Intelligent Investing
Reality does not reward confidence.
It rewards discipline.
Most people confuse activity with progress.
Markets punish that mistake relentlessly.
This system was built for people who prefer truth over comfort.
NO. 001
A statement of position
We are not here to make investing feel easy.
Easy is what produces delusion.
Delusion is what produces losses.
Intelligent Investing exists to remove illusion, not replace it with a better story.
NO. 002
The environment you are operating in
Markets are not fair.
Narrative
Incentives
Overconfidence
Short-term feedback loops
Most participants are reacting.
A small minority is operating.
This platform is designed for the latter.
NO. 003
For investors who already outperform
If you’ve beaten the market over time,
you already know this:
The hardest part isn’t finding ideas.
It’s protecting process.
Avoiding unforced errors.
Staying calibrated under pressure.
Letting judgment compound without interference.
Intelligent Investing is built to support that discipline, quietly, without spectacle.
NO. 004
What this is
Intelligent Investing is a discipline-first investing system.
Reduce behavioral error.
Enforce long-term thinking.
Slow decision-making where speed destroys outcomes.
Align structure with compounding.
It does not optimize for excitement.
It optimizes for survival and endurance.
NO. 005
What this is not
This is not a trading app.
This is not a content feed.
This is not a place to feel smart quickly.
We do not sell certainty.
We do not manufacture confidence.
We do not reward activity for its own sake.
NO. 006
Core system principles
Discipline over prediction.
Outcomes improve when error is reduced, not when forecasts multiply.
Structure over willpower.
Good intentions fail without constraints.
Time as the primary edge.
Most investors cannot sit still long enough to compound.
Friction as intelligence.
If a decision feels too easy, it usually is.
NO. 007
The behavioral layer
Most underperformance is not analytical.
It is behavioural.
This system is built to surface:
Overconfidence
Impatience
Narrative chasing
Inconsistent decision-making
And to apply pressure in the opposite direction.
Not through motivation.
Through design.
NO. 008
The investment foundation
At the core sits a disciplined, market-based portfolio.
Because the data is unambiguous:
Most professionals fail to outperform over time.
Skill must be earned.
Conviction must be proven.
Until then, the intelligent position is humility.
NO. 009
For those who go further
Active investing exists here.
It is treated as a craft, not a thrill.
You are expected to:
Do the work
Document thinking
Understand risk
Accept uncertainty
Freedom increases only as discipline is
demonstrated.
NO. 010
Mastery over moments
This platform is built around long arcs, not short wins.
Learning compounds.
Judgment compounds.
Character compounds.
The investor is the product.
The portfolio is the artifact.
NO. 011
Who this is for
People who:
Think in decades
Distrust easy answers
Value restraint
Prefer being right over being entertained
NO. 012
Who this is not for
People looking for:
Excitement
Shortcuts
Constant validation
Someone to blame
If you are looking for reassurance,
this is not the place.
If you value clarity, welcome.
We are not building an investing app.
We are building better investors.
Proceed deliberately.
Membership Structure
Intelligent Investing operates on a flat monthly membership, combined with a minimal management fee on managed portfolios.
$20 per month
Cancel anytime
No contracts
This structure is designed to align incentives with long-term outcomes, not activity.
Managed Portfolio Fee
Access to Intelligent Investing’s core portfolios includes a 0.10% annual management fee on assets held in managed strategies.
Applied only to managed portfolios
Calculated transparently
No performance fees
This fee exists to cover:
Portfolio management
Rebalancing
Custody and administration
Operational infrastructure
It is a fraction of what traditional wealth managers and funds charge.
Research & Analysis
Every membership includes access to Fiscal.ai, a professional-grade research and analysis environment.
Most investors trade based on price and headlines.
Serious investors analyze businesses.
Fiscal.ai provides structured access to:
Multi-year income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow data
Return on capital and free cash flow analysis
Margin trends and capital allocation history
Clean company comparisons across time
It also includes AI-assisted tools to:
Summarize filings
Surface financial trends
Accelerate research workflows
The AI supports analysis.
It does not make decisions.
This research layer exists to raise the standard of thinking inside the platform.
It is not a stock picker.
It is not a signal engine.
It is not a shortcut.
It is a disciplined research environment designed for investors who intend to do the work.
Trading & Foreign Exchange (FX)
Trades involving US securities may incur an FX conversion.
Intelligent Investing does not charge an FX fee or apply an FX markup to member transactions.
FX is executed at the rate displayed to members by a third-party partner, and in certain circumstances, Intelligent Investing may incur a gain or a loss on FX transactions.
This does not increase the FX rate paid by members. FX is not contingent on transaction volume or frequency, and does not incentivize increased trading activity. We do not charge trading commissions.