Provable by design. Intelligent by nature.

You set the limits.
SENTINEL keeps the watch.

Sentinel AI puts institutional-grade AI to work inside your own broker — the kind of edge Wall Street reserves for serious money. It runs on PRISM, a disciplined rules-based system of six visible checkpoints — so you get the AI leverage with none of the black box. Nothing happens that you didn't switch on first. Built for the everyday investor, starting as small as a $3,000 account.

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Six checkpoints · Every one visible · Every reason on the record
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Your Edge Has a Name
Pattern Recognition Intelligent Signal Management

The named system that runs your discipline — six checkpoints, every reason on the record.

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See Every Move

AI built the rules — but unlike Wall Street's black boxes, you see every decision, every skip, and the reason why.

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Emotion-Free

Volatility doesn't hurt traders — emotions do. Sentinel AI runs the rules, not the feelings.

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You're In Control

Your account. Your withdrawals. Your kill switch. Pause, adjust, or stop anytime.

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The Difference

The intelligence of AI. The discipline of a system. Both.

Sentinel is the best of both worlds: the full intelligence of an AI that understands the market, working through a rules-based engine that turns that intelligence into the same disciplined decision — every time — and shows you why. Think of the AI as the engine's eyes and its lab: it watches what the rules alone might miss and, between sessions, keeps making the engine sharper — but it never has a hand on the trigger.

So when people ask, “why not just connect an AI to my broker myself?” — here’s the honest answer. You can, in an afternoon. But you’d be asking one model to read the market and make every call: brilliant one day, different the next, and never able to show you why. Sentinel keeps all that intelligence — and adds the one thing it’s missing: discipline.
The DIY bot
An AI wired straight to your broker
  • One AI reads the market and makes the call
  • Brilliant one day, different the next
  • Can’t show you why
  • It reads, decides, and fires on its own — you’re not in control; the bot is
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The PRISM Fusion System
  • The same market intelligence — plus a rules-based engine that makes the call
  • The same disciplined decision, every time
  • Every decision and the reason, on the record
  • Intelligence that informs · an engine that decides · you, in control

The full intelligence of AI, with the discipline of a system that decides the same way every time — and shows its work. That’s the difference between a bot and a system.

Who It's For

Built for people like you

Not just the wealthy. Not just the pros. If you've watched people make money in this market and wondered why not you — this was built for you.

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The Time-Starved Professional

You want your money working — not another screen to watch.

High income, high demands, no hours to watch charts. You want your capital working without taking on a second full-time job — a system that runs while you don't watch, your hand always on the switch.

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The Opportunity-Minded Entrepreneur

You want another income stream — not another job.

You move on opportunities others miss. This is the institutional AI edge — in your own account, on your terms. A new lever to pull, not a new business to run.

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The Ambitious Starter

You want a way in — not a fortune to start.

You don't have a fortune yet — you have drive. Start with an account as small as $3,000, learn the discipline as the system works, and grow into it at your own pace.

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The Real Problem

You already know what to do. That was never the problem.

You've read the books. You've watched the videos. You can probably call the move correctly.

Then the market opens. Fear talks you out of a good trade. Greed keeps you in a bad one. You move the stop “just this once.” You skip the setup because the last one stung. You promise yourself tomorrow will be different.

Meanwhile the market opens and closes, day after day — without you.

It was never a knowledge problem. It's an execution problem — and studying harder has never fixed it, because the part that breaks isn't your analysis. It's you, at the moment of decision.

How It Was Built

Not a hunch — a proven method, validated by data

Our founder spent over a decade mastering disciplined, professional trading — mentored by a trader who turned a small stake into a multimillion-dollar account. Sentinel AI distills that hard-won method, strips out the emotion, and validates every rule against years of real market data.

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A proven method, not a hunch

Our founder spent 12 years mastering disciplined trading — mentored by a professional who built a multimillion-dollar account from a small start. Every setup and every hard-won lesson, distilled into rules and taught to the AI.

