The Build Story
A market-research product built solo, from a phone, and audited by an AI.
Atlas is a self-hosted research workstation that turns public filings, on-chain data and price history into a readable note for any of 224 symbols. It was built by one person — a UK fuel tanker driver — over fourteen months, mostly from a phone, with bank-grade security engineered and signed by a frontier AI model. Every security grade on this page is publicly re-testable. You do not have to take any of it on trust.
What it is
Atlas resolves what you actually picked — an equity, ETF, crypto pair, commodity, FX pair or index — and routes each to the right evidence. Company filings are only used for company-like instruments; Bitcoin never gets a balance sheet. It gathers a sourced evidence pack, writes one coherent research note, and exports to the browser, PDF and email. Free symbol pages with daily candlestick charts; a paid tier for on-demand runs. It is research only — no brokerage, no execution, no promise of outcome.
How it was built
Solo, over fourteen months, in the gaps around a full-time job driving a fuel tanker, much of it typed on a phone. The stack is deliberately simple and self-owned: nginx and Flask on a single VPS, self-hosted analytics (no Google Analytics, no third-party ad trackers on research pages), and a daily research substrate regenerated per symbol. No team, no funding, no growth-hacking — just a thing that works, built one evening at a time.
The unusual part: an AI engineered and audited the security
The security posture was hardened and signed by an AI model — Claude Fable 5 — working not as a chatbot but as the engineer: live header inspection across the site, TLS verification, a Content-Security-Policy with no blanket inline-script allowance (every inline bootstrap pinned by its SHA-256 fingerprint, logic externalised), and a payment-flow review from Stripe Checkout through to the signed webhook. The model could hold the whole system in context and verify its own changes against the live response bytes — exactly the kind of fiddly, one-character-breaks-it work where a model that checks its own output earns its place.
The result is a security page that does not ask to be trusted. It invites you to reproduce every grade yourself: read the audit and re-run the public tests →
Why publish all this
Most products ask you to trust their security. This one is built the opposite way: every claim links to the public tool that proves it — Qualys SSL Labs, Mozilla HTTP Observatory, SecurityHeaders.com — and payments run entirely through Stripe at PCI DSS Level 1, so card details never touch these servers. Verifiability over marketing. If a small, self-hosted, solo-built finance product can do this, the bar for everyone else is lower than they pretend.
Try it
The free layer covers 224 public symbol pages with daily briefs and candlestick charts — start at the symbol directory. The research desk itself lives at atlas.freedomcore.io, and Atlas Pro opens the full suite. Research output only; not financial advice.
FreedomCore Atlas · Research output only. Not financial advice. No brokerage execution. No guaranteed returns. · Security independently verified: read the Fable 5 audit.