01 / Consent
Ethical consent
Every approval is checked against the governing policy, not just stored. The result is a record that holds up when someone asks the hard question later.
The fixed reference for research integrity
Proof, not assurance.
North Keeper turns the claims research depends on, from ethical consent to reproducibility to responsible spending, into tamper-evident facts that funders, journals, and institutions can verify for themselves.
The problem
Today, integrity is asserted. It is rarely proven.
Ethics approvals sit in filing cabinets. Reproducibility lives in a methods section few can rerun. Grant spending is reconciled long after the money is gone. Each is a claim backed by paperwork and goodwill, and that is exactly what the reproducibility crisis, a rise in fabricated results, and tightening funder mandates are now testing to breaking point.
What North Keeper verifies
Three checks, run the same way every time.
02 / Reproducibility
Reproducibility
Results are sealed so an independent party can confirm they reproduce, without having to take the author's word for it.
03 / Grant cost
Responsible spending
Costs are tested against the funder's own allowability rules before they ever become an audit finding.
Deterministic by design. The same input always returns the same, re-checkable answer.
The fixed reference
Every check becomes a certificate. Every certificate has a home.
A passed check is issued as a True North Certificate, signed with post-quantum cryptography so it stays verifiable for decades, not just for now. Each certificate is recorded in the True North Registry, an append-only record that funders, journals, and institutions can verify against directly.
The certificate is the proof. The registry is the fixed point everyone navigates by.
Built to be trusted
Durable, sovereign, and built on infrastructure institutions already rely on.
Post-quantum signed · NIST ML-DSA
EU-sovereign by design
Built on Microsoft Azure
Early access
We are working with a small number of research offices, funders, and publishers.
If your institution carries the weight of proving its research is sound, we would like to talk.
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