Every covered call on the board,
honestly graded.

A research tool for income writers. Most screeners rank by premium. This one grades every strike and expiration against comparable peers within the same symbol. Standouts jump out. Thin corners stay honest.

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Built by a covered-call writer of 25 years. What arrives: real notes as each stage lands, and first access the day it opens.

What it is

A research tool that shows its work.

You bring the symbol and the writing philosophy. Type a ticker and the entire board grades at once, so the few setups worth writing stand out from the many that aren't.

A+

Standout for its kind

An A+ is not the fattest premium on the board. It means this contract is a genuine standout against its own peers, strikes and expirations of similar horizon and moneyness in the same symbol.

Honest cells where we can't stand behind a grade

When the data is too thin to grade honestly, the cell stays uncolored. No fabricated confidence, no guessing dressed up as a score. The opposite of a black box.

Multi-DTE by design

Most screeners only look at the next expiration. This grades every strike from weeklies out to LEAPs, so a standout three months out never stays invisible.

Why this tool exists

Boring is better.

I've been writing covered calls for 25 years. Most of it on stable dividend-paying stocks that don't make anyone rich in a hurry, but do generate consistent income when you get the setup right.

Every retail screener I tried ranked on premium alone. None told me which setup was genuinely a standout for its kind. So I built one.

Just a better way to see which contracts are worth writing.

Alex, founder

Why the rebuild

My training data only covered a slice of the board.

When I sat down to build the grading, I needed a decade of covered-call history to train it on. I pulled it, and it looked complete. It wasn't.

It only covered one moment in each trade's life, only the monthly expirations, and only a sample of strikes. A slice of the board that looked like the whole board. That is the trap with data: you cannot see what is missing by looking at what is there.

I could have patched it and shipped. Twenty-five years of writing these has taught me what that leads to: a tool that looks right until the day it isn't. So I am pulling the whole thing again instead. Every strike a covered-call writer would actually use, across every weekly and monthly expiration out to a year, on roughly 2,665 symbols, ten years deep, including the COVID crash and the 2022 bear market.

It costs weeks I would rather not spend. I am spending them. The whole promise of this tool is an honest grade, and a grade is only as honest as the data underneath it. If I would not trust it, you should not have to.

So I am rebuilding it to see the entire board before I let you near it.

Alex, founder

Where the build is

Follow it from data to launch.

I post the build as it happens, so you can see exactly where it stands, including the stretches that took longer than I wanted.

Done

Rebuilt as a research tool

The covered-call research surface, rebuilt honest and compliant. Site and Learn are live.

Done

Building the test dataset

9.8 million contracts, pulled and audited before a single number got quoted.

Next

Training the grading model

Training the grade on the fuller dataset, so it sees the whole board, not a slice.

Then

Calibrate and pressure-test

Re-grade and stress-test how the grades hold across strikes, expirations, and market regimes.

At launch

Workbench and Learn, open

The graded board and the learn library, open to the list first.

After

Watchlists and weekly research

Deeper tools and broader coverage as the data supports them.

What you get

What ships when the tool is ready.

Honest about what's in the first release and what comes after.

At launch

The Workbench + Learn

  • ✓Multi-expiration heatmap for every symbol we cover
  • ✓Peer-relative grading with honest ungraded cells
  • ✓Inspector detail on any contract you click
  • ✓Learn section explaining exactly how the grading works

After launch

What's in the plan next

  • ·Watchlists to track your symbols across scans
  • ·Curated weekly research
  • ·Broader symbol coverage as the data supports it
  • ·Position tracking and roll planning

We post progress as we go, so you can watch it come together.

Pricing

Start free. Pay when you need more.

One clear paid tier. No trial cliff, no founding tier gimmicks, no upsell treadmill.

Free

$0/mo

Enough to actually use the tool.

  • ✓10 workbench scans
  • ✓Default sellable-band view (near-dated, OTM strikes writers actually use)
  • ✓Full Learn section access
  • ✓Inspector detail on every graded contract

Pro

$39.99/mo

Everything free, plus the room to explore.

  • ✓Unlimited scans
  • ✓Full grid expansion (every graded strike, out to LEAPs)
  • ✓Everything in Free

Pricing available when the tool launches. Join the list to hear when.

See the board before anyone else.

First access the day the workbench opens. No countdown, no urgency games, just a heads-up when it's ready.