Real-time visibility
A live view of the risk inside a securities-backed line of credit — collateral value, loan-to-value, and proximity to a margin call — that today only the lending institution holds.
DHRUV INTELLIGENCE
The bank sees your collateral, your risk, and your margin call in real time — you don’t. We close that gap.
Dhruv Intelligence is the product. MACH11 is the engine inside it. KAIROS is our live research study.
The fixed point when everything moves.
Buy, borrow, die. It is the oldest strategy in wealth management. Hold appreciating assets, borrow against them instead of selling, let the tax basis reset.
The strategy has three legs. Buy and Die are patient. Borrow is not, and Borrow is the leg Dhruv Intelligence watches. Your rate can change without notice. Your collateral is repriced every day. Your terms can be revised at the bank's discretion, and you will not see any of it move until it already has.
In 2026 that leg failed three times, at three levels of sophistication. In South Korea, more than 1.2 million retail accounts hit margin calls in a matter of weeks, and an estimated 320,000 to 360,000 were liquidated by their brokers (Goldman Sachs data, July 2026). Private credit investors learned that redemptions can be limited when too many people ask for their money at once. And a hedge fund with the best prime brokers on Wall Street was forced into a full unwind in days. Different borrowers. Same mechanism. The terms moved faster than the people holding them.
“We manage it client by client,” said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, describing how banks raise collateral requirements as volatility rises.
Dhruv Intelligence exists to answer the only question that matters before the call comes. At what drawdown, at what rate, and at what advance rate cut does your line break, and how many days of runway remain.
The premise
Every discount rate starts with an equity risk premium. The most widely used estimate in practice comes from Aswath Damodaran, professor of finance at NYU Stern. He has published it annually since 2008, refreshes it monthly, and gives it away.
His 2026 reading was specific. The price of risk was normal. Stocks looked expensive on most conventional measures, but investors were being paid roughly what they have historically been paid to hold them. What he flagged instead was that the market seemed too sanguine about catastrophic risk.
That gap is the whole problem. Ordinary volatility is in the price. The tail is not. And if your portfolio is pledged against a line of credit, the tail is the only part that matters.
Further reading
Dhruv Intelligence is not affiliated with or endorsed by Professor Damodaran or NYU Stern. Links go to his published work.
See it for yourself
Drag the amount drawn, replay a real market drawdown, and watch how close a securities-backed line of credit sits to its margin-call line — and how little of that a standard portal ever shows you.
KAIROS · Principal facility view
Facility status
Principal LOC · Sample
This is what KAIROS shows a principal.
Illustrative example. Educational only.
WHAT WE DO
A live view of the risk inside a securities-backed line of credit — collateral value, loan-to-value, and proximity to a margin call — that today only the lending institution holds.
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Everything is grounded in a first-of-its-kind longitudinal dataset of how these facilities actually behave over time — research-backed, and the foundation of the engine.
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No paywalls. No data brokers tracking your net worth. No marketing traps. Just an isolated environment to stress-test your leverage against macro-shocks before the bank liquidates you.
$138 Billion
against an estimated $5 trillion in eligible collateral
In August 2024, the Federal Reserve published its first-ever attempt to size the SBLOC market — an estimated $138 billion in outstanding SBLOC loans as of Q1 2024, against an estimated $5 trillion in eligible collateral, roughly 2.7% of all U.S. consumer credit. But here is what that number reveals: no dedicated data source for this market exists. These loans are folded into the Fed's Consumer Credit release without being broken out. They are not reported to credit bureaus. To produce even an estimate, Fed economists had to reconstruct the figure from four separate, indirect bank-sector datasets spanning 2011 to 2024. A market this large — and the central bank itself cannot measure it directly. If the Fed cannot see this market clearly, neither can the principals borrowing within it. That is the gap KAIROS exists to close.
Outstanding balances: Federal Reserve FEDS Note, August 2024. Eligible collateral is an estimated addressable figure.
Your collateral is not always worth what your facility says it is. Recognition delays, haircuts, and reclassifications create a gap between what you own and what your lender counts. This is not a rumor. FINRA — the industry regulator — states that if a collateral call is triggered, lenders often can make these decisions without giving you any notice. Every major SBLOC lender discloses the same language in their own terms. A forced sale can happen before you even know there was a problem. KAIROS watches that gap every day, so it is never invisible to you.The bottom line: the bank recalculates your downside risk instantly, but delays updating your real asset values. You are trading on stale latency data; they aren't.
Source: FINRA · Securities-Backed Lines of Credit (Investor Insights)
Interest on your facility accrues every single day. Most principals never see it until the monthly statement arrives — and by then, small anomalies have compounded into real money. SBLOCs are demand loans with variable interest rates. There is no requirement that the daily accrual be shown to you in real time, and no central source reports it. KAIROS surfaces accrual behavior daily — not monthly. You see it as it happens.The bottom line: variable rates compound in the dark. Your institution's statements reflect historical monthly closes; the margin call triggers in real time mid-month.
