--- title: "Evidence index — Mario Marcolongo" description: "Every public claim Mario Marcolongo makes, with its date, source owner and stated limit. Search the ledger of AI evaluation, paid work and research records." canonical: https://mariomarcolongo.com/evidence --- - Evidence index # Evidence and its limits. Original sources establish different things: attribution, maintainer acceptance, a dated platform result or the existence of a public artifact. Publication is not automatically independent verification. Check a claim All claimsAI evaluationPaid workOpen source & researchProjects & study 24 claims No claim in this ledger matches that. [Ask me](mailto:me@mariomarcolongo.com). ## AI evaluation 1. Observed 31 Oct 2026public individual acknowledgementOwner: Nathan Heath / Syntony Research Member of Syntony Research’s Trusted Red Team Network since October 2026. **Limit** Nathan Heath’s public acknowledgement supports individual network membership. It does not establish Syntony employment or completed paid engagements; project participation, responsibilities and compensation are agreed separately. [Inspect source ↗](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nathanheath92_congratulations-to-mario-marcolongo-one-ugcPost-7521713825960841216-cBam/) 2. Observed 29 Oct 2026dated platform leaderboardOwner: Gray Swan Arena Lucky Break: Level Up final result: 49th of 390 participants, with 15 platform-recorded breaks. **Limit** Final competition placing and platform-recorded breaks. Separate from the intermediate training certificate, global Arena totals and Proving Ground results. Platform counts do not independently reproduce every underlying result or establish a general failure rate. Competition prizes were awarded by raffle; no prize is claimed. [Inspect source ↗](https://mariomarcolongo.com/evidence/gray-swan-lucky-break-2026-10-29) 3. Observed 14 Oct 2026issuer certificate captured by account holderOwner: Gray Swan Arena Gray Swan intermediate training completed: Lucky Break: Level Up (Medium Challenge), issued 14 October 2026; separate Breaking Ties participation certificate issued 12 October. **Limit** The training certificate records 6/6 scenarios and 4/5 models broken. The participation certificate records 3/5 scenarios, 3/5 models broken and rank 125/167. These are certificate-specific figures, separate from profile and leaderboard metrics; neither establishes a professional qualification or prize award. [Inspect source ↗](https://mariomarcolongo.com/evidence/gray-swan-certificates-2026-10-14) 4. Observed 13 Oct 2026dated platform snapshotOwner: public platform profile Dated Arena record: 40 global unique breaks, 1,430 points and 415 submissions on 13 October 2026. **Limit** The public profile route was captured in the account holder's authenticated browser session. Arena showed rank #426, 40 unique breaks, 1,430 points and 415 submissions. Proving Ground separately showed #81, top 5%, and 127 total breaks. The active Lucky Break result is provisional and the event awards prizes by raffle. This record establishes platform-reported activity, not independent reproduction of every result or a prize award. [Inspect source ↗](https://mariomarcolongo.com/evidence/gray-swan-2026-10-13) 5. Observed 30 Sept 2026dated platform snapshotOwner: public platform profile Dated Proving Ground record: rank #79, top 5%, with 127 platform-recorded total breaks on 30 September 2026. **Limit** Captured from the logged-out public profile. The displayed total is 127; visible area counters sum to 126. Arena separately shows rank #462, 31 unique breaks, 1,260 points and 354 submissions. This is dated platform evidence, not paid employment, security certification or independent reproduction of every result. [Inspect source ↗](https://mariomarcolongo.com/evidence/gray-swan-2026-09-30) 6. Observed 12 Sept 2026dated platform snapshotOwner: platform record captured by account holder Dated Proving Ground record: rank #74, top 6%, on 29 July 2026. **Limit** The displayed total is 113; four visible area counters sum to 112. Arena figures are separate. This is not a current ranking or paid engagement. [Inspect source ↗](https://mariomarcolongo.com/evidence/gray-swan-2026-07-29) ## Paid work 1. Observed 29 Oct 2026contributor confirmationOwner: contributor Mario reports that the client renamed and added metadata to thousands of images and hundreds of videos, addressed a major video-pipeline bottleneck and continues using and expanding the configured workflow. **Limit** Approximate image/video scale and the bottleneck addressed are reported by Mario. No exact inventory, measured time or cost savings, revenue, independent causal evaluation or commercial Copilot Studio delivery is established. The AI workflow work began in October 2026, within the wider paid collaboration that began in June 2023. Mario's firsthand report supplied on 29 October 2026, following his workflow configuration, output review and client training. This records the reported client outcome, not an independently audited measurement or a verbatim client testimonial. Client files and private correspondence are not republished. 