Thesis audit — what we double-checked before trusting the assets
Status: complete (2026-09-14)
In plain English: we ran a rigor pass on every loud claim in this pack — exact dollars, name collisions, personnel dual-hats, tenuous rabbit trails — then kept only what held in the report assets.
Inputs: money graph · amplification scoreboard
Glossary: research map appendix
What “rigor” meant here
- Exact dollars — re-sum from SFF tables / 990s / primaries; mark ‡ matching pledges separately from cash.
- People ≤ source — don’t promote someone past what the filing or byline supports (Tallinn ≠ board member).
- MisID sweep — AIPI≠AIPN, Marks≠Luke Samuel Marks, Encode AI≠Encode Justice, GV scholarship≠EA Funds LTFF.
- Tenuous trails — chase pass-throughs; close with HIT or score the opacity.
- Positive assets only — after the scrub, chart what held (Report assets).
Foreign-influence one-liner
We originally asked whether this EA trunk shared a paymaster with the broader foreign-influence picture. Overlap is slim at best — parallel machines on paper. Don’t reopen that as the main plot of this pack.
What we checked (all filed)
| Check | What it covered | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Exact-dollar recompute | SFF / GV / ARC→METR figures | Filed — dollars in assets + scoreboard |
| Personnel ≤ source | Dual-hats, overclaims | Filed — allowed/forbidden table in assets |
| MisID / EIN / handle | Name collisions | Filed — glossary + collision table |
| Prior-evidence hygiene | Geo / Thayer / Coxon / METR-gate / weekend / cartel rows | Filed |
| Tenuous trails | Nadeau, ‡ statuses, AIPN map, etc. | Filed — residuals listed on the research map |
| Positive assets | Mermaid + tables | Report assets |
Done means
Assets published. The research map routes the pack. Receipts (990-PF, QT IDs, ‡ statuses) live in the linked crumb pages — fidelity kept; this page is the audit wrapper, not a second money graph.