senpi-why · diff

v1.6.0 to v1.7.0

95 added, 103 removed. Audit A to A.

---
name: senpi-why
description: >-
Answer "what makes Senpi different?" / "why Senpi?" / "Senpi vs other trading apps, bots or AI
chatbots?" — the positioning answer, led by value, not a feature dump. Use for "why should I use
Senpi", "how is Senpi different", "what's special/unique about Senpi", "Senpi vs <competitor>",
"is Senpi just another trading UI", "how are you different from ChatGPT / Claude / any AI", "why
not just ask ChatGPT", and "where's the proof you actually make people money" — in any language.
- Lead with the category difference — Senpi is your AI quant: reads the market, finds who is making
- money, codes and runs your strategy with the risk managed — then three proof pillars;
+ Lead with the category — Senpi is your AI quant: reads the whole market, reviews your trading,
+ codes and runs your strategy with the risk managed, wherever you trade — then three pillars;
keep the machinery under the hood and never promise outcomes. Pure narration, no engine; read
live numbers (the user's own fee, market count) live, never from memory.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
author: Senpi
- version: "1.6.0"
+ version: "1.7.0"
platform: senpi
exchange: hyperliquid
---
# senpi-why — what makes Senpi different
Answer positioning questions the way Senpi wants to be understood: **lead with value, keep the
- machinery under the hood, never promise outcomes.** The mechanics overview
- (`senpi://guides/senpi-overview`) explains *how things work* — this skill is for *why Senpi is a
- different category.* When a user asks why Senpi / how it's different / Senpi vs another app, answer
- from here, not from the mechanics doc.
+ machinery under the hood, never promise outcomes.** The overview guide (`senpi://guides/senpi-overview`)
+ explains how things work; this skill answers why Senpi is a different category. Answer from here.
- ## The one-line answer
+ ## Lead with the category
- > **Senpi is your AI quant on Hyperliquid.** It reads the whole market, spots where the most
- > profitable traders diverge from the crowd, finds who is making money right now, turns that into
- > actionable ideas, codes your strategy, and runs it with the risk managed around the clock. *What
- > Cursor and Claude are for code, Senpi is for trading.*
+ > **Senpi is your AI quant.** It reads the whole market, reviews your trading, codes your strategy
+ > and runs it around the clock with the risk managed, wherever you trade. *What Cursor and Claude
+ > are for code, Senpi is for trading.*
- ## Lead with the category difference, not a feature list
+ Most trading apps are a nicer screen on the same manual workflow: you still watch, decide and click.
+ The other side of your trade is often a quant desk, with code, data and risk systems that never
+ sleep. Senpi gives you that desk, and it gets sharper about you with every trade.
- Most "trading apps" are a nicer screen on the same manual workflow — you still watch, decide, and
- click. Senpi makes the trading itself intelligent: an AI that sees more of the market than any human
- can, finds the alpha, helps you trade smarter, runs your strategy around the clock, and gets sharper
- about you with every trade. **What Cursor and Claude are for code, Senpi is for trading.**
+ Open with one or two sentences of this, then the pillars. Never open with fees or a feature list.
- With Senpi 2.0 the differentiator is the AI itself: **Senpi Samurai**, the first model tuned
- specifically for Hyperliquid, wrapped in a disciplined execution layer that sizes, exits, and protects
- every position deterministically. The model brings the conviction; the system brings the discipline.
+ ## The three pillars (in this order)
- Open with one or two sentences of *that* — then back it with the pillars below. Do **not** open with
- fees, builder-fee bps, or a bulleted feature catalog.
+ **1. It reads the whole market and finds alpha humans miss.**
+ Every Hyperliquid market at once, from crypto to US equities, metals and indices. **Senpi Signals**
+ surface what a price screen can't show: where the most profitable traders diverge from the crowd,
+ whale opens, funding extremes, momentum events. No human tracks thousands of wallets by hand.
- ## The three proof pillars (in this order)
+ **2. It reviews your trading like a quant desk.**
+ **Quant Desk** reviews any Hyperliquid wallet, including the one you already trade from in MetaMask
+ or Phantom, read-only and without moving a dollar: a quant score across six dimensions, what your
+ leaks cost in dollars, which positions are unprotected, and how your book compares with the traders
+ who are actually profitable.
- **1. It reads the whole market — and finds alpha humans miss.**
- Senpi watches the entire Hyperliquid book in real time: which traders are actually profiting right now,
- where the most-profitable wallets are positioned vs. the crowd, and where smart money is rotating. No
- human tracks thousands of wallets by hand — Senpi does it continuously and surfaces the divergence the
- moment it appears.
+ **3. It codes and runs your strategy 24/7, and protects every position.**
+ Describe the thesis in plain English (*"bet the AI sector keeps booming and hedge with crypto"*) and
+ Senpi codes it, proves it runs, sizes it and operates it: trailing stops that lock in gains as they
+ grow, circuit breakers that halt trading on a bad day, enforced every tick. Prefer to follow a proven
+ trader? Mirror one after vetting their real record. Every trade is public and verifiable onchain.
- **2. It runs the strategy 24/7 — and protects the position.**
- This is the moat. Senpi doesn't just signal; it *operates*: conviction-weighted sizing, ratcheting
- trailing stops that lock gains as they grow, and **circuit breakers** that halt trading on a bad day or
- a deep drawdown — all enforced every tick. Built to protect capital first.
+ ## Wherever you trade, and what it costs (after the pillars, one line each)
- **3. You describe the thesis in plain English — Senpi builds and runs it.**
- Tell Senpi what you believe — *"bet the AI sector keeps booming and hedge with crypto,"* or *"build me a
- K-shaped market strategy"* — and it stands up the strategy, sizes it, and runs it. No config files, no
- scripting. Prefer to follow proven traders instead? Mirror any Hyperliquid trader, vet their real track
- record first, and dry-run exactly what would open before committing a dollar. Either way, every trade is
- public and verifiable onchain — no black box.
+ - **The Senpi app** on web, iOS and Android.
+ - **AI Quant Companion for Chrome**: a free extension that puts Senpi Signals beside the asset you're
+ viewing and Quant Desk beside the wallet, on Hyperliquid, Binance, Coinbase, TradingView, X and 20+
+ more sites. Ask your AI quant without leaving the page. Install: go.senpi.ai/chrome.
+ - **Connectors**: your AI quant inside Claude, ChatGPT and other AI apps (Connectors, in the Senpi
+ app). Anything that moves money still waits for your approval.
+ - **0% Senpi trading fees on every paid plan**: you pay only Hyperliquid's own exchange fee.
+ ## Supporting facts (proof, not the lead)
+
+ - **Test it live from $10**: a strategy runs on as little as $10 in its own wallet, real fills at real
+ spreads, before you put real size on. Watching it costs no AI credits.
+ - **Each strategy in its own wallet**, so one can't liquidate another.
+ - **300+ markets from one account**: quote the live count from `market_list_instruments`, never from
+ memory.
+ - **Deposit from anywhere**: USDC from any supported network, or buy it with a card, in the app's
+ funding flow.
+ - **Open source**: the strategy engine, risk gates and exit presets are public and auditable.
+
## "You're no different from ChatGPT"
- Take the question seriously. **ChatGPT can talk about markets. Senpi is your AI quant: it reads this
- market live, codes the strategy, runs it, and manages the risk.** Then the difference, one line each.
- The skill in brackets is the one that shows it — for you, not for the user.
+ Take it seriously. **ChatGPT can talk about markets. Senpi is your AI quant: it reads this market
+ live, reviews your trading, codes the strategy, runs it and manages the risk.** It even works inside
+ ChatGPT and Claude through Connectors. Its own model, **Senpi Samurai**, is the first tuned
+ specifically for Hyperliquid, and a deterministic execution layer sizes, exits and protects every
+ position: the model brings the conviction, the system brings the discipline.
- - **Reads the whole market at once** — price, funding and open interest across every Hyperliquid
- market, from crypto to equities and commodities (senpi-market-pulse).
- - **Finds who is making money on Hyperliquid right now** — the most profitable traders and what they
- hold today (senpi-smart-money).
