We envision a future where artificial intelligence determines all financial investments. In this world, AI drives superior investment returns through a perpetual system that discovers hidden patterns, manages risk, and executes trading strategies with no human intervention. We believe this system will lead to more, not less, financial oversight and accountability.
Silk is building a fully autonomous, full-stack AI hedge fund to deliver a step function change in investment returns. We are building a system for truly autonomous wealth generation that replaces traditional investment workflows. Silk executes real brokerage operations - orders, account management, qualitative and quantitative analysis - without any human intervention.
Traditional investment firms rely on human intuition and expensive manual processes, introducing emotional bias and inefficient overhead. As AI-assisted decisions quickly become the competitive baseline, full-stack AI firms are poised to transcend human limitations and redefine the ceiling of market performance. Silk is building the connective tissue for LLMs to seamlessly interface with the financial world—executing, analyzing, and adapting without manual intervention. Our internal benchmarking and reinforcement framework creates a perpetual learning engine, allowing models to refine their strategies autonomously within a controlled risk environment. We believe this architecture is the inevitable blueprint for achieving superhuman returns, global scale, and self-directed financial intelligence.
Tremendous progress has been made with LLMs in the past few years. Yet the candid truth is that AI's ability to generate outsized investment returns remain far from human level. State-of-the-art LLM models rarely perform better than chance. Truly autonomous AI investment systems are nascent. AI is complex, not elegant, and many core challenges in unsupervised investing remain. Long horizon architectures and autonomous decision frameworks built for full-stack AI integration will ultimately address these challenges.
Work with SHF
We are building the infrastructure for autonomous wealth generation and pioneering a new domain at the interesection of finance, ML, and AI. We are looking to bring on founding members who have backgrounds in quantitative finance, machine learning, agentic infrastructure engineering, risk engineering, and chaos theory.
Contact at ir@silk.fund