(stealth)
Diego Santos
@dsantos_ml
Undisclosed — post-training data curation at scale.
AI InfraLisbon, PTIdeaOUTBOUNDCOLD START
Pre-founder — detected leaving academia before he's even founded
Founder Score
A running score for this person, not this pitch — it persists across applications and never resets to zero.
50May 05, 25
arXiv affiliation flipped: university → gmail + 'Independent'
63Jun 20, 25
Repo gained a Dockerfile + /api route (productizing)
3-Axis Score
Founder, market, and idea-fit are scored independently and never averaged — disagreement between them is signal, not noise.
Founder
Is this person capable of pulling this off?
68improving
First-author on 3 cited papers, now defecting from academia (affiliation → gmail). Repo shows productization. High latent readiness; not yet activated.
2 evidence points backing this score
Market
Is this a market worth building a fund-scale outcome in?
66improving
Post-training data curation is hot and under-tooled.
Idea vs Market
Does the specific idea survive contact with that market?
60stable
Thesis-shaped; needs the founder to actually commit. Activation pending.
Trust Score
1 verified · 0 claimed · 0 contradicted
Every claim this founder made, traced to a source and rated by how well it holds up.
Verified — independently cross-checked against an outside sourceClaimed — founder's word only — not yet checkedInferred — reasoned from evidence, not stated outrightContradicted — checked, and it does not hold up
teamFirst-author, 3 cited papers
VerifiedChecked: Semantic Scholar author record
“Affiliation changed: '@univ.pt' → 'gmail.com, Independent Researcher'” — arXiv author record
productBuilding something (stealth)
InferredInferred from Dockerfile + /api route added to research repo.
“add Dockerfile + FastAPI /api/curate endpoint” — github.com/dsantos/curate@0f9c1a
Legibility
A great talker and a great builder can score the same on a deck. This strips out how well the pitch was told, and scores what was actually built.
Raw · the substance, stripped of delivery68
Polished · how good it sounded in the room66
Correction applied — the gap between substance and delivery is removed.
Corrected · what we actually act on68
SUBSTANCE RECOVERED FROM FLUENCY PENALTY