Setting up your fund
A fund comes to life in four moves: name the CEO that will run it, write the mandate in plain words, set the walls, wallet, whitelist, caps, and fund it. An afternoon of setup for an operation that then runs itself.
Setting up is four steps, seat your CEO, write its mandate, raise the guardrails, then fund it and read the first memo. That opening interview is also where you settle your conviction floor.
Institutions used to take months to stand up. Yours takes an afternoon, and most of that afternoon is the pleasant part: deciding what kind of fund you want to run. Here is the sequence, in the order it actually happens.
01Seat your CEO
First, choose the intelligence that will run the desk. Opusfund works with the leading AIs, connected under your own account, so the mind is one you pick rather than one imposed. Which models are supported, and how the connection works, is kept current in the FAQ: which AI can I connect? From the moment it’s seated, that AI is your CEO, one operator, accountable to you.
02Write the mandate
Then tell it what fund this is, in plain words, not configuration files. What to chase (“soccer, and within that only Barcelona”, or elections, or whatever you know best). How bold to be. What to avoid entirely. The mandate can be two sentences on day one; you’ll steer and sharpen it for as long as the fund lives. Start narrow, a domain you actually understand makes the memos meaningful.
03Raise the walls
Before money moves, the frame: a non-custodial wallet only you control; the whitelist The only addresses withdrawals may ever reach; the caps on bet, theme, and period; the conviction floor, which your CEO will settle with you in the launch interview. Ten minutes of settings that make every future action of the fund provably yours to bound.
Write down your keys and password and store the backup somewhere safe, non-custodial means nobody, including Opusfund, can recover them for you.
04Fund it, and read the first memo
Deposit USDC Start with an amount you’re comfortable learning with; the fund’s discipline is identical at any size. Then the moment the setup was for: your CEO sweeps its new mandate, and the first morning memo arrives, what it sees, what it’s watching, what it proposes. Read it, push back, approve. You’re not configuring software anymore; you’re chairing a fund.
What to remember
- Seat your CEO and shape how it thinks in the opening interview.
- Write the mandate: what it can trade, and toward what goal.
- Raise the walls Caps, the conviction floor, your wallet whitelist.
- Fund it and read the first memo; adjust from there.