> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.blackquantlabs.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Who it is for

> An honest read on who gets value from this and who does not.

## It fits you if

**You want measured claims rather than screenshots.** Every rate on the platform carries a credible interval and an unmeasured rate stays `null`. If that discipline is why you are here, the rest of the product will make sense to you.

**You want to keep your keys.** The [custody model](/security/custody-model) is the reason this platform exists in the shape it does. If you are comparing it to a custodial exchange, that is the axis to compare on.

**You are comfortable verifying on-chain.** Positions settle where you can check them independently. The platform is designed on the assumption that you will, and it publishes the contracts so you can.

**You can read a confidence interval.** The numbers are honest, which means they are sometimes wide and sometimes absent. A platform that always shows a tidy number is hiding something; this one shows the untidiness.

## It does not fit you if

**You want someone to trade for you.** Nobody at BlackQuant exercises discretion over your capital. The engine publishes; you act. If you want a managed product, this is not one.

**You want guaranteed returns.** There are none, and any figure on the marketing site describing past volume or yield is a description of the past, not a forecast.

**You want custody handled for you.** Losing your keys means losing access, and there is no support path that recovers them — that is the direct cost of the guarantee that nobody else can move your funds either.

**You need the platform in a jurisdiction it does not serve.** Identity verification is required before withdrawal, and approval is jurisdiction-dependent.

## Experience level

|                           | What you need                                                                                                               |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Wallet operation**      | You can send an asset on a specific network without help, and you understand that a TRC-20 address is not an ERC-20 address |
| **Statistics**            | You can read `75% [45, 93]` and understand why it is weaker than `75% [72, 78]`                                             |
| **On-chain verification** | Helpful, not required. [Positions](/platform/positions) links each settlement to a block explorer                           |
| **Development**           | Not required. The [Developers](/developers/architecture) section is optional                                                |

## Before you commit money

1. Read [The custody model](/security/custody-model) so the guarantees and their costs are both clear.
2. Read [Reading the numbers honestly](/platform/signal-engine#reading-the-numbers-honestly).
3. Read the scope sections of the [published audits](/security/audit-reports) rather than the headline that a firm audited something.
4. Deposit an amount you would be unbothered to lose, and run the full loop once — deposit, plan, signal, withdrawal — before scaling up.

<Warning>
  Step 4 is not a formality. The withdrawal path has an identity verification requirement that is easier to discover with $50 in the account than with $50,000.
</Warning>