SPEC | SPEC Research

An independent due-diligence test for a single AI investment strategy. Before you allocate, we check whether a manager’s edge is real or an artifact of how the strategy was built and measured.

S

Specification

Is the strategy conditioning on what it claims to?

P

Performance

Would the track record survive a journal referee?

E

Explanation

Can an independent judge reproduce the reasoning?

C

Configuration

Is the edge in the idea, or the layer it runs on?

Four falsifiable axes, each resolving to yes or no on evidence we can execute. Grounded in a catalog of 15 documented failure modes.

Read the methodology → See the evidence base →

If you allocate

One grades your own process. One grades the manager in front of you. Neither costs anything.

SPEC Process Assessment

A structural diagnosis of how you evaluate AI and quantitative managers, and where the gaps are.

11 questions · five minutes · no registration Assess your process →

SPEC Manager Assessment

A structured SPEC interview guide before your meeting. Upload the transcript after and get a structural read on the manager’s AI claims.

Interview guide · transcript analysis Evaluate a manager →

If you run the strategy

Every one of these is a question an allocator is about to ask. Better to answer it first.

SPEC Readiness

A private read on where an allocator would press your AI investment process, mapped to the four axes and the published research behind each one.

Ten questions · two minutes · private Check your readiness →