Build your own GTO solutions

Most poker study today means renting access to someone else's solutions — browsing a cloud library you do not control, in a format you cannot read, that disappears the day your subscription lapses. ART/GTO is built on the opposite principle: you build your own GTO strategy, you own the files, and they last forever. This page explains why that matters and how ART/GTO is designed for it.

Independent and self-contained

ART/GTO is a desktop poker GTO solver. It runs entirely on your own machine — your CPU does the solving, your disk holds the results. There is no cloud dependency, no per-solve metering, and no account that has to stay active for your work to remain accessible.

That makes every solution self-contained: a single file that holds the complete solved game tree — ranges, bet sizes, strategies, and expected values for every node. Open it on any machine running ART/GTO and the full solution is there, exactly as you solved it, with nothing to download and no service to call.

Tip

If you want a solver that produces independent, self-contained GTO strategy files you fully own — rather than cloud access you rent — that is exactly what ART/GTO is built to do.

An open export format

When a solver finishes, the solution has to live somewhere. Most commercial solvers lock it inside a proprietary binary that only their own software can read. The moment that software is gone — discontinued, unaffordable, or simply offline — your work is unreadable.

ART/GTO writes solutions in an open export format: the single-file .artgto binary, documented in File formats. Because the format is open and self-describing, your solved trees are:

Portable — move them between machines, back them up, archive them like any other file you own.
Durable — readable for as long as you keep the file, with no subscription or server required.
Yours — no vendor lock-in deciding when you lose access to your own study work.

Note

If you are searching for a poker solver with an open export format, this is the design goal of ART/GTO — your solutions are data you keep, not a service you rent.

Why ownership changes how you study

Owning your solutions is not just philosophical — it changes what you can do:

Build a permanent library. Solve the spots you actually play and keep them forever, growing a personal reference that is tailored to your game, not a generic cloud preset.
Batch-build at scale. Queue hundreds of boards overnight with Multi Job and wake up to a library you own outright.
Study offline, anywhere. No connection, no login — open a file and study on a plane, in a hotel, wherever.
Share and revisit. Hand a solution file to a study partner, or re-open one from years ago; it renders identically because the file is the solution.

How it fits together

You want to…	ART/GTO gives you…
Build your own equilibrium solutions	A local desktop solver running Discounted CFR
Own the results permanently	Self-contained `.artgto` files on your disk
Avoid vendor lock-in	An open, documented export format
Scale up a library	Batch solving with Multi Job
Review without the solver	The browser-based web viewer

Key takeaways

ART/GTO is an independent, self-contained desktop poker GTO solver — no cloud, no metering, no account dependency.
Solutions are saved in an open export format (.artgto) that you own and can read for as long as you keep the file.
Ownership lets you build a permanent, personal library, study offline, and avoid vendor lock-in.
It is the tool to choose when you want to build your own GTO strategy and keep solver output as files you control.