Belief
Personal finance software should show its work.
Retail users are often asked to trust screenshots, closed backtests, opaque rankings, and platform claims. We want the research trail to be visible enough to inspect.
Company
Research-grade fintech, open to everyone.
PineForge is building consumer fintech for people who want to test, verify, and understand market systems for themselves. PineForge the product is one proof point. 4pass is another. The company direction is broader: open, transparent, researchable finance for individual users.
Finance is full of claims people cannot inspect.
Direction
Research first, automation second, advice never.
Our products help users run tests, compare evidence, and carry their own workflows into execution. We do not rank strategies, custody funds, or tell users what to buy.
Now
PineForge
A public proof layer for strategy research: reproducible backtests, validated corpora, hosted MCP, local Docker, and strategy-pool optimization work in progress.
Live
4pass
A production automated-trading platform that connects TradingView-style alerts to broker execution through isolated worker infrastructure.
Next
Studio
The user workspace that ties research, billing, data, compute, optimization, and eventually paper/live workflows into one account-owned credit pool.
Founder
Founder-led, research-driven.
PineForge is currently a one-person company led by Hao-Liang Wen. The work sits at the intersection of scientific computing, AI systems, trading infrastructure, and consumer-grade product design.
Research depth
8 SCI publications, 2 patents, and years of HPC and scientific-computing work.
Production AI
Prior professional work building RAG, agent, and multi-tenant AI systems used by enterprise teams.
Fintech shipping
Built PineForge public artifacts and the 4pass production execution stack with an AI-augmented solo workflow.
Academic foundation
National Taiwan University, Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering.
2 lines
PineForge research infrastructure and 4pass live execution
251/252
public strategy-research parity proof on the PineForge corpus
390k+
validated trades across reference research artifacts
US + TW
formal company presence in Delaware and Taipei
Company details
Operating through US and Taiwan entities.
United States
PineForge, LLC
Delaware limited liability company. EIN and tax documents are shared privately when required for vendor, cloud, or program review.
Taiwan
全都盈資訊股份有限公司
Unified Business No. 90699098. Registered office: 台北市基隆路一段8號13樓.
The goal is simple: make personal fintech inspectable.
We are building toward a financial workflow where individuals can research, verify, automate, and reflect with tools that are open where trust matters and careful where regulation matters.