Your advisor manages your portfolio. Your facility is a separate system — separate incentives, separate risk triggers, separate behavior. No existing platform connects the two. The SEC states it directly: all broker-dealers, investment advisers, and financial professionals have at least some conflicts of interest with their retail investors — an economic incentive to recommend products that provide more revenue for the firm, even if not in the best interest of the investor. That is not an accusation. It is the regulator's own language. KAIROS sits on your side of the table — the only side with no conflict.The bottom line: your wealth advisor is incentivized by fee-generating assets under management, not your balance sheet liabilities. They place you in the leverage facility; they do not manage the tail risk.
WHY IT'S DEFENSIBLE
A custom, natively built architecture — not a thin wrapper on someone else’s API. The data and the way it is collected are the asset.
Structured, auditable, and production-grade, with data-segregation discipline from day one — built to survive due diligence, not to be retrofitted for it.
Built and exited before. The team can lead a high-value unit through and beyond an acquisition, not just ship a prototype.
Research study
October 31, 2026 — the KAIROS research study concludes. This date is the study ending, not the product.The thesis behind principal-side intelligence for SBLOC facilities.
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KAIROS is the first rigorous single-subject case study of an SBLOC facility from the principal's seat. OSF pre-registered.
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A securities-backed line of credit is a demand loan against a portfolio. The lender recalculates collateral value, remaining capacity, and proximity to a sale every day. Most borrowers see those numbers only after the call.
Line at a 60% advance rate: $4,800,000 · untouched: $1,300,000
Headroom
37.5%
Your portfolio can fall this far before the lender can sell it
Maintenance call · shortfall
At a 75% embedded gain, that $1,400,000 sale realizes about $1,050,000 of long-term gain, roughly $250,000 in federal tax on a sale you never chose to make.
Cover is not the amount you borrowed. The lender's claim is the drawn balance. Selling stock to pay down the line shrinks the collateral at the same time it shrinks the loan, so each dollar sold closes only thirty cents of a shortfall at a 70% maintenance rate. To close a shortfall, more stock must be sold than the shortfall itself. That ratio is the forced-sale multiple: one divided by one minus the maintenance rate.
At a seventy percent maintenance rate, every dollar of shortfall requires three dollars and thirty-three cents of stock sold. If the required sale is larger than the portfolio that remains, the figure reads more than you have. That case is correct. It means the sale cannot restore the line from what is left.
A securities-backed line of credit is a demand loan. The lender can require repayment without a scheduled maturity. Cover that looks adequate on a quiet day is not a term. It is a snapshot the lender can revise.
The portfolio you pledged is marked continuously. The value that supports the line is the lender's value, after haircuts and eligibility rules, not the last price on your statement. A gap between those two numbers is ordinary. You are not shown it in real time.
The share of a position the lender will lend against, and the level at which it will call, are not fixed. Either can be tightened as volatility rises, as a name concentrates, or as the book is reclassified. A cut in the maintenance rate raises the trigger without a single share being sold.
Market price and lending value do not have to move one at a time. A decline in the portfolio can arrive with a tighter maintenance rate on the same day. Headroom compresses from both sides. The forced-sale multiple then applies to a larger shortfall.
A book that is heavy in a few names can be assigned a lower advance rate than a diversified book of the same market value. The lender is not required to wait until a name has already fallen. The limit can move first.
The drawn balance is not static. Interest is added daily on a variable rate. Most borrowers see the accrual on a monthly statement. The maintenance test does not wait for that statement.
If a collateral call is triggered, the lender can often act without giving you notice. A forced sale can complete before a portal updates.
Crossing the maintenance threshold is the event. It is not a courtesy alert. The remedy is pay down, pledge more, or sell. The sale is sized to restore the lender's cover, which is why the multiple exceeds one.
The stock sold to close a shortfall is sold into the same market that produced the shortfall. The sale itself reduces remaining collateral. That is why a shortfall of one dollar is not cured by selling one dollar of stock.
Month-end figures describe a close that has already happened. The call, if it comes, is computed on the live book. Watching the statement is not the same as watching the line.
Your adviser manages the portfolio. The facility is a separate system, with separate incentives and separate triggers. The adviser who placed the line is not paid to monitor the call.
Dhruv Intelligence exists to put the lender's view on your side of the table. KAIROS has watched a live facility since June 2026. The only question that matters before the call comes is the one on the gauge: at what drawdown, at what rate, and at what advance-rate cut the line breaks, and how much cover remains.