Liquid Compute growth playbook

Publish /index with the five GPU prints on a one-day delay, a 90-day chart per GPU, a methodology page (inputs, executed-transaction share, contributor minimums, weighting, governance, restatement and error policy), a CSV of daily history and simple citation rules ("Source: Liquid Compute Index, T+1"). Keep live and intraday data, API access and contract-level detail behind login for paid market-data plans. Link it from the homepage Data block, the Trade button and every Insights post that mentions the LCI, and give each GPU its own indexable URL (for example /index/h100).

An index wins by being quoted. A public delayed print gives the press, analysts and AI assistants a number to cite with a link, lets counterparties check the desk's quotes before they call, and shows in public the standards the CFTC letter asks for. Delayed public prints with paid real-time access is the usual model for benchmarks, so it should not cost data revenue.

[ ] /index with A100, H100, H200, B200 and B300 prints (T+1)
[ ] One URL per GPU with a 90-day chart
[ ] Methodology: inputs, executed-transaction share, contributor minimums, weights
[ ] Governance, restatement and error policy
[ ] Daily CSV download and citation rules
[ ] Legal disclaimer reviewed
[ ] Linked from homepage, Trade button, product page and Insights
[ ] Access-request CTA tagged "from index"

• Free prints reduce paid data demand

  Keep the delay, intraday data, API and contract-level detail paid.

• Thin transaction counts are exposed

  Publish contributor and transaction counts honestly; that is the standard the letter asks of everyone.

• Your websiteHomepage (checked November 9, 2026): "Compute has a price. Now it has a market."; the Liquid Compute Index (LCI) is "a daily reference price for A100, H100, H200, B200, and B300s"; the exchange and clearinghouse are "coming soon" and hedges go through the OTC desk; Buy, Sell, Trade and Finance buttons; "What We're Seeing" shows posts from October 20, 14 and 8; no customer logos, funding or volume figures; Services and GPU testing are linked only in the footer.Source
• Your websiteTrade indices page: a request form only; its Indices field calls A100, H100, H200, B200 and B300 "The US indices Liquid Compute publishes", but no index value, chart, methodology, history or download appears on any public page checked (November 9, 2026).Source
• Your websiteProduct page: "Priced. Matched. Delivered."; standard contracts for A100, H100, H200, B200 and B300, "priced per GPU-hour, so offers compare across sellers", running month-to-month or for a fixed term; the "See current pricing" button leads to the login page; no fees or prices are shown.Source
• Your websiteCFTC comment letter (dated October 20, 2026): treats the reference index as the main manipulation risk; recommends executed transactions as index inputs, IOSCO-based governance, minimum transaction and contributor thresholds, and no index administrator trading contracts on its own index; the authors are "not aware of any" compute price reporting agency under "an external assurance regime"; PMEX Markets, Inc. has applied for DCM designation and PMEX Clearing, Inc. for DCO registration, and PMEX "intends to operate under the name Liquid Compute".Source
• Competitor researchSilicon Data's homepage lists H100, H200, A100, B200, B300 and MI300X indices "Built to financial-index standards and distributed on the Bloomberg and Refinitiv", claims "Over 3.5 million datapoints", sells benchmarking, forecasting and datasets, and offers a newsletter sign-up.See the research Source
• Competitor researchOrnn's homepage: "The market for compute. The index for intelligence."; "Settled trades from partners build the Ornn Compute Price Index. Updated hourly"; quotes from ICE and Kalshi on using its index; compute contracts "from an hour to multiple years".See the research Source

Add a proof strip under the hero: "$15M seed (FirstMark, Chemistry, Y Combinator)", "$250M prepayment facility with K8 Capital", "Applied for CFTC DCM and DCO", and the partnership names already published in the seed post. Pin the latest Announcement next to the research posts in "What We're Seeing". Add one line per role showing what is live today.

Institutional buyers and lenders look for capital, partners and regulatory progress before they request access. All of it is already public on the site, just not where they land.

• Implying partner endorsement

  Use the exact wording from the published announcements.

• Your websiteHomepage (checked November 9, 2026): "Compute has a price. Now it has a market."; the Liquid Compute Index (LCI) is "a daily reference price for A100, H100, H200, B200, and B300s"; the exchange and clearinghouse are "coming soon" and hedges go through the OTC desk; Buy, Sell, Trade and Finance buttons; "What We're Seeing" shows posts from October 20, 14 and 8; no customer logos, funding or volume figures; Services and GPU testing are linked only in the footer.Source
• Your websiteInsights listing: 13 posts dated September 2 to October 21, 2026, in Trading, Credit, Announcements and Substack (one entry links out to the CEO's Substack); the listing shows only date and category; no newsletter sign-up or RSS link on the page.Source
• Your website"Announcing a $250M Facility to Fund Compute Buyers" (October 6, 2026): a prepayment facility with K8 Capital that funds upfront deposits on multi-year contracts, "available to qualifying buyers contracting capacity through Liquid Compute", with each draw secured by prepaid capacity that Liquid Compute verifies; the post gives no eligibility criteria or application path beyond "visit liquidcompute.com".Source
• Your websiteSeed announcement (September 15, 2026), published at /insights/compute-is-a-grid-not-a-barrel: a $15 million seed round co-led by Chemistry and FirstMark, with K8 Capital, Night Capital, TrueBridge, Y Combinator and others; "a Y Combinator W25 company based in New York"; partnerships with Susquehanna, BGC and Wintermute; the PMEX Markets footnote is not explained.Source

