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Solace builds instruments for disciplined capital allocation under uncertainty.
An instrument here is a system Solace builds and operates, not a financial product. New to Solace? Start with the questions.
Live now: Hermes is currently protecting capital first in mixed but workable conditions, with capital active in 2 of 7 markets under review. Last update: just now.
A live capital allocation engine that reads market structure to decide when capital should move, wait, or be preserved.
Synthetic environments where hypotheses fail quietly before deployment.
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The Four Decisions That Govern Capital
Every allocation lives inside four decisions. Most market systems only optimize one.
FAQ
What to know first.
What is Solace?
Solace builds instruments for disciplined capital allocation under uncertainty.
What is Hermes?
Hermes is the first instrument: a live capital allocation engine that reads market structure to decide when capital should move, wait, or be preserved.
Does Hermes manage customer funds?
Not yet. Hermes is in controlled access, with public readings and beta systems separated from customer capital.
What does live mean?
Hermes updates from fresh market readings and only shows public-safe posture, timing, and capital-state summaries.
What is Oracle?
Oracle is the calibration layer: it scores probability calls against what actually happened.
Terms used across this site
- Instrument
- A system Solace builds and operates, not a security or financial product.
- Reading
- Hermes’s most recent assessment of market conditions.
- Posture
- How boldly capital is routed right now, from standing down to fully deployed.
- Regime
- The market’s prevailing character. Hermes acts only while the regime stays in character.
- Liquidity path
- Hermes’s core abstraction: whether the field between here and a price destination can carry price at all.
- Calibration · Brier score
- How closely stated probabilities match reality. Lower is better; 0.25 is a coin flip.
- Gate conditions
- Public, checkable requirements that must clear before Solace expands beyond markets.
- Sealed row
- A ledger entry written before its outcome is known, then hashed and chained so it cannot be quietly edited.
- Backfill
- A ledger row recorded after its outcome was already known. Labeled, never hidden; backfilled rows do not claim the sealed-first guarantee.