A founder-led systematic trading technology company. Every order intent checked at decision time. Every fill audit-logged at execution. Built for durability, not optics.
30 years leading enterprise technology programmes AT Oracle, Cisco and ServiceNow — INTO HSBC, Lloyds, JP Morgan and Reuters at board level. The same discipline now governs every algorithm on this platform. Commissioned Officer, Royal Air Force.
Every prop firm runs the same playbook. A backtest curve. A discretionary war story. A track record that ends conveniently. The strategy is not the constraint. The constraint is whether anyone — investor, regulator, you — can verify what actually happened. Most can't. We built the verification layer first.
Every category solving the same problem — "make money in markets" — arrives at a different operating discipline. The discipline determines who survives the next regime change.
A structured workflow with disjoint scope between code-writing and review-writing systems — epistemic independence — with one director reviewing and approving every consequential decision. No agent approves its own output. No human writes trading code directly. The writer of the truth is the gatekeeper.
Every constraint is structurally enforced. Cannot be overridden in live deployment. Parameters defined in calm, enforced in volatility.
MiFID II algorithmic trading controls, the FCA's algorithmic governance expectations, the EU AI Act's high-risk system requirements, and DORA operational resilience mandates all reward the same operating discipline: structural enforcement, decision-time auditability, named accountability. Building that retroactively is expensive. Building it from day one is the entire point.
MiFID II RTS 6 and the FCA's algorithmic trading expectations require firms to demonstrate pre-trade controls, kill-switch capability, and full audit reconstruction of every algorithmic decision. Built into the architecture, not bolted on.
Financial AI systems making consequential decisions face transparency, logging, and human-oversight requirements that come into full force August 2026. Trust by construction is the design pattern that satisfies them by default.
Live across UK and EU financial services since January 2025. Mandates incident logging, ICT risk evidence, and recoverability testing. PostgreSQL-immutable audit chains are exactly what DORA expects firms to produce on demand.
The transatlantic standard for model risk management. Independent validation, mutation-aware testing, named accountability. The triangulation principle — code-writing and review-writing systems epistemically independent — is a structural answer.
The diligence questions that separate a serious investor conversation from a pitch-deck one.
Every order intent, every gate decision, every fill is PostgreSQL-logged at the moment it happens. Immutable, append-only, queryable. Not reconstructed quarterly — written at execution time.
In the same account, on the same strategies, at the same risk parameters as anything external capital ever touches. Personal capital first. Skin first, then story.
Hard 0.5–1% per-trade risk. 4% daily loss / 10% drawdown circuit-breakers. Structurally enforced — no override path under pressure. The system that stops you cannot be argued with.
Operating principles, risk constraints and gating discipline are public on this page. Strategy IP itself is proprietary — teasers and architectural detail available under NDA. Strategies are concept-tested, evidence-gated and stress-validated against simultaneous-shock scenarios before deployment. No black boxes — but no open-source alpha either.
IPQI Ltd trades its own capital and does not manage third-party funds. Future investor access will be facilitated solely through Darwinex Zero (Tradeslide Trading Tech Limited, FCA-authorised, FRN 586466) — a separately regulated venue. The architecture is built for what's coming.
Disjoint-scope agentic engineering means strategy generation, validation, and review can run in parallel without degrading correctness. Adding instruments and families is a capacity question, not a discipline question. The discipline holds at scale.
Personal capital first. Verified track record second. External capital only when the evidence warrants it.
One of the most tax-efficient investment structures available to UK investors. The UK Government recently expanded SEIS eligibility as part of its commitment to backing early-stage technology companies.
Minimum investment £25,000. Conversations with serious investors welcome now.
Discuss SEIS investment →IPQI intends to make its strategies available via Darwinex Zero — FCA-authorised, independently audited, no fund complexity, no minimum ticket sizes. Track record is accumulating now.
A career built on delivering complex, high-stakes technology programmes into the world's largest institutions. Ian Pratley co-founded Alldare — advanced AI for defence and government — with the consortium delivering its first MoD AI contract within six months of founding.
IPQI applies the same framework: structured process, hard constraints, evidence before action. No exceptions under pressure. The discipline that operated at board level in global banking now governs every algorithm on this platform.
Same principles, same engineering, applied to client problems → ipqi.work
Proprietary capital live. Track record accumulating. SEIS seed round open. Not a broad solicitation.
Serious investors, strategic counterparties and selected technical collaborators only. Be specific about what you want to discuss.
Or direct: hello@ipqi.co.uk
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