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Validated by real data

The AI took that experience and tested it against years of real market data — empirically validating every decision pattern, keeping what the data proved and discarding what it didn't. And it never clocks out — between sessions, that same intelligence finds where the rules can be sharper and proposes the fix, so the engine keeps improving while every live decision stays rules-based and the same every time.

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Runs without the emotion

The result is an experience-based system: a proven approach, backed by data research, deciding when to enter and exit — without you putting in the time, the energy, or the emotion.

This isn't a strategy pulled off the internet — it's my own hard-won method, validated by data and run by AI so emotion never gets a vote. A mentor gives you the knowledge; AI gives you the discipline to actually use it.
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How It Works

A system that runs the discipline for you

You bring the rules and the limits. Sentinel AI brings the tireless, unemotional execution — and shows its work.

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Set your limits & arm it

You decide what you're willing to risk. Each night you clear Sentinel AI for the next session — nothing runs on autopilot you didn't switch on.

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PRISM runs the checkpoints

Six named phases evaluate every setup in sequence. The system must agree with itself before it risks a dollar — and stands down on high-risk days.

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See every decision

Watch it work in plain, human language — every entry, every skip, every reason — on the record, always.

THE PRISM FUSION SYSTEM
Pattern  Recognition  Intelligent  Signal  Management

Why “Fusion”? Two systems, one truth. PRISM is the rules-based core — it decides, never guesses, and journals every step. Senti is the AI perception layer — it watches the tape, reads those journals, and narrates what it sees — and between sessions, that same intelligence is how the engine gets sharper. Fused: provable discipline with an intelligent eye on it — and only PRISM ever pulls the trigger.

Always under your control — executing your final setup on the risk and profit rules you set in advance.

Provable by design. Intelligent by nature.
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Every trade travels the system clockwise — DAWN to GUARD. At the center is SHIELD: that's you. Your limits, your controls, your kill switch — touching every phase.

DAWN Reads day risk SENTINEL Watches tape THESIS Scores odds SCOUT Finds setups VERDICT Approves / denies GUARD Protects exit SHIELD = YOU your limits · kill switch + + + + + + +
DAWN — watches FED days, jobs & every scheduled risk event; flags high-risk days so you can sit them out SENTINEL — reads the live tape THESIS — sets the intraday stance SCOUT — finds the setup VERDICT — approves or denies GUARD — protects the exit
What We Trade

One market. SPX.

We don't chase whatever's trending. Sentinel AI trades one of the most established, liquid, regulated markets in the world — and nothing else.

SPX is the S&P 500 Index — options tied to the 500 largest publicly traded U.S. companies, cash-settled and listed on the Cboe. When you trade SPX, you're trading the broad American market itself, not a single stock's surprise.

  • One of the most liquid instruments on earth. Deep, tight markets mean orders fill cleanly — this is where the real volume lives.
  • It's not just the institutions anymore. By some estimates, individual traders now account for roughly 60% of SPX options volume — everyday people like you, not just Wall Street desks.
  • Broad, cash-settled, regulated. No shares assigned to you overnight, no single-company blowup risk — just the index, on a mature, transparent exchange.
SPX · S&P 500 Index Options

We trade one thing — and we do it with discipline.

What we do NOT trade
  • ✕ No cryptocurrency
  • ✕ No forex
  • ✕ No penny stocks or obscure instruments
  • ✕ Nothing that's become a byword for scams
You're In Control

Transparent by design — every decision on the record

Sentinel AI follows rules you can see and change. Every checkpoint's decision is written to the record in plain language, so you always know exactly what your account is doing and why. The calibration behind the rules — the exact math — stays proprietary; what's transparent is every decision and the reason, in plain language.

  • See every rule the system follows — and adjust the ones that are yours.
  • Every entry and every skip is logged, with the reason.
  • DAWN watches the calendar — FED days, jobs, economic releases — and can stand the system down.
  • Learn how it thinks — the same logs are your classroom, with a mentor or the Academy.
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Transparent Results

The backtest, in the open

We built our edge on data — so we show it honestly, limitations and all. Everyone else asks you to take their word for it. We'd rather show you the numbers and the fine print.

