AlphaForge is the workshop where ambitious people turn raw analytical talent into market-ready edge, by intertwining deep finance with the AI tools that are rewriting the desk.
Finance is applied stoicism
Focus on what you control: the process, the craft, the assumption you can defend.
Finance is human
A contract is trust between people who agree to depend on each other across time.
We did not build AlphaForge because finance needed another course. We built it because the next generation of finance talent is standing at a fork that nobody prepared them for, and the people selling them maps are mostly selling fear. The junior analyst job is being rewritten in real time. Up to roughly 73 percent of foundational analyst hours can now be automated, and the instinct that follows is panic. We refuse that instinct. We treat this moment the way a blacksmith treats a hot bar of steel: as the exact condition under which something better gets made.
This is our credo, stated plainly. We believe the next wave of finance talent will not wait for an edge. They will forge it. We turn analytical curiosity into deployed, AI-powered skill that moves real deals.
A blacksmith needs more than talent. They need the right tool for each job, and the patience to make it. In AlphaForge that tool is a Skill: a set of prompts and files you craft once for a single task, like a DCF or an LBO, and reach for every time that task returns. The more you use it, the more directing the AI becomes second nature. AlphaForge was built to prepare students for investment-banking M&A. Then Claude arrived in Excel and changed what that job asks for, and it will keep changing. So we do not hand you one fixed set of models. We teach you to forge and re-forge your own tools as the work evolves.
"There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power." That line from Epictetus is not decoration on our wall, it is the operating system of how we teach. We focus on what you control: the process, the craft, the model in front of you, the assumption you can defend. The market, the macro cycle, the hiring committee's mood on a given Tuesday, those sit beyond your power. Knowledge frees the mind from external factors. It makes you resilient and independent, and it lets you realize your vision even when you are short on funding.
A contract is not only money. It is trust and connection between people who have agreed to depend on each other across time and settlement dates. We teach the numbers and we teach the relationships, because real deals are made of both, and an analyst who only sees the spreadsheet will always be supervised, never trusted. Finance lives in your living room. It is in daily transactions, in plans you make, in the time value of the choices you have not made yet.
Our values are not a poster. Multiplier: we measure ourselves by how much students grow, not by how long they stay subscribed. Collaborative: we support each other, because a deal floor is a team sport and so is learning. Care: we care about people and finance, in that order, and we will not pretend otherwise.
We build, we do not broadcast. The proud blacksmith does not sell you a video and wave goodbye. They hand you a hammer and stand at the forge with you while you ruin your first three attempts. We are not a lecture hall with a checkout button. We are a workshop, and the heat is the point.
Fundamentals first, AI on top. AI is a force-multiplier on real understanding, never a shortcut that skips the learning. The structural danger of this era is competency collapse: juniors who lean on AI before they have mastered the underlying mechanics, who therefore cannot catch the model when it lies to them with total confidence. You learn to build the LBO by hand before you ever let an agent scaffold one, so that when it hands you a clean and confident and subtly wrong answer, you are the person in the room who notices.
Value lands continuously. We will not hoard the payoff for the final lesson. You learn something usable every week. It is completely fine if a student gets their value in two months and moves on, because the value was real and it was theirs.
We document the real answers. No streaks-as-competence theatre. We record what you actually answered and we surface your weaknesses early, by rubric, so you can aim your time at the concept you have not grasped rather than the ones you already own. Honest feedback is a form of care.
Pro-leverage, anti-shortcut. AI does the grunt work and you keep the judgment. The best frontier model scored only about 64 percent on a finance-agent benchmark, and it still underperforms a sharp junior analyst on quality and judgment. That gap is the human's job. We forge the human who closes it.
Forge your finance edge. Where alpha gets built.
Initiator
Orchestration and management of the platform. Lecturer at the finance department of Maastricht University, founder of EntailCapital and BBMc. Brings the framing, the LLM knowledge, and the realisation of a smart platform.
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