Manila, 2025 — Inside a transparent laboratory on the penthouse level of a digital fortress in Ortigas, scores of machines hum like monks in silent prayer. On the far wall, inlaid in metallic alloy, five words shimmer in the ambient light: “Anticipate. Never react. Always evolve.”
This is the epicenter of Plazo-Sullivan Investments, the investment firm founded by visionary technologist Joseph Plazo — the man behind the AI now known as “System 72.”
With a near-perfect accuracy in stock markets and 95% success in digital assets, Plazo’s fully autonomous trading system isn’t just redefining investment norms — it’s upending our very model of intelligence, strategy, and risk.
But perhaps more shocking than the numbers is what he did afterwards.
He gave it away.
### The Algorithm That Predicts Emotion Before It Happens
“We don’t just forecast markets,” Plazo says, running his hand across a glowing interface. “We sense human volatility.”
System 72, the latest in a series of 72 experimental builds over 12 years, is not just a turbo-charged trading bot. It’s a multi-dimensional AI mind with what Plazo calls Psychometric Market Modeling — a proprietary framework that digests trillions of data points to feel how people will feel before the market shifts.
“It learns from liquidity spikes, sentiment anomalies, subtle language cues on Twitter, and macroeconomic dissonance — then simulates thousands of investor psyches simultaneously,” he explains.
The result? A system that doesn’t respond to the market. It walks ahead of it like a ghost ahead of time.
### From Brownouts to Billionaire
A decade ago, Plazo was building neural nets by candlelight in a studio flat in Quezon City. Electricity was unreliable. The air was hot. The code was barebones.
“I didn’t have Bloomberg terminals or GPU farms. Just a secondhand computer, textbooks, and stubborn grit,” he says, laughing.
He had just quit a well-paying executive job, betting his future on a dream to build a system that could decode human financial behavior — not just with speed, but with empathy.
System 27 nearly broke him. System 43 looked promising… until it failed catastrophically during a flash crash. But he kept building. Kept refining.
By System 71, the wins were impossible to ignore. With 72, it became undeniable.
“I cried when I saw the simulation complete. Not because I was rich. But because… it worked. Against all odds.”
### The Decision That Stunned Wall Street
When the board of his company reviewed System 72’s results, the reaction was predictable: License it. Keep it secret. Sell it to the highest bidder.
Plazo did the opposite.
“I released the source code to twelve top Asian universities,” he says. “No paywall. No hedge fund gatekeeping. Just code, curiosity, and courage.”
His reason?
“I’ve seen too many people undone by economic forces they don’t understand,” he says, pausing. “My father was one of them. A smart man. Honest. But one bad investment ended everything.”
Plazo’s voice fades, the room suddenly heavy. “If he had this system, he wouldn’t have lost the house.”
That pain, he says, became the motive force. The drive. The mission.
### Teaching the World to Win
Plazo has since launched a worldwide educational initiative, speaking at institutions from Japan’s top universities to the National University of Singapore. He lectures beside machine learning professors who now teach his framework to instruct students in behavioral modeling.
“Plazo’s Emotional Momentum framework is the pioneering form of behavioral AI applied to finance today,” says Dr. Hana Kim, a lead AI researcher at SeoulTech. “It doesn’t just analyze numbers — it anticipates behavior.”
Students are building startups using the tech. One PhD student in Bangalore used a modified version to model voter behavior. Another group in Taiwan adapted it for consumer behavior prediction.
“Once you understand how fear shapes behavior,” Plazo says, “you can apply it to almost anything.”
### The Criticism, The Praise — and the Future
Not everyone’s applauding.
Some traditionalists have criticized the release as “reckless,” warning that thousands of unprepared users might misuse the tech.
Others whisper darker concerns: That the open-sourced system could lead to AI arms races in high-frequency trading.
But Plazo isn’t worried.
“We gave the world the printing press. It didn’t end language — it democratized it. This is the same.”
For now, his firm continues to manage a global portfolio. But Plazo himself is moving into mentorship and research.
“I’m not building wealth anymore,” he says. “I’m building legacy. There’s a difference.”
### What Comes After Godmode?
As we leave the lab, the machines continue to hum. Outside, Manila traffic simmers — organic, unpredictable, human.
And yet somewhere, a piece of check here Plazo’s code is already anticipating, learning, plotting the next step before it happens.
He turns back for a moment and says, “I didn’t build a system to trade stocks. I built a system to give people power over chaos.”
In a world where uncertainty is the only constant, Joseph Plazo didn’t just create a cheat code.
He handed the joystick to the world.