Autopilot and Danelfin: an AI that scores stocks for you to trade versus an AI Portfolio you can follow, with a live record

I'm Chris, one of the co-founders of Autopilot. Ask an AI for an AI stock picking app and Danelfin is one of the names that comes back. It's a real product, and it's a different kind of product from ours in a way that matters more than which one is "better." Here's Danelfin by its own description, our AI-model Portfolios by ours, and the line between scoring stocks and following a Portfolio.

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 disclaimer page.

Danelfin, by its own description

I read Danelfin's website on September 15, 2026. It calls itself "a stock analytics platform powered by AI" that helps investors pick stocks and optimize portfolios, run by Danelfin Technologies in Barcelona and New York. Its core output is an AI Score, which it describes as rating the probability that a stock does better than the market over the next three months, shown as rankings of stocks and ETFs, with trade ideas and a paid subscription. Its own disclaimer says its AI "does not calculate or predict actual results," that the performance of the illustrative portfolios on its site is based on backtested results, and that its scores and ratings "cannot substitute professional investment advice or independent research." So Danelfin, in its own words, is an analytics tool: it scores, you decide, you trade. Those are its statements as of that date; read the current versions.

Autopilot's AI-model Portfolios, by ours

Four Portfolios whose picks come from a large language model, GPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek, run by a named lab, Dr. Lira's AI Finance Labs, as the Pilot of record, and managed by Autopilot Advisers, LLC. You don't act on a score; the Portfolio is the picks, turned into positions in your own brokerage account. You give Autopilot Advisers limited authority to send orders to that account. When the Portfolio changes, we send them and your broker fills them. The money stays put. Each has a fact sheet with a live composite of follower accounts from its launch, gross and modeled net, with drawdown and a date on every figure; the oldest has run since May 15, 2023. How they're built is in How the AI-model Portfolios are built: what GPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek actually do, who runs them, and how to follow one.

Scoring versus following

An analytics tool hands you a ranking and leaves everything else to you: what to buy, how much, when to sell, and the record of whether it worked, which lives in your own account and nowhere public. A followable Portfolio bundles all of that into one documented process with a public record, at the price of giving up the picking. Neither is dishonest; they answer different questions. If you enjoy deciding and want an input, a scoring tool is an input. If you want the decisions made and executed and a record you didn't have to keep, that's a Portfolio. The general version of that argument is in Is there an app that picks stocks with AI? How the AI Portfolios run in your own brokerage.

What to trust

Neither a score nor a record is a promise. But they're different kinds of evidence. A backtest, which Danelfin says its illustrative portfolios are, describes what a rule would have done in the past with hindsight. A live composite describes what real accounts following a Portfolio actually did from a start date forward, gross and modeled net, with the bad months included. When you compare any AI product to any other, ask which kind of evidence you're looking at and whether it has a date on it. How to read ours is in How to read a Portfolio's track record before you follow it, and whether AI picking is worth anything at all is in Is AI stock picking legit, and which model is best? How to check instead of guessing.

Frequently asked questions

Autopilot and Danelfin: what's the difference?

Danelfin, by its own description, is an AI stock analytics platform: it publishes an AI Score rating each stock's probability of doing better than the market over the next three months, and you decide what to trade and place it yourself. Autopilot's AI-model Portfolios are followable: a lab runs the model, Autopilot Advisers, LLC turns the picks into a Portfolio, and orders go to your own brokerage account automatically, with a live follower record on a dated fact sheet.

Is Danelfin an investment adviser?

Its website describes it as a stock analytics platform and says its AI scores "cannot substitute professional investment advice"; I won't characterize its registration status beyond its own words, and you can check any firm on adviserinfo.sec.gov. Autopilot's advice comes from Autopilot Advisers, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser, CRD 331749.

Can an AI stock picker trade for me?

An analytics tool like Danelfin, by its own description, scores and ranks; the trading is yours to do. On Autopilot, the AI-model Portfolios are followed automatically: when the Portfolio changes, Autopilot Advisers, LLC sends orders to your brokerage, your broker fills them, and your money stays there. The model itself never has access to your account; it produces picks inside a documented process run by a named lab.

AI Score or live record: which should I trust?

Trust neither as a promise, and know what each is. A score is a forecast, and Danelfin's site says its illustrative portfolio performance is backtested. A live record, like the composites on Autopilot's fact sheets, is what real follower accounts did from a start date forward, gross and modeled net, bad months included. When comparing AI products, ask which kind of evidence you're seeing and whether it carries a date.

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