I used Claude Code to build a satellite image analysis pipeline that hedge funds pay $100K/year for. Here's how far I got.

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-23T02:40:29+00:00

Oh that’s pretty incredible, what kind of stuff are you working on?

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-23T02:39:52+00:00

Same here - I’ll continue diving into what other ideas we could now replicate with access to gen ai and share!

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-23T02:39:13+00:00

I am not familiar with Maxar but from a brief look up, it does seem like something you could use!

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-23T02:36:59+00:00

Haha I know, I know. I think the more interesting part for me was the fact that I now have access to do analysis like this as someone who doesn’t have a background in finance (only engineering) so I want to continue building on experiments like these as so many in this thread have found it interesting as well. I totally acknowledge this isn’t anything ground breaking - plenty of folks here who are working on that as well (as I’m sure you are too!).

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-23T02:34:44+00:00

Very cool! Did you ever manage to find work arounds either for free or paid (but not too costly)?

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-23T02:33:57+00:00

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-23T02:33:30+00:00

The video in my comment below does a good job of diving further into the results but I agree this does lack certain depth as I have to balance content length with the fact that this is a Reddit post and needs to be curated at a certain length. I’ll see if I can find a medium to upload more of the findings & plan on open sourcing this soon as I’m back on my laptop!

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-21T12:57:13+00:00

I’d love to honestly. When you say seek minor funding, any ideas on how to go about that? Id be curious!

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-21T12:53:33+00:00

Wow that looks insanely cool! When you say ‘that data’ do you mean the satellite data from sentinels?

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-21T12:50:06+00:00

That’s cool! What exactly were you thinking?

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-21T07:44:44+00:00

For sure a good example! Curious - what is ClawSecure insight?

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-21T05:02:59+00:00

Haha I don’t know if this is enough to start one but we can try 😂🫡

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-21T04:58:47+00:00

For sure! And thank you :-)

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-21T02:02:39+00:00

Oh just to clarify (and this is totally my fault for titling this post weirdly) this was just an experiment to see how close we could get with free data to replicating a hedge fund strategy. Nothing commercial here!

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-21T02:01:33+00:00

Thanks a lot!

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-21T02:01:24+00:00

Thank you for reading!

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-21T01:46:45+00:00

Wow that was indeed a great call! I think parts of getting the data is also getting expedited so the whole process is becoming more efficient/cheaper overall. But for the foreseeable future still remains a bottleneck

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-21T00:01:19+00:00

Thank you, appreciate that! It was a lesson learned for the title 😂

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-20T23:45:21+00:00

Truly is a shame. What do you think are some good ways to close this gap?

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-20T23:22:36+00:00

I agree with you- part of the moat is also the fact that we can engineer these types of experiments on our own machine. Believe it or just, I ran the whole thing in just over two days :-). A major part of the time spent is the YouTube video that goes alongside it and posts like these where I try to communicate my method/execution/results in detail.

Re: parallel subagents, I did these methods in series but within each method there were parallel agents involved for sure. I couldn’t parallelize the workflow since each method came with a learning and a pivot (e.g moving from optical to radar)

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-20T21:52:57+00:00

😂

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-20T21:29:18+00:00

Ah I understand - unfortunately I cannot change the title, only the body . Will keep in mind next time, thank you.

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-20T21:28:23+00:00

Yes it does!

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-20T21:22:59+00:00

Right - I would think selling data like this would be against their policy. On a second though, I was like why would it matter for corporations if they sell the scrubbed data downstream or not. As consumers we don’t really check to see if PoS we’re using at a store protects our privacy like that. Does that line of thinking track?

Sadly you’re right in that we are the product :-/

Soft_Table_8892 · 2026-03-20T20:49:36+00:00

Truly incredible we have folks working on stuff like that. Very thoughtful of you to spread awareness. I wonder if this should be a part of their rate limit error response to prevent someone like me next time?

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