Ulysses
ULYSSES
Behavioral Finance · Coming Soon

The investment platform that enforces the promises you make to yourself.

A Ulysses contract is a commitment device — a choice you make now to bind your future self. Named for Odysseus, who had himself tied to the mast to resist the Sirens.

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How It Works

One product.
Real enforcement.

The portfolio is settled — a single, globally-diversified index fund (MSCI ACWI, accumulating). No menu, no tinkering. The only decisions left are behavioral.

01

The Witness

A trusted person gets notified the moment you attempt an early withdrawal — your partner, your best friend, or yes, your mom. You picked them yourself, before you needed the accountability.

Normal
We text your mom.
Premium
We literally call your mother.
02

72-Hour Queue

No withdrawal executes immediately. You get a confirmation email 72 hours later asking if you still want out. Most panic decisions evaporate by then.

03

Fee Ladder

You set your own early-exit fee at signup — as high as you need it to actually hurt. From there it only goes down: it shrinks over time based on what you chose, until it disappears completely. The harder you start, the more you've bet on staying the course.

Example — if you set your fee at 10%
10%
Year 1
6%
Year 2
2%
Year 3
Free
Year 4+
The Problem

You don't lose money on bad investments.

You lose it in two much simpler ways.

Picking stocks instead of the market

Most people who underperform aren't unlucky — they trade. Chasing individual names or trying to time the next winner is exactly how you end up worse off than just holding the market. A globally-diversified index fund already captures the market's return. The only way to do worse is to deviate from it.

Spending it instead of staying invested

Money set aside for the long term gets pulled out for a holiday, a car, a night out — not because the plan failed, but because the cash was sitting there and easy to reach. Every early withdrawal is a decision made in a moment that has nothing to do with the goal it was meant for.

Odysseus couldn't trust his future self, so he removed the choice in advance. Ulysses is the mast.

Our goal isn't higher returns. It's helping people actually earn the returns that were already there for them. The greatest risk to an investor isn't the market — it's themselves.

He bound himself to the mast to resist the Sirens.

Bind yourself to the mast.

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