Most investors have the same information. The difference isn't insight—it's process. HARVEST PROTOCOL is a complete educational investment research framework — a quantitative scoring methodology, deployment-gate logic, and behavioral circuit breakers — delivered as a structured publication you run inside your own LLM, backed by a deterministic scoring engine: same ticker, same data, same number, every run. Optimized for Claude; runs at high fidelity on any frontier model. No account to create; your portfolio is never stored on our side.
Educational research framework · Not investment advice · Not individual recommendations
Behavioral finance research documents an average 1.5–2% annual return loss from preventable decision errors — selling at panic lows, deploying at FOMO peaks, holding positions whose thesis broke months ago.
Morningstar Mind the Gap 2024; DALBAR QAIB 2024 — investor returns lagged fund returns by 1.68% annualized over 10 years.
Over a decade, a 1.5–2% annual drag compounds into a meaningful share of total return — not from bad picks, but from bad process. (Published Morningstar/DALBAR research averages — context for why a disciplined process matters, not a projection of any individual's outcome.)
Retrospective, hypothetical application of the screening criteria, shown for educational illustration only. This is not investment performance, not a track record, and not indicative of any result any buyer obtained or will obtain. Names were selected to illustrate trigger types and are not a representative or complete sample of names the criteria would flag; the criteria shown are simplified. The publisher exemption (Lowe v. SEC) concerns adviser status, not performance presentation — the format of any outcome-referencing content remains subject to securities-counsel review under SEC Marketing Rule 206(4)-1 before any performance figures are reintroduced. Not financial advice. Not a registered investment adviser. Your decisions are your own responsibility.
THE AI IS THE REASONING ENGINE. THE PROTOCOL IS THE PRODUCT.
HARVEST PROTOCOL gives Claude a 500-page protocol—with a Deployment Gate, 10-factor scoring, Expected Value Framework, and 9 exit triggers—that converts analysis into a sized, routed, behaviorally-enforced research output. The AI is the reasoning engine. The protocol is the product.
| CAPABILITY | AI ALONE | WITH PROTOCOL |
|---|---|---|
| Analysis quality | High—but unfocused | 40+ quantitative checks, structured |
| Position sizing | ✗ None | ✓ EV-weighted, risk-adjusted |
| Market timing gate | ✗ None | ✓ VIX/CAPE/sentiment deployment gate |
| Exit criteria | ✗ None | ✓ 9 pre-committed triggers |
| Behavioral circuit breakers | ✗ None | ✓ VP disconfirmation, EV decay |
| FEATURE | HARVEST | Automated Services | Tip / Recommendation Services | Asking Claude/GPT Directly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deployment Gate (VIX/CAPE) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 9 pre-committed exit triggers | ✓ | Auto rebal only | ✗ | ✗ |
| EV-weighted position sizing | ✓ | Fixed % | ✗ | ✗ |
| 40+ quantitative checks | ✓ | ✗ | Varies | Unstructured |
| Behavioral circuit breakers | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| FIRE / tax routing integration | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Your portfolio stays yours — no account, never stored | ✓ | Full account access | Cloud | Cloud |
| Cost | $127 once (Starter) | 0.25% AUM/yr | $99–299/yr | $0–20/mo |
| Decisions or just analysis? | Sized + routed framework output | Managed decisions | Ideas only | Essays only |
| You stay the operator | ✓ | ✗ | Partial | ✓ |
HARVEST PROTOCOL is a paid educational research publication and methodology — not a tip service. It is a complete investment research framework with three integrated components that work together to convert analysis into repeatable, behaviorally-enforced research outputs — all applied by Claude inside your own session, following the published method.
30 chapters. Knowledge layer spanning Graham to Dalio. Compiled mental models, frameworks, and decision heuristics from 8 decades of investment literature.
10-sweep BEST research methodology with 40+ quantitative checks. Composite scoring, expectation gap analysis, Beneish M-Score, Piotroski F-Score, and VP modeling.
FIRE planning integration, research cycle management, tax-advantaged routing, and market-condition deployment gates that prevent bad timing.
QC_PROTOCOL.md forces calculation scratchpads, NULL-on-unsourced data, and source citations on every workflow — so you can audit every number.
Not a stock tip. Not a generic analysis. A complete mechanical research output — every number sourced, every score traceable, every decision pre-committed. Here's a real analyze MSFT output.
Framework output shown for educational illustration. Scores reflect methodology application, not investment recommendations. Not financial advice.
