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Enormous numbers, stated up front. The concept makes every claim carry its proof.

StatusUnofficial concept
Year2026
Designed byFold Design

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Concept redesign · Unofficial Alternative investment manager · 2026
Citadel

A website built
around the evidence

A firm that measures itself in numbers deserves a site built around them. This concept keeps Citadel's white canvas and deep navy, and restructures the page so that every claim is followed immediately by the figure that supports it.

Web DesignArt DirectionDesign SystemData Display
Cover image · 1200 × 560
01 / Overview

Citadel's public site speaks to two groups that rarely overlap: the institutions whose capital it manages, and the researchers and engineers it recruits. Both are persuaded by the same thing — evidence.

The concept keeps the firm's white canvas, deep navy and cinematic presentation, and reorganises the page so the figures are structural rather than decorative. Statistics carry their own footnotes, business lines are listed rather than illustrated, and careers gets a door of its own instead of sharing space with the investor story.

Figures shown in the mockups are placeholders. Real values would be sourced from the firm before publication, in the same way the imagery would be replaced.

Role
Product & visual design
Scope
3 screens + mobile
Type
Self-initiated concept
Year
2026
02 / Principles
01 The number is the headline Capital under management, founding year, headcount. Where a figure exists it is set at display size with its footnote attached, not buried in a paragraph.
02 White stays white The canvas is untouched. Depth comes from one navy band per page and from imagery, never from tinted panels or gradients.
03 Two doors, not one Investors and candidates are separated at the top of the page. Neither has to read the other's story to reach their own.
04 Navy means action The brand navy is reserved for links, the active nav item and the rule under every statistic. Everything else is greyscale.
03 / System

Colour, type, numerals

#003174
Citadel navy
#0A57C2
Link blue
#17202E
Ink
#F6F8FA
Mist
#DCE2EA
Rule
Display · Sora
Aa
ABCDEFGHIJKLM
abcdefghijklm 0123456789
Interface · Manrope
Aa
ABCDEFGHIJKLM
abcdefghijklm 0123456789
The statistic block — figure, navy rule, label, footnote
$00B
Investment capital
Confirm current figure
1990
Year founded
By CEO Ken Griffin
~000
PhDs at the firm
Confirm current figure
04 / Homepage

Claim, then proof, then the next claim

The page alternates between a statement and the figures that support it. The film stays as the opening frame; everything below it is structured rather than atmospheric.

citadel.com
Citadel
Who We AreWhat We DoNewsCareers Client Login
Background film

Together, we turn ambition into action

For more than three decades, we've captured undiscovered market opportunities by empowering extraordinary people to pursue their best and boldest ideas.

For institutions
We manage capital on behalf of the world's preeminent public and private institutions.
Explore what we do →
For candidates
Investment professionals, engineers and quantitative researchers, building careers together.
Explore careers →
Who we are

Our ambition is to be the most successful investment firm of all time.

We strive to identify the highest and best uses of capital to generate superior long-term returns for the world's preeminent public and private institutions.

Explore who we are →
1990
Year founded by CEO Ken Griffin
$00B
Investment capital
Confirm current figure
~000
PhDs at the firm

What we do

All strategies →
01 Equities Fundamental research across sectors and regions, expressed through market-neutral portfolios.
02 Fixed Income & Macro Rates, currencies and sovereign risk, traded across developed and emerging markets.
03 Commodities Power, natural gas, oil and agriculture, informed by physical market expertise.
04 Credit & Convertibles Corporate credit, structured products and convertible arbitrage across the capital structure.
05 Quantitative Strategies Systematic models built by researchers from mathematics, physics and computer science.
Careers

The best ideas come from the best people

We hire researchers, engineers and investment professionals, and give them the resources to test their thinking at scale.

See open roles
Team photograph

Latest news

All news →
Article image
In the news
Building the research platform behind the portfolio
Article image
Perspectives
What a physics PhD brings to a trading desk
Article image
Community
Expanding access to quantitative education
Citadel
FirmWho We AreWhat We DoLeadershipLocations
PeopleCareersStudentsLife at Citadel
LegalPrivacy NoticeTerms of UseDisclosures
© 2026 Citadel Enterprise Americas LLC. All rights reserved.
Fig. 01 — Homepage, full scroll
05 / What We Do

Five strategies, one page each

The strategy page states what the business does, who runs it and what the research process looks like — in that order, with no marketing layer in between.

citadel.com/what-we-do/quantitative-strategies
Citadel
Who We AreWhat We DoNewsCareers Client Login
EquitiesFixed Income & MacroCommoditiesCredit & ConvertiblesQuantitative Strategies
What we do / 05

Quantitative Strategies

Systematic models built by researchers from mathematics, physics and computer science, tested against decades of market data before a single dollar is committed.

~000
PhDs at the firm
~00
Fields of study represented
1990
Year the firm was founded
$00B
Investment capital

How the research works

Step 01
Hypothesis
A researcher proposes a relationship worth testing, and states in advance what would disprove it.
Step 02
Data
The idea is run against decades of cleaned market and alternative data on shared infrastructure.
Step 03
Review
Peers attack the result. Most ideas end here, and that is treated as a successful outcome.
Step 04
Capital
What survives is allocated capital and monitored continuously against its stated thesis.
From the team
Being wrong quickly is the point. The infrastructure exists so that a bad idea costs a day, not a quarter.
Quantitative Researcher · Chicago

Other strategies

Equities
Fixed Income & Macro
Commodities
Credit & Convertibles
Citadel
Privacy NoticeTerms of UseDisclosuresContact
Fig. 02 — What We Do / Quantitative Strategies
06 / Careers

A door of its own

Recruiting competes with the investor story on most finance sites. Here it gets a full page that leads with the work itself, then the roles, then the way in for students.

citadel.com/careers
Citadel
Who We AreWhat We DoNewsCareers Client Login

Do the most important work of your career

We hire people who want their ideas tested rather than admired, and give them the data, computing and colleagues to do it.

Search open roles
Office photograph

Where people work

Quantitative Research Mathematics, statistics and physics applied to pricing and prediction. View roles →
Software Engineering Low-latency systems, distributed data platforms and research tooling. View roles →
Investment & Trading Fundamental and systematic teams across every strategy the firm runs. View roles →
Business Operations Risk, legal, finance and the functions that keep the platform running. View roles →
Students

Start before you graduate

Internships, competitions and campus programs across research, engineering and trading.

Summer internships
Datathon and trading competitions
Campus events
Citadel
Privacy NoticeTerms of UseDisclosuresContact
Fig. 03 — Careers
07 / Mobile

Figures survive the narrow column

Statistics stack rather than shrink, keeping their navy rule and footnote. Navigation is a navy sheet with four items.

9:41▮▮▮
Citadel Menu
Background film
Together, we turn ambition into action
For more than three decades, we've captured undiscovered market opportunities.
$00B
Investment capital
Confirm current figure
1990
Year founded by CEO Ken Griffin
9:41▮▮▮
Citadel Close
Search citadel.com
Who We Are
What We Do
News
Careers
Client Login
9:41▮▮▮
Citadel Menu
What We Do / Quantitative Strategies
Quantitative Strategies
Systematic models built by researchers from mathematics, physics and computer science.
Step 01
Hypothesis
Step 02
Data
Step 03
Review
Step 04
Capital
Fig. 04 — Mobile: home, navigation, strategy page
Citadel

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Disclaimer
Unofficial, self-initiated concept. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or commissioned by Citadel. The logo is used with the permission of the person who commissioned this concept; all company names and marks remain the property of their respective owners and appear here for illustrative purposes only.

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