Custom Tools
Your workflows, your tools, your edge
The Proprietary Workflow Challenge
The Challenge
Every energy and commodity trading firm develops unique competitive advantages—proprietary trading strategies, specialized analytical methods, custom risk models, or unique operational workflows. These advantages represent years of market experience, quantitative research, and institutional knowledge.
Yet translating this expertise into operational reality presents challenges:
Tribal Knowledge: Critical methodologies exist only in spreadsheets on individual traders' laptops or in the heads of key personnel. When staff leave or move roles, expertise walks out the door.
Inconsistent Execution: Different team members apply the same methodology differently. One trader's crack spread calculation doesn't match another's, creating valuation disputes and risk reporting inconsistencies.
Manual Processes: Sophisticated analyses require extensive manual work—copying data between systems, running complex spreadsheet macros, manually validating results. High-value expertise gets consumed by low-value mechanical tasks.
Software Development Bottlenecks: Building custom applications requires scarce developer resources, long development cycles, and ongoing maintenance. By the time IT delivers, market conditions have changed or requirements have evolved.
Integration Challenges: Proprietary tools often exist in isolation—standalone spreadsheets, scripts that don't talk to other systems, models that can't access real-time data.
Our Solution
OpenDataDSL's Custom Tools framework enables you to encode proprietary workflows, analytical methods, and trading strategies into reusable, scalable tools that work seamlessly within the platform.
Transform tribal knowledge into institutional assets. Convert manual expertise into automated capabilities. Make sophisticated operations accessible to your entire team through simple interfaces.
- Proprietary Analytics: Your specialized calculations, models, and analytical methods
- Trading Strategy Tools: Automated execution of your unique trading approaches
- Risk Models: Custom risk calculations beyond standard VaR and Greeks
- Valuation Methods: Your specific approaches to pricing complex structures
- Workflow Automation: Multi-step processes unique to your operations
- Decision Support: Tools that apply your institutional knowledge to guide decisions
- Client-Facing Applications: Interfaces allowing clients to interact with your services
Custom Tools leverage OpenDataDSL's infrastructure—data management, curve building, API access, authentication, scheduling—so you focus on encoding your expertise, not rebuilding platform capabilities.
Custom Tools act as intelligent bridges between OpenDataDSL's energy market expertise and clients' existing enterprise systems—enabling sophisticated analytics to flow seamlessly into operational workflows without replacing incumbent platforms or disrupting established processes.
Custom Tools: Your Expertise, Automated and Accessible
Key Benefits
Transform your unique competitive advantages—trading strategies, analytical methods, operational workflows—from fragile spreadsheets and individual expertise into robust, scalable, protected tools that amplify what makes your firm distinctive in the market.
Encode Proprietary Expertise Into Scalable Assets
Transform tribal knowledge into institutional capabilities.
Your best trader's unique spark spread methodology, your quantitative team's specialized arbitrage logic, your operations expert's workflow optimizations—capture them as custom tools that everyone can use. Expertise no longer walks out the door when key personnel leave. Competitive advantages scale across your entire organization instead of residing in individual spreadsheets or minds.
Consistent Execution of Your Unique Methodologies
Eliminate variations in how proprietary strategies are applied.
When your crack spread calculation, storage valuation model, or risk assessment approach exists as a custom tool, everyone executes it identically—no more disputes about whose spreadsheet version is correct or why two desks value the same position differently. Your methodology becomes the standard, applied uniformly across all users and systems.
Build sophisticated tools in days, not months.
Build sophisticated tools in days, not months.
Technical users encode complex logic in concise ODSL code. Non-technical users describe workflows conversationally to Fusion's Code Assistant, which generates complete implementations. Either approach delivers production-ready tools without lengthy development cycles, IT bottlenecks, or waiting for resources. Market opportunities don't wait—your tools shouldn't either.
Accessible Through Simple Interfaces, Not Code
Sophisticated analysis through intuitive user experiences.
Your proprietary crude arbitrage screener, weather-adjusted risk calculator, or options valuation model becomes an easy-to-use application with input forms, interactive visualizations, and one-click execution. Junior analysts access senior expertise without understanding underlying mathematics. Traders run complex analytics without writing code. Democratize sophisticated capabilities across skill levels.
Seamless Platform Integration and Automation
Custom tools leverage your complete data infrastructure automatically.
Tools access Data Catalogue market data, reference Smart Curves forward curves, integrate with AI Agents for scheduled execution, and connect to external systems via APIs—all using the same platform capabilities. Build once, integrate everywhere. Your proprietary analytics work with live data, update automatically, and fit seamlessly into operational workflows.
Intellectual Property Protection With Controlled Access
Preserve competitive advantages while enabling appropriate usage.
Custom tools execute your proprietary logic without exposing implementation details. Role-based access ensures only authorized users access sensitive methodologies. Usage tracking provides audit trails. Version control manages changes. Client-facing tools let customers interact with your services without revealing your secret sauce. Your edge remains protected while being operationally effective.
Custom Tool Capabilities
Integration with Platform Data
Custom Tools seamlessly access OpenDataDSL's complete data infrastructure:
- Data Catalogue Access: Tools automatically use your licensed market data
- Smart Curves Integration: Tools reference forward curves built by Smart Curves
- Real-Time Updates: Tools work with live data feeds as markets move
- Historical Analysis: Tools access complete historical archives for back-testing
- Version Control: Tools use specific curve versions for audit and compliance
Integration with Internal Systems
Custom Tools seamlessly access your proprietary internal systems:
- ETRM: Tools can push market data and curves to your ETRM/CTRM system
- Resource Planning: Tools can integrate with your ERP systems
- Trade Reconciliation: Tools can reconcile trade positions between your ETRM and exchange/broker reports
- Accounting System: Automated financial reconciliation between physical settlements and accounting records
- Client Reporting Portal: Automated customer reporting connected to relationship management systems.
From Tribal Knowledge to Institutional Asset
Custom Tools transform your proprietary expertise from individual knowledge into organizational capabilities.
Whether built through ODSL code or Javascript for maximum control or developed conversationally with Fusion AI for rapid deployment, Custom Tools encode what makes your firm unique—ensuring your competitive edge strengthens rather than erodes over time.
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