Intro
Both sides get to check. Here are both lists.
I'm Chris, one of the co-founders of Autopilot. Our manifesto starts with the word trust. In practice that means one thing: people can check instead of being told. That goes for you as a Pilot, and it goes for us. Here's both lists.
One thing first, because we're an SEC-registered investment adviser and I have to say it. Autopilot is the app. The actual investment advice comes from Autopilot Advisers, LLC. If you want the full legal version of anything in here, it's on our legal page.
By the numbers
Our difference
What followers can check about you, and what you can check about us
1) What followers can check about you
The record. Every Portfolio's record in the app is computed by us from what actual follower accounts did, net of the applicable fees, next to the Portfolio's holdings. You didn't compute it and you can't edit it. That's the point. Your followers get a number with your name on it that you had no hand in producing.
The boundaries. The record measures what follower accounts did on Autopilot. Not a backtest. Not your personal account. Not a vendor's history of a strategy that sounds like yours. If you've run the strategy for a decade somewhere else, that history is yours to talk about, but it isn't the record.
The words. Your description and your bio show up in the app exactly as you wrote them, as marketplace text, not a recommendation. Which means your words sit next to your record, in public, for as long as the Portfolio exists. Write them like that.
2) What you should check about us
The adviser. Autopilot Advisers, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser, CRD 331749. Don't take that from this page. Search it on adviserinfo.sec.gov and read the Form ADV and the Form CRS. The relationship summary lays out the services, the fees, the conflicts, and any disciplinary history in the same format every registered adviser has to use.
Where the money is. Followers keep their own brokerage accounts. Autopilot Advisers has limited authority to send orders to those accounts, up to each follower's allocation, and can't withdraw funds. We don't hold client assets. Their brokers keep custody.
Our conflicts, in our own words. Some Portfolios are run by Autopilot Advisers itself, and we keep the whole platform fee on those, while your Portfolio's subscription is shared with you. So we could have an incentive to favor our own Portfolios over yours in how things are presented.
Our disclosures say so in plain words. We also get referral compensation from a brokerage partner, disclosed in our footer and Form CRS.
If a platform asked you to publish on it and didn't tell you where its incentives cut against you, that would be the thing to worry about.
3) The bargain
You accept a record you can't edit, next to words you can't take back, in exchange for followers who can see both and decide with their eyes open.
We accept publishing our own conflicts and our own Portfolios' records on the same terms as yours.
Neither of us gets believed on reputation. Reputation is how the old industry worked, and our manifesto is about why people stopped believing it.
Quote
A number you can point strangers to, that we computed and you didn't.
Conclusion
What to do before you apply
Look up CRD 331749 and read Form CRS. Open three Portfolios in the app, one of ours and two from third-party Pilots, and notice their records are presented the same way. Then read your own draft description and ask whether you'd be comfortable with it printed next to your worst month.
If yes, apply. How the application and launch work is in From application to launch day: the review, the onboarding, the Pilot Portal, and the record that starts at zero. How to build a Portfolio that survives contact with real follower accounts is in How to build a Portfolio people can actually follow: the mechanics that turn your strategy into follower accounts.
TLDR: Your followers can check your record, your boundaries, and your words, none of which you can edit after the fact. You can check our registration, where the money sits, and our conflicts, all of which are public. Do the second before you ask anyone to do the first.
FAQ
What does Autopilot disclose about its own conflicts of interest?
That it keeps the whole platform fee on Portfolios run by Autopilot Advisers itself while sharing third-party Pilots' subscriptions with them, which could be an incentive to favor its own Portfolios. That it receives referral compensation from a brokerage partner when referred clients open and fund accounts. And the other conflicts listed in its Form CRS. These appear in our disclosures, in the footer, and in Form CRS.
How do I verify Autopilot is a registered investment adviser before becoming a Pilot?
Search Autopilot Advisers, LLC, CRD 331749, on the SEC's Investment Adviser Public Disclosure site at adviserinfo.sec.gov and read its Form ADV and Form CRS, which cover services, fees, conflicts, and disciplinary history in the standard format. Registration doesn't imply a level of skill and isn't an endorsement. It means the firm files disclosures and answers to the rules.
Can Pilots edit their performance on Autopilot?
No. Pilots write their Portfolio description and bio, which show up in the app as marketplace text, and they decide what the Portfolio holds. The performance record is computed by Autopilot from follower accounts and can't be edited by the Pilot.
How do followers know a Pilot's track record is real?
Because the record in the app isn't the Pilot's. It's computed by Autopilot from what actual follower accounts did, net of the applicable fees. It excludes backtests, the Pilot's personal account, and any history from before the Portfolio was on Autopilot. The Pilot writes the description and bio; the Pilot can't touch the record.
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Disclosures
Since Autopilot Advisers is an SEC-registered investment adviser, we have to put disclaimers on stuff like this. They're below, and the full version is on our legal page.
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