Research

We review other people's claims, and publish our own

The discipline that reviews a manuscript also reviews an AI system: what is claimed, what the evidence shows, and what would break it.

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal article

Rajendran, S., & Singaravelu, D. (2026). Order-flow toxicity in cryptocurrency perpetual futures: Order flow signals, price-impact persistence, and the limits of volatility-based metrics.

International Review of Economics & Finance, 112, 105876 (Elsevier). Open access, CC BY 4.0.

First and corresponding author. Published online September 30, 2026.

doi:10.1016/j.iref.2026.105876

Why it matters for your system. Statistical validation of signals before anyone acts on them: the same standard we apply to numbers produced by financial data assistants. Financial data assistant →

Preprint (not peer reviewed)

Rajendran, S., & Singaravelu, D. (2026). Evidence-bound factual repair in retrieval-augmented LLM answers: Separating semantic localization from deterministic realization.

Preprints.org, 202609.0490 (v1). CC BY 4.0.

First and corresponding author. Posted September 7, 2026; 1,300+ views and 300+ downloads by October 10, 2026.

doi:10.20944/preprints202609.0490.v1

Why it matters for your system. How to keep each sentence of a generated answer tied to its evidence, and repair the ones that drift. This is the method behind our assistants that cite or refuse. Assistant that cites or refuses →

Working paper

Rajendran, S., & Singaravelu, D. (2026). Order-flow toxicity in cryptocurrency perpetual futures (working-paper version of the article above).

SSRN Working Paper No. 6344338.

Circulated in two versions from March 2026; 500+ downloads combined.

ssrn.com/abstract=6344338

Peer review

Our founder reviews manuscripts for journals in applied AI and computing. Subjects have included applied AI expert systems, clinical decision support and financial machine learning.

Journal Publisher Reviewed
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Elsevier 1 manuscript, Aug 2026
MethodsX Elsevier 1 manuscript, Jul 2026
Discover Computing Springer Nature 2 manuscripts, Aug 2026

Program committee

Program-committee reviewer, NeurIPS 2026 Verify-Agents workshop

Reviewing submissions on verifying the behavior of AI agents.

Why it matters for your system. Checking whether an agent did what it claims is the core of an evals harness. Agent reliability and evals →

Tell us what you have and what is going wrong.

A 20-minute call, then a written scope with acceptance criteria and a fixed price within one business day. If it isn't a fit, we'll say so on the call.

Or email hello@destello.us or call (628) 202-5322. We reply within one business day.