This guide breaks down 12 steps to automate a quant desk inside one platform: from scheduled research and thesis writing to strategy backtesting, paper trading, and live execution. It highlights verifier gates—trade audits, paper runs, and alert-only tests—to ensure the loop refines itself and controls risk at every stage.

• Minara treats trading as one continuous loop where research, strategy building, and execution all feed back into each other inside a single app.
• Strategy Studio can turn plain English, a form, a YouTube clip, or Pine Script into a structured strategy with a 10+ year backtest including fees, slippage, funding, and borrow costs.
• Backtests promote to paper trading with one click, using the same engine and risk hooks, before any real capital is risked.
• The full system spans 12 steps, but only the first 8 (research, strategy, paper trading) are detailed here—execution automation and closed-loop monitoring are promised but not covered.