Demostatics
Start here
Section titled “Start here”This site is the single place where Demostatics is written down. It answers six questions, in order, and everything else here hangs off one of them.
| Question | Page | What it answers |
|---|---|---|
| What | What Demostatics Is | The product, the data it covers, what a customer buys |
| Why | Why It Exists | The problem, the thesis, the principles |
| Who | Who It Is For | Customers, founders, roles, the community model |
| Where | Where Everything Lives | Five repositories and what each one owns |
| When | Where Things Stand | What is built today, what comes next |
| How | How It Works | Tiers, pipeline, contracts, the journey of one value |
Read Business Model alongside them. Demostatics operates four lines of business — data and intelligence, investment advisory, discretionary management and proprietary trading — and only the first has any code behind it. That page says what each one is and what it needs.
One thing to know before anything else
Section titled “One thing to know before anything else”Demostatics is early. Most of it is designed rather than built, and these docs are written so you can always tell the difference. Every capability described anywhere on this site carries one of four labels:
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Shipped | Code exists and runs today |
| Partial | Some of it works, with named gaps |
| Planned | Documented and decided, no code |
| Not built | Referenced by other documents, but nothing exists |
The largest single engineering gap is the worker tier — the data-gathering and processing backend that every other document treats as the source of the platform’s data. It exists in no repository. See Worker Tier.
The largest single business gap is licensing. Advisory, discretionary management and proprietary trading are regulated activities, nothing has been started, and the lead time is measured in months to years rather than weeks. No amount of engineering shortens it, and it sits on the critical path. See Regulatory Posture — which is a list of questions for counsel, not legal advice.
Reference
Section titled “Reference”Business — Business model · Regulatory posture
Architecture — System map · Data pipeline · Glossary · Open questions
Components — Web · Desktop · Mobile · Worker · This docs site
APIs — JSON API v1 (shipped) · Stream contract v0.2 (planned) · The two contracts
Development — Getting started · Conventions · Deployment readiness
Community policy — Types of reports · Reporting rules · Moderation · Forum rules · About moderators · Technical staff · Participations