2. Observed 14 Oct 2026organizational work recordOwner: client organization Research and production contributions: 57 videos and Shorts, 4 articles, 21 short-form entries and 17 selected thumbnail projects. **Limit** Record on a site I manage. Roles vary; collections overlap. Thumbnails include shared work. Reels retain their earlier capture date. Brand audience is not my personal reach. [Inspect source ↗](https://entropyforlife.it/mario-marcolongo-en/) 3. Observed 2 Oct 2026published acknowledgementOwner: client author Acknowledged by Giacomo Moro Mauretto in Italiani veri (Mondadori, a major European publishing group, 2025) for scientific-literature research and error detection. **Limit** The author's published acknowledgement endorses Mario's scientific-literature research and ability to identify errors. It is a client reference, not independent testing of skill, scholarly citation, book coauthorship, Mondadori employment or evidence that Mario reviewed the entire book. Giacomo Moro Mauretto, Italiani veri. Storia evolutiva e genetica del nostro Paese (Mondadori, 2025), Ringraziamenti / Acknowledgements. The exact passage was inspected in the reader screenshot supplied by Mario on 2 October 2026; the owned ebook and full-page screenshot are not republished. The publisher catalogue establishes book identity, not the wording of the acknowledgement. 4. Observed 2 Oct 2026contributor confirmationOwner: contributor Edited selected science videos and Shorts in DaVinci Resolve, with full and partial editing roles identified per example. **Limit** Mario confirmed full editing of two linked Luca Perri Shorts and two Entropy videos about genetic testing and genetic selection, plus partial initial editing of the Luca Perri electric-car video, on 2 October 2026. YouTube metadata confirms publication titles and channels, not individual editing credits. These examples do not establish channel ownership, sole production authorship, advanced editing proficiency or additional pieces beyond the older inventory. [Inspect source ↗](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOdizHTFlLQ) 5. Observed 1 Oct 2026contributor confirmationOwner: contributor Entropy for Life is an Italian science-communication project with 500K+ combined followers and subscribers across its social accounts. **Limit** Figures checked on 1 October 2026: main YouTube channel 272K subscribers, linked More Entropy channel 50.2K subscribers, Instagram 159K followers, Facebook 9.5K followers and Telegram 3,984 subscribers. Mario reported TikTok at 54.9K on the same date; that count was not independently verified. These displayed figures sum to approximately 550K across the organization's accounts. Figures are rounded and audiences may overlap; this is not a count of unique people, personal reach or growth attributable to Mario. [Inspect source ↗](https://entropyforlife.it/chi-sono/) 6. Observed 30 Sept 2026contributor confirmationOwner: contributor Created the data visualizations in the Entropy for Life × AIRC reels that feature them. **Limit** Visualization authorship: contributor-confirmed, 30 September 2026. Public captions verify AIRC context, not individual production roles. Shared productions; no sole reel authorship or direct AIRC employment is implied. [Inspect source ↗](https://entropyforlife.it/mario-marcolongo-en/) ## Open source & research 1. Observed 11 Nov 2026external acceptanceOwner: upstream project Contributed a merged fix to Basic Memory, an open-source knowledge base for AI assistants: its write tool no longer hands agents edit and delete calls to run unasked. **Limit** Acceptance covers this change and its regression test; it does not establish independent engineering proficiency. [Inspect source ↗](https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/commit/3dda18fbfaae4dc871918a94d8c019722dcef52a) 2. Observed 26 Oct 2026published figure reuseOwner: publisher and contributor Mario's original biomedical diagram was reused in a Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature book chapter and across four Wikipedia language editions. **Limit** This records reuse of the graphic in a chapter authored by Michele Di Salvo; scientific and editorial conclusions remain those of the chapter author. [Inspect source ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68338-1_10) 3. Observed 14 Oct 2026public preprintOwner: project authors Coauthor of “The AI Safety Formalization Atlas: a machine-checked memory for AI safety mathematics,” publicly available as a Zenodo preprint since 1 October 2026. **Limit** Public preprint, not an established peer-reviewed publication. Documented individual contributions concern source auditing, citation provenance and repository tooling; authorship does not imply responsibility for all proofs. Metropolia is the listed affiliation, with permission confirmed by the contributor; no employment or degree is implied. [Inspect source ↗](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23088952) 4. Observed 30 Sept 2026external acceptanceOwner: upstream project Contributed merged PR #69: a human-reviewable source metadata and rights-evidence audit. **Limit** The audit compares metadata and preserves retrieval