Button
Founded 2025 · 8 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
Button is an AI "coding harness" for trading that turns a plain-English thesis into strategy code, runs backtests, and lets users deploy the resulting quantitative system in one click. It connects to users' brokerage and bank accounts via SnapTrade and can execute across 200+ markets on Hyperliquid and other exchanges.
Also known as Button · button.xyz
Investors · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Button (button.xyz) markets itself as an "agentic coding harness for trading." A user describes an investment thesis in plain English; the system researches the idea, writes the corresponding strategy code, runs backtests, and returns a quantitative strategy that can be deployed in one click. The company states that a thesis such as "long volatility around CPI prints" is decomposed into entry rules, sizing, and exit rules, after which the harness pulls historical data, writes code, runs walk-forward backtests, and reports Sharpe ratio, drawdown, and regime sensitivity before capital is committed.
The product includes an assistant referred to as "Tailor" that can author theses and watchlists and save outputs as artifacts, plus a "Threads" conversational interface. Users link brokerage and bank accounts through SnapTrade so that strategies are designed against actual positions, sizing, and cash rather than a hypothetical portfolio; the site shows examples of connected accounts including Robinhood and Coinbase. Button also describes "knowledge graphs," by which it means external sources a user already follows — newsletters, podcasts, Substack sector specialists, and sell-side research desks — ingested as live inputs to strategies. Execution is offered on Hyperliquid and on exchanges the user already uses, with review and shipping across 200+ markets.
Business model
Button provides a software product accessed through a web application (app.button.xyz) that users connect to their own brokerage and bank accounts and to exchanges where they execute. The company's site does not state pricing, subscription terms, or how the product is monetized.
Not stated in the available sources.
Traction
The website publishes three named customer testimonials but no user, revenue, or volume figures. No third-party source in the material corroborates traction.
Latest developments
No dated announcements, funding events, or product milestones are documented in the available sources; the company website describes the product as currently available.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Not established by the available sources beyond the company's own product description.
Button positions the product as generating executable, backtested strategy code from natural-language theses and running against the user's real linked accounts, rather than presenting data or charts for manual interpretation. Sources do not provide independent comparison with named competitors.
Technology
An LLM-based agentic system that decomposes a natural-language thesis into entry rules, position sizing, and exits, writes strategy code, retrieves historical data, and runs walk-forward backtests reporting Sharpe, drawdown, and regime sensitivity. Account and portfolio data are ingested through SnapTrade brokerage/bank connections; external research sources are ingested as "knowledge graphs." Order execution is supported on Hyperliquid and other exchanges, and the site shows options overlay analysis (protective puts, collars, short perpetual futures) computed against a user's live position.
Go-to-market
Self-serve access via the company website and web app, with an open "playground" and prompts to start a thread, connect a brokerage via SnapTrade, and connect an X account. The site features testimonials from individual traders and finance professionals.
Individual and sophisticated retail traders and investment professionals who manage their own portfolios across equities, options, and crypto; testimonials reference a day trader, a former sell-side VP, and a user running separate strategy pockets for robotics, entertainment, and AI exposure.
Geography
Not stated in the available sources.
History
The available material does not describe the company's founding date, corporate history, funding, team size, or headquarters. The only substantive source is the company's own website, which describes the current product and includes three named user testimonials (Jason Waters, described as a day trader; Ali Bajwa, described as a former VP at Jefferies Group; and Jonah Blake of LiveFrame).
Risks & controversies
No controversies are documented in the available sources.
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Key figures
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primary sources listed
- Button DeFi Seedbutton.xyz · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Button do?
- Button is an agentic AI coding harness that turns plain-English trading theses into backtested, deployable strategies.
- Who are Button's investors?
- Button's investors include Blockchain Capital, Coinbase Ventures.