Someone described their business in a sentence. This is what came back — specific moves, priced per month, with the sums written out.
What we took you to be
Quant trading signals and API access for small-cap algorithmic traders — for Individual algo traders and small prop firms trading US small-cap equities.
Your numbers as we read them: Assuming ~50 active subscribers at $300/mo = $15k/mo MRR, plus ~$2k/mo API usage. Compute costs ~$2k/mo (GPU-heavy). Main cost is support time (~10 hrs/wk) and compute. No public pricing, so these are assumptions to validate.
Wrong about something? Add the correction to your description and run it again — the estimates move with it.
01What you sellTest it small · a week
Charge $150/mo for the regime-aware volatility feed built from Regime-Gated Mixture
≈ $900–1,800/mo20% of 30 signal clients (assumed) × $150 = $900/mo; if 40% take it, $1,800/mo. Assumes 30 signal subscribers at $300/mo.
Why now: The Regime-Gated Residual Mixture paper shows regime-aware routing improves volatility forecasting, which small-cap traders need for position sizing — a capability you can now productize.
Package your volatility forecasts as a separate feed with regime labels (bull/bear/neutral). Sell it as an add-on to your existing signal subscribers. Target the 20% who trade options or use leverage. Price at $150/mo, below your signal add-on.
Do this first
Pull your last month of volatility forecasts and label them by market regime; test if regime-gating improves accuracy.
02Cutting costDo it · a day
Cut 4 hrs/wk of support by publishing a 'small-cap data quirks' FAQ for algo traders
≈ $400–800/mo4 hrs/wk saved × 4.3 wks × $25–50/hr opportunity cost = $430–860/mo. Assumes hourly value of founder time.
Why now: Support time is your hidden cost, and the same questions about data latency and survivorship bias recur weekly.
Compile the top 10 support questions from your last month of tickets into a public FAQ, with code snippets for handling small-cap data quirks. Link it in your onboarding email and API docs. This reduces repetitive support without a bot.
Do this first
Export your last 30 support tickets and list the top 10 questions.
03PricingTest it small · a day
Offer a $500 flat-fee 'strategy backtest audit' for small-cap signals
Why now: Traders often misuse your signals with bad backtesting; a paid audit both improves their results and reduces misuse of your product.
Offer a one-time service where you review a client's backtest methodology (look-ahead bias, survivorship bias) for their small-cap strategies using your data. Charge $500 flat. Target the 10 clients who ask most about signal reliability.
Do this first
Email your top 5 most active signal subscribers offering the audit at a beta price.
The rest of it
There were 7 more. And the letter that collects on them.
The full audit is ten moves, not 3 — ordered into a 90-day sequence so you know what to do first. It also includes the two things that turn a decision into money actually collected: a price-increase letter written in your voice, ready to send, and the replies to the four objections you will get back within the week.
All ten moves, each priced per month with the arithmetic shown
A 90-day sequence — which to do first, and why that order
The price-increase letter, ready to send
Four objections and how to answer without dropping the price
One payment. Delivered on the next screen.
Want a human in it? — we read your site and your numbers, sharpen every move to your situation, and walk you through it on a 20-minute call.
These are estimates built from what you told us, with the arithmetic shown so you can substitute your own figures. Check the sums before you act on them — that is what they are there for.
There were 7 more. And the letter that collects on them.
The full audit is ten moves, not 3 — ordered into a 90-day sequence so you know what to do first. It also includes the two things that turn a decision into money actually collected: a price-increase letter written in your voice, ready to send, and the replies to the four objections you will get back within the week.
All ten moves, each priced per month with the arithmetic shown
A 90-day sequence — which to do first, and why that order
The price-increase letter, ready to send
Four objections and how to answer without dropping the price
One payment. Delivered on the next screen.
Want a human in it? — we read your site and your numbers, sharpen every move to your situation, and walk you through it on a 20-minute call.
Not ready to buy anything?
Then take this and go. It is yours.
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