Stand up the program. Defend the certification.

Research security responsibility is spread differently at every institution — but increasingly, the Research Security Officer is the one coordinating the offices that must answer, together, whether certified disclosures hold up: sponsored programs, COI, export control, integrity, counsel. Under the current framework, that question arrives per application, per certification cycle, and — if enforcement asks — retrospectively.

What ResearchSecurity.ai does for the RSO

• Verifies disclosures against authoritative sources — publications, effort, appointments, funding, travel, training, restricted-party lists — so exceptions surface before the AOR signs.
• Turns program certification into a defensible artifact — an evidence trail per certification, not an attestation on top of unreconciled disclosures.
• Runs on the systems the institution already operates. The RSO does not have to rip out the disclosure system of record or replace institutional workflows.
• Puts the "how did you know?" answer in one place. Every determination carries its evidence and an immutable audit snapshot.

What it does not do

• It is not a monitoring tool — we do not build profiles of your researchers.
• It does not lookup individual researchers or maintain a private registry of persons.
• It does not auto-adjudicate. AI accelerates the reconciliation; your officers decide.

The seat-of-the-RSO reality

Most RSOs are new to the seat. The role did not exist in this form five years ago. The reasonable ask — that a program be visible, functioning, and evidence-producing — has to be met without the budget lines large IT shops enjoy. Verification, delivered as infrastructure the RSO can point at, is what makes that ask tractable.