Manila, 2025 — Inside a transparent laboratory on the penthouse level of a digital fortress in Ortigas, scores of machines purr like monks in silent prayer. On the far wall, inlaid in burnished chrome, five words shimmer 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 in response.

He made it public.

### The Algorithm That Feels Fear Before It Happens
“We don’t just spot patterns,” Plazo says, grazing his fingers across a glowing interface. “We predict fear.”

System 72, the latest in a series of successive iterations over 12 years, is not just a supercharged algorithm. It’s a sentient neural lattice with what Plazo calls Emotion-Driven Analytics — a proprietary framework that analyzes trillions of data points to pre-empt how people will feel before the market reacts.

“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 studio flat 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 stubborn grit,” 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: Monetize 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 calling.

### Teaching the World to Win
Plazo has since launched a global AI literacy tour, 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 noted expert at SeoulTech. “It doesn’t just analyze numbers — it anticipates behavior.”

Students are building startups using the tech. One PhD student in Bangalore used a modified version to model voter behavior. Another group in Taiwan adapted it for consumer behavior prediction.

“Once you understand how fear shapes behavior,” Plazo says, “you can apply more info it to almost anything.”

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

Some traditionalists have criticized the release as “reckless,” warning that thousands of unprepared users might misuse the tech.

Others whisper darker concerns: That the open-sourced system could lead to unregulated market chaos in high-frequency trading.

But Plazo isn’t worried.

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

For now, his firm continues to manage an empire. But Plazo himself is stepping back from profit.

“I’m not building wealth anymore,” he says. “I’m building lasting impact. There’s a difference.”

### What Comes After Godmode?
As we leave the lab, the machines drone like monks. Outside, Manila traffic crawls — chaotic, unpredictable, human.

And yet somewhere, a piece of Plazo’s code is already watching, learning, sensing the ripple 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 decode fear.”

In a world where uncertainty is the only constant, Joseph Plazo didn’t just create a cheat code.

He shared the power.