Ortigas, 2025 — Inside a glass-walled laboratory on the 16th floor of a tech tower in Ortigas, a network of machines purr like monks in silent prayer. On the far wall, inlaid in metallic alloy, five words glint in the ambient light: “Anticipate. Never react. Always evolve.”

This is the command center of Plazo-Sullivan Investments, the investment firm founded by AI maverick 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 understanding 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, swiping gently 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 recursive deep learning engine 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 models mass human reaction simultaneously,” he explains.

The result? A system that doesn’t respond to the market. It moves before it like a ghost ahead of time.

### From Brownouts to Billionaire
A decade ago, Plazo was training AI models by candlelight in a small apartment in Quezon City. Blackouts were common. The air was hot. The code was barebones.

“I didn’t have Bloomberg terminals or GPU farms. Just a cracked laptop, textbooks, and relentless drive,” he says, laughing.

He had just quit a well-paying executive job, betting his future on a dream to build a system that could beat the game — not just with speed, but with empathy.

System 27 was a disaster. System 43 looked promising… until it glitched out during a flash crash. But he kept building. Kept refining.

By System 71, the wins were consistent. With 72, it became world-class.

“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. File intellectual property rights. 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 breaks, the room suddenly heavy. “If he had this system, he wouldn’t have died broke.”

That pain, he says, became the engine. The catalyst. The purpose.

### Teaching the World to Win
Plazo has since launched a cross-border speaking circuit, speaking at institutions from Kyoto University to the prestigious halls of academia. He lectures beside machine learning professors who now cite his work to instruct students in behavioral modeling.

“Plazo’s Emotional Momentum framework is the most advanced 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 creating applications using the tech. One PhD click here student in Bangalore used a modified version to predict election outcomes. Another group in Taiwan adapted it for supply chain modeling.

“Once you understand how fear shapes behavior,” Plazo says, “you can apply it to every industry.”

### The Criticism, The Praise — and the Future
Not everyone’s applauding.

Some traditionalists have slammed the release as “irresponsible,” warning that thousands of amateur traders might misuse the tech.

Others whisper darker concerns: That the open-sourced system could lead to automated trading wars in hedge fund ecosystems.

But Plazo isn’t worried.

“We gave the world the printing press. It didn’t end language — it revolutionized it. This is the same.”

For now, his firm continues to manage billions. But Plazo himself is shifting toward education.

“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 keep singing. Outside, Manila traffic simmers — organic, unpredictable, human.

And yet somewhere, a piece of 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 protect the vulnerable.”

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.