Conviction GTM brain

Conviction helps individual traders turn ideas into tested, monitored and potentially automated trading strategies.

category

AI trading strategy automation

market profile

  • text: Consumer trading software blends idea discovery, backtesting and broker-connected execution.
  • text: Competes for traders who want no-code strategy testing and automation.

personas

  • title: Self-directed retail trader
    pains:
    • Cannot watch charts and news continuously
    • Wants to test a thesis before risking capital
  • title: Trading community member
    pains:
    • Ideas from social feeds are hard to separate from noise
    • Turning a social thesis into explicit trading rules takes work

icp

  • text: Individual market participants rather than institutional account buyers; interested in active trading and strategy experimentation.
  • text: Users with an existing brokerage relationship who want to move from paper trading to execution.

message pillars

  • text: Express a strategy without writing code.
  • text: Evaluate a strategy on historical data before deployment.
  • text: Practice live without committing real money.
  • text: Automate monitoring after setting conditions.

objections

  • objection: Can I trust an agent with real money?
    response: Start with historical tests and paper trading, inspect the strategy and connect a brokerage only when ready; results do not guarantee future performance.
  • objection: Will my idea be expressed correctly?
    response: Review the generated rules and trades before deployment; test edge cases and costs.

competitors

  • name: Composer
    why: No-code investment strategy building and backtesting for individual investors.
  • name: TrendSpider
    why: Offers trading analysis and automated strategy tools.
  • name: Capitalise.ai
    why: Natural-language trading automation alternative.

influencers

  • name: Aria Vikram
    url: https://es.twstalker.com/AriaVikr
    why: Conviction co-founder sharing product and trading content.

keywords

  • natural language trading strategy
  • AI trading agent
  • backtest trading strategy
  • paper trading automation
  • no code trading bot
  • automated trading strategies

voice

  • Accessible and direct
  • Aspirational about democratizing trading
  • Practical and workflow-oriented

signals

  • text: Active trader discussing untested ideas or backtesting on social channels.
  • text: Brokerage user seeking to automate monitoring of an explicit thesis.

hiring

  • Founding Engineer
  • Quantitative Engineer

pricing

model: unknown

motion

product_led

channels

  • X
  • LinkedIn
  • Discord
  • community events
  • YC launch

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Aria Vikram
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Co-founder & CEO @ Conviction. Previously NLP Researcher @ Columbia; deployed AI chatbots for doctors @ CUIMC. Google Code-In Grand Prize winner, RSI alum, and USAID awardee.
  • name: Tony Yamin
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: Co-Founder & CTO @ Conviction; turned down offers from Google and BlackRock. Previously built machine-learning infrastructure for the U.S. Department of Defense at Booz Allen. Best AI @ HackPrinceton and Finalist @ YaleHack.

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