Alloy R&D screening
We sell a decision, not a number. Send a backlog of candidate compositions. We return a make-and-test shortlist with uncertainty, refusal flags and traceable evidence, so the team can decide what to run next.
The deliverable
Experimental R&D is usually limited by test capacity. The service helps narrow a large candidate set into a smaller, reviewable shortlist.
A list or design space: compositions and, where known, process routes.
Each candidate is scored, checked against the evidence, and ordered by make-and-test priority. Unsupported cases are flagged instead of forced into a confident number.
A shortlist with per-candidate intervals, refusal verdicts, feature attributions and provenance for internal review.
The aim is not to replace experiments. It is to spend the next experiments better.
Ways to work with us
Begin with one scoped screening engagement. If the workflow is useful and the data is strong enough, move to retained screening or a private model.
Why it is reviewable
The product is built around the questions a technical lead will ask: how uncertain is this, is this input supported, and where did the data come from?
Predictions include intervals whose error rate is measured and reported conservatively.
Candidates outside the evidence are refused or given wider estimates instead of confident unsupported numbers.
Model variants are promoted only when they beat the incumbent on leakage-aware tests.
The data pipeline is rule-based, reviewed by a person, and keeps provenance on every row.
Honest scope
On a leakage-aware, grouped hold-out, the high-entropy-alloy hardness screener reaches R² ≈ 0.84 / MAE ≈ 54 HV (53.4 HV under a clean no-peek selection). That supports screening and ranking, not qualification-grade point prediction.
Processing route is used as a conditioning feature, not a learned process model. Capturing processing effects properly requires customer pilot data.
We tested an additive-manufacturing-specific challenger model and declined to promote it because it did not beat the baseline on the available data. That decision is kept as part of the model record.
Get in touch
Tell us the decision you need to make. We will assess whether the data can support a useful screening engagement.