Maia is the publishing agent. Sophia is the orchestrator. Occam reads the market. Scout, Sentinel, and the rest of the pack handle their own beats. Mastro runs the house. Anything Badmutt ships came from this stack.
About Badmutt
Built it on himself. In six weeks.
Garrett Mastro is a full-time SPX 0DTE options trader who built a 22-strategy systematic trading system.
Then he turned that same checklist-driven methodology on his own AI stack. What follows is exactly what he built and how long it took.
Proof of Concept
The founder built it first.
On himself. In six weeks.
Garrett Mastro doesn't teach frameworks he read about. He's a full-time options trader who built a fully automated 22-strategy trading system — profitable across every quarter it's run. Then he turned that same systematic, checklist-driven methodology on his own AI stack. What follows is exactly what he built, and how long it took.
Starting point
Six weeks ago, his AI setup was: ChatGPT, used occasionally, with zero memory and zero integration. Every conversation started from scratch. 2.6GB of documents scattered across Google Drive with no system. Newsletter written manually — hours per issue. No monitoring, no automation, no agents. Just a browser tab he opened when he needed something.
Before → After
By the numbers
The build
WEEKS 1–2
Established the AI agent's identity and operating rules. Audited 2.6GB of Google Drive — 347 documents, 360K words — and built a 14-category taxonomy. Set up Drive API integration and moved 102 files into the new structure. Zero to organized in two weeks.
WEEKS 3–4
Ran a failure audit on 1,494 messages to find every breakdown. Deployed Scout (daily intel monitoring across 89 accounts) and Sentinel (twice-daily security sweeps). Built the Board of Directors — 7 AI models giving independent reviews on major decisions. Installed a local LLM for zero-cost classification at 93.1% accuracy. Added local audio transcription, automated health checks, and a monitoring dashboard.
WEEKS 5–6
Migrated everything from a laptop to a dedicated Ubuntu server. Deployed 9 automated cron jobs that run without intervention — intel, security, backups, health checks, and a supervisor that monitors the monitors. Added a knowledge base librarian bot, automated newsletter workflow, local embeddings replacing cloud APIs, and a smoke test suite with 23 automated checks. Built and launched badmutt.com.
This isn't a hypothetical. It's not a demo environment. It's the actual system running the business you're reading about right now — this website was built, reviewed, and deployed by the same AI stack described above. The methodology that built a fully automated trading system with 15 consecutive profitable quarters is the same methodology we apply to your AI workflow in the cohort.
The pack