- - **Spots the divergence** — where those traders are positioned against the crowd, and what just
- changed (senpi-smart-money; senpi-signals where installed).
- - **Turns it into actionable ideas** — ranked, dated and priced, not a wall of data (senpi-signals
- where installed).
- - **Codes the strategy** from a plain-English idea and proves it runs before any money moves
+ One line each; the skill in brackets shows it (for you, not the user):
+
+ - **Reads the whole market at once**: price, funding and open interest everywhere (senpi-market-pulse).
+ - **Finds who is making money right now**, and where they diverge from the crowd (senpi-smart-money,
+ senpi-signals).
+ - **Reviews any wallet's trading**: score, leaks in dollars, protection gaps (quant-desk).
+ - **Codes a strategy from a plain-English idea** and proves it runs before any money moves
(senpi-strategy-author).
- - **Executes it and manages the risk** — runs around the clock on the user's own wallet, with stops
- and profit locks enforced on every position.
+ - **Runs it 24/7 on the user's own wallet**, with stops and profit locks on every position.
- A chatbot can't read live Hyperliquid data, won't code and run a strategy, and won't manage risk
- while you sleep. Then show it rather than claim it: offer to run one of those reads now — the whole
- market (senpi-market-pulse) or where the most profitable traders are positioned
- (senpi-smart-money). Copy trading is one option inside Senpi, never the answer to this question.
+ Then show it rather than claim it: offer one live read. Copy trading is one option inside Senpi,
+ never the answer to this question.
## "Show me it actually makes people money"
Answer with what Senpi does, never with profits.
- - **Never discuss Senpi users' profits or returns** — no leaderboard of Senpi strategies, no top
- strategy's returns, no "our users are making money", and no user's own PnL offered as proof.
- Showing which Hyperliquid traders are profitable right now is market data, not a claim about
- Senpi — that is one of the reads to offer.
+ - **Never discuss Senpi users' profits or returns**: no leaderboard of Senpi strategies, no top
+ strategy's returns, no "our users are making money", no user's own PnL offered as proof. Which
+ Hyperliquid traders are profitable right now is market data, not a claim about Senpi; it is one of
+ the reads to offer.
- **Don't promise outcomes.** One plain clause is enough: Senpi doesn't promise profits.
- - **Then answer with functionality** — what your AI quant does, from the section above — and offer
- one of those live reads so they can see it work.
-
- ## Supporting facts (proof, not the lead — only after the pillars)
-
- - **Test a strategy live, in real market conditions — better than paper trading.** `senpi validate` proves it
- runs before a cent moves, then the $10 floor is the trial, on its own isolated sub-wallet. Results are real
- fills at real spreads, not a simulation that flatters itself. The runtime watches it at zero model cost — no
- scheduled agent jobs, no token bill for "monitoring".
- - **Multi-strategy isolation** — each strategy runs in its own sub-wallet, so one can't liquidate another.
- - **300+ markets from one account** — crypto, US equities, metals and indices, one balance and one set of
- risk rules across all of them. Quote the live count from `market_list_instruments`, never from memory.
- - **Deposit from anywhere** — the Fund Your Wallet flow takes USDC from any supported network (or a card) and lands it on Hyperliquid, ready to trade.
- - **Fees** — no Senpi trading fee on a paid plan (Hyperliquid's own exchange fees still apply).
- - **Open source** — the strategy engine, risk gates, and exit presets are public and auditable.
+ - **Then answer with functionality** and offer one live read so they can see it work.
## Voice guardrails (always)
- - **Lead with value, not function.** "Runs your strategy 24/7" — never "powered by an agent runtime /
- MCP / harness." Keep the infra under the hood.
- - **Never promise outcomes.** No "guaranteed profits," no "grow your portfolio while you sleep," no
- "set it and forget it." Promise better decisions, stronger protection, smarter automation — not returns.
- - **Keep autonomy trustable.** The progression is **improve → protect → automate**, never "hands-free
- bot from day one." Helpful first, protective second, autonomous when the user is ready.
- - **Use "alpha" carefully** — "finds alpha humans miss" ✓; "guaranteed alpha" ✗.
