Portfolio standard¶
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| # | Wave | Artifact | Type | Minimum evidence | Reviewer | Pass test |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wave 1 | Formal specification + proof | Proof/specification | A nontrivial safety or correctness property with explicit assumptions and adversarial counterexample attempts. | Formal reviewer | No hidden assumptions survive challenge. |
| 2 | Wave 1 | Calculus/vector model | Derivation + numerical check | One nonlinear physical/sensor system with local linearization, integral balance, units and error bounds. | Math/physics reviewer | Analytic and numerical predictions reconcile. |
| 3 | Wave 1 | Linear algebra identifiability dossier | Analysis + code | Rank/nullspace/conditioning/SVD analysis of a sensor or inverse problem. | Numerical reviewer | Failure due to ill-conditioning predicted before computation. |
| 4 | Wave 1 | Nonlinear dynamics study | Simulation + oral defense | State model, equilibria, phase portrait, stability, perturbations and model boundary. | Dynamics/control reviewer | Qualitative predictions precede simulation. |
| 5 | Wave 1 | Probability/risk model | Analysis + Monte Carlo | Analytic and simulated risk with dependence/common-cause assumptions. | Statistics reviewer | Simulation and analytic result agree or discrepancy explained. |
| 6 | Wave 1 | Causal target-trial redesign | Causal design | Turn an observational claim into estimand/DAG/target trial and sensitivity analysis. | Causal inference reviewer | Causal claim independent of estimator. |
| 7 | Wave 1 | Numerical solver verification | Scientific computing | ODE/PDE/inverse solver with convergence, conditioning and residual/conservation checks. | Numerical methods reviewer | Separates model and numerical error. |
| 8 | Wave 1 | Objective-function audit | Optimization | A real optimization where proxy gaming is demonstrated and objective/constraints redesigned. | Optimization/policy reviewer | Shows a metric improving while true goal worsens. |
| 9 | Wave 1 | Signal/information system | Signals/information | Sampling/filter/channel or sensor-information design with noise and bandwidth limits. | Signals reviewer | Destroyed/recoverable information identified. |
| 10 | Wave 1 | Closed-loop control system | Control/estimation | Unknown plant model, estimator, controller, robustness/failure injection. | Controls reviewer | Works under specified perturbations; failure boundaries stated. |
| 11 | Wave 1 | Calibration/DOE package | Metrology/experiment | Raw data, uncertainty budget, factorial/controlled experiment and reproducibility instructions. | Experimental reviewer | Independent reproduction succeeds. |
| 12 | Wave 2 | Electromechanical device model | Physics/engineering | Force/field/circuit/energy model tied to build/simulation. | Physics/electrical reviewer | Energy and force calculations close. |
| 13 | Wave 2 | Thermodynamic hard-bound analysis | Thermo | Efficiency/entropy/transport/heat-rejection bound for a frontier system. | Thermal reviewer | No first/second-law or transport violation. |
| 14 | Wave 2 | Material claim characterization plan | Materials | Mechanism, predicted signatures, alternative explanations, characterization ladder and reproducibility. | Materials reviewer | Extraordinary claim requires multiple independent observables. |
| 15 | Wave 2 | Embedded instrument | Hardware/software | Sensor -> analog -> ADC -> real-time logic -> actuator + calibration/watchdog/fault log. | Embedded reviewer | Timing/noise/power budgets match behavior. |
| 16 | Wave 2 | Mechanical/fluid design review | Mechanical | CAD or detailed design with loads, flow, fatigue, tolerances, failure and test plan. | Mechanical reviewer | Governing failure mode identified before optimization. |
| 17 | Wave 2 | Biological systems model | Bio systems | Transport/metabolism/gene-network or tissue model with controls and measurement plan. | Biology reviewer | Mass/energy/information and biological context consistent. |
| 18 | Wave 2 | Evolutionary robustness study | Evolution/systems biology | Stochastic/evolutionary escape or adaptation model. | Evolution reviewer | Design survives or explicitly fails under adaptation. |
| 19 | Wave 2 | Human physiological control model | Neuro/physiology | BCI/artificial-organ/exoskeleton closed loop including adaptation and safety. | Neuro/physiology reviewer | User/physiology is part of loop, not an external nuisance. |
| 20 | Wave 2 | 10,000-unit manufacturing plan | Manufacturing/operations | Routing, takt/rate, WIP, bottleneck, yield, QA, downtime, maintenance, supply and unit cost. | Manufacturing reviewer | Throughput/cost/yield reconcile. |
| 21 | Wave 2 | Integrated safety case | Safety/reliability/security | Hazard log, STPA/FMEA/reliability/threat model, monitor and shutdown criteria. | Safety/security reviewer | Critical claims trace to evidence or explicit assumption. |
| 22 | Wave 3 | Frontier replication | Research reproduction | Independent reproduction of one current/open result in chosen track. | Domain researcher | Central claim survives or failure is clearly documented. |
| 23 | Wave 3 | Mechanism-level extension | Research extension | Minimal change targeting a stable failure mechanism with preregistered metrics. | Domain researcher | Predicts where it helps and where it should not. |
| 24 | Wave 3 | Integrated frontier system | System closure | Domain capstone carrying result through relevant physical/data/operational constraints. | Cross-domain panel | No hidden magical subsystem. |
| 25 | Wave 3 | Frontier research paper | Paper | Abstract, methods, results, negative results, limitations, reproducibility, cost/compute/materials. | External reviewer | Claims match evidence. |
| 26 | Wave 4 | Historical/source claim ledger | Human-systems analysis | Primary/secondary sources, competing account, changed conclusion. | Historian/source critic | Contrary evidence creates material revision. |
| 27 | Wave 4 | Objective/power/institution audit | Governance | Objectives, stakeholders, decision rights, vetoes, recourse, distributional effects. | Policy/institution reviewer | Changes system design or deployment conditions. |
| 28 | Wave 4 | Incident/drift reconstruction | Organizational safety | Escalation timeline, weak signals, authority, normalization and control structure. | Safety/org reviewer | Produces leading indicators/stop-work changes. |
| 29 | Wave 4 | Wicked-problem portfolio | Governance/decision | Multiple formulations, incompatible values, reversible portfolio, monitoring and reformulation. | Mixed panel | Does not pretend one scalar objective resolves contested values. |
| 30 | Wave 4 | Conflict/design-review record | Communication | Recorded/annotated disagreement, interests, evidence, decision and unresolved issues. | Peer/team reviewer | Clarity increases even if consensus does not. |
| 31 | Wave 4 | Economics and real-options model | Economics/capital | Bottom-up cost, sensitivity, staged investment, abandonment/pivot option. | Finance/ops reviewer | Technical priority changes under economics when appropriate. |
| 32 | Wave 4 | Compliance/standards matrix | Regulation | Primary authority, requirement, evidence, owner, verification and update trigger. | Domain compliance reviewer | Legal minimum distinguished from safety/ethics. |
| 33 | Wave 4 | Reproducible public release | Research integrity | Clean-environment reproduction package, data provenance, limitations and negative-results appendix. | Independent reproducer | Central result reproduced without oral help. |
| 34 | Wave 4 | Lab/company constitution | Institution design | Mission/non-goals, decision rights, review cadence, stop-work, conflict and evidence standards. | Leadership/institution reviewer | Protects dissent/evidence when founder/PI is wrong. |
| 35 | Final | 136-week dossier + 12-month program | Integration | Selected best artifacts, thesis, strongest objections, uncertainty, research agenda, kill/pivot criteria. | Three-person adversarial panel | You can explain what not to build and why. |