Indian markets · liveHow it works

Matches the market.Beats the market.

An AI research engine for Indian equities — built on a strategy validated across two market eras, including covid.

+41%F+ · 2021–26vs+36%Nifty 500

Avg per walk-forward window, 2021–2026 — beat the index 4 / 4 · backtested, illustrative

01The core idea

The edge isn't picking winners. It's not losing.

Most strategies chase return. The F+ engine chases survival first — and lets return follow.

Across a full crash it participated on the way up and stepped aside on the way down. The result wasn't a bigger number. It was a smaller hole.

Peak-to-trough drawdown

The covid crash

MarketF+ engine
0%-10%-20%-30%-40%Jan 2020Dec 2020

Market fell

0%

F+ fell

0%

01

Reads the regime

It knows the difference between a healthy market and a falling one, and treats them differently. Context before conviction.

02

Holds quality, diversified

Durable businesses, spread across names and sectors. Never the whole book on a single bet or a single story.

03

Moves to cash when it matters

When risk rises, it raises cash. That single discipline is what halved the drawdown when the market broke.

“It participates when markets rise, and steps aside when they fall. That discipline — not stock-picking magic — is the edge.”

02The four layers

One engine, four ways in.

From reading the market to connecting your account — each layer does one job, and hands off cleanly to the next.

01

Layer 1 · Ask AI

Market Mode

What is the Indian market saying?

The market-intelligence layer. It reads trend, regime, sector leadership, breadth, filings and earnings — and flags rising risk or opportunity before any portfolio acts. Context, not execution.

Market Mode = what's happening?
Maven
Indian markets · live

Good morning. What are the markets telling you?

Grounded in NSE/BSE data, filings & your portfolio.

Banking is leading — HDFC Bank +2.4%, and FIIs turned net buyers today.

NIFTY 23,140 ▲ 0.8%
Why is Nifty up today?
Reliance Q4 — what changed
HDFC Bank vs Kotak

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Layer 2 · Portfolios

Portfolio Mode

What should my portfolio do about it?

Turns market intelligence into portfolio action — holdings, weights, cash level, rebalance decisions, risk control — all driven by the same validated F+ engine. Each style is the same engine with a different tilt, not a separate product.

Portfolio Mode = what to do about it?

Eight styles, one engine

CoreQualityGrowthMomentumIncomeQuantValueContrarian
Illustrative

Every style runs the same engine. The proven edge is lower drawdown — not guaranteed alpha. Any α shown is illustrative.

Maven
Indian markets · live

Good morning. What is your portfolio telling you?

Grounded in your holdings, live prices & filings.

Your portfolio is +1.2% today — Financials lead, with 2 new filings.

NIFTY 23,140 ▲ 0.8%
How did my portfolio do today?
Which holdings moved the most?
Any new filings on my holdings?

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PORTFOLIO
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Portfolio Mode
AI Portfolios

Models, ranked.

NSE/BSE · live
↗ +31.7%
● Featured
Quant
by Maven · Bold
Stable

Lower drawdown, steadier

CCore
+14.6%High
α +1.1% vs NIFTY · 42 holdings
QQuality
+13.2%High
α −0.3% vs NIFTY · 25 holdings
Stable
Stable
AI Portfolios

Models, ranked.

NSE/BSE · live
Balanced

Broad coverage, medium risk

GGrowth
+23.5%Medium
α +10.0% vs NIFTY · 24 holdings
MMomentum
+20.8%Medium
α +7.3% vs NIFTY · 18 holdings
IIncome
+15.3%High
α +1.8% vs NIFTY · 26 holdings
Balanced
Balanced
AI Portfolios

Models, ranked.

NSE/BSE · live
Bold

Higher turnover, higher risk/reward

QQuant
+31.7%Medium
α +18.2% vs NIFTY · 12 holdings
VValue
+24.5%Medium
α +11.0% vs NIFTY · 16 holdings
CContrarian
+20.2%Medium
α +6.7% vs NIFTY · 14 holdings
Bold
Bold
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Layer 3 · Focus

Focus

Back one theme with precision.

Turns a single idea — Digital Payments, Green Energy, PSU Banks, Infrastructure, AI & Data — into a concentrated basket, still run through the same portfolio discipline. The theme decides the universe; the engine decides the basket.

Focus = one conviction, done with rules.

Themes

Digital PaymentsGreen EnergyPSU BanksInfrastructureAI & Data
Illustrative

Thematic references are illustrative, not promises. Concentrated baskets carry higher risk — labelled as such in-app.

Focus

One sector, every cap.

Thematic baskets · NSE/BSE
↗ +78%Featured
Digital Payments
Financial Technology · High risk
20% sleeve5 stocksQuarterly
All baskets
Green Energy
500GW clean-power by 2030
+94%Med-High
PSU Banks
NPAs down 40% since 2021
+89%Medium
Infrastructure
₹11.1L Cr capex supercycle
+52%Medium
AI & Data
$2B AI spend by 2027
+62%High
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Layer 4 · Broker

Broker

Where insight becomes action.

Connects Maven to a real account — Zerodha, Groww, Upstox, Angel One, HDFC Sky, Anand Rathi — read-only, to sync and compare your holdings against the models. Execution is the last layer, and it stays human-approved.

Broker = connect & sync (read-only).

Connects to

ZerodhaGrowwUpstoxAngel OneHDFC SkyAnand Rathi
Read-only

Read-only. No trading. Maven never places, modifies, or cancels an order.

Connect your broker

Securely linked. Read-only, no trading.

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Securely linked. Read-only, no trading.

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Insight, then action.

03Why trust it

Validated honestly. Negatives documented.

1

Two market eras

Tested across distinct regimes — including the covid crash — not a single lucky stretch.

2

Pre-registered targets

Success criteria were written down before the test, so a good result couldn't be invented after the fact.

3

No look-ahead

Decisions used only the data available on that day. No future knowledge leaked backwards.

4

Many tried, one passed

A long list of approaches was built and rejected. F+ is the one that survived the discipline.

The honest claim

F+ matched the index with roughly half the drawdown, and survived covid at −27% versus −38%. Its edge is risk management — earned through rigorous testing, not marketing.

We tried plenty that didn't work — and kept the receipts.

Pure momentum chase

Great in trends, brutal in reversals. Drawdown failed the test.

Single-factor value

Cheap stayed cheap too long. Didn't beat buy-and-hold risk-adjusted.

All-in conviction

Concentrated bets spiked volatility past the pre-registered ceiling.

Always-invested

No cash discipline meant it crashed with the market. Rejected.

04Live & forward
Forward paper-trade · running now

Now running forward, live, on real NSE prices.

Real prices daily, decisions recorded at those prices, marked to market, and tracked against the Nifty 500 — an honest, ongoing, public test. No hindsight, no edits.

Real NSE prices, every trading day
Decisions stamped at the price they were made
Marked to market, tracked vs Nifty 500
Paper-traded — no real money at risk

Matches the market. Half the fall.