Connect your agent

The AI quant lab behind your agent

AlphaLab connects to the AI agent you already use over the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Your agent gets the market data, quant tools and research workflows to take a trading hypothesis through signal research, backtesting, optimization, robustness and out-of-sample testing. Everything it runs shows up in the AlphaLab web app.

Connect

https://api.alphalab.ai/mcp
Claude
Open Customize, Connectors. Click +, then Add custom connector, and paste the URL.
ChatGPT
Open Plugins, click + and add an MCP server with the URL.
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
Add an MCP server with the URL. The full commands are in the AlphaLab app under Connect an agent.

The first time, your agent opens AlphaLab sign-in and asks you to approve access. Access is currently by invitation, so join the waitlist if you do not have an account yet.

Then ask

Start with a trading hypothesis. For example: “I think ES reverses after three down days in a row. Test it, including out of sample.”

Main workflow

From nothing to a first backtest result, the call order is:

  1. 1. search_instruments
  2. 2. get_component_contracts
  3. 3. create_canvas
  4. 4. validate_execution_request
  5. 5. run_experiment
  6. 6. await_operation
  7. 7. get_run_metrics

Main tools

get_started / get_guide
What the account can do, and how-to topics for the agent.
search_instruments / get_data_catalog
Find tradable instruments and the data available for them.
get_all_components_meta_data / get_component_contracts
List strategy components and their typed inputs and outputs.
create_canvas / load_example_strategy / patch_document
Build or edit a strategy graph, or start from an example.
validate_execution_request / run_experiment / await_operation
Check a run, start it, and wait for it.
get_run_metrics / compare_runs / get_run_failure
Read results, compare runs, and see why a run failed.
start_robustness_analysis / run_validation_suite
Stress a strategy and run the validation checks.
get_out_of_sample_windows / get_cpcv_paths
Read walk-forward and CPCV results.
create_research_project / create_hypothesis / record_research_note
Keep the research state in AlphaLab.

Plans

Every plan includes the same data, engine, methods and validation. What changes is how many hypotheses run in parallel. There is no free plan.

  • Firm Desk: one to five researchers, so one to five investigations in parallel, each sized for a firm's cadence. Multi-seat, with attribution and sign-off records, weekly status and a monthly review. Where you land in that range is scoped with you rather than picked from a list.
  • Free Pilot: one scoped investigation, about thirty days, taken to a defended strategy or a refutation. How a firm engagement starts.
  • Lab Setup (a fixed term, the first three to six months): we stand your desk up, turn the implicit rules of your book into a hypothesis backlog, and graduate a designated person onto a desk they run themselves.
  • Your Desk ($990/mo): the self-serve entry, one researcher, one named person directing them.

Your Desk is the only plan with a list price. The Firm Desk and the Lab Setup program are contracted, they start with a free scoped pilot rather than a card, and the researcher count is part of the conversation, so their terms are agreed rather than published. Talk to us.

All history, any candle interval down to tick, and every execution style are available on every plan. MCP access is included everywhere.