Reconciled disclosures feed the review you already run.
COI and Research Integrity offices review disclosures against professional and regulatory obligations. When the disclosures themselves are wrong or incomplete, the review is working from bad inputs. Verification produces better inputs — and captures the reconciliation as evidence.
The COI/RI office's judgment is a human judgment — of whether a disclosed relationship creates a conflict, of whether a research integrity concern needs formal proceedings. That judgment is not what a platform can (or should) automate. What a platform can do is make sure the office is reviewing the right disclosures.
What ResearchSecurity.ai does for COI & Research Integrity
- Reconciles disclosures against authoritative sources. Publications, effort, appointments, funding — with mismatches flagged for review rather than dropped into the queue indistinguishable from routine items.
- Surfaces exceptions with the evidence attached. Not a "score," not a "profile" — the specific claim that did not match and the source that contradicted it.
- Integrates with the review path you already run. The office continues to evaluate exceptions under 42 CFR 50/94, 42 CFR 93, and institutional policy; the platform simply gets the right items into that path.
- Documents the reconciliation as evidence. Every disclosure carries its review trail — surfaced to the officer, resolved by a person, captured immutably.
What it does not do
- It does not adjudicate research misconduct or COI itself — those judgments remain with the office.
- It does not maintain a private registry of individuals or profile-build researchers.
- It does not enumerate rules or thresholds — the reviewer's judgment governs, not a checklist.
The seat-of-COI reality
COI reviews often start from disclosures that were written to satisfy the form, not to be checked. Verification changes the starting point: the reviewer sees, for each item, whether the disclosure is corroborated by the record — and if it is not, the specific mismatch. The office's judgment is applied to fewer items, better characterized.
See verification on realistic examples.
A briefing walks through disclosure verification against a scoped researcher cohort — with your compliance context, in about 30 minutes.