Use the /contact form as the single entry point and add two or three fields that depend on the role: buyers give GPU, quantity and start date; sellers give GPU, quantity and availability; traders give index and direction; lenders give book size and deal stage. Make everything else optional and collect it on the call. Prefill the role from the button clicked.

Fewer required fields means more first conversations, and the desk qualifies on the call anyway. Lenders and traders stop being asked questions that don't apply to them.

• Less detail before the call

  Ask the missing questions in the confirmation email.

• Your websiteRequest forms: /finance-compute and /buy-compute mark as required Interest, Name, Work email, GPU, Other GPU type, Indices, Quantity, Desired start date and Duration in months, for lenders as well as buyers. The /contact form asks only Name, Work email, Company, "I want to" (Buy compute, Sell capacity, Take a position, Finance a buildout) and an optional note, then promises "a short call" and onboarding that includes API keys for market data on paid plans.Source
• Your websiteHomepage (checked November 9, 2026): "Compute has a price. Now it has a market."; the Liquid Compute Index (LCI) is "a daily reference price for A100, H100, H200, B200, and B300s"; the exchange and clearinghouse are "coming soon" and hedges go through the OTC desk; Buy, Sell, Trade and Finance buttons; "What We're Seeing" shows posts from October 20, 14 and 8; no customer logos, funding or volume figures; Services and GPU testing are linked only in the footer.Source

Reserve the hero art's space with fixed width, height or aspect-ratio, load the font with a matching fallback so the headline doesn't reflow, serve the poster image as AVIF/WebP at mobile sizes with priority loading, and defer the non-critical JavaScript. Fix the one colour-contrast issue at the same time.

The first screen is where institutional visitors decide whether the venue looks solid; a jumping headline undermines that, and passing Core Web Vitals helps search visibility.

• Design changes to the hero

  Keep the visual; only reserve its space.

• Google PageSpeedHomepage on mobile (November 9, 2026): performance 37 (desktop 69); lab Largest Contentful Paint 8.4s, from the hero poster image; 2.4 MB page with about 690 KB of image savings and 247 KB of unused JavaScript. Real Chrome visitors: LCP 1.5s (good) but layout shift 0.12, so the page fails Core Web Vitals on CLS; the shifting element is the hero section. One colour-contrast issue.Source

Publish /financing/prepayment: what the facility pays for (upfront deposits on multi-year contracts), how a draw is secured and verified, who qualifies (in plain ranges), how long approval takes, and a four-question pre-check (contract size, term, operator chosen, funding stage) that books a call. Link it from the announcement, the Finance button and the Credit Map.

A named facility with clear eligibility is a reason for AI companies to contract capacity through Liquid Compute rather than directly, and it gives every buyer conversation a concrete financing next step.

• Criteria read as a commitment to lend

  Present them as indicative and subject to underwriting.

• #3 Replace the nine-field request forms with one short form that asks each role only what it needs

• Your website"Announcing a $250M Facility to Fund Compute Buyers" (October 6, 2026): a prepayment facility with K8 Capital that funds upfront deposits on multi-year contracts, "available to qualifying buyers contracting capacity through Liquid Compute", with each draw secured by prepaid capacity that Liquid Compute verifies; the post gives no eligibility criteria or application path beyond "visit liquidcompute.com".Source
• Your websiteRequest forms: /finance-compute and /buy-compute mark as required Interest, Name, Work email, GPU, Other GPU type, Indices, Quantity, Desired start date and Duration in months, for lenders as well as buyers. The /contact form asks only Name, Work email, Company, "I want to" (Buy compute, Sell capacity, Take a position, Finance a buildout) and an optional note, then promises "a short call" and onboarding that includes API keys for market data on paid plans.Source
• Your website"The GPU Offtaker Credit Map: 200 Private AI Compute Buyers, Ranked" (September 28, 2026): the Liquid Compute Offtaker Score (0-100, five weighted factors, published weights); 169 of 200 buyers scored; "38 of 169 scored companies can support a multi-year offtake today"; the company-level dataset is "available on request"; "We will update it each edition, and re-score any company that shares data with us under NDA."Source

Publish /regulatory: the entities and what each has applied for, what is available today (index, OTC desk hedges for eligible contract participants, matched capacity, financing, GCAT) and what awaits designation (listed and cleared contracts), links to the CFTC comment letter, and a contact for compliance questions. Link the footnote on every page to it.

