About
Poly is built by one person shipping an entire workspace — research, documents, psyche, studio and trading.
Thermodynamic Retard
Founder & Engineering
Builds the platform Poly runs on and the apps above it.
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Ship the product
The frontend is the floor, not the ceiling — every surface on this site leads to software that actually runs: research, documents, psyche, studio, trading.
Show the numbers
Platform totals are real aggregates, refreshed every few minutes. A total appears only once it clears a display floor; otherwise the page links to the docs and the arcade. No figure is invented.
Your data, your controls
You can export or delete your psyche data. Journal text is encrypted in your browser before it syncs to our servers, with a key derived from a secret our servers hold for your account, so the synced copies are unreadable without that secret, but not to Poly itself. AI features read it as plain text: the weekly reflection on Psyche's home sends the week's journal entries and check-ins automatically when the home opens, and a reflection you save on a reading or an entry you ask to analyse is sent when you do — each through our servers to our model provider (not in incognito). Mood ratings sync as plain values.
Security
API keys
Poly API keys are stored only as a hash, so a database copy does not contain a usable key.
Sanitized input
Rich text is sanitized with an allowlist; request bodies are schema-validated on our API routes, and we're closing the remaining gaps.
Usage limits
Most AI routes are rate-limited. Trading agents have risk limits you set.