Honest grading for crypto trading strategies

The truth about
your trading strategy.

Describe a strategy in plain English. Tessen builds it and grades it honestly — a real out-of-sample backtest, net of every fee — in about 15 seconds. Most ideas fail. Knowing that before you fund them is the product.

Tessen - The truth about your trading strategy | Product Hunt
tessen.ai/grade

Real screen recording of the live engine — unedited, graded while filming.

Deploys to your own account on
BinanceBybitOKXBitgetCoinbaseHyperliquid

Non-custodial — trade-only API keys, withdrawals stay impossible. Connection guides

Why trust the grade

A grader that never gives bad news isn't grading.

The internet's favorite strategy fails our gates. Our own strategy passes them — and still only earns a D, because real edges are thin. Both verdicts are public, permanent, and re-checkable.

tessen.ai/verify/ea8ef16a…
Verified Tessen grade report: RSI oversold strategy graded F, negative expectancy, four of five gates failed
"Buy the RSI dip" — YouTube's most recommended strategy. F: −53bp per trade out-of-sample.
tessen.ai/verify/9b0f48d4…
Verified Tessen grade report: Two-Style Switcher graded D, passes all five gates, +7.33bp over 8733 out-of-sample trades
Our own strategy — passes all 5 gates over 8,733 trades and honestly earns a D.
The five gates

Every grade is five pass/fail questions. Most strategies fail at least one.

Gate 1
Out-of-sample expectancy

Makes money on data it never saw during tuning — the grade comes only from the held-out window.

Gate 2
Clears the cost hurdle

The edge survives real taker fees and slippage on every fill, with margin to spare.

Gate 3
Robust across assets

Works across many pairs — not one lucky chart cherry-picked after the fact.

Gate 4
Survivable drawdown

The worst equity dip is one a human can actually sit through without quitting or blowing up.

Gate 5
Not overfit

Nearby parameter settings also work — the result isn't sculpted to fit the past.

Pass all five and the strategy earns a letter grade from its risk-adjusted edge. Fail any one and the report says exactly which, and why — see 13 famous strategies fail them publicly.

How it works

From idea to a protected live agent, in four honest steps.

1
Describe

Type your strategy in plain English. Tessen turns it into a precise spec and tells you every assumption it made.

2
Get the truth

A real out-of-sample backtest, net of every fee, behind five hard gates. A letter grade in about 15 seconds.

3
Paper trade

Run it against live markets with zero risk — no exchange account, no real orders. Free.

4
Go live, protected

Gate-passing agents deploy on your own exchange keys. Kill switch, auto-halts, and alerts when live results drift from the grade.

Don't want to build it yourself?

Send us your strategy in any form — Pine Script, a bot config, plain English — and we run it through the same honest grading engine for you. $75 $50 through July 31. You only pay after we confirm it's gradeable.

Get a done-for-you review →
Where this goes

Trading is chapter one.
There's a longer plan behind it.

Finance is fragmented across a dozen apps that never talk. The long-term goal is an AI layer that connects them — for individuals first, then businesses, institutions, and developers. Each division activates only when its gate is passed: proof, revenue, or licensing. Never hype — today, that's trading, and nothing more is claimed.

Ready to trade on the truth?

Grading is free and open to everyone. Sign up free to iterate, paper-trade, and deploy for real when you're ready.