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Dom Caldwell

Dom Caldwell, black-and-white portrait in a quarter-zip sweater

Trader, builder, and a man figuring it out in public. Raw notes on markets, business, AI, and the inner game.

Show up. Tell the truth. Ship the thing. Let the work outlive the algorithm.

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Who & why

I trade futures, I build software, and I make content about both — plus the parts in between that nobody posts about: faith, discipline, money getting tight, starting over.

For years my pattern was the same: a new idea every day, overplanned, overbuilt, never shipped. This site is the opposite of that. It is a ledger. What I am building, what is live, what I paused, and what I killed — with the reasons.

If you are a few steps behind me on the same road, this is for you. If you are ahead, tell me what I am missing.

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The Ledger

What I'm building, what's live, what I paused, what I killed. Updated by hand.

No. Entry Status Why Working toward
001 SovereignEdge Live Discipline beats strategy. A trading OS that enforces the rules I kept breaking. Working towardFirst traders using it every session
002 Caldwell Content Studio Building Saving ideas everywhere and shipping nothing. One private tool for capture, plan, and post. Working towardOne long-form video and one article a week
003 domcaldwell.com Building One honest place for the work, the reasons, and the record. Working towardLive, fast, unmistakably me
004 Website agency Live Websites for local businesses, process documented in public. Working towardRepeatable, documented delivery
005 Cutroom Paused Local AI clipping to replace a monthly subscription. Folding into the Studio. Working towardClips from every long-form video
006 Content Ops Engine Killed Too much system, not enough shipping. Wound down to focus. Working toward—
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The Work

  1. (01) SovereignEdge Trading app · 2026

    A discipline-first operating system for funded futures traders. Morning gate, rules, review.

    sovereignedge.app
  2. (02) Caldwell Content Studio Private tool · 2026

    Local-first workspace: capture everything, plan the week on Sunday, write and record, post.

  3. (03) Website agency Client work · 2026

    Fast websites for small businesses. The process is documented in the open.

    dominiccaldwell.com
  4. (04) Cutroom Side project · 2026

    Local AI that finds the clips worth cutting in a long-form video.

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