Institutions buy only once compliance signs off. A clear status page shortens that review and stops visitors confusing "pending" with "not open for business".

• Statements read as predicting approval

  State only what has been filed and keep the forward-looking disclaimer.

• Your websiteCFTC comment letter (dated October 20, 2026): treats the reference index as the main manipulation risk; recommends executed transactions as index inputs, IOSCO-based governance, minimum transaction and contributor thresholds, and no index administrator trading contracts on its own index; the authors are "not aware of any" compute price reporting agency under "an external assurance regime"; PMEX Markets, Inc. has applied for DCM designation and PMEX Clearing, Inc. for DCO registration, and PMEX "intends to operate under the name Liquid Compute".Source
• Your websiteSeed announcement (September 15, 2026), published at /insights/compute-is-a-grid-not-a-barrel: a $15 million seed round co-led by Chemistry and FirstMark, with K8 Capital, Night Capital, TrueBridge, Y Combinator and others; "a Y Combinator W25 company based in New York"; partnerships with Susquehanna, BGC and Wintermute; the PMEX Markets footnote is not explained.Source
• Your website"Compute credit is tightening" (October 20, 2026): a cash-settled put on the LCI as a residual value floor; in an illustrative $15M cluster the advance rises from 65% to 85%, and the floor saves the operator about $0.45M a year for about $0.17M a year; the options are OTC transactions for eligible contract participants, not exchange-listed or cleared; lenders are invited to request a mark and hedge.Source
• Your websiteHomepage (checked November 9, 2026): "Compute has a price. Now it has a market."; the Liquid Compute Index (LCI) is "a daily reference price for A100, H100, H200, B200, and B300s"; the exchange and clearinghouse are "coming soon" and hedges go through the OTC desk; Buy, Sell, Trade and Finance buttons; "What We're Seeing" shows posts from October 20, 14 and 8; no customer logos, funding or volume figures; Services and GPU testing are linked only in the footer.Source

Add "Price a hedge in two minutes" to the Trade button area, the product page's trading-firm path and every Trading post, with the post's own numbers preloaded (for example the primer's 128 GPUs at $4.40). Let visitors see the indicative result with example numbers before asking them to create the free account to save a ticket.

Seeing their own hedge priced turns a curious reader into a qualified desk conversation, and the ticket gives the desk the deal's details before the call.

• Indicative numbers mistaken for quotes

  Label every output indicative and keep the OTC disclosure.

• Your websiteHedge Converter (/trade/hedge-converter): "Translate your compute economics into an indicative H100 index hedge", with paths for "New to this", "I know the basics" and "I trade them"; the October 20 credit post says it needs a free account; the September 8 primer "Hedging Compute Prices" (128 GPUs for a year at $4.40 an hour, about $4.93M) does not link to it and ends with email CTAs for buyers, operators and lenders.Source
• Your website"Compute credit is tightening" (October 20, 2026): a cash-settled put on the LCI as a residual value floor; in an illustrative $15M cluster the advance rises from 65% to 85%, and the floor saves the operator about $0.45M a year for about $0.17M a year; the options are OTC transactions for eligible contract participants, not exchange-listed or cleared; lenders are invited to request a mark and hedge.Source
• Your websiteHomepage (checked November 9, 2026): "Compute has a price. Now it has a market."; the Liquid Compute Index (LCI) is "a daily reference price for A100, H100, H200, B200, and B300s"; the exchange and clearinghouse are "coming soon" and hedges go through the OTC desk; Buy, Sell, Trade and Finance buttons; "What We're Seeing" shows posts from October 20, 14 and 8; no customer logos, funding or volume figures; Services and GPU testing are linked only in the footer.Source

Add Services to the main navigation, link each product-page role card to the matching filtered list ("I buy compute", "I operate compute", "I finance compute"), and give each service a short page with who it suits and a direct inquiry button.

Visitors who arrive with a specific problem, such as a deposit bridge or tail-period protection, find the exact product name and inquire about it, which also tells the desk what they want.

• Some services are not ready to sell

  Mark them "by request" rather than hiding them.

• Your websiteServices page (/product-registry), linked only from the footer: 13 services by role, including compute sourcing, a cash-settled price hedge, prepayment and full contract financing, unused capacity resale, GCAT, bankable offtake origination, tail-period price protection, remarketing and "Compute index and market-data licensing", with a five-step inquiry flow.Source
• Your websiteHomepage (checked November 9, 2026): "Compute has a price. Now it has a market."; the Liquid Compute Index (LCI) is "a daily reference price for A100, H100, H200, B200, and B300s"; the exchange and clearinghouse are "coming soon" and hedges go through the OTC desk; Buy, Sell, Trade and Finance buttons; "What We're Seeing" shows posts from October 20, 14 and 8; no customer logos, funding or volume figures; Services and GPU testing are linked only in the footer.Source

Move the seed post to /insights/announcing-15m-seed (with a permanent redirect from the old URL), set lastmod to each post's real last edit, add lastmod to core pages, and add the Services and GPU testing pages if any are missing. Add publish and updated dates in the posts' structured data.

