The Pirate Wires Flagship Fund on Autopilot: what it is and how to follow it

I'm Chris, one of the co-founders of Autopilot. A media company publishing a Portfolio built on its own editorial worldview is an unusual thing, and it's worth being clear-eyed about what that means for you.

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.

Who they are

Pirate Wires is a media company. It publishes the Pirate Wires Flagship Fund on Autopilot as an independent Pilot.

The Portfolios, and what each one says it does

The Portfolio's stated method is qualitative screening for companies that, in the Pilot's words, are in the business of making America more exceptional. Its description is written as a manifesto about ambitious American industry rather than as a quantitative screen, and it says so.

That means the selection criterion is a judgment about what kind of company deserves capital, applied by people with a stated point of view. There's no factor model underneath it and the description doesn't claim there is.

What to check before you follow

A qualitative thesis is harder to evaluate than a rules-based one, because there's no rule to check it against. What you're actually evaluating is whether you trust the judgment and whether the worldview happens to line up with companies that do well.

Those are different questions, and a strategy can be right about the second while being wrong about the first, or the reverse.

Read the Portfolio's own description in the app, because that's the Pilot's statement of method. Look at the worst decline rather than the return, because that's the number that decides whether you hold on. Check how often it changes, since turnover costs money and creates taxable events in a taxable account. And check the fee at your balance, which is arithmetic in What Autopilot's fee actually means at your balance.

How following works

You pick the Portfolio, connect the brokerage you already use, and allocate money. You give Autopilot Advisers limited authority to send orders to the account you already have. When the Portfolio changes, we send them and your broker fills them. The money stays put.

What it costs

A flat cash subscription, not a percentage of your balance. Per our Form CRS dated February 2026, Basic Tier has no Base Advisory and Licensing Fee, and Premium Tier is $29.99 to $199.99 a quarter or $99.99 to $699.99 a year. Pilot subscriptions are separate and add on if you follow more than one Portfolio. Because it's a flat dollar amount, it's a bigger share of a small account than a big one, so do the math at your balance.

Frequently asked questions

Pirate Wires portfolio

The Pirate Wires Flagship Fund is published on Autopilot by the media company as an independent Pilot, with a stated method of qualitative screening for companies building ambitious American industry.

Pirate Wires Flagship Fund

A qualitative, editorially driven Portfolio rather than a rules-based screen, which the description states plainly. Read it in the app before you follow it.

How can I follow the Pirate Wires portfolio in my own brokerage?

Pick it, connect your brokerage, allocate money. When the Portfolio changes we send the orders and your broker fills them.

Pirate Wires Autopilot

It runs inside the brokerage account you already have. Pirate Wires publishes it as an independent Pilot and Autopilot Advisers manages it.

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Disclosures

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