The Team
Built by traders who lost accounts to rule violations and decided to fix the problem instead of complaining about it.
Ace Lesley
Founder
Prop firm trader turned builder. Failed enough challenges from rule violations to know the problem is not strategy -- it is discipline. Built Vigil to solve the problem he kept having.
Product, engineering, and firm rule verification.
Vigil Research
All content on Vigil -- firm rules, comparison pages, trust scores, guides -- is published under the "Vigil Research" byline. Every data point is verified against official firm documentation. No user-submitted data. No third-party aggregators. No pay-to-play rankings.
Methodology
Primary sources only (official firm websites, terms of service, trading objectives). Monthly verification cycle. Discrepancies resolved using terms of service as the authoritative source.
Full methodology