Materials Candidate Screening Pain Radar

A low-disclosure review study for reducing candidate overload before costly validation

Do early-stage material, formulation, additive, or sample candidates create friction before expensive validation? ProofRoute is a low-disclosure triage workflow designed to help technical teams decide which candidates should be tested, paused, or routed to CALPHAD, characterization, or customer validation next.

Short Non-Confidential Feedback Requested

You do not need to share confidential formulas, customer names, unpublished data, or full process details for the first review. One or two non-confidential sentences are enough.

Who This Is For

  • Materials R&D teams.
  • Formulation, additive, or battery-material teams.
  • Testing, analysis, and failure-analysis labs.
  • Technical managers handling too many candidate options.
  • Teams that need early screening before deeper validation.

What Not To Send

  • Do not send confidential formulas.
  • Do not send customer names or proprietary project details.
  • Do not send unpublished datasets or process conditions.
  • A short comment about whether the workflow pain exists is enough.

Example Triage Output

What It Is

  • Pain Radar study artifact for learning where candidate-screening friction appears.
  • Early triage layer to compress decision space and rank composition boxes.
  • Audit trail documenting seed, database version, and code footprint for every run.
  • CALPHAD CSV import channel to bridge empirical screenings with thermodynamic limits.
  • Priority-0 language guardrails that block over-claiming before review.

What It Is Not

  • Not an AI materials predictor that claims self-evident success.
  • Not physical alloy validation or a substitute for microstructural analysis.
  • Not a replacement for CALPHAD modeling or thermodynamic databases.
  • Not a replacement for physical experiments, heat-treatment studies, or mechanical testing.

The Three-Phase Workflow

PHASE 1

Empirical Screening

Runs a reproducible bounded-simplex sampler and computes fast physical descriptors (VEC, delta mismatch) to reject unstable regions.

PHASE 2

Thermodynamic Audit

Imports external CSV exports from CALPHAD tools (Thermo-Calc/Pandat). Checks local margins and logs data provenance.

PHASE 3

Audited Pilot Report

Performs a Priority-0 vocabulary audit and outputs a structured draft detailing flags, limits, and the next physical experiment plan.

Non-Evidence Pipeline Demonstration

This interactive viewer demonstrates how the Phase 1 screening data feeds into the Phase 2 import channel, and how the pipeline prevents mock data from falsely unlocking conclusion states.

proofroute_triage_runner.py
Phase 1: Screening Output
Phase 2: Import Status

Priority-0 Language Guardrails

To maintain scientific integrity, ProofRoute enforces a vocabulary compiler check. High-risk terms are strictly blocked without expert-reviewed CALPHAD evidence.

Avoid (Blocked without Reviewed Evidence) Use Instead (Auditable Description)
validated reviewed within calculation conditions
proven observed in this reviewed dataset
safe no configured flag observed in reviewed window
printable / commercially ready requires process experiment
confirmed consistent with imported/reviewed evidence

Three Questions

Question 1

Does candidate overload create real friction in your materials, formulation, or sample-screening workflow?

Question 2

Where does the friction usually appear before validation: candidate choice, failure mode, test objective, evidence gap, or pass/fail criteria?

Question 3

Would a low-disclosure triage report help reduce back-and-forth before testing or higher-fidelity review?

Prototype Review Questions

Method Fit

Is this low-disclosure workflow useful as an early candidate-screening layer?

Triage Layer

Are empirical gates such as VEC and delta mismatch acceptable as a first-pass triage layer when clearly labeled as non-final?

Evidence Boundary

What CALPHAD export, provenance, or review fields would be required before this could support a pilot report?

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