# Roberto Capobianco

> I assess whether AI systems do what their builders say they do.

Independent technical assessment of AI, reinforcement learning, and optimisation
systems, for investors deciding whether to fund a technical claim and for teams
deciding whether to build on one. Advisory pages are English only.

## Pages

- [Home](https://robertocapobianco.com/): entity home. Biography, affiliations, and the research profiles that resolve the author.
- [Advisory](https://robertocapobianco.com/services/): the two engagements and their prices — technical due diligence from EUR 12,000, and a fractional research lead retainer from EUR 6,000 per month.
- [Publications](https://robertocapobianco.com/publications/): peer-reviewed publications, each with its DOI.
- [Research](https://robertocapobianco.com/research/): three research directions, each stating the position it argues and the work that supports it — controllable and coachable agents, interpretable decision making, and neuro-symbolic and non-Markovian reinforcement learning, with an emphasis on whether those properties hold under realistic evaluation conditions.
- [Notes and teardowns](https://robertocapobianco.com/notes/): notes on evaluating learning systems, and claim-by-claim analyses of systems with public technical claims.

## Notes

- [Does this team know why their system works, or only that it does?](https://robertocapobianco.com/notes/does-this-team-know-why-their-system-works/): An explanation that has only been illustrated looks exactly like one that has been verified. The question is not whether a team's account is true, but how much of it they have tried to falsify.
- [What I look for when a startup shows me its best result](https://robertocapobianco.com/notes/what-i-look-for-when-a-startup-shows-me-its-best-result/): A result that is excellent on the headline metric and strangely poor somewhere else is more informative than a mediocre headline. The odd secondary number is usually where the specification failure is hiding.

## Not listed here

Older posts, including the Italian ones, are kept at their original URLs and
listed in the sitemap. They are an archive for a different audience and are not
part of the advisory offer.