The vision and the money
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The page to read with Cartii. What we are building, in what order, what it costs, what it needs from each of us, and where the risks are.
The vision in one paragraph
Every trading community hands people files and a Discord. Fide becomes the room where a person is trained the way the Army trains a recruit who did not qualify: every skill is a task with a pass mark, practised on a real chart, checked against an answer key, reviewed after every session, and watched by staff who can see exactly where each student is stuck. The student gets a personal trainer that listens to them trade and tells them the truth, a journal that fills itself from the broker, a coach that has read all of it, and a certificate with a real score at the end. Staff get a dashboard that says where Tuesday's session should go. The founder gets the business, the clips and the socials on one screen. Every call is recorded and every execution called on the mic is logged, which is the credibility nobody else has.
The student's day, in pictures





What is in it what this demo shows, screen by screen
- โStart your day: checklist, manual and automatic rules, notes with templates, news calendar. Start session stays grey until prep is done.
- โTraining camp: 7 modules, 42 task cards, crawl walk run, drills with answer keys, quizzes, gates, spaced review, transcript search, certificate with a score.
- โLesson: video with slides, then draw the zone on the same chart, checked by the key, coach note, quiz, journal line.
- โJournal: calendar of days, trades by broker sync or CSV or two taps, trade report with what you said and what the rule was, folders, weekly prompts, AAR.
- โStrategy and rules: playbooks as checkable rules, with rules vs without, Fide score, rule breaks and their cost.
- โProgress: activity heatmap, discipline score, objectives, module progress, week card, phone notifications.
- โSession buddy: records screen and voice on a Mac, pins words to actions, AI review, screenshots at each order.
- โLive sessions: recorded, transcribed, executions logged with staff confirm, winning days and losing days, historical library.
- โAI coach: answers about the student's own data, drafts the coach's replies, never posts by itself.
- โVault and 1 on 1: every recording, call, screenshot, entry and certificate, private per student; booking with Cartii, Jotty, Kasper.
- โCommunity: Discord mirrored by a bot first, own app with push later; certificates and week cards posted by the bot.
- โStaff dashboard: adherence, discipline, failed drills, broken rules, review queue, pivot suggestions.
- โFounder dashboard: revenue, funnel, clipping lane, Metricool, costs, health.
- โSettings: accounts, five brokers plus CSV, trade rules, privacy and posting choices.
Build order something live every week
What we learned from the tour tradepath.ai, FTMO, The Exit Plan, Topstep, 21 Sep
- TradePath: the journal, rules, score radar, heatmap, Start your day and the AI mentor are the right shape. Their AI runs on Claude. Their moat is the data, not the model.
- FTMO: objectives with a check or a cross, a discipline gauge, a calendar of days, a trade report with screenshots on open and close, and certificates people post on their own. Copy the certificate idea.
- The Exit Plan and Topstep: a lesson rail with green checks and quizzes. Fine, and it is what everyone has. The camp adds the chart you draw on and the pass mark.
What it costs per month, real prices checked 21 Sep 2026
| Item | What for | Monthly | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Pages + D1 + R2 | Site, database, the vaults | $0 to $15 | R2 storage $0.015 per GB. 40 students ร 2.5 GB = $1.50. Free tier covers the start. |
| Cloudflare Stream | Session recordings and lesson videos | $15 to $40 | $5 per 1,000 minutes stored, $1 per 1,000 minutes watched. 40 hours of calls a month โ $12 stored. |
| Cloud build box | Builds, renders, transcription, so the Mac is never the bottleneck | $20 to $30 | 4 vCPU, 8 GB. Hetzner raised prices twice in 2026; a comparable box elsewhere is in this range. |
| Claude Max | Zeus building and running all of this | $100 (5x) or $200 (20x) | Today's usage already brushes the 5x ceiling on heavy days. Two lanes daily (camp + clipping) means 20x. |
| Speech to text | Session buddy and call transcripts | $0 to $20 | Whisper runs on the Mac or the build box for free; a hosted API is about $0.006 per minute if we want speed. |
| AI coach and reviews | Per-student coaching, session reviews, chat | $20 to $60 | API usage, scales with students. About $1 per student per month at 40 students. |
| TopstepX API | Broker sync for Topstep students | $29 ($14.50 with code) | Per connected account, simulated environment only, no VPS allowed by their terms. CSV is free. |
| Tradovate API add-on | Broker sync | about $30 | Needs a funded $1,000 account; delayed data is free, live data triggers CME fees. CSV upload is the fallback. |
| Metricool Advanced | Socials analytics on the founder dashboard | $67 (or $53 yearly) | Already on the plan. API access is included. |
| TradePath, for comparison | What a student pays today for a journal alone | $48 ($29 yearly) | The camp replaces it. That is part of the pitch to students. |
| Zoom | Live sessions and 1 on 1s | existing | Cloud recording is on Pro and above; recordings pull into the library automatically. |
| Domain + email | camp.fideprocessui.com | existing | One DNS record on the Webflow site's domain. |
| Total | $300 to $500 | Against $4,730 a month at today's 24 Elite members. The camp pays for itself at three members. |
Devices and software
- Students: any Mac or PC with Chrome or Safari for the camp; a Mac for the session buddy app in version one (Windows after).
- Staff: the same browser, plus Zoom with cloud recording on.
- Zeus's machine: this M1 Mac with 8 GB is enough to steer, not to build and clip at once. The cloud build box is the fix, not a new laptop.
- Storage: plan 3 GB per student per year. 100 students = 300 GB = $4.50 a month on R2.
- Software, all free or open: TradingView Lightweight Charts, Cal.diy scheduler, Whisper, a Discord bot, Astro + Cloudflare, the same stack as CleanMeNow.
Clipping, separately
- Source: the session recordings, already in the library. No more hunting for files.
- Pipeline: whole listen, story board, Juan's redline, cut, scorecard, then posting by Juan.
- Machine: the same cloud box renders while Zeus works on the camp. That is the multitasking answer.
- Plan: Claude Max 20x if clipping and the camp both run daily; 5x if one lane at a time.
- Numbers land on the founder dashboard through Metricool.
What we need from each other
- Cartii: the one page of numbers (indicator, threshold, ATR multiples, risk %). Yes to a progress channel and a bot. Zoom cloud recording on. Fifteen minutes a week for the review queue.
- Juan: the go, the build box, the Claude plan decision, DNS for camp.fideprocessui.com, and the redlines on every screen here.
- Zeus: something live every week, gates before anything is shown, nothing posted from anyone's account, every cost above on the founder page.