canlicapital.com

The public site for Canli Capital, and the surface where ALPHAC — a four-sleeve cross-asset quant book — publishes its record while it is still small enough to be embarrassing.

Created and maintained by Arhan Canli for Canli Capital. Development uses reviewed AI-assisted tooling, while project ownership, research decisions, published claims, and release responsibility remain with Arhan Canli. Machine-readable software citation metadata is provided in CITATION.cff.

The engine that produces every number here is open too: github.com/arhancanli/alphac.

Live: canlicapital.com

Why this repo is public

The site's whole claim is "a quant fund proving itself in public before it asks you to trust it." — the tagline in config/brand.js. A site that makes that claim and hides its own source is asking for a trust it hasn't earned. So: this is the source, including the parts that enforce honesty on us.

The load-bearing one is docs/retracted_claims.txt in the engine repo. When a number is withdrawn it goes on a blocklist, and check_retracted_claims.py scans dist/ and public/ for it before each deploy. It cannot be satisfied by deleting the number — a retracted figure must still be quotable inside its own retraction, so a match counts only when the explanation is absent from the surrounding window.

That check exists because the retraction here had already failed twice: a withdrawn DSR of 0.83 stayed on the homepage and in the social-unfurl card for six days after the signed chain formally withdrew it. The pipeline was publishing the correction and the error in the same run.

The gate is now fail-closed for publication. Since 2026-08-19, both live_tick.sh and live_publish.sh run check_retracted_claims.py after regeneration and skip the deploy when it fails. Trading remains outside that blast radius: a publication defect can stop the website from shipping, but cannot place, cancel, or delay an order.

Publication surfaces

public/paper-state.json and public/glassbox/* are written by the engine's publish job, not by hand. They are the machine-readable form of every claim the pages make. Current corpus counts are derived during the build from public/research-index.json, public/glassbox/trial_packet_manifest.json, and the generated measurement directory; the sitemap is generated from the same files rather than maintained separately. The present build contains 263 canonical URLs in the sitemap (all indexable), plus a public noindex evidence page for every incomplete registered trial and one archival HTML paper per registered sleeve. It publishes identity-level packets for all 228 recorded hypotheses, while honestly marking 226 of those packets incomplete.

Build and run

npm install
npm run build      # Vite multi-page build -> dist/
npm run preview    # serve the built dist
npm run dev        # dev server with hot reload

Three.js, GSAP + ScrollTrigger and Lenis are self-hosted — they install from npm and Vite fingerprints them into dist. Nothing is fetched from a CDN at runtime. The build must stay green, and source plus dist must contain zero em dashes (U+2014); both are audited before deploy.

Brand and facts are single-sourced

config/brand.js is the one place names and numbers live. js/shell.js renders the nav and footer from it so every page ships byte-identical chrome, and js/main.js binds data-brand, data-flagship, data-tagline and data-fact nodes from it.

STATS and FACTS are the only numeric claims permitted on the hand-authored marketing surfaces. Generated papers and measurement pages obtain their figures from engine exports and carry their own source paths and claim boundaries. audit-published-numbers.mjs reconciles the shared site-level figures; do not add a number to either layer without binding it to an authoritative artifact.

Not investment advice

Nothing on this site or in this repo is investment advice, an offer, or a solicitation. The record published here is paper trading; the published ALPHAC strategy record includes no funded performance. Simulated and past performance do not indicate future results. See LICENSE: provided "as is", without warranty.