People searching for the company's funding or partners find the right page, and accurate dates help new research get crawled quickly.

• Broken inbound links

  Keep the permanent redirect indefinitely.

• Your websiteSitemap (28 URLs, checked November 9, 2026): 12 Insights posts carry lastmod dates, but the $250M post published October 6 shows October 31 and three posts share one October 30 timestamp; the 16 core pages have no lastmod; the seed announcement lives at /insights/compute-is-a-grid-not-a-barrel.Source
• Your websiteSeed announcement (September 15, 2026), published at /insights/compute-is-a-grid-not-a-barrel: a $15 million seed round co-led by Chemistry and FirstMark, with K8 Capital, Night Capital, TrueBridge, Y Combinator and others; "a Y Combinator W25 company based in New York"; partnerships with Susquehanna, BGC and Wintermute; the PMEX Markets footnote is not explained.Source
• Your websiteInsights listing: 13 posts dated September 2 to October 21, 2026, in Trading, Credit, Announcements and Substack (one entry links out to the CEO's Substack); the listing shows only date and category; no newsletter sign-up or RSS link on the page.Source

Add a two-option sign-up on Insights, every post and the public index page: "Daily LCI close" (one line per GPU with the change and a link) and "Research notes" (new posts only). Add an RSS feed. Bring Substack posts onto the site or cross-post them, so subscribers grow on the company's own list.

A daily price email is a habit-forming touchpoint for traders and lenders, and each email is a reminder that the desk can quote against that number.

• Daily email fatigue

  Let subscribers choose daily or weekly.

• #1 Put the Liquid Compute Index on a public page: delayed daily prints, history and methodology, the standard your own CFTC letter sets

• Your websiteInsights listing: 13 posts dated September 2 to October 21, 2026, in Trading, Credit, Announcements and Substack (one entry links out to the CEO's Substack); the listing shows only date and category; no newsletter sign-up or RSS link on the page.Source
• Competitor researchSilicon Data's homepage lists H100, H200, A100, B200, B300 and MI300X indices "Built to financial-index standards and distributed on the Bloomberg and Refinitiv", claims "Over 3.5 million datapoints", sells benchmarking, forecasting and datasets, and offers a newsletter sign-up.See the research Source
• Your websiteHomepage (checked November 9, 2026): "Compute has a price. Now it has a market."; the Liquid Compute Index (LCI) is "a daily reference price for A100, H100, H200, B200, and B300s"; the exchange and clearinghouse are "coming soon" and hedges go through the OTC desk; Buy, Sell, Trade and Finance buttons; "What We're Seeing" shows posts from October 20, 14 and 8; no customer logos, funding or volume figures; Services and GPU testing are linked only in the footer.Source

Add "Get your company scored" to the Credit Map: a short NDA request, a secure data checklist (funding, commitments, revenue), and a private score report with what would move them up a tier and which structures (prepayment, hedge, guarantee) fit their tier. Offer the dataset to lenders and operators through a request form that captures who they are.

A score is a personal, high-stakes output that companies will trade data for; the report naturally leads to capacity, financing and hedging conversations, which is the repeatable pipeline the GTM role is hired to build.

• Score read as a credit rating

  Keep the "It is not a rating" language on every report.

• #5 Give the $250M prepayment facility its own page with eligibility and a pre-check

• Your website"The GPU Offtaker Credit Map: 200 Private AI Compute Buyers, Ranked" (September 28, 2026): the Liquid Compute Offtaker Score (0-100, five weighted factors, published weights); 169 of 200 buyers scored; "38 of 169 scored companies can support a multi-year offtake today"; the company-level dataset is "available on request"; "We will update it each edition, and re-score any company that shares data with us under NDA."Source
• Your website"Announcing a $250M Facility to Fund Compute Buyers" (October 6, 2026): a prepayment facility with K8 Capital that funds upfront deposits on multi-year contracts, "available to qualifying buyers contracting capacity through Liquid Compute", with each draw secured by prepaid capacity that Liquid Compute verifies; the post gives no eligibility criteria or application path beyond "visit liquidcompute.com".Source
• HiringHead of Go-to-Market (New York City or San Francisco, $150,000-$200,000 base plus 0.10%-0.30% equity): owns the full commercial cycle from market mapping and outbound to expansion; "Make the market legible" without "hiding behind jargon"; builds outbound, referral, ecosystem, event and partnership motions, forecasting and win/loss review; success means referenceable customers and growing repeat transaction volume; helpful: building category presence through content, partnerships or events.Source

At the end of each report add "List this capacity" (prefilling GPU model, count and test result into a short seller form) and "Get an indicative price" from the index. Offer to email the report so it outlives the 30-day browser window, which also captures a contact. Promote GCAT to operators as a free pre-sale or pre-financing check.

The test reaches operators at the moment they are preparing hardware for a customer or lender, and the report removes the first diligence step for both sides.

