About
Built to make research more inspectable.
Cumulant is a developing, independent research initiative founded by Aryan Patel.
It studies finance, allocation, and research reliability while keeping verification, judgment, and responsibility visible.
The research system preserves evidence, challenges findings, documents failures, tests sensitivity, verifies citations, and keeps a path back to the record.
AI assistance increases investigative reach. Human review retains responsibility for what becomes public.

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Question
Claim boundary · Decision context
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Evidence
Sources + data · Recorded provenance
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Alternatives
Competing accounts · Contradictions
04
Stress tests
Samples + models · Assumptions
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Human review
Meaning + limits · Release decision
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Record
Versioned output · Corrections retained
Founder
Aryan Patel
Founder and Research Director
Aryan Patel founded Cumulant Research to investigate finance, risk, humanitarian allocation, and AI-assisted research systems.
He develops the organization's research infrastructure, coordinates its projects, and remains responsible for its public research direction.
Technical infrastructure.
The research system is built from a set of software components and deterministic infrastructure. Exact repository counts are not published here; where figures are uncertain, broad language is used.
- Python research modules
- An automated test suite
- Multiple research project directories
- Persistent SQLite databases
- LangGraph checkpoints
- A versioned knowledge graph
- Institutional memory in structured files
- Reproducibility reports
- LaTeX paper generation
- Claim verification
- Citation checking
- Sensitivity analysis
- Human review gates
Specific counts of modules, tests, and directories require verification from the research codebase and are not stated here.
Data and literature sources.
The system has used or supported public retrieval from these sources. They are public sources and integrations, not partners.
- SEC EDGAR
- Yahoo Finance
- Kenneth French data
- Semantic Scholar
- Crossref
- arXiv
- ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
- GDELT