Founding stage · technical co-founder · seeking pre-seed capital

Deterministic Proof Infrastructurefor Market Systems.

Replay workloads. Verify behavior. Package evidence.

BQS is an early-stage venture building the proof layer for quant infrastructure, compliance, and technical diligence. Working harness today — raising a pre-seed round to recruit a complementary co-founder and aligned early investors to scale it.

Inspect Public Harness

Public harness includes scaled functions. Enterprise version includes full orchestration, CI contracts, and signed evidence bundles.

Figures shown on this site are from controlled benchmark workloads. Pilots produce environment-specific validation.

bqs · proof console
live · controlled
REPLAYOK
deterministic
p50 LATENCYPASS
42 µs
p99 LATENCYPASS
187 µs
DIGESTMATCHED
0x9a3f…b21c
EVIDENCE BUNDLESIGNED
sealed · 12 files
GATE STATUSPASSED
8 / 8
bundle · manifest.yaml · bench.jsonl · metrics.prom · summary.txt
Evidence Tape
REPLAY VERIFIED·DIGEST MATCHED·P99 GATE PASSED·EVIDENCE BUNDLE SEALED·CI CONTRACT VALIDATED·EXECUTIVE BRIEF READY·REPLAY VERIFIED·DIGEST MATCHED·P99 GATE PASSED·EVIDENCE BUNDLE SEALED·CI CONTRACT VALIDATED·EXECUTIVE BRIEF READY·
What BQS proves

Three primitives. One proof surface.

Every claim about a market system — speed, correctness, repeatability — reduces to evidence you can replay, gate, and forward.

Replay

Reconstruct the same workload with deterministic inputs and reproducible state transitions across environments.

Gate

Turn latency budgets and runtime-protection decisions into CI-enforced contracts that block regressions at merge time.

Prove

Package digests, manifests, metrics, and reports into forwardable evidence bundles for engineering, compliance, and investor review.

Product architecture

The proof path, end to end.

Inputs are canonicalised, replayed deterministically, measured against contractual latency gates, sealed into a digest, and packaged as evidence.

STAGE · 01
Raw feed
ITCH · FIX · synthetic
STAGE · 02
Canonical input hash
deterministic IDs
STAGE · 03
Deterministic replay engine
BQL 2.0
STAGE · 04
State transition log
ordered · auditable
STAGE · 05
Latency gates
p50 · p95 · p99 · p99.9
STAGE · 06
Golden-state digest
signed hash
STAGE · 07
Evidence bundle
manifest + metrics
STAGE · 08
Executive proof brief
forwardable
Every stage emits a typed artifact. Every artifact carries a hash. The bundle is the proof.
Use cases

Where institutional teams deploy BQS.

Each surface produces a specific, forwardable proof artifact — not a dashboard, not a deck.

use case

Market Replay & LOB Reconstruction

Who
Quant engineering, market-data teams
Problem
Reconstructing the same order book and event ordering across environments and code revisions.
Artifact
Deterministic replay harness + state-transition log
use case

Latency Evidence & Performance Gates

Who
Engineering leads, SRE, performance owners
Problem
Catching tail-latency regressions before they reach production.
Artifact
CI gate report + p50/p95/p99 latency baseline
use case

Compliance-Grade Evidence Bundles

Who
Compliance, audit, supervisors
Problem
Producing tamper-evident, forwardable records of system behaviour under controlled conditions.
Artifact
Signed bundle: manifest, digest, metrics, summary
use case

Quant Infrastructure Benchmarking

Who
Platform engineering, infrastructure architects
Problem
Comparing engine builds, kernels, and stacks on an apples-to-apples workload.
Artifact
Cross-run benchmark report + golden-state digest
use case

Enterprise Infrastructure Risk Analytics

Who
Risk engineering, technology risk
Problem
Quantifying the operational risk surface of latency-sensitive systems.
Artifact
Risk-mapped gate matrix + protection-path coverage
use case

Investor / Buyer Technical Diligence

Who
CTOs, investors, acquirers
Problem
Validating engineering claims with reproducible artifacts instead of slides.
Artifact
Executive proof brief + replay bundle
Evidence sample

A bundle is the unit of proof.

One sealed directory carries everything required to reproduce, verify, and forward the result.

bundle · bqs-2025-11-bench-0421.tar.zstSEALED
  • manifest.yaml
  • bench.jsonl
  • metrics.prom
  • summary.txt
  • compiler.meta
  • system.meta
  • digest.sig
  • gates.json
digest · 0x9a3fa4c1…b21c · signed8 / 8 gates · GREEN

Representative controlled benchmark sample. Enterprise pilots produce environment-specific validation.

What it answers
  • Can this run be reproduced bit-for-bit, today and twelve months from now?
  • Did any latency budget regress against the prior golden run?
  • Are protection-path activations covered and accounted for?
  • Can a non-engineer read a one-page summary and act on it?
Performance

Measured. Replayable. Contextualised.

Numbers below validate deterministic replay and regression detection under controlled benchmark workloads — not a production exchange-throughput claim.

