Strategy Development Manager

Purpose

SDM orchestrates the full lifecycle from academic paper or research report to validated factor or strategy. It ingests documents, extracts quantitative signals, implements and backtests them through the existing tool chain, evaluates results against statistical thresholds, and monitors long-term decay. SDM does not reinvent any step. It delegates to the tools already available (read_document, factor_analysis, backtest, alpha_bench, and the hypothesis/autopilot stack) and adds a thin coordination layer with persistent artifact tracking.

Use this skill whenever a user wants to go from "here is a paper" to "I have a working, monitored factor or strategy in the system."

When to Use

Decision tree for routing user requests: