Independent surrogate qualification

Know when your surrogate can answer, and when it must fall back to the solver.

Phyloop audits physics-AI surrogates for a stated engineering use case. You provide the model evidence; we return the deployment boundary, fallback rule, and evidence gaps.

surrogate trust runtime fallback evidence before deployment
Qualification workflow

Turn surrogate evidence into a serve-or-solver gate.

The audit starts with one stated engineering use case. It checks the declared parameter envelope, prediction metrics, calibration evidence, and OOD behavior, then returns a report and runtime fallback rule.

Scope 01 / 03

Declare the use

Context of use and validated operating envelope validated envelope use case boundary first

Define the context of use, operating envelope, allowed decisions, and excluded claims before judging the surrogate.

Method
context envelope exclusions
Evidence 02 / 03

Audit the evidence

Prediction evidence, coverage, and ID/OOD checks metric coverage OOD

Check prediction metrics, calibration coverage, ID/OOD pools, uncertainty score, and case-level failures.

Method
metrics coverage ID/OOD
Gate 03 / 03

Ship the gate

Runtime gate serving in-envelope cases and routing unsafe cases to the solver case runtime gate serve solver

Return the qualification report, runtime gate, case decisions, solver backfill queue, and manifest.

Output
report gate backfill
If surrogate trust is the bottleneck

Send the surrogate type, solver/source of truth, and decision it feeds. The first step is to map what evidence already exists and what must route back to the solver.

Request a qualification audit →
Public evidence

Inspect the method, report, and deployment evidence.

Before sharing private model data, a CAE team can open the public audit sample, read the method paper, and inspect the repository behind the qualification flow.

PL-WP-002 technical whitepaper cover Method note

Read the surrogate qualification method.

The technical note behind the audit: context of use, explicit envelope, score threshold, coverage evidence, OOD behavior, and solver fallback.

Embedded sample audit report
Sample audit report

Steady thermal-fluid surrogate audit

Conditionally qualified
0.90ID served
0.9095Coverage 90
222Solver routed

Open the full report when you want the detailed evidence, limitations, runtime gate, and backfill recommendations.

Reviewer questions

Questions your CAE review will ask.

01 Can we inspect the method before sharing private data?

Yes. Start with the sample audit report, PL-WP-002 method paper, and public evidence repository. The private pilot uses the same audit shape on your surrogate evidence.

02 What files do you need from us?

A parameter table, a prediction/metric table, and a short context file: what the surrogate predicts, what solver or test data it answers to, the intended decision, and the parameter envelope you want reviewed.

03 What comes back from the audit?

A decision-first report, runtime gate, case-by-case serve-or-solver decisions, solver backfill recommendations, and a manifest of the inputs used. The report says where the surrogate may answer and where it should not.

04 Does this certify the surrogate?

No. It is not certification or homologation. It is an engineering qualification audit for one stated context of use, with explicit limits and fallback rules your team can review.

05 What happens outside the qualified envelope?

The gate routes the case back to the solver. That is the point: the surrogate is allowed to answer only when the declared envelope and score policy support it.

06 How long should a first pilot take?

For a prepared surrogate with usable tables, the first useful result should be a short audit cycle, not a platform rollout. The goal is to decide whether the qualification shape is valuable before deeper integration.

Audit boundary

What the audit will and will not claim.

A qualification audit is scoped to one surrogate, one intended engineering use, and one evidence package. It produces a deployment boundary and fallback rule, not a universal approval for every future design case.

  1. In scope

    Runtime gate, parameter envelope, case decisions, solver backfill queue, evidence gaps, and reportable limitations.

  2. Out of scope

    Certification, regulatory sign-off, production release approval, and hidden-regime guarantees not supported by the evidence.

  3. Needs more evidence

    New geometry families, new physics regimes, extrapolated design spaces, changed solver settings, or changed training data.

Make the boundary reviewable

For an active model, the first deliverable is a bounded audit: what the surrogate may answer, when it must fall back, and what evidence supports that decision.

Send your design problem + solver →
About Phyloop

A founder-led physics-AI startup building qualification tools for surrogate deployment.

Aditya Tiwari
Aditya Tiwari Founder · Phyloop

Phyloop is a product company at the design-partner stage. The first product is narrow: turn surrogate evidence into an audit report, runtime gate, fallback rule, and solver follow-up queue for one stated engineering use.

Stage Founder-led product company, starting with design-partner surrogate qualification audits.
Proof Public qualification repo, sample audit report, and prior paid work as a multiphysics AI consultant with Quanscient Oy. Public co-CTO LinkedIn note.
Earlier Physics-AI flood modelling endorsed by IIT Delhi's HydroSense Lab, presented to NDMA. Public IIT Delhi LinkedIn note.
Tooling
Neural operators / FNO GP surrogates Conformal prediction OpenFOAM CalculiX Morris / Sobol screening Active learning OOD diagnostics Python / JAX / PyTorch
Direct route

If the risk is real but the engagement shape is not obvious yet, share the model decision, solver stack, and what would go wrong if the surrogate is wrong.

Send your design problem + solver →
Start with one audit

One surrogate. One engineering decision. One evidence package.

The first pilot is a bounded audit, not a platform rollout. It should tell your team whether the surrogate can be used inside a stated boundary, needs more solver evidence, or should not be deployed yet.

01
Send
You provide parameter CSV, prediction metrics, context of use, model lineage, and validation split notes.
Check readiness →
02
Receive
You receive a qualification report, runtime gate JSON, case decisions, solver backfill queue, and audit manifest.
Scope first audit →
03
Decide
Use the surrogate inside the boundary, add solver evidence, or hold deployment until the evidence is strong enough.
Request first review →
Intake

Send the problem and solver stack.

A short note is enough. The useful context is the decision, the solver or model stack, and what would go wrong if the surrogate is wrong.

Use a company domain. Personal inboxes are not accepted.

Prefer email? Write to aditya@culturiq.ai