks DeFi & options protocols Market makers Specialist quant recruiters Openings shared with the cohort
Who it is for
Quants and quant traders

Adapting an existing workflow to AI without losing the rigour that made it work.

Analysts and researchers

Who want to operate across the full stack rather than one function of it.

TradFi professionals moving into crypto

Bringing the method with them and learning where the market breaks it.

Technical career changers

Moving into quant work from another quantitative field.

For teams

Build the capability in house

Also available as a private program for trading desks, funds and research teams: the same material, run against your own book, your own data and your own constraints, so the team leaves with one shared method instead of five private ones.

Scoped in conversation, not self serve.

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Outcomes

What you leave with

The critical thinking a quant masters never teaches: how to interrogate a result, price your own uncertainty and know when a model is telling you nothing
A working end to end process: one idea carried from question to sized, costed position
Your own reusable research stack: pipeline, backtest and reporting, not course exercises
An agentic AI workflow arranged around research, analysis and execution
A portfolio of artifacts: strategies, backtests, research notes and code you can show
Crypto native competence across AMMs, derivatives protocols, lending and yields
A LinkedIn presence positioned for the role you want
Access to the SQV3 quant recruitment network
A stronger position on compensation: broader scope, senior conversations, and the case for a higher band
The range to take on projects alone that used to need a team, whether employed or consulting

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Register your interest and you will get the full syllabus, the price and the enrolment window before they are public.

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