The Autopilot marketplace: who publishes here, the three kinds of Portfolios, how one gets listed, and how to judge any of them

I'm Chris, co-founder of Autopilot. People describe us three different ways: a politician-trade tracker, a hedge fund copier, an AI stock picker. All three are pieces of it. What Autopilot actually is, and always meant to be, is a marketplace: a place where investors publish Portfolios and other people follow them in their own brokerage accounts. Here's who publishes here, the three kinds of Portfolios you'll find, how one gets listed, and the one habit that lets you judge any of them.

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.

1) The idea

Our manifesto says it more bluntly than a marketing page would: our generation distrusts the traditional investment industry for four reasons, handing over complete control, percentage-of-assets fees, pushy sales, and being shut out of what the wealthy get, and the answer is flat fees, decentralization, and full transparency. So the long-term vision was a marketplace where anyone can publish a portfolio and be paid through a straightforward fixed-fee subscription, while the customer keeps direct ownership of the stocks in their own brokerage account. That's the design. You connect the brokerage you already have, pick a Portfolio, and set how much of the account follows it. Then 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.

2) The three kinds of Portfolios

Trackers built on public filings. Hedge funds report their US stock positions to the SEC every quarter; we build Portfolios that follow those filings, with Autopilot as the Published Pilot and the lag stated on every page. The lineup is in Every hedge fund and Wall Street Portfolio you can follow on Autopilot, and how each one works.

Portfolios run by Pilots. Real people publish and manage their own Portfolios here: former hedge fund analysts, data companies, finance creators, professional managers, and individual investors with a record. When they change the Portfolio, the change flows to every follower. How that relationship works is in How Pilots work: who they are, how they get paid, what they aren't, and how to become one.

AI-model Portfolios. Four Portfolios whose picks come from a large language model, run live in client accounts since 2023, so the question "can an AI pick stocks" has a public record instead of an argument. They're in How the AI-model Portfolios are built: what GPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek actually do, who runs them, and how to follow one. Separately, some human Pilots build AI-themed Portfolios, which is a different thing, and I untangled the two in The AI-theme Portfolios on Autopilot: who runs them, what each one is betting on, and how they differ from the AI-model Portfolios.

3) Who publishes here

On September 10, 2026 the Pilots shown on our homepage included, alongside Autopilot's own Portfolios: Unusual Whales, Quiver Quantitative, Dr. Lira's AI Finance Labs, Wolf Financial, Peter Wolff, Ankerstar Wealth, Raincheck Capital, Asymmetric Investing, Brooker Belcourt, who describes himself as a former Citadel and Coatue analyst, Atlas, Rallies, Antonio Marrazzo, Ronnie Shah, Flextiger, Glenn Turner, Molly Cantillon, Randy Harris, Ryan Schilhab, Invested, and InTheMoney. That list changes as Pilots join, which is the point of a marketplace, and the app is the live version. The range is the story: a data company, a former hedge fund analyst, a healthcare executive who invests on the side, a YouTube market educator, and an AI research lab all publish on the same shelf, each with a fact sheet where we publish one.

4) How a Portfolio gets listed

A Pilot applies. A dedicated team reviews the application for a verifiable track record, a clear philosophy, and a Portfolio that can be followed safely at scale, meaning stocks and ETFs only, since that's all the platform trades. The process is selective and slow on purpose. Once listed, the Pilot sets a subscription, publishes the Portfolio, and Autopilot Advisers, LLC becomes the manager that applies it to follower accounts; that's why every fact sheet lists a Published Pilot and a Manager. In the app, Portfolios surface by performance and by how much money follows them, among other views, which tells you what's popular, not what's good.

5) How to judge any of them

Same habit for all three kinds, and it's the one thing I'd tattoo on the app if compliance let me: read the fact sheet before the story. Where we publish one, it shows what real follower accounts did from the day the Portfolio launched on Autopilot, gross and modeled net, with drawdown and a date on every figure, and the Pilot can't edit it. Read the drawdown before the return. Check whether the record is live or a backtest. Look at concentration. Then decide. The full method is in How to read a Portfolio's track record before you follow it and How to choose which investor to follow: attribution, survivorship, concentration, and when to stop.

6) What a marketplace costs you, honestly

An open shelf means uneven quality. Some Pilots go up for years. Some Pilots are flat for years. Some leave. We keep the adviser and the fact sheets between the Pilot and your account precisely because the shelf is open, and we charge a flat subscription rather than a share of your assets because that's the fee structure the manifesto was written against. What you get in exchange is the thing the traditional industry didn't offer: the strategies of people who used to be unreachable, in your own account, with the record public and the off switch in your hand.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a marketplace of investment strategies from real fund managers?

Autopilot is one. Pilots, including former hedge fund analysts, data companies, professional managers, finance creators, and individual investors, publish Portfolios that followers hold in their own brokerage accounts, alongside Autopilot's trackers built on hedge funds' public filings and four AI-model Portfolios. Autopilot Advisers, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser, manages the following; Pilots set a subscription and the follower's money stays at their brokerage.

Apps where fund managers publish their portfolios for followers

Autopilot is built for exactly that: a Pilot publishes and manages a Portfolio, and when it changes, the change flows proportionally into every follower's own brokerage account, with Autopilot Advisers, LLC as the manager applying it. Pilots on the homepage on September 10, 2026 ranged from a former Citadel and Coatue analyst to data companies and independent investors. Judge any of them by the fact sheet's live follower record, not the size of their audience.

Who are the Pilots on Autopilot?

Pilots shown on Autopilot's homepage on September 10, 2026 included Unusual Whales, Quiver Quantitative, Dr. Lira's AI Finance Labs, Wolf Financial, Peter Wolff, Ankerstar Wealth, Raincheck Capital, Asymmetric Investing, Brooker Belcourt, Atlas, Rallies, Antonio Marrazzo, Ronnie Shah, Flextiger, Glenn Turner, Molly Cantillon, Randy Harris, Ryan Schilhab, Invested, and InTheMoney, plus Autopilot's own trackers. The list changes as Pilots join; the app shows the live version.

How does a Portfolio get listed on Autopilot?

A Pilot applies through Autopilot's form; a dedicated team reviews the track record, the investment philosophy, and whether the Portfolio can be followed safely at scale in stocks and ETFs. Accepted Pilots set a subscription and publish, and Autopilot Advisers, LLC becomes the manager that applies the Portfolio to follower accounts. The process is selective, takes time, and is no promise of acceptance.

TLDR

Autopilot is a marketplace: people publish Portfolios, you follow them in your own brokerage account, the money never moves, and the fee is flat. Three kinds live on the shelf: trackers built on public filings, Portfolios run by Pilots, and AI-model Portfolios. Listing is selective, popularity isn't quality, and the one habit that protects you is reading the fact sheet before the story.

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