CLARK Frontier / Evidence before action.Independent research / 2026

A decision workbench for AI

VIBES ARENOTEVIDENCE.

Evidence before action.

Compare AI workflows. Inspect uncertainty. Know when the evidence supports your next move.

Lloyd Clark, PhD / Federal AI

Boldly go. Carefully extrapolate.

A cinematic orbital scene above Earth. Illustrative artwork, not evaluation results.
Beyond confidence. Into evidence.
01 Freeze the question02 Challenge the models03 Inspect the evidencePowered by CLARK Criterion

CLARK Criterion / AI workflow evaluation

Choose the workflow.
Know the evidence.

Model · prompt · tools · budget
The whole system is the candidate.

AI evaluation / v0.35Synthetic fixture · no model calls
Load a frozen trace bankFiles stay in this tab. No provider credentials or outbound model calls.

The bundled example uses deterministic synthetic workflows.

Evidence before action.

Ready to test the evidence.

Import complete workflow traces to inspect outcomes, costs and what remains unresolved.

Test case families0
Recorded attempts0
Eligible workflows0
Recorded provider charges—

Loss and uncertainty

Observed archive loss Audit bounds

The complete workflow comparison will appear here.

No replay audit work yet.

Observed results describe the imported cases. No statistical decision has been issued.

Case-weighted workflow outcomes, availability of costs and declared eligibility
Frozen workflowLoss / boundsCompletionUnsupported actionProvider chargesEligibility
No trace bank loaded.

The next useful step begins with a frozen question and an independently checked outcome.

Inspect sources, workflow versions and file integrity
The dataset, manifests and response hashes remain inspectable.
Check the decision independently with OCaml

Evaluate evidence in this tab, then export a verification request. The native OCaml core recomputes conservative bounds and the decision using integer interval arithmetic. Exporting does not run the checker.

Build the checker from the research package and run it locally:

clark-criterion verify CLARK_Criterion_Verification_Request.json --checker verification/ocaml/_build/default/bin/criterion_check.exe --out verification.json

The first checker covers one archive regime without imported certificates. It checks numerical replay, not label truth, provider identity or future performance. A mismatch or unsupported request does not receive a successful verification.

Checker source and build instructions ↓

Inspect the decision record
No statistical decision record yet.

Mission / intelligence assurance

One question.
A defensible next move.

Local research modeProduction Ask Bolt: disconnected
Criterion / v0.35Computed locally · no provider calls
Experiment settings
Calendar + qualification example ↓

Synthetic context. A model comparison needs a frozen question.

Choose the complete workflow

Which model earns the decision?

Compare frozen outputs on the same futures. Model names alone are not evidence.

Open the original decision lab ↗

Decision evidence

A model must earn its place.

Run the same declared experiment across the local candidate workflows or import frozen model responses.

Paired futures0
Elapsed computation—
Constrained upper regret—

The cost–risk frontier

Empirical stressed risk Worst-case upper bound

Tournament costs come from an evaluator-owned pricebook frozen before proposals. Resource caps and a common budget apply to every candidate. Units are synthetic, not dollars. Points estimate worst-case risk over the declared mixture ball; their vertical intervals are joint anytime bounds. Empirical points are descriptive; eligibility and recommendations use the joint anytime bounds. A dotted line joins the estimated Pareto frontier. Simulator-conditional floating-point bounds are not formally validated numerical enclosures.

Tournament workflows, provenance and simulation evidence
WorkflowNominal riskWorst-case risk boundsRelative costStatus
No results collected.

The first experiment starts with balanced observations in every regime.

Inspect provenance, prices and resource limits
The model version, prompt, tools, context hash and measured simulation work will remain inspectable.

The included ridge workflow is fitted locally. Imported LLM outputs are frozen responses, not live agents. This prototype does not establish operational validity or evaluate superintelligence.

Mathematics before mythology. The interface explores uncertain futures; the current evidence remains synthetic and conditional on its simulator.

CLARK Criterion / paired decision lab

Inspect the complete experiment.

Computed on your device.
No upload. No API key.

Current evidence

A decision needs evidence.

A recommendation must meet both the risk limit and regret tolerance.

Constrained upper regret—among acceptable plans
Upper target-failure risk—robust, simulator conditional
Paired future worlds0all plans see each future

Risk evidence, as it accumulates

Upper worst-case risk · limit − −
The actual risk bound will appear here.

A target is a declared completion threshold and day.

Live paired comparisons of frozen plans
PlanNominal estimateWorst-case risk boundsConstrained regretRelative cost
Run the live evaluation to compare the plans.

Loss = target-failure probability + cost weight × declared relative cost. A plan must meet the risk ceiling before it can be recommended. Costs are illustrative inputs, not quoted prices. Estimates are descriptive under adaptive stopping; inference uses the anytime bounds.

