Atlas is built and maintained in the open by one person. This page says who — and, more importantly, shows how to check the work yourself instead of taking any claim on faith. That is the whole posture of the project: don't trust, verify.
The author
Fco. Osvaldo Morales Vilchis — founder and engineer of Krenn·IQ, an independent effort building measurement-first decision tools for quantum and high-performance compute. Atlas (quantum compute-cost triage) and its sibling CAPAS (claim-admissibility gate) are developed and released as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. The work is solo and self-funded; there is no team page to pad, and the project does not claim institutional backing it does not have.
Expertise here is demonstrated, not asserted. Rather than a list of titles, the credential for Atlas is the work itself — every verdict is measured, every method is named, and every number is reproducible from public scripts and data. The links below are the evidence; judge the project by them.
How to verify the work
Methodology
How a verdict is produced — four independent estimators, the agreement certificate, the Convergence Map, and the honesty principles.
The engine is open source (Apache 2.0) and runs entirely on your own hardware — no quota, no account, no circuit egress.
Atlas cites its primary-source papers, linked directly on the Methodology page; check the characterisation against the sources yourself.
The benchmark manifests and datasets are downloadable from the Evidence page, so the corpus is auditable, not just described.
Honest limits
Stated here as plainly as on the rest of the site: the calibration corpus and oracle are self-generated and not yet third-party audited — the project's declared #1 credibility gap. Atlas gives a decision-support triage, not a proof of classical simulability or of quantum advantage; verdicts with reduced confidence are flagged as such. The full limits table lives on the Audit page.
Limitations & roadmap
One consolidated, plain-spoken list — the same caveats already stated across the site, gathered in a single place. Una sola lista, sin adornos: las mismas salvedades que el sitio ya declara, reunidas en un único lugar.
Limitations — declared, not hidden · Limitaciones — declaradas, no ocultas
The benchmark corpus is self-generated, structurally-varied circuit families (lines, grids, ladders, etc.) — representative of the classical↔quantum frontier, not a sample of all real-world circuits. El corpus de benchmark es autogenerado: familias de circuitos de estructura variada (líneas, mallas, escaleras, etc.), representativas de la frontera clásico↔cuántico, no una muestra de todos los circuitos del mundo real.
In the genuinely-hard regime (beyond what classical oracles can verify), Atlas gives an indication ("QPU candidate"), not absolute proof — by design: it is compute-cost triage, not a proof of classical simulability or of quantum advantage. The headline figure is self-consistency vs. an exact same-formalism oracle, not absolute accuracy; that hard regime is unmeasured (no classical ground truth). En el régimen genuinamente difícil (más allá de lo que los oráculos clásicos pueden verificar), Atlas da una indicación ("candidato a QPU"), no una prueba absoluta — por diseño: es triaje de coste de cómputo, no una prueba de simulabilidad clásica ni de ventaja cuántica. La cifra principal es la autoconsistencia frente a un oráculo exacto del mismo formalismo, no la precisión absoluta; ese régimen difícil queda sin medir (sin verdad de referencia clásica).
Early, one-person project (launched 2026); the corpus and oracle are self-generated and not yet third-party audited — the declared #1 credibility gap. Proyecto temprano y de una sola persona (lanzado en 2026); el corpus y el oráculo son autogenerados y aún no auditados por terceros — la brecha de credibilidad nº 1 que declaramos.
Roadmap — not done yet, stated plainly · Hoja de ruta — aún sin hacer, dicho con claridad
External, third-party audit re-running the oracle + confusion matrix on the public corpus. Auditoría externa de terceros que vuelva a ejecutar el oráculo y la matriz de confusión sobre el corpus público.
Validating against circuits others assumed hard — community suites (QASMBench, MQT Bench) and published quantum-advantage circuits later classically simulated (Sycamore random-circuit sampling; IBM 127-qubit utility / kicked-Ising). Done (first pass, self-run): 115 external circuits through the real engine — 108 routed to a classical tier (102 CPU · 4 tensor-network · 2 HPC), 7 escalated as the genuine advantage frontier (Sycamore RCS ×2, the hard kicked-Ising point, and large/entangled QV_n100 / qft_n160 / bwt_n37 / square_root_n45), 0 timed out — see Benchmark §6. Remaining: an independent third-party re-run of this external corpus. Validar contra circuitos que otros asumieron difíciles — suites de la comunidad (QASMBench, MQT Bench) y circuitos de ventaja cuántica publicados y luego simulados clásicamente (muestreo de circuitos aleatorios de Sycamore; utilidad de 127 qubits de IBM / kicked-Ising). Hecho (primera pasada, ejecutada por nosotros): 115 circuitos externos por el motor real — 108 enrutados a un nivel clásico (102 CPU · 4 tensor-network · 2 HPC), 7 escalados como la frontera de ventaja genuina (Sycamore RCS ×2, el punto duro de kicked-Ising y los grandes/entrelazados QV_n100 / qft_n160 / bwt_n37 / square_root_n45), 0 con timeout — ver Benchmark §6. Pendiente: una repetición independiente de terceros de este corpus externo.
A valid independent QPU corroboration check (non-uniform / in-window target, F_xeb) — currently honestly abstained, no number claimed. Una comprobación válida e independiente de corroboración en QPU (objetivo no uniforme / en ventana, F_xeb) — actualmente con abstención honesta, sin cifra reclamada.
SOC 2 / ISO 27001 — not certified (roadmap). SOC 2 / ISO 27001 — sin certificar (hoja de ruta).
Full GDPR Art. 13 privacy policy, a named data-controller contact / EU representative, a legal entity, and export-control terms — before regulated-sector contracts. Política de privacidad completa según el Art. 13 del RGPD, un contacto nominado de responsable del tratamiento / representante en la UE, una entidad jurídica y términos de control de exportación — antes de contratos en sectores regulados.
Further hardening (e.g. CSP nonces). Endurecimiento adicional (p. ej. nonces de CSP).
Contact
Questions, corrections, or a pilot on your own circuits: open an issue at github.com/fomv9354lve/atlas-engine/issues. Corrections to the science or the claims are genuinely welcome — the whole point is to be checkable.