REGIME
STUDY DIRECTOR · AGENT BUILDER · SALT LAKE CITY

Building the infrastructure layer
for autonomous intelligence.

Self-taught engineer with a lab sciences background. I build production systems — autonomous research agents, trading infrastructure, and hardened local AI runtimes — and ship them.

WORK
LIVE

ClawFactory

A hardened Windows installer that packages an AI agent runtime for non-technical users. Wraps the agent in a sandboxed Linux environment with an egress firewall, encrypted API key storage via Windows Credential Manager, a loopback-only gateway, and a kill switch. 17 build iterations. Full Azure headless validation. Two products: ClawFactory ($149, multi-agent) and ClawAgent ($49, single agent). Under Frontier Automation Systems LLC.

HARDENED LOCAL RUNTIMEone-click .exeWINDOWS HOSTDPAPI key storageCredential ManagerWSL2 SANDBOX · scoped Linux userOpenClaw gateway · loopback :8787Egress firewall · deny by defaultKill Switch — instant teardown
Security substrate -- WSL2 sandbox, egress firewall, DPAPI, kill switch
LIVE

Avital Research

A live subscription platform ($49/month) for macro investment intelligence. The core is a regime engine that classifies the macro environment across 7 pillars (Growth, Inflation, Liquidity, Rates, Credit, Dollar, Risk) into one of 5 states — Goldilocks, Reflation, Stagflation, Disinflation, or Transition — with confidence gates and persistence rules to prevent false signals. Delivers portfolio allocation guidance, stress indicators, and an AI research copilot. Built on React, Express, PostgreSQL, and Railway with live data from FRED, Polygon.io, CoinGecko, and Stripe.

REGIME ENGINEGrowth-2..+2Inflation-2..+2Liquidity-2..+2Rates-2..+2Credit-2..+2Dollar-2..+2Risk-2..+27 PILLARS · scored eachREGIME ENGINEconfidence gates + persistenceGoldilocksReflationStagflationDisinflationTransition5 REGIMES · one activeCore Compounderscapital preservationHigh Betaupside capturePORTFOLIO ARCHETYPES
Regime engine -- 7 pillars -> 5 regimes -> portfolio archetypes
ACTIVE

FrontierAI

A 21-agent autonomous research system running 24/7 on a local machine. Assigns itself research objectives across macro, crypto, geopolitics, and credit markets — searches the web, synthesizes findings, stores everything in a structured knowledge base, and self-corrects when stuck. Over 8,500 research objectives completed without human intervention. Operates on a weekly rhythm with dedicated regime classification every Monday. Feeds a publishing pipeline that delivers intelligence to Avital Research. Built in Python with PostgreSQL, Pinecone vector storage, and a React mission control dashboard.

AUTONOMOUS RESEARCH LOOPself-correctObjective QueueUpstash RedisOrchestratormaster loop · 600sResearchAgentGemini 2.5 + TavilyMemoryAgentPostgreSQL + PineconeExecutionAgentClaude · deepen / pivotReportGeneratormarkdown briefsAvital Researchpublishing feed
Autonomous multi-agent research loop
LIVE

ClawAgent

Single-agent local AI runtime. Same security substrate as ClawFactory — WSL2, egress firewall, DPAPI — faster install.

SINGLE-AGENT RUNTIMEone-click .exe · fastWINDOWS HOSTWSL2 SANDBOXSingle agent + gateway · loopbackEgress firewall · DPAPI key storage
Single-agent runtime on the ClawFactory substrate
ACTIVE

ClawChat

Native Windows desktop chat interface for local AI agents. Conversation history, dark/light themes, streams from local gateway.

DESKTOP CHAT CLIENTClawChat · Windows desktopconversation history · streamingloopback :8787Local gatewayOpenClaw runtimeAI agentsandboxed (WSL2)
Native desktop client streaming from the local gateway
BUILDING

Strategy Factory

Autonomous strategy research and backtesting pipeline. Generates, tests, and ranks trading strategies across macro regimes. BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP.