Where the next samples go

What to do next

Start with balanced pilot observations across the four regimes.

The model is fitted before evaluation; its training worlds are counted.

Inspect a capacity impossibility proof

Run the evaluation to search for an exact resource-cut witness.

Inspect a sampled disagreement

No sampled disagreement yet.

Bring an AI proposal.

Freeze a model's priorities before the test. Compare its consequences on the same futures.

What this example does and does not establish

The confidence family covers the frozen plans and within-regime simulator laws. A 95% simulation statement does not establish real-world model adequacy. No language model or superintelligent system was tested; the built-in learned candidate is a fitted ridge priority model.

One mathematical question. Many pathways.

What is holding readiness back?

01

Sport pilot training

Aircraft, CFIs, solo practice, weather, repeated lessons and examiner access. The MOSAIC-aware roadmap separates training readiness from legal eligibility.

02

Clinical education

Placement capacity, preceptors and assessments. The present workday proxy needs a proper curriculum and competency adapter before it can predict medical graduation.

03

Aircrew qualification

Aircraft, instructors, simulators and ordered events. Compare the effect of one more shared resource across the whole cohort.

Detailed forecasts and recorded model studiesOpen research tools ↗

The working demonstration

A forecast you can inspect.

Runs in your browser.
No data upload or telemetry.
Synthetic cohort

Planning context

20 pilots
Shared resources
Future conditions
Reproducibility

The same seed pairs future conditions across policy and resource comparisons.

Synthetic inputs. Set your assumptions.
Cohort outlook

Graduation, as a distribution.

Expected complete by horizon—of the cohort
Mean probability of meeting target—under the declared simulation
Restricted mean completion time—calendar days, capped at horizon

Cohort completion curve

Mean Scenario P10–P90

The shaded range represents variation across simulated futures, not a calibrated confidence interval.

Individual graduation outlook

Dates include shared resource competition and repeated events.

Simulated graduation dates and probabilities by pilot
PilotTargetP10MedianP90On target
Run the forecast to inspect each pilot.

“Beyond horizon” preserves right-censoring. It does not invent a graduation date.

Where time is lost

Mean counts per simulated future. Weather uses training days; other rows use events or pilot opportunities. Several constraints can affect one day.

What changes the outlook?

Compare one resource change at a time on the same simulated futures.

Your cohort, locally.Import remaining syllabus counts and target dates.
Scope of this prototype. The example is synthetic and has not been validated against Air Force operations. Inputs describe a simplified ordered syllabus, daily capacities, and declared disruption assumptions. Validate the syllabus, resource rules, and forecast calibration before operational reliance.

CLARK Criterion / the mathematical engine

From a plausible answer
to a measurable decision.

CLARK Criterion: Proof-Assisted Paired Monte Carlo for Risk-Constrained Planning

Lloyd Clark, PhD · Federal AI

CLARK Criterion is the mathematical evaluation engine inside the CLARK Frontier workbench. It samples disruption regimes adaptively, fits a frozen priority model, and can qualify a risk-acceptable plan or explicitly withhold a recommendation. The paper separates proved claims, synthetic experiments, and research still to be done.

The contribution is a specified composition of resource-infeasibility tests, paired anytime inference and constrained selection over a frozen menu. No general Monte Carlo speedup, optimal sampling rule or real-world calibration is established.

Inspect the mathematical contract

A shared integer target. Both screening and rollout label a miss when fewer than the same required number of learners finish. The target is fixed before evaluation.

Capacity impossibility. If every eligible target-sized group needs more weighted work than a sampled future supplies, no compliant scheduler can meet that target in that future.

∑j=1…m v(j)(y) > ∑r yrCr

Risk-constrained regret. Joint paired confidence sequences first qualify acceptable risk, then bound extra risk-plus-cost loss against every potentially acceptable plan, including permitted mixture shifts. The live evaluation can stop or return unresolved.

Evidence boundary. Proofs replace exact binary labels; they do not invent dates. Adaptive allocation has not established a general advantage over strong static allocation. Calculations use floating-point arithmetic, not formally validated interval arithmetic. No actual LLM or superintelligence has been tested.

The companion AI workflows paper describes the new evaluation system and its measured evidence. Inspect the provenance of each study; synthetic fixtures, recorded model traces and live runs are distinct.

From demonstration to deployment

Start with one cohort.

Use a sanitized course snapshot to inspect assumptions, identify bottlenecks, and replay decisions. An Optimize integration can then replace the example inputs with an approved syllabus and resource adapter.

Discuss an Optimize pilot
01

Map the operational contract. Pin the syllabus, available records, resource rules, and decision cutoff.

02

Validate against completed cohorts. Measure date error, interval coverage, and the consequences of a wrong recommendation.

03

Evaluate the deployed workflow. Compare models and policies with their actual latency, cost, and constraints.