• Operators see the tool as a sales trap

  Keep the test free and the listing optional.

• Your websiteGPU testing (GCAT): acceptance tests for NVIDIA A10, H100, H200, B200 and B300 nodes and clusters (DCGM diagnostics, GEMM, memory bandwidth, NCCL); "No Liquid Compute account needed"; "Full diagnostics may take 90 minutes or longer"; the pass/fail report stays in the same browser for 30 days and can be saved as a PDF. No price is stated.Source
• HiringHead of Compute Supply (New York City or San Francisco, $150,000-$200,000 base): "Build the supply network behind a liquid market for GPU capacity"; a supply map by provider, accelerator, region, topology, availability date and contract term; assess counterparty quality and technical readiness; build pricing benchmarks, deal comparisons and supplier records.Source
• Your websiteServices page (/product-registry), linked only from the footer: 13 services by role, including compute sourcing, a cash-settled price hedge, prepayment and full contract financing, unused capacity resale, GCAT, bankable offtake origination, tail-period price protection, remarketing and "Compute index and market-data licensing", with a five-step inquiry flow.Source

Add a "GCAT passed" mark, with test date and configuration, to quotes the desk sends buyers, and match tested capacity first at equal price. Require a recent GCAT pass for capacity financed through the prepayment facility, and publish the share of delivered capacity that passed.

Verified supply reduces delivery disputes and speeds buyer sign-off, and sellers have a reason to test (and list) through Liquid Compute.

• Fewer offers if testing is required

  Make it a preference, not a requirement, outside financing.

• #12 End every GCAT report with "list this capacity": the free GPU test is a supply funnel

• Your websiteGPU testing (GCAT): acceptance tests for NVIDIA A10, H100, H200, B200 and B300 nodes and clusters (DCGM diagnostics, GEMM, memory bandwidth, NCCL); "No Liquid Compute account needed"; "Full diagnostics may take 90 minutes or longer"; the pass/fail report stays in the same browser for 30 days and can be saved as a PDF. No price is stated.Source
• Your websiteProduct page: "Priced. Matched. Delivered."; standard contracts for A100, H100, H200, B200 and B300, "priced per GPU-hour, so offers compare across sellers", running month-to-month or for a fixed term; the "See current pricing" button leads to the login page; no fees or prices are shown.Source
• Your website"Announcing a $250M Facility to Fund Compute Buyers" (October 6, 2026): a prepayment facility with K8 Capital that funds upfront deposits on multi-year contracts, "available to qualifying buyers contracting capacity through Liquid Compute", with each draw secured by prepaid capacity that Liquid Compute verifies; the post gives no eligibility criteria or application path beyond "visit liquidcompute.com".Source

A fair, dated explainer that sets out what each public index or tracker measures (inputs, contract type, term, update frequency, distribution), why the numbers differ, and which suits budgeting, hedging or lending. Show where the LCI sits, link its methodology, and invite corrections from the other providers.

Explaining the category is the GTM brief ("Make the market legible"), and a neutral guide earns links from the press and AI assistants answering "what does an H100 cost".

• Seen as attacking rivals

  Quote each provider's own description and invite corrections.

• #1 Put the Liquid Compute Index on a public page: delayed daily prints, history and methodology, the standard your own CFTC letter sets

• PressImplicator (July 29, 2026): public H100 price trackers differ by about eight times ($0.94 against $7.40 an hour) because they measure different things; CME announced compute futures that would settle against Silicon Data's indices, subject to regulatory review.Source
• Competitor researchSilicon Data's homepage lists H100, H200, A100, B200, B300 and MI300X indices "Built to financial-index standards and distributed on the Bloomberg and Refinitiv", claims "Over 3.5 million datapoints", sells benchmarking, forecasting and datasets, and offers a newsletter sign-up.See the research Source
• Competitor researchOrnn's homepage: "The market for compute. The index for intelligence."; "Settled trades from partners build the Ornn Compute Price Index. Updated hourly"; quotes from ICE and Kalshi on using its index; compute contracts "from an hour to multiple years".See the research Source
• Your websiteCFTC comment letter (dated October 20, 2026): treats the reference index as the main manipulation risk; recommends executed transactions as index inputs, IOSCO-based governance, minimum transaction and contributor thresholds, and no index administrator trading contracts on its own index; the authors are "not aware of any" compute price reporting agency under "an external assurance regime"; PMEX Markets, Inc. has applied for DCM designation and PMEX Clearing, Inc. for DCO registration, and PMEX "intends to operate under the name Liquid Compute".Source

Publish /data with two or three plans (for example Public: delayed daily prints; Professional: real-time prints, history and API; Enterprise: redistribution and settlement licensing), what each includes and how to start a trial. Prices can be "from" figures or "talk to us", but the contents should be explicit.

A clear data product gives a revenue line before the exchange launches, and data subscribers become the natural first users of listed contracts.

• Pricing anchored too low early

  Publish contents and "from" prices only.