evidence for human review; it does not certify citations or reuse rights. Most added lines are generated reports and evidence, not handwritten tooling. [Inspect source ↗](https://github.com/mbrcic/ai-safety-formalization-atlas/pull/69) 5. Observed 30 Sept 2026external acceptanceOwner: upstream project Contributed merged PR #70: 15 missing source locators and clarified publication provenance. **Limit** Acceptance covers source traceability and bibliographic changes; no Lean theorem, proof or formalization-coverage change is claimed. [Inspect source ↗](https://github.com/mbrcic/ai-safety-formalization-atlas/pull/70) 6. Observed 12 Sept 2026external acceptanceOwner: upstream project Contributed merged PR #52: migration validation portability. **Limit** Acceptance covers the submitted change; it does not establish authorship of the wider research or independent engineering proficiency. [Inspect source ↗](https://github.com/mbrcic/ai-safety-formalization-atlas/pull/52) 7. Observed 12 Sept 2026external acceptanceOwner: upstream project Contributed merged PR #54: portable repository instruction adapters. **Limit** Acceptance covers the submitted change; it does not establish authorship of the wider research or independent engineering proficiency. [Inspect source ↗](https://github.com/mbrcic/ai-safety-formalization-atlas/pull/54) 8. Observed 12 Sept 2026external acceptanceOwner: upstream project Contributed merged PR #61: repository instruction organization. **Limit** Acceptance covers the submitted change; it does not establish authorship of the wider research or independent engineering proficiency. [Inspect source ↗](https://github.com/mbrcic/ai-safety-formalization-atlas/pull/61) ## Projects & study 1. Observed 7 Oct 2026public source and store recordsOwner: project maintainer Created Notandia, an AI-assisted research-workflow extension released for Chrome, Edge and Firefox. **Limit** Chrome 0.1.1 released 3 October; counts include legacy use. Edge package confirmed 4 October; artwork and description pending then. Firefox 0.1.2 publicly downloadable, verified 7 October 2026; automated screening, later human review possible. Separate Zotero releases; platform parity and usage unverified. [Inspect source ↗](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/notandia/) 2. Observed 30 Sept 2026public artifactOwner: project maintainer Created Hypermandala, a public interactive 2D, 3D and 4D geometry explorer. **Limit** The public explorer and source repository establish an inspectable visualization project, not adoption, revenue or an independent mathematical or engineering assessment. Source availability was verified while logged out on 30 September 2026. Higher-dimensional extensions and new form additions are experimental; testing and adjustments continue. Forms are procedural interpretations, not historical reconstructions. [Inspect source ↗](https://hypermandala.mariomarcolongo.com/) 3. Observed 19 Sept 2026user supplied institutional transcriptOwner: Metropolia University of Applied Sciences Python Programming (TT00CB02): 3 ECTS, Pass, assessed 15 September 2026. **Limit** Based on transcript text supplied by the student, dated 19 September 2026. The private transcript is not published. This is one completed course in a non-degree Open UAS pathway, not an awarded degree or proof of professional programming proficiency. Private institutional transcript supplied by the student; not published. 4. Observed 12 Sept 2026public artifactOwner: project maintainer Maintained a directory containing 55 research-participation resources in the dated review. **Limit** 37 Wikidata items referenced the project URL in the dated check; these are not 37 users or independent citations. A deposited DOI is not peer review. [Inspect source ↗](https://github.com/yourselftoscience/yourselftoscience.org) ## Research profiles [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2846-7115) · [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EnNykUIAAAAJ&hl=en) · [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mario_Marcolongo) The Atlas preprint and software archives link to the original records on their project pages. ## Assessed skills Microsoft · Earned 19 October 2026 ### [Microsoft Applied Skills: Build an agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/users/mariomarcolongo/credentials/48386317f9899eb1) Passed an interactive hands-on lab assessment covering agent configuration, knowledge and generative answers, conversation topics, tools and sharing in Copilot Studio. Credential ID: 48386317F9899EB1 · 4 related Microsoft Learn training modules completed. Atlassian · Earned 24 October 2026 ### [Atlassian Credentialed in JSM Fundamentals with AI](https://cp.certmetrics.com/atlassian/en/public/verify/credential/4ec41335733f49508b42ab3faab010d1) Passed the Jira Service Management with AI Fundamentals exam (ACH-815), covering app navigation, work in service spaces and request resolution. Credential ID: 4ec41335733f49508b42ab3faab010d1 · Valid through 24 October 2027 [Attributed source investigations](/investigations) · [EF SET certificate](https://cert.efset.org/jHk84h) · [Structured claim records](/profile.json)