Backtested · Hypothetical

Sentinel AI's system was validated against [XX] trading days of historical SPX data, from [start] to [end]. Across [XXX] setups the rules identified, the system produced a hypothetical win rate of [XX]%. These are backtested results — how the rules would have performed on past data, not money actually traded. Here's the full picture, assumptions included.

MetricBacktested Result
Backtest period[Mon YYYY – Mon YYYY]
Trading days tested[XXX]
Total setups evaluated[XXX]
Hypothetical win rate[XX]%
Average result per trade[TBD]
Largest drawdown modeled[TBD]
Starting capital assumed[$X,XXX]
Costs modeled (commissions / slippage)[describe]
HYPOTHETICAL / BACKTESTED PERFORMANCE — REQUIRED DISCLOSURE (CFTC Rule 4.41).
THESE RESULTS ARE BASED ON SIMULATED OR HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS THAT HAVE CERTAIN INHERENT LIMITATIONS. UNLIKE THE RESULTS SHOWN IN AN ACTUAL PERFORMANCE RECORD, THESE RESULTS DO NOT REPRESENT ACTUAL TRADING. ALSO, BECAUSE THESE TRADES HAVE NOT ACTUALLY BEEN EXECUTED, THESE RESULTS MAY HAVE UNDER- OR OVER-COMPENSATED FOR THE IMPACT, IF ANY, OF CERTAIN MARKET FACTORS, SUCH AS LACK OF LIQUIDITY. SIMULATED OR HYPOTHETICAL TRADING PROGRAMS IN GENERAL ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE DESIGNED WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT. NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT WILL OR IS LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFITS OR LOSSES SIMILAR TO THOSE SHOWN.

Past performance, whether actual or hypothetical, is not a guarantee of future results. Figures shown are placeholders pending final, verified backtest data and legal review.

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About the Founder

Why I built Sentinel AI

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I built Sentinel AI for the everyday person — not the institution. My mission is simple: give regular people a real shot at building wealth, while teaching the risk management and trading principles that actually matter. You shouldn't have to choose between staying in control and removing the emotion that wrecks most traders. With Sentinel AI, you get both.
— Shawn AlfordFounder & CEO, Sentinel AI

A Message From The Founder

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Shawn Alford — Founder & CEO

Shawn Alford is a strategic technology and business-systems executive with more than 20 years of experience aligning technology to business vision — including CIO and CEO roles across financial services, blockchain, and digital platforms, and an enterprise turnaround as VP of Information Systems that helped take a $2M loss to a $100M+ profitable operation. Across every role, his work has centered on one thing: replacing human inconsistency with structured, repeatable systems that perform reliably under pressure.

For over a decade as an active options trader, Shawn lived the problem that beats most retail participants — emotional decision-making, FOMO, and inconsistent execution. A technical trading expert but, in his own words, "emotionally flawed when it comes to trading my own money," his turning point came through years of mentorship under Markay Latimer, a veteran trader and educator whose own journey — famously turning $2,000 into over $2 million — is built on structure over speculation across multiple market cycles. Shawn incorporates Markay's core teachings directly into Sentinel AI.

The result is the PRISM Wealth Building System: a system that removes emotion from execution and enforces your risk limits automatically — so anyone, with or without experience or the time to learn every detail, has an opportunity to participate in the markets while keeping full control of their own account. As Shawn puts it, his vision is not to eliminate risk or promise returns, but to give the everyday investor a disciplined, technology-driven process that was once reserved for institutions.

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On The Roadmap

The Sentinel AI Academy — learn the system, not just use it

Free courses on risk and money management, plus live mentorship that teaches you to read the system's own decisions. Because the best safety net is understanding what your money is doing — and why.

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Straight Talk

I can't promise you returns. Here's what I can promise.

