Floor1200

Your indicator can stay calm while a margin dies.

Some figures are impossible before anything is built. Some indicators are blind at exactly the point where a system fails. Floor1200 finds out which, before you sign or rely on it, and shows the calculation.

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Start with one question

Send the figure or the indicator, the documents behind it, and the one question you need answered. You get a written finding with derivation, assumptions and sources. Fixed price per finding, agreed before work starts.

gernot.feldbacher@floor1200.ch

Why now: claims are certified and sold, and indicators are signed off, before the systems that must deliver them are tested.

What the indicator shows, and what it hides

time wall other margins rise one margin reaches its wall the indicator: calm, even rising
No noise, no bad data, no wrong weights: at such operating points every smooth indicator that rewards all margins behaves like this, and the geometry decides which margin it hides. Blind Aggregates, Lemma 1 — doi:10.5281/zenodo.22862705.

Four desks, four products

For risk and model validation

Blind-spot review

Several reserves are watched through one ratio, score or traffic light. At some operating points that number holds steady or rises while one reserve falls to its wall — and geometry, not your weights, picks which.

The margin your indicator stops reporting, where, and under which conditions.

Send the indicator documentation instead of relying on backtests alone

For buyers, investors, insurers

Bound check

You are asked to fund, buy or underwrite a performance figure, and the vendor's model is the only source.

Possible, tight or excluded — against the bound the process cannot beat.

Send the figure before the term sheet, not after the first shortfall

For registries and standard setters

Instrument diagnostic

A certified object is optimised against long after the rule dropped the physical quantity that governed it.

Where the coupling breaks — through multipliers, dimensions, models or scope — located before the rule circulates.

Send the draft methodology before consultation closes

For sailing and performance teams

Performance margin review

A readiness or load score blends reserves that fail separately — rig, crew, conditions, recovery. The score can look fine while one of them runs out.

The reserve your score stops showing, and when it matters in a campaign.

Send the scoring sheet before the season, not after the retirement

Also on request: margin audits of cyclic processes — pressure and temperature swing, drying, gas cleaning — and second opinions before signature.

For verifiers and rating firms: technical assessments as subcontracted work, under your name or ours.

Where this works, and where it does not

Fits

  • Systems that fail when the weakest of several reserves runs out
  • Reserves that can be named and measured
  • Figures or indicators someone must sign off

Does not fit

  • Forecasting and price prediction
  • Replacing your own risk model or data
  • Plant design and site supervision

The proof carries no units

Rescale every margin and every indicator, and the results do not change. That is why they hold for a separation plant, a balance sheet, a grid, a rule and a racing yacht alike.

viability geometrynonsmooth analysisconvex separation switching dynamicsdetection theorythermodynamic bounds

The results are local and existential. Unlike a model validation, they do not test against your data; they tell you what no data can show.

The floor does not fall because more plants are built

reversible work floor · above 1200 kWh/t for today's amine sorbents announced and delivered practice engineering closes this gap this gap does not close
Direct capture of CO2 from air. The floor follows from the dilution of the feed. Value for today's amine sorbents from the peer-reviewed work below. One instance of the method, not its boundary.

How an assignment runs

  1. You send documents and one question.
  2. We agree a fixed price and a date.
  3. The calculation is done in the open, every figure traced.
  4. You get the report and an hour for questions.

A limited number of assignments per month, answered within two working days. We do not assess anything we hold a stake in. An anonymised sample report is available on request.

Every claim here has a DOI or a calculation

The Thermodynamic Floor of Adsorption-Based Cyclic Atmospheric CO2 Removal: Energy Requirements That Scale with Dilution, Not Deployment the bound itself · peer reviewed · Energy Efficiency First, article 100020, 2026 · doi:10.1016/j.eef.2026.100020
Antagonistic Corners of Min-Selectors: Geometry, Switching Dynamics, and Nagumo Invariance the geometry of margins · submitted · preprint SSRN 7449079
Blind Aggregates: An Impossibility Theorem for Scalar Detection at Antagonistic Corners what a single indicator cannot see · submitted · doi:10.5281/zenodo.22862705
The Price of Sight: Non-Compensation as the Cost of Detection at Antagonistic Corners what detection costs · timestamped working note · doi:10.5281/zenodo.22894485
Governing by Physical Constraint: A Design Theory of Sustainability Policy Instruments selector–margin fidelity · four modes of constraint loss · under review
The EU Carbon Ledger's Missing Column: Measured, then Discarded certified removal without its governing energy field · under review · preprint SSRN 7130398

Floor1200 also licenses its published methods.

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The figure or the indicator, the documents, and one question. Reply within two working days.

gernot.feldbacher@floor1200.ch