• #1 Put the Liquid Compute Index on a public page: delayed daily prints, history and methodology, the standard your own CFTC letter sets

• Your websiteRequest forms: /finance-compute and /buy-compute mark as required Interest, Name, Work email, GPU, Other GPU type, Indices, Quantity, Desired start date and Duration in months, for lenders as well as buyers. The /contact form asks only Name, Work email, Company, "I want to" (Buy compute, Sell capacity, Take a position, Finance a buildout) and an optional note, then promises "a short call" and onboarding that includes API keys for market data on paid plans.Source
• Your websiteServices page (/product-registry), linked only from the footer: 13 services by role, including compute sourcing, a cash-settled price hedge, prepayment and full contract financing, unused capacity resale, GCAT, bankable offtake origination, tail-period price protection, remarketing and "Compute index and market-data licensing", with a five-step inquiry flow.Source
• Competitor researchSilicon Data's homepage lists H100, H200, A100, B200, B300 and MI300X indices "Built to financial-index standards and distributed on the Bloomberg and Refinitiv", claims "Over 3.5 million datapoints", sells benchmarking, forecasting and datasets, and offers a newsletter sign-up.See the research Source

Launch a simple introducer programme: a partner page, a registration form, a published fee for closed transactions (by service), deal registration so introducers are protected, and a monthly note on what the desk is looking for (GPU types, terms, borrowers).

Introducers bring qualified deals at low cost, and the fee is paid only when a transaction closes, which suits a lean team building pipeline.

• Regulatory limits on paying introducers for derivatives

  Have counsel decide which services can carry introducer fees.

• #9 Move the 13-service registry from the footer into the main navigation

• HiringHead of Go-to-Market (New York City or San Francisco, $150,000-$200,000 base plus 0.10%-0.30% equity): owns the full commercial cycle from market mapping and outbound to expansion; "Make the market legible" without "hiding behind jargon"; builds outbound, referral, ecosystem, event and partnership motions, forecasting and win/loss review; success means referenceable customers and growing repeat transaction volume; helpful: building category presence through content, partnerships or events.Source
• Your websiteServices page (/product-registry), linked only from the footer: 13 services by role, including compute sourcing, a cash-settled price hedge, prepayment and full contract financing, unused capacity resale, GCAT, bankable offtake origination, tail-period price protection, remarketing and "Compute index and market-data licensing", with a five-step inquiry flow.Source
• Your website"Announcing a $250M Facility to Fund Compute Buyers" (October 6, 2026): a prepayment facility with K8 Capital that funds upfront deposits on multi-year contracts, "available to qualifying buyers contracting capacity through Liquid Compute", with each draw secured by prepaid capacity that Liquid Compute verifies; the post gives no eligibility criteria or application path beyond "visit liquidcompute.com".Source

Set up a term calendar: 60 days before each term ends, send the buyer a one-page review with the delivered price against the index, a renewal quote, a resale option for unused capacity and a hedge for the next term. Check usage at mid-term and offer resale if it is low.

Repeat transactions cost far less to win than new ones, and offering resale keeps a buyer who would otherwise sit on unused capacity and leave unhappy.

• Resale undercuts the desk's own supply

  Price resold capacity off the index like any other offer.

• Your websiteProduct page: "Priced. Matched. Delivered."; standard contracts for A100, H100, H200, B200 and B300, "priced per GPU-hour, so offers compare across sellers", running month-to-month or for a fixed term; the "See current pricing" button leads to the login page; no fees or prices are shown.Source
• Your websiteServices page (/product-registry), linked only from the footer: 13 services by role, including compute sourcing, a cash-settled price hedge, prepayment and full contract financing, unused capacity resale, GCAT, bankable offtake origination, tail-period price protection, remarketing and "Compute index and market-data licensing", with a five-step inquiry flow.Source
• Competitor researchSF Compute's homepage: "Supercomputers you can sublease"; a Resell product to "Sell back compute you don't use", with example reserved and realized per-GPU-hour prices shown without a login.See the research Source
• HiringHead of Go-to-Market (New York City or San Francisco, $150,000-$200,000 base plus 0.10%-0.30% equity): owns the full commercial cycle from market mapping and outbound to expansion; "Make the market legible" without "hiding behind jargon"; builds outbound, referral, ecosystem, event and partnership motions, forecasting and win/loss review; success means referenceable customers and growing repeat transaction volume; helpful: building category presence through content, partnerships or events.Source

Package it: a page for lenders explaining the free mark (each financed cluster valued against the relevant LCI and term, with residual exposure), a sample anonymised mark report, a secure upload checklist and a booking link. Each mark ends with a priced floor for the riskiest positions.

A free, specific valuation of a lender's own book is hard to ignore when credit is tightening, and it leads directly to the hedge and to lenders using the LCI in their models.

• Lenders unwilling to share position data

  Accept anonymised cluster-level data under NDA.

