How to work with a hedge fund?

I am a software developer/trader developing research/securities software that may be of use to emerging funds, micro hedge funds, family offices, wealth managers etc. It aims to reduce data errors/risk as well as unnecessary setup work and expensive programming so that funds/independents can focus on high ROI activities (eg implementing new strategies, scaling existing strategies to new instruments/markets, quickly test/invalidate ideas etc). The software presently includes:

⦁ Support of a universal data/broker neutral web API price/fundamental/transaction data downloader (json, xml, html, csv, excel etc format) that directly updates and stores multiple data sources in a relational dataomeglebase allowing you to benefit from and process securities data available on the web as well as broker/bank account data. Includes real time market updates as as well large scale historical data sets. The user configures their own api's to work with the database.

⦁ Spin-up new securities data and corporate action data processing studies as well as apply complex formulas to your securities data via an innovative simple visual scripting framework using coloured function building blocks that lock together like a jigsaw puzzle - no coding!

⦁ Decision Support System - ensures discipline and rigor when making market calls. No more impulse trading or investments!

⦁ Get comprehensive trade order book P&L reporting including Trial Balance, P&L Balance Sheet, Transaction logs, Statements, Trading Performance

⦁ ​​Supports audit/data lineage reporting and transaction logging for regulatory compliance as well as multiple dataxender

⦁ ​View and maintain Market and Corporate Actions Calendars

⦁ ​Create responsive charts with sophisticated navigation, annotation and client-side analytics.

⦁ Supports a visual Order Management agile trade management tool (Trading Strips) designed to help visualize trades, limit trades-in-progress, maximize trade flow and reduce risk.

⦁ Your research/backtesting environment (eg Python, R, third party tools etc) hooks into the rdbms and ultimately uses the same trading logic to generate realistic backtests. . All data securities and transaction data can be stored and processed in the rdbms including data export in json, xml, html, csv, excel etc formats.

⦁ Integrates with Microsoft Excel combining the power of Excel with the power of enterprise level database technology (MS SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, Mysql, Firebird etc)

The software could be used by emerging funds/micro funds/small FOs etc and if there was any interest then I can setup a web page to give more info and download access (easy and quick to install). Alternatively the software can be developed further for proprietary use by a fund. What would be the best approach and how would I go about it?

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