How a pod is built
You describe the outcome you want. Mansa's agents do the work of a quant team: research, testing, portfolio construction, execution and risk oversight.
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Set the mandate
Tell us your target return, maximum drawdown, capital and position limits. Start from a profile: max return, optimal or min risk.
- 2
Agents generate candidates
Mansa's agents write thousands of candidate strategies, then tune stop-loss and take-profit rules for each one.
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Backtest and assemble
Candidates are replayed against historical order-book depth, with fees and venue minimums. The ones that fit your mandate become your pod.
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Execute and re-optimize
The pod trades on your account. Agents watch every position around the clock and replace strategies that stop working.
Built for how prediction markets trade
Mansa trades Polymarket during the private beta. The engine models event contracts directly: outcomes that resolve, books that can be thin, and fees on every fill.
- Priced as probabilities
- A Polymarket share trades between 0 and 1 and resolves to one of them. Strategies are built and scored on that payoff, not on assumptions borrowed from equities.
- Either side of a market
- A strategy can hold the Up or the Down outcome. Each side fills, pays fees and settles on its own price series.
- Order-book backtests
- Candidates are replayed against historical order-book depth, including taker fees and minimum share sizes, so thin books and slippage count against them.
- Risk limits you set
- Per-trade caps, position sizing as a fraction of equity, and a drawdown budget for the whole pod. The pod is built inside them.
- Re-optimized as markets change
- Agents track how each strategy performs live. When one stops working it is retired and the pod is rebalanced within your mandate.
A quant pod without hiring a quant team
Prop shops
Add a systematic prediction-market book next to your existing desks, with its own risk budget.
Hedge funds
Reach event-driven returns from prediction markets without staffing a dedicated research team.
Family offices
Get systematic trading sized to your capital and to how much drawdown you're willing to accept.
Questions
Which markets does Mansa trade?
Polymarket prediction markets during the private beta.
Whose account does the pod trade on?
Yours. The pod places orders on your own account, sized to the capital and limits in your mandate.
How are strategies chosen for my pod?
Agents generate thousands of candidate strategies and backtest them against historical order-book data with fees and venue minimums. The pod is the set of candidates that best meets your objective while staying inside your drawdown and position limits.
What can I control?
Your target return, maximum drawdown, capital, per-trade caps and position sizing. You can start from a max return, optimal or min risk profile and adjust from there.
What happens when a strategy stops working?
The pod is monitored around the clock. A strategy whose live results drift away from its expected behaviour is retired, and the pod is rebalanced within your mandate.
Are returns guaranteed?
No. Trading prediction markets carries a substantial risk of loss. Backtests and simulations do not guarantee future results.
Who can join the private beta?
Prop shops, hedge funds and family offices in jurisdictions where Polymarket is available. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out to scope your mandate.
Get your pod built first
We're onboarding a limited number of desks during the private beta. Tell us about your firm and we'll reach out to scope your mandate.
Your mandate from the plot above comes along with your signup: Optimal, drawdown under 12%.
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