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Independent Technical Review

Find the technical failure before the reviewer does.

InTelluric independently reviews early-stage science, engineering claims, proposals, diligence materials, and invention disclosures. We identify where the mechanism, evidence, claims, or work plan stops being traceable—and return a written review with specific repair actions.

Rapid Independent Technical Review · $3,000 · 48 hours · one written deliverable
Rapid Independent Technical Review

$3,000 · 48 hours · one written deliverable

For one proposal, technical memorandum, diligence package, invention disclosure, or engineering concept. The review identifies material technical failure points, explains their decision impact, and returns a prioritized repair plan.

  • Mechanism and claim-chain review
  • Evidence and assumption gaps
  • Reviewer objections and decision risks
  • Specific repair actions

Not included: copyediting or submission management; legal, regulatory, or investment advice; experimental validation.

Method
01 — INTAKE

Submit nonconfidential project context, artifact type, decision-maker, and deadline. No document upload at intake. Scope is confirmed first.

02 — INDEPENDENT REVIEW

Mechanism → evidence → claims → objectives → milestones → work plan. Material gaps, unsupported assumptions, and decision risks are identified.

03 — WRITTEN DELIVERABLE

A reviewer-risk map, technical review memorandum, revised artifact, or engineering specification is returned according to accepted scope.

Selected Technical Work

Inspect the technical question, analysis, and returned deliverable.

Representative technical reviews, diligence reports, feasibility assessments, engineering specifications, and invention-disclosure work. Each example identifies the issue reviewed, the analysis performed, and the deliverable produced.

DoD SBIR Phase I Review · Independent Technical Review

THGM — Denied-Environment Communications

Technical issue: nonlinear acoustic and telluric transduction treated as one continuous claim. Review performed: stage-by-stage transduction and proposal-alignment review. Deliverable: scoring-risk summary and milestone-mapped audit.

DOE / ARPA-E Repair Memo · Independent Technical Review

PBMAC — Energy Materials Measurement Program

Technical issue: advocacy substituted for a reviewer-testable measurement program. Review performed: evidence baseline and reproducibility review. Deliverable: missing-measurement map and rewrite-ready outline.

Technical Due Diligence · Independent Technical Review

Non-Contact EM Turbulence Sensor

Technical issue: broad fluid-class claims exceeded the viable signal-to-noise envelope. Review performed: physical-realizability and market-focus diligence. Deliverable: fluid-class verdicts and a liquid-metal roadmap.

Engineering Specification · Representative Work Product

Hydraulic Quarter-Wave Stub Pulsation Suppressor

Technical issue: no analytical design specification existed. Review performed: closed-form hydraulic transmission-line derivation. Deliverable: fabrication-ready parameterized specification.

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Services

Rapid Independent Technical Review

$3,000 · 48 hours

One artifact reviewed before an external decision; written review and repair plan.

Proposal Red Team Review

Scoped from the artifact

Evaluator scoring risk and prioritized revisions for government and grant proposals.

Technical Due Diligence

Scoped before payment

Diligence memorandum, risk register, and conditioned verdict for a decision-maker.

Engineering Specification and R&D Origination

Quoted

Architecture, derivation, and issue-ready engineering specification.

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Operating terms
  • Fixed scope. No open-ended engagement.
  • Fixed price, stated before payment.
  • Human technical review. No unreviewed AI output delivered as a finding.
  • Confidentiality first. Nonconfidential metadata only until secure handoff.
  • Exit-clean. Every engagement has a defined deliverable, end state, and handoff.
Domain expertise

Electromagnetic systems and sensing

Motional induction, induced B-field fluctuation, magnetic Reynolds number, fluxgate instrumentation, lock-in excitation, gradiometric noise rejection, near-field coupling, and operating-envelope derivation.

Acoustics, fluid mechanics, and hydraulic systems

Quarter-wave stub resonators, gear-mesh attenuation, hydraulic characteristic impedance, distributed-parameter analysis, acoustic threshold gates, and pipe-wall compliance correction.

Photonics, condensed matter, and THz band

Polariton condensates, nonlinear cascade, polar lattice modes, momentum mismatch analysis, coherent modal injection, thermalization conditions, and near-field coupling requirements.

Biomedical devices and neuromodulation

Non-invasive cranial-nerve engagement, pad geometry, tissue current distribution, physiological signal chains, IRB structure, and Phase I evidence requirements.

Patent architecture and invention disclosure

Cross-domain topology transfer, novelty, obviousness, enablement analysis, embodiment construction, and prosecution-risk quantification.

Materials science and process engineering

Volatile ceramic templating, sintered fluid behavior, DOE/ARPA-E measurement design, evidence baselines, and reproducibility bottleneck analysis.

Have a technical decision ahead?

Submit nonconfidential project context, artifact type, decision-maker, and deadline.