Anyone who guarantees you profits in this market is selling something. I won't do that. But these I'll put in writing:

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Early Access — Limited

Get The Sentinel Edge — free

Every "market recap" out there is the same box score. The Sentinel Edge is not that. It's the daily read from the system itself, in plain language: how it saw the day, the setups it took — and the ones it stood down on and skipped entirely. The edge here isn't a hot tip or a number to chase — it's watching a rules-based system hold its discipline, especially on the days it does nothing. Those are the days you learn the most. No hype, no scoreboard. And the record you're watching is the same record the system studies between sessions to keep getting sharper — the transparency isn't just for you, it's how the engine improves.

Join the early-access list and you’re also first in line for Inside the PRISM System — the whole engine in plain language: how it makes its decisions, the black box turned glass. Free to the list the day it drops.

Early access is limited — on purpose.

A system that watches your trades has to be watched carefully as it scales, so we’re opening it in tight cohorts:

20
Beta testersHands on the system first, shaping it directly. When they’re full, they’re full.
100
Founding SentinelsFounding status, first access to promotional pricing, and a founding bonus at launch.

When the seats are gone, they’re gone — everyone else waits for the public opening.

Thanks — you’re on the list. Your Sentinel Edge is on its way, and your spot for Inside the PRISM System is reserved. Beta (20) and Founding (100) seats are limited, so we’ll be in touch by interest level — first come, first served.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is Sentinel AI?
Sentinel AI is the full intelligence of AI with the discipline of a system that decides the same way every time — and shows its work. At its core is PRISM (Pattern Recognition Intelligent Signal Management): six checkpoints — DAWN, SENTINEL, THESIS, SCOUT, VERDICT, GUARD — that weigh every trade in sequence. AI informs and explains every step; a rules-based engine makes the call, and Senti narrates each one in plain language. You set the limits and hold the kill switch — nothing runs that you didn't set.
How does the strategy make money in any market?
Our flagship strategy, 1DTE Senti SPX, works from a defined-risk structure — think of a line drawn in the sand that Sentinel AI manages against the risk profile you set. It's designed to profit whether the market goes up, down, or sideways, as long as price stays on your side of the line. You don't have to guess direction. Like all options strategies, it carries real risk of loss, and no outcome is guaranteed.
Do you take control of my money?
No. Your capital stays in your own brokerage account, in your name, at all times. Sentinel AI executes the rules you approve and can only apply the risk parameters you set. It never holds or moves your funds, only you can withdraw, and you can pause or stop at any moment.
Do I need trading experience or a big account?
No experience required, and it's built for the everyday investor — you can start with an account as small as $3,000. And because everything is visible, if you want to learn, you can — pair with a mentor or plug into our Academy and learn to read the system's own logs.
Why "a system, not a bot"?
A bot is an AI wired straight to your broker that makes its own calls and asks you to just trust it — when it acts, it's in control, not you. Sentinel AI flips that. The intelligence of AI informs and explains every step, but a rules-based engine (PRISM) makes the call the same way every time, across six visible checkpoints — and you see every decision, every skip, and the reason why. You set the limits, you hold the kill switch, and nothing runs that you didn't set. That's the difference between handing a bot the wheel and running a system you command.
Does Sentinel AI get better over time?
Yes — and here's the honest mechanic. Every decision the engine makes goes on the record: the trades it took, the ones it skipped, and the days it stood down entirely. Between sessions — never during a live trade — the AI intelligence layer studies that record, looking for where the rules could be sharper: a pattern the coded rules didn't catch, a blind spot to close. It proposes the improvement, and it's tested and proven before anything changes. So the discipline you run stays consistent — the same call, the same way, every time — while the engine behind it keeps getting smarter. It's the same record you watch in The Sentinel Edge, put to work.
When can I get access?
We're in pre-launch and opening in tight, limited cohorts — Beta Testers: 20 seats, and Founding Sentinels: the first 100. Beta testers get hands on it first; founders lock in founding status, first access to promotional pricing, and a founding bonus. When a cohort is full, it's full — everyone else waits for the public opening. Add your details above and choose your cohort to claim a seat while they last.