• Your website"Compute credit is tightening" (October 20, 2026): a cash-settled put on the LCI as a residual value floor; in an illustrative $15M cluster the advance rises from 65% to 85%, and the floor saves the operator about $0.45M a year for about $0.17M a year; the options are OTC transactions for eligible contract participants, not exchange-listed or cleared; lenders are invited to request a mark and hedge.Source
• Your website"The GPU Offtaker Credit Map: 200 Private AI Compute Buyers, Ranked" (September 28, 2026): the Liquid Compute Offtaker Score (0-100, five weighted factors, published weights); 169 of 200 buyers scored; "38 of 169 scored companies can support a multi-year offtake today"; the company-level dataset is "available on request"; "We will update it each edition, and re-score any company that shares data with us under NDA."Source
• Your website"Announcing a $250M Facility to Fund Compute Buyers" (October 6, 2026): a prepayment facility with K8 Capital that funds upfront deposits on multi-year contracts, "available to qualifying buyers contracting capacity through Liquid Compute", with each draw secured by prepaid capacity that Liquid Compute verifies; the post gives no eligibility criteria or application path beyond "visit liquidcompute.com".Source

A monthly, invite-only roundtable alternating between New York and San Francisco (with a remote option): a 15-minute review of the month's index moves and credit conditions, one guest from each side of the market, then open discussion. Publish a short note afterwards, without attributing comments.

Putting operators, buyers and lenders in one room is the market Liquid Compute wants to run; each session produces relationships, deal flow and content.

• Competitors sharing sensitive information

  Have counsel set discussion rules and keep prices historical.

• HiringHead of Go-to-Market (New York City or San Francisco, $150,000-$200,000 base plus 0.10%-0.30% equity): owns the full commercial cycle from market mapping and outbound to expansion; "Make the market legible" without "hiding behind jargon"; builds outbound, referral, ecosystem, event and partnership motions, forecasting and win/loss review; success means referenceable customers and growing repeat transaction volume; helpful: building category presence through content, partnerships or events.Source
• Your websiteCFTC comment letter (dated October 20, 2026): treats the reference index as the main manipulation risk; recommends executed transactions as index inputs, IOSCO-based governance, minimum transaction and contributor thresholds, and no index administrator trading contracts on its own index; the authors are "not aware of any" compute price reporting agency under "an external assurance regime"; PMEX Markets, Inc. has applied for DCM designation and PMEX Clearing, Inc. for DCO registration, and PMEX "intends to operate under the name Liquid Compute".Source
• Your websiteSeed announcement (September 15, 2026), published at /insights/compute-is-a-grid-not-a-barrel: a $15 million seed round co-led by Chemistry and FirstMark, with K8 Capital, Night Capital, TrueBridge, Y Combinator and others; "a Y Combinator W25 company based in New York"; partnerships with Susquehanna, BGC and Wintermute; the PMEX Markets footnote is not explained.Source

Add bylines and short author pages (role, focus, posts, LinkedIn), topic hubs for Credit, Trading and Market Structure with a one-paragraph introduction and the key posts, and "Related research" at the end of each post. Replace personal email CTAs with role-routed request buttons.

Named experts earn more trust and shares than an anonymous company blog, topic hubs rank for category terms, and routed CTAs stop leads sitting in one inbox.

• Staff turnover leaves orphaned author pages

  Keep "Liquid Compute Research" as the publisher on every post.

• Your websiteInsights listing: 13 posts dated September 2 to October 21, 2026, in Trading, Credit, Announcements and Substack (one entry links out to the CEO's Substack); the listing shows only date and category; no newsletter sign-up or RSS link on the page.Source
• Your websiteHedge Converter (/trade/hedge-converter): "Translate your compute economics into an indicative H100 index hedge", with paths for "New to this", "I know the basics" and "I trade them"; the October 20 credit post says it needs a free account; the September 8 primer "Hedging Compute Prices" (128 GPUs for a year at $4.40 an hour, about $4.93M) does not link to it and ends with email CTAs for buyers, operators and lenders.Source
• Your website"Compute credit is tightening" (October 20, 2026): a cash-settled put on the LCI as a residual value floor; in an illustrative $15M cluster the advance rises from 65% to 85%, and the floor saves the operator about $0.45M a year for about $0.17M a year; the options are OTC transactions for eligible contract participants, not exchange-listed or cleared; lenders are invited to request a mark and hedge.Source

Commission an independent assurance review of the LCI's design and operation against the IOSCO Principles for Financial Benchmarks, publish the administrator's statement of compliance and the reviewer's report, set up an oversight committee with outside members, and repeat the review yearly.

It turns the company's regulatory argument into a fact no rival can currently claim, supports the PMEX designation process, and gives lenders and trading firms a reason to adopt the LCI as their reference.

• Review finds material gaps

  Do the gap review first and fix before engaging the reviewer.

