# Quant Research Reliability Audit

A small, dependency-free public demonstration of **fail-closed evidence contracts** for quantitative research, plus the commercial scope for an independent audit pilot.

## Service

The initial pilot is designed for small quant, proprietary trading, digital-asset, and FinTech teams.

```text
one strategy
up to 250,000 one-trade-per-row records
5 business days
USD 500
```

See:

- [`index.html`](index.html) for the service overview;
- [`sample-audit.html`](sample-audit.html) for a synthetic report;
- [`docs/audit-service.md`](docs/audit-service.md) for scope, terms, and pricing;
- [`docs/architecture.md`](docs/architecture.md) for the public engineering design.

## Public implementation

This public repository contains:

- one-trade-per-row schema checks;
- duplicate and chronology checks;
- return-identity checks;
- explicit `PASS`, `FAIL`, and `UNKNOWN` outcomes;
- synthetic example data;
- repeatable unit tests;
- byte counts and SHA-256 release evidence.

It does **not** contain a trading strategy, signals, market-specific parameters, client data, operational access, or trading authorization.

## Why this exists

A backtest result is not trustworthy merely because it has a chart and a headline performance ratio. Evidence must be complete, reproducible, and internally consistent before it can be reviewed.

```text
missing evidence = UNKNOWN
invalid evidence = FAIL
complete valid evidence = PASS
```

## Run

```bash
python -m unittest discover -s tests -p "test_*.py"

PYTHONPATH=src python - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
from research_reliability import write_report

report = write_report(
    Path("examples/synthetic_trades.csv"),
    Path("artifacts/audit_report.json"),
)
print(report["status"])
PY
```

## Contact

Business enquiries: [fininfra.ryu@gmail.com](mailto:fininfra.ryu@gmail.com?subject=Quant%20Research%20Reliability%20Audit)

## Boundary

This is software and research-engineering verification. It is not investment advice, a signal service, discretionary management, or a performance guarantee.

## License

MIT.