Step 1
Build.
Write your bot's rules and risk limits in plain sentences, in one rulebook file, such as "No single order above 50 shares." Use the bot builder or AI tool you already have.
Rules failed
1 of 141 medium
An AI trading-bot harness you run yourself
Test your bot against your own rules.
Build your own AI trading bot, test it on paper, and improve the rules it runs by.
Files and AI skills you buy once, like a book, and run on your own computer. Not a platform, not a subscription. We never touch your account, and we don't tell you what to trade.
Free starter manual and sample report. No card needed. Education only; not investment advice. See the free sample report.
Check run · sample records (made-up) · Balanced preset · method-v0.3.8
- Reading 8 trades · symbols DEMO1, DEMO3 · day 2026-10-13
- Max order sizeheld
- Allowed symbolsheld
- Trading hoursfail (medium)Where to look first: orders sim-20261013-0007, sim-20261013-0008
- Duplicate ordersheld
- Orders per dayheld
- End-of-day exposureheld
- Other Balanced preset checks8 held
- Doesn't apply to these records1
- Rules failed 1 of 14 · Score 98A score measures rule-following, not profit.
Code, an API, a paper account and records, all at once.
01 — The method
Build. Test on paper. Check the records.
Before a bot trades, a hedge fund or quant desk would want its rules written down, its risk limits set, a run on paper and a check of the records. Shipshape Trading boils those foundations down into files and AI skills, so you don't have to read 900 pages of manuals to start. It's for people who have never built an agentic trading bot, and for people who tried and had one break.
Step 2
Test on paper.
Run your bot in your own paper account. The starter bot in the free manual is locked to paper: simulated only, it sends no orders anywhere.
Step 3
Check the records.
Export the records and see which rules held and which broke, and where to look first. Fix a rule, then test on paper again. A score measures rule-following, not profit.
The free starter manual has you check 3 rules by hand. The DIY files' core rulebook has 6. The Balanced preset has 15 checks, and the report counts only those that apply (14 for the starter bot).
02 — A referee for your own rules
What you read afterward.
Builder kits help you make a bot. Shipshape Trading is a score from a tool that's separate from the bot it checks: it reads your bot's actual records and checks them against the rules you wrote, including the fees in them. It works alongside the builder you already use. Here's a free sample.
Sample report on made-up records. Not real trading results.
Score
98A score measures rule-following, not profit. Includes medium-severity fails.
Rules checked
14 of 14How many of your rules your file had enough data for.
Not enough data to check
noneCheckTrading hoursResultFail (medium)Where to look firstOrders sim-20261013-0007, sim-20261013-0008
8 trades checked · symbols DEMO1, DEMO3 · day 2026-10-13 · Balanced preset (14 checks apply to these records) · method-v0.3.8
Shipshape Trading doesn't stop or block trades; it checks records afterward.
With your rules in writing, a report like this shows which ones your records follow and which they don't.
03 — Pricing
One harness. Three ways in.
The Full Kit · opens about Nov 24
The full harness, set up by your own AI assistant.
This is the product: the complete harness, run by you. Your own AI assistant runs our setup skills on your computer. The first setup step asks which platform your records come from, and the assistant sets up only that one.
$497 one-time
Not available yet; get one email when it opens. Price and date may change. 30-day refund, for any reason.
Notify me when it opensPlanned to include · when it opens, we list only what's built and tested
- Setup skills your own AI assistant runs on your computer to set up and configure the harness. No one from Shipshape Trading sets it up or sees your computer. Review each step: AI assistants can make mistakes.
- Automated checks on your records after the close.
- Every platform module that's built and tested. Includes a module for the records you use; your AI assistant runs the setup steps for the one you pick.
- Everything in the DIY Manual + Files, plus 12 months of updates. Docs only, no individual support.
Your AI assistant's provider may see what the assistant reads, under its own terms.
Already bought the $89 files? Your full $89 counts toward the Full Kit. No expiry. If the Full Kit price changes, your $89 still counts.
Free
Free starter manual
Free
An e-book for your first bot: an honest chapter on what can go wrong, the 12 controls checklist, a sample report, and a starter bot locked to paper. It ends by showing what the $89 files add.
Get the free starter manualDIY · on sale about Nov 3
DIY Manual + Files
$89 one-time
Part of the harness, to read and apply yourself: the full manual, the checker you run by hand on your own records for one bot, a 0–100 rule-following score, a rule-break report and the 6-rule core rulebook. No setup skills, no human review.
Your full $89 counts toward the Full Kit. No expiry. Pay once, keep the files. No subscription. 30-day refund, for any reason. Payments are handled by Lemon Squeezy, our merchant of record.
Get the DIY Manual + FilesThe full harness · opens about Nov 24
Full Kit
$497 one-time
Everything in the DIY files, plus setup skills your own AI assistant runs on your computer, automated checks on your records after the close, every platform module and 12 months of updates.
- It isn't investment advice or a recommendation, and it doesn't say whether a trade or strategy is a good idea. Not a platform: we never touch your account.
- The checker keeps your records and keys on your computer. It only reads your records and refuses anything else before it is sent.
- Pay once, keep the files. No subscription. Docs and 12 months of updates at every paid tier; no individual support.
Not sure where to start? Find your starting point: a short quiz about where you are with your bot, never about money. Coming soon.
Without written rules, you can't tell whether your bot did what you meant.
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