A free, standalone preview of the scoring methodology on any ticker — 3 per day, no account. (This preview is a separate hosted tool; the Starter Edition runs in your own LLM, optimized for Claude, backed by the deterministic Harvest engine — see below.)
An illustration of how the methodology's design differs from unstructured investing. It describes the process, not a promised personal result — individual outcomes depend on your own execution and market conditions.
Verified buyer testimonials will appear here after launch. As a matter of policy, Harvest Protocol does not publish fabricated, composite, or "representative" quotes, and does not publish performance, return, or dollar figures in any testimonial — see Disclosures.
Harvest Protocol — Testimonial Policy
No testimonials are currently published. Not financial advice. Not a registered investment adviser.
Behavioral-finance research (Morningstar Mind the Gap 2024; DALBAR QAIB 2024) documents an average 1.5–2% annual return drag from preventable decision errors. That published research is the reason a disciplined process matters — it is context, not a benefit promised to any buyer. The Starter edition costs $127 once.
What you are buying is process discipline — fewer panic exits and FOMO entries, and a repeatable monthly cycle. Whether that is worth $127 to you is your decision; we make no projection of any dollar outcome.
The 1.5–2% behavior-gap figure is published third-party research (Morningstar Mind the Gap 2024; DALBAR QAIB 2024), cited as context for why process matters — not a guarantee, projection, or representation of any individual outcome. Not financial advice. Not a registered investment adviser.
Buy-side research desk: $2,400+/mo · Seeking Alpha Premium: $299/yr · Automated services on $250K AUM: $625/yr · HARVEST PROTOCOL STARTER: $127 once
No Claude subscription required to start. Begin with a free Claude account. Upgrade to Pro ($20/month) when your workflow demands it.
30-day money-back guarantee · Personal use license · Not financial advice
QC_PROTOCOL.md file forces three behaviors on every workflow: (1) Claude must show a calculation_scratchpad for any numerical claim — named operands, source-tagged values, visible arithmetic; (2) when a number can't be sourced, Claude must mark it NULL and apply the DATA_DEFICIENT protocol rather than estimate; (3) every figure must cite its source (web search URL, broker statement, EDGAR filing). The methodology constrains how Claude works the numbers and requires every figure to trace to a primary source. You remain the final auditor against those primary sources (10-K, 10-Q, earnings transcripts).
MODEL_ROUTING.md tells you which model fits which task: most daily workflows run on Sonnet; the adversarial workflows (Bear Case Stress Test, VP Self-Audit, full Monthly BEST Cycle) benefit from Opus's deeper judgment. The workflow set is deliberately economical for free-tier accounts: a fast Quick Screen triage (1–3 min, server tools carry the math) decides whether a ticker even earns the longer Deep Screen session, so heavy analyses are spent only on names that can actually qualify. Your research conversation runs in your own session, with the load-bearing math (fair-value anchor, verdict routing, scoring gates) computed by the deterministic Harvest engine — same inputs, same number, every run.
QC_PROTOCOL.md requires the model to show its work — every F-Score, Z-Score, M-Score, EV calculation, and Composite Score appears inside a calculation_scratchpad block with named operands, source-tagged values, and visible arithmetic. If Claude skips the scratchpad, the protocol says you reject the output. Each workflow prompt includes verification cues — specific things to spot-check (e.g., "F-Score total should equal sum of 9 sub-checks", "EV must equal weighted sum of bull/base/bear returns"). When something looks off, the protocol provides recovery prompts: "Re-derive that score from these named operands and cite the source for each input."
START_HERE.html — the included setup wizard walks you through creating a Claude Project and adding the 6 core files (the rest are reference reading); (2) register the Harvest engine connector (one-time, ~2 min) and add your free data keys — SEC EDGAR identity + Alpha Vantage required, others optional (~5 min; accurate data materially improves every workflow); (3) open the bundled userguide.html tab 1 — the 30-minute Quick Start — and run a quick screen on any ticker to see your first verified output. The week-1 calendar lays out your daily and weekly routines (Morning Watchdog, Sunday Evening Brief, mid-week scan).
When markets fall 25%, most investors panic. The ones with a Deployment Gate, pre-committed exit-review criteria, and a VP disconfirmation signal don't panic—they execute their own framework.
Run one full monthly BEST cycle. If it doesn't change how you approach your next investment decision — full refund, no questions, you keep the Playbook.
That's the deal. We don't promise returns. We promise the methodology will change how you research — or we don't keep your money.
30-day money-back · Personal use license · All future v7.x updates included · Not financial advice. All investments involve risk.