Turn your brokerage into an AI-native strategy platform

What is the commercial problem?

Client engagement that stops at order placement. A brokerage app that only lets someone buy and sell gives a client no reason to return between trades, and no reason to prefer one broker over another on anything but price.

Building the alternative internally is a serious programme: a strategy builder, an instrument service, a backtesting engine with honest cost modelling, a validation layer, an approval workflow, a monitoring plane and an audit trail. Each is a quarter of engineering on its own, and none of them is the thing that differentiates a brokerage.

What is the market context?

Access has broadened while participation in derivatives has narrowed. CDSL investor accounts grew from 10 crore in November 2023 to 18.59 crore by June 2026, while the number of unique active individual equity-derivatives traders declined about 18% year on year in FY26.

SEBI's Press Release 50/2026 of 20 August 2026 reported that 87.7% of individual equity-derivatives traders incurred losses in FY26. That is regulatory context and not a Stretus performance figure, and the conclusion worth drawing from it is about process rather than about opportunity: leverage, expiry, liquidity and contract-selection risk require a more disciplined operating model than most retail journeys currently provide.

A broker offering that discipline, explicit rules, measurable evidence, visible drawdown, governed activation, is offering something the numbers say the market needs.

What exactly do you keep?

Brand, client relationship, identity, consent, entitlements and client journeys on one side. Account and segment permissions, pre-trade risk, eligible order routing, exchange-algo identifiers and approvals, and post-trade records on the other. Stretus occupies only the strategy lifecycle between them.

Under SEBI's circular of 4 February 2025, extended by circular SEBI/HO/MIRSD/MIRSD-PoD/P/CIR/2025/132 of 30 September 2025 and applicable to all stockbrokers from 1 April 2026, an algo provider is empanelled by the broker and treated as the broker's agent. NSE circular NSE/INVG/67858 of 5 May 2025 states that brokers are fully responsible and liable for all orders emanating through their IBT, STWT, Client API and Vendor API systems.

So the ownership model is not a commercial preference. It is the shape the framework requires, and a vendor architecture that blurred it would be a liability the framework places on you.

Where the commercial value sits

How does a rollout actually run?

Progressively. Start with defined users and capabilities, validate the evidence, then widen scope. Each deployment establishes its own topology, capacity targets, security boundaries, observability, rollout phases and operating ownership during technical discovery.

The alternative, committing to a full rollout before anything is proven, is how these programmes acquire the reputation they have. Broker and exchange procedures remain authoritative for each production rollout, which means the sequencing is partly determined by your own approvals rather than by a vendor timeline.

What the control plane gives your teams

Module availability depends on tenant configuration, plan entitlements, connector readiness and deployment policy.

What does the integration ask of you?

Client and account mapping, scoped API credentials, an approved endpoint set, and, where required, whitelisted static IPs. Then a scoping conversation about topology, capacity, security boundaries, observability and who operates what.

The static IP requirement carries the constraint most programmes discover late. Under NSE circular NSE/INVG/67858 of 5 May 2025, a client's mapped addresses may be updated at most once per calendar week, with secondary addresses permitted for redundancy. Registration and failover therefore have to be designed together, not sequentially.

If you do not expose a client-facing API today, the honest framing is that this is a larger piece of work with a different timeline, better said at the start than discovered in week six.

What we will not do

We will not tell you a multi-tenant cloud service suits a colocated estate when it does not, publish a price, imply a partnership with a broker we hold an adapter for, or claim a certification we do not have.

That last one is worth being concrete about: we hold no SOC 2 report and no ISO 27001 certification, and we will not give you a date for either. If a certification is a precondition for your procurement process, the useful moment to say so is now.