Certify with evidence, not with hope.

Sponsored Programs offices process the certification the institution ultimately owns. The reality is that the volume of certifications has grown, the content of each has become more consequential, and the ability to check the underlying disclosures by hand has not.

What ResearchSecurity.ai does for the AOR

• Arrives at the AOR pre-reconciled. Each application shows what was verified, what raised an exception, and how each exception was resolved — before it reaches the signer.
• Produces a certification-readiness view. One page, one status: "ready to certify" or "N exceptions require review." No spelunking across systems.
• Captures every certification as an immutable snapshot. Sponsor audits, IG inquiries, and litigation defense all ask the same question — what did you know, when. Every certification carries the answer.
• Handles the training-window certification. RST status by senior/key person, inside or outside the 12-month window, per application.

What it does not do

• It does not replace the disclosure system of record — it verifies what flows through it.
• It does not sign for the AOR. Nothing is auto-adjudicated; the certification remains institutional.
• It does not "score" researchers. It reconciles disclosures against evidence and surfaces exceptions.

The seat-of-the-AOR reality

Sponsored Programs is the last office to touch the application before it becomes a representation to the federal government. The AOR who signs is often certifying a stack of disclosures they have no realistic way to verify by hand. Verification, as infrastructure that runs before the AOR's queue, is what closes the gap between what is certified and what can be defended.