Author

@thedealdirector thedealdirector

Enterprise-software insider riffing on AI's disruption of SaaS, sales, and cyber

Posts framework-style narratives and reaction commentary on

trader score
-1.10
hit rate
45%
mean α
-0.74%
signals 14d
9

Grade = how their written analysis reads (A best). Trader score = how their last-20 timestamped calls performed vs SPY.

Their picks, scored

Across their last 20 scored bets: 45% hit rate, -0.74% mean alpha, trader score -1.10. Their last-14d mentions, direction-adjusted, have moved -4.0% since posting (mean over 3 mentions with price data).

Recent signals9receipts included
date (PT)tickerauthorsentwhat they saidsince thenreceipt
2026-10-16·@thedealdirector·Frames extravagant spending as a new stage of the AI buildout cycle.·
2026-10-16AAPL@thedealdirector+0.10Likes the iPhone Duo but criticizes its buggy preorder process and delayed delivery.+1.2%
2026-10-14CRM@thedealdirector-0.55Warns excluding renewals from sales quotas could push Salesforce over the edge.+5.3%
2026-10-13·@thedealdirector·Argues LLMs and curated reinforcement-learning data will commoditize enterprise sales knowledge.·
2026-10-12·@thedealdirector·Argues agentic software factories will displace a subset of enterprise developer-software vendors.·
2026-10-12·@thedealdirector·Argues the AI adoption curve remains very early based on limited reasoning-model usage.·
2026-10-10NVDA@thedealdirector+0.35Forecasts Nvidia's GTM team will support an open-weight LLM push and make field execution central within 12 months.-8.0%
2026-10-06·@thedealdirector·Analyzes competitive pressure on legal-AI vendors from frontier labs and predicts flat broad usage.·
2026-10-03·@thedealdirector·Frames intense competition among private AI labs as driving unusually rapid development activity.·

Grade is our human read-worthiness rating; trader score is a rolling 20-bet hit-rate/alpha composite — different things, often disagreeing. “Since then” is direction-unaware in the table; the summary line above adjusts for which way they leaned.