• #1 Put the Liquid Compute Index on a public page: delayed daily prints, history and methodology, the standard your own CFTC letter sets

• Your websiteCFTC comment letter (dated October 20, 2026): treats the reference index as the main manipulation risk; recommends executed transactions as index inputs, IOSCO-based governance, minimum transaction and contributor thresholds, and no index administrator trading contracts on its own index; the authors are "not aware of any" compute price reporting agency under "an external assurance regime"; PMEX Markets, Inc. has applied for DCM designation and PMEX Clearing, Inc. for DCO registration, and PMEX "intends to operate under the name Liquid Compute".Source
• PressImplicator (July 29, 2026): public H100 price trackers differ by about eight times ($0.94 against $7.40 an hour) because they measure different things; CME announced compute futures that would settle against Silicon Data's indices, subject to regulatory review.Source
• Competitor researchSilicon Data's homepage lists H100, H200, A100, B200, B300 and MI300X indices "Built to financial-index standards and distributed on the Bloomberg and Refinitiv", claims "Over 3.5 million datapoints", sells benchmarking, forecasting and datasets, and offers a newsletter sign-up.See the research Source

Apply to list the LCI on one or two major market-data terminals and data platforms, starting with the delayed daily close, then license real-time data. Offer index licences to venues and lenders that need a settlement or valuation reference, under the governance in idea 21.

Distribution makes the LCI a habit for the people who will trade and finance compute, and every terminal user who sees it is a potential desk client.

• Vendors require a longer history or more contributors

  Start with a data-platform listing while the history builds.

• #1 Put the Liquid Compute Index on a public page: delayed daily prints, history and methodology, the standard your own CFTC letter sets
• #21 Be the first compute index under independent assurance against IOSCO principles

• Competitor researchSilicon Data's homepage lists H100, H200, A100, B200, B300 and MI300X indices "Built to financial-index standards and distributed on the Bloomberg and Refinitiv", claims "Over 3.5 million datapoints", sells benchmarking, forecasting and datasets, and offers a newsletter sign-up.See the research Source
• Competitor researchOrnn's homepage: "The market for compute. The index for intelligence."; "Settled trades from partners build the Ornn Compute Price Index. Updated hourly"; quotes from ICE and Kalshi on using its index; compute contracts "from an hour to multiple years".See the research Source
• Your websiteServices page (/product-registry), linked only from the footer: 13 services by role, including compute sourcing, a cash-settled price hedge, prepayment and full contract financing, unused capacity resale, GCAT, bankable offtake origination, tail-period price protection, remarketing and "Compute index and market-data licensing", with a five-step inquiry flow.Source

From executed term contracts and desk quotes, publish a monthly indicative curve per GPU (spot, 6, 12, 24 and 36 months), with the number of inputs behind each point, under the same governance as the LCI. Put a delayed version on /index and the full curve in paid data plans.

A term curve is the reference lenders need for residual value and buyers need for budgeting, and it is exactly what the residual-value floor and prepayment products are priced on.

• Too few long-dated trades

  Publish only tenors with enough inputs and show the count.

• #1 Put the Liquid Compute Index on a public page: delayed daily prints, history and methodology, the standard your own CFTC letter sets

• Your websiteProduct page: "Priced. Matched. Delivered."; standard contracts for A100, H100, H200, B200 and B300, "priced per GPU-hour, so offers compare across sellers", running month-to-month or for a fixed term; the "See current pricing" button leads to the login page; no fees or prices are shown.Source
• Your websiteAbout page: "Compute gets bought and sold every day with no market price behind it."; the plan is a reference index, physical delivery, credit against contracted capacity and eventually an exchange; $15M seed co-led by FirstMark and Chemistry; no office location stated.Source
• Your website"Compute credit is tightening" (October 20, 2026): a cash-settled put on the LCI as a residual value floor; in an illustrative $15M cluster the advance rises from 65% to 85%, and the floor saves the operator about $0.45M a year for about $0.17M a year; the options are OTC transactions for eligible contract participants, not exchange-listed or cleared; lenders are invited to request a mark and hedge.Source

Each quarter, publish an aggregated view (no provider names) of capacity becoming available by GPU type, region and quarter, with the methodology and share of the market covered. Invite operators to add their capacity confidentially to be included and matched.

It gives buyers a reason to plan purchases with Liquid Compute, gives operators a reason to share supply data, and turns the supply team's internal work into category leadership.

• Operators fear revealing their position

  Publish only aggregates with minimum group sizes.

• HiringHead of Compute Supply (New York City or San Francisco, $150,000-$200,000 base): "Build the supply network behind a liquid market for GPU capacity"; a supply map by provider, accelerator, region, topology, availability date and contract term; assess counterparty quality and technical readiness; build pricing benchmarks, deal comparisons and supplier records.Source
• Your website"The GPU Offtaker Credit Map: 200 Private AI Compute Buyers, Ranked" (September 28, 2026): the Liquid Compute Offtaker Score (0-100, five weighted factors, published weights); 169 of 200 buyers scored; "38 of 169 scored companies can support a multi-year offtake today"; the company-level dataset is "available on request"; "We will update it each edition, and re-score any company that shares data with us under NDA."Source