Events / sec
8.4M
single-replay throughput
p50 latency
42 µs
controlled workload
p99 latency
187 µs
tail-budget headroom
Digest consistency
100%
across replays
Gate pass rate
99.6%
CI runs · last 90 days
Runtime improvement
1.7×
vs prior golden build

Live visual is a synthetic latency trace for illustrative purposes. Pilot engagements produce environment-specific baselines from your workloads.

Enterprise pilot

Enterprise BQL 2.0 Pilot.

A 4–6 week proof engagement that turns your market system into a replayable, gated, and forwardable evidence surface.

Week 1
Workload fit

Scope the target system, inputs, latency surface, and success criteria.

Weeks 2–3
Baseline proof

Stand up deterministic replay, canonical inputs, and the first golden digest.

Weeks 4–5
CI contract

Encode latency and protection-path gates into your CI pipeline.

Week 6
Executive readout

Deliver signed evidence bundle, briefing deck, and deployment recommendation.

Deliverables
  • Replay harness configured to your workload
  • Latency baseline (p50 / p95 / p99 / p99.9)
  • CI gate configuration committed to your repo
  • Signed evidence bundle with golden-state digest
  • Executive readout deck
  • Deployment recommendation memo
Engagement

Request the pilot brief.

One-page scope, deliverables, and timeline. Sent under NDA on request. You can also reach out to the founder on LinkedIn.

Founder

Jean Blanc.

Engineer and quantitative systems builder with 15+ years across high-consequence infrastructure, reliability engineering, asset performance, risk analytics, R&D, and data-driven systems. Blanc Quant Systems reflects a career-long focus on systems where traceability, repeatability, performance, and evidence matter.

Competencies
Infrastructure systemsReliability engineeringRisk analyticsQuant systemsR&DEvidence-driven engineering
Discipline

Engineering of systems where evidence is non-optional.

Approach

Canonicalise inputs. Replay deterministically. Gate everything.

Output

Forwardable artifacts — not slides, not anecdotes.

Stance

Defensible claims only. Controlled benchmarks labelled as such.

Pre-seed raise · founding stage

The proof layer for market systems. Raising to scale the wedge.

The harness works today. We are raising a pre-seed round to recruit a complementary co-founder and convert design partners into paid pilots.

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$500K – $750K
Runway
12–18 months
Use of funds
Complementary co-founder · pilot conversion · product
Co-founder · business / GTM / ops

Own the go-to-market with me.

I am the technical co-founder. I am looking for a complementary partner who can own design-partner relationships, pilot conversion, and institutional sales. You have lived inside quant funds, exchanges, or infra procurement. Meaningful equity, real ownership of revenue and go-to-market, founding-team trajectory.

  • Deep network in quant, HFT, exchange, or RegTech buying centres
  • Comfort selling infrastructure via proof, not pitch decks
  • Wants to build a business customers can verify, not narrate
Pre-seed investors · operator-angels & funds

Fund the proof infrastructure thesis.

Operator-angels from quant, HFT, or low-latency infra. Pre-seed and seed funds in dev infrastructure, fintech infra, or compliance tooling. Strategics adjacent to exchanges, trading-tech vendors, and RegTech. Investor brief available under NDA.

  • Wedge: deterministic replay + signed evidence bundles for market systems
  • Pilot motion: 4–6 week paid engagements with forwardable artifacts
  • Second product line on roadmap: proprietary algorithmic trading on Kalshi, validated by the same harness (forward-looking, not yet live)
Request Investor Brief
Traction to date

Built, not promised.

  • Working deterministic replay harness — running today, not a concept
  • Deterministic ITCH replay with reproducible state transitions across environments
  • Latency gating in CI: p50 / p95 / p99 / p99.9 baselines enforced as merge-time contracts
  • Sealed, tamper-evident evidence bundles (manifest, metrics, digest, summary, signed digest)
  • Defined paid pilot motion: 4–6 week Enterprise BQL 2.0 Pilot with forwardable artifacts
  • Identified design partners and a defined go-to-market wedge
  • Public harness available for inspection — defensible-claims-only standard
Market signals

Why now, in third-party terms.

  • $16.95B → $33B
    Algorithmic trading market, 2026 → 2032 at ~11.7% CAGR (360iResearch)
  • $2.42B → $3.73B
    HFT server market, 2026 → 2030, microsecond-latency and AI-driven demand (GlobeNewswire)
  • $10B+ / yr
    Buy-side technology spend, concentrated on trading-desk technology (Coalition Greenwich)
  • Table stakes
    Deterministic execution, audit trails, CI-based latency profiling now expected in institutional diligence (ETH, ETNA, STAC)

Industry signals validating the problem and market — not endorsements of the company.

Not raising publicly · not soliciting · early conversations only · Kalshi product line is forward-looking

Engage

Need to prove how your market system behaves under replay?

Get the executive proof brief, request a 4–6 week pilot scope, or inspect the public harness. Prefer a direct message? Reach out to the founder on LinkedIn.

Request Pilot ReviewInspect Public Harness

Controlled benchmark figures only. Pilots produce environment-specific validation.