STRATEGY RESEARCH + BACKTESTMacro regime · 5 statesGenerate strategieshypothesis spaceBacktest across regimeswalk-forward · OOSRankrisk-adjusted returnBTCETHSOLXRP
Strategy generation, backtest, and ranking pipeline
SYSTEM

How the pieces fit together. An autonomous intelligence engine does the mechanical research; a subscriber-facing platform distributes only validated output; a human stays in control at every publish.

SYSTEM ARCHITECTUREDATA SOURCESFREDTavilyPolygon.ioCoinGeckoObjective QueueUpstash Redis · self-generated objectivesINTELLIGENCE ENGINEresearch · memory · reasoning · synthesisFrontierAI · 21 agents · 600s master loopclusters: research · knowledge · comms · opsMEMORY LAYERPostgreSQL · structuredPinecone · vectorwritereadhuman approval gateDISTRIBUTION LAYERdashboards · reports · copilot · stress indicatorsAvital Research · subscriber-facingVALIDATED INTELLIGENCEdelivered to subscriberscontinuous loopInputs to validated intelligence — a human approves before anything ships.
Inputs flow through the intelligence engine to the distribution layer -- a human approves before anything ships
AGENT ECOSYSTEMRESEARCHMEMORY & KNOW.COMMUNICATIONSOPERATIONSResearchReasoningSynthesisScoutCuratorMemoryKnowledgeReport GenValuationNews ScannerPublishingSocialAvital SyncIntegration BridgeNotificationsOrchestratorChief of StaffHealth MonitorCatalyst MonitorRhythm EngineExecution (paper)Orchestrator routes the queue. Trading runs isolated in paper mode. A human approves every publish.
Specialized agents, grouped by role
AGENT ECOSYSTEMRESEARCHResearchReasoningSynthesisScoutCuratorMEMORY & KNOWLEDGEMemoryKnowledgeReport GenValuationNews ScannerCOMMUNICATIONSPublishingSocialAvital SyncIntegration BridgeNotificationsOPERATIONSOrchestratorChief of StaffHealth MonitorCatalyst MonitorRhythm EngineExecution (paper)Orchestrator routes the queue. Trading runsisolated in paper mode. A human approves every publish.
Specialized agents, grouped by role
ASK AVITAL

Avital Research runs a macro research copilot grounded in the regime engine. Ask it something and it opens in the live app.

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Opens the live copilot on Avital Research.

FAQ
A hardened Windows installer for OpenClaw. WSL2 sandbox, egress firewall scoped to a single Linux user, loopback-only gateway, DPAPI key storage, Kill Switch. One-click .exe. $149 for the full factory setup, $49 for ClawAgent (single agent).
A local autonomous multi-agent research system running 24/7 on my machine. It pulls objectives from a queue, dispatches research agents, stores findings in a vector database, and synthesizes investment intelligence for Avital Research. Not open source — private production system.
A macro-first investment intelligence platform. It classifies the current macro regime across 7 pillars — growth, inflation, liquidity, rates, credit, dollar, risk appetite — and produces portfolio allocation recommendations for two archetypes: capital preservation and high-beta upside capture.
Open to conversations about autonomous systems, AI infrastructure, and fintech applications. Reach out at bret@bretmckinney.com.
Study Director at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake City — lab sciences day job. Self-taught in software. I learn by building production systems and shipping them.
BACKGROUND

Study Director at Nelson Laboratories, Salt Lake City. Lab sciences background, self-taught in software. Building a fully autonomous AI organization on the side — research agents, trading infrastructure, publishing pipeline, and the tools to run all of it locally with real security controls.

STACK
Python React TypeScript Rust/Tauri PostgreSQL Pinecone WSL2 Claude Sonnet Gemini Flash Railway Azure Kraken API Inno Setup
CONSOLE

A small shell. Type help, or try open avital.

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