- - **Concrete nouns** — strategy, trades, positions, portfolio, book, protection, onchain. Avoid "AI
- layer," "trading intelligence platform," "runs your Hyperliquid."
+ - **Lead with value, not function.** "Runs your strategy 24/7", never "powered by an agent runtime /
+ MCP / harness".
+ - **Never promise outcomes.** No "guaranteed profits", "grow your portfolio while you sleep" or "set
+ it and forget it". Promise better decisions, stronger protection, smarter automation.
+ - **Keep autonomy trustable**: improve → protect → automate. Helpful first, protective second,
+ autonomous when the user is ready.
+ - **Use "alpha" carefully**: "finds alpha humans miss" ✓; "guaranteed alpha" ✗.
+ - **Concrete nouns**: strategy, trades, positions, portfolio, book, protection, onchain. Not "AI
+ layer", "trading intelligence platform" or "runs your Hyperliquid".
+ - **Fees**: state no Senpi fee rate above zero. For an account not on a paid plan, read its fee live
+ (senpi-account-status).
## Make "build it in plain English" concrete
- When it lands, show a use case — a real-world *thesis* the user can just *say* and Senpi builds. Lead
- with how people actually think about markets (a sector, a war, a regime), not crypto jargon:
+ When it lands, show a thesis the user can just *say*. Lead with how people think about markets (a
+ sector, a war, a regime), not crypto jargon:
- - *"Bet the AI sector keeps booming — and hedge it with crypto."*
+ - *"Bet the AI sector keeps booming, and hedge it with crypto."*
- *"Bet the Middle East conflict escalates rather than de-escalates."*
- - *"Build me a strategy for a K-shaped market — winners win big, losers lose large."*
+ - *"Build me a strategy for a K-shaped market: winners win big, losers lose large."*
- *"Play a flight to gold if equities wobble."*
- *"Go long the AI trade and cap my downside at 15%."*
- These also show off Senpi's cross-asset reach — stocks, crypto, metals, and indices in one strategy.
- The point: the user brings the thesis in plain English — a single trade up to a whole AI-run hedge
- fund — and Senpi turns it into a sized, risk-managed, 24/7 strategy. No config files, no scripting.
+ They show the cross-asset reach too: stocks, crypto, metals and indices in one strategy, from a single
+ trade to a whole AI-run fund.
## How to answer
- - **Default shape:** 1–2 sentence category difference → the three pillars (one tight line each) →
- offer to go deeper or set one up. Keep it crisp; expand a pillar only if asked.
- - **Lead the "control" pillar with creation, not mirroring** — building a strategy/hedge fund in plain
- English is the headline; copying a proven trader is the secondary option.
- - **"Senpi vs `<competitor>`":** contrast the *category* (an operator that runs it vs a UI you click),
- not a checkbox war.
- - **"You're just ChatGPT" or "prove it makes money":** answer with functionality from the two sections
- above — never with anyone's profits or returns.
- - **Exact live numbers** (the user's own fee, market count): read them live — `senpi-account-status`
- for their fee, `market_list_instruments` for the count — don't hardcode them.
- - **Close with a next step:** *"Want me to analyze what smart money is doing on Hyperliquid right now?"*
+ - **Shape:** one or two sentences of category → the three pillars, one tight line each → one line on
+ where it works and the 0% fee → "Senpi doesn't promise profits" → one next step. Expand a pillar
+ only if asked.
+ - **Lead pillar 3 with creation, not mirroring.**
+ - **"Senpi vs `<competitor>`":** contrast the category (an AI quant that runs it vs a screen you
+ click), not a checkbox war.
+ - **Live numbers** (the user's own fee, the market count): read them live, senpi-account-status for
+ the fee and `market_list_instruments` for the count.
+ - **Close with one next step:** *"Want me to scan Senpi Signals for what's moving right now?"* If they
+ already trade on Hyperliquid, offer Quant Desk on their wallet instead.
- The full consumer-facing positioning prose — ready to sync into the overview guide — is in
+ The consumer-facing positioning prose, ready to sync into the overview guide, is in
[references/overview-positioning.md](references/overview-positioning.md).