Research integrity software

Research integrity software for verifiable compliance

Research integrity is mostly asserted, rarely proven. Ethics approvals sit in filing cabinets, reproducibility lives in a methods section few can rerun, and grant spending is reconciled long after the money is gone. With the reproducibility debate, retractions and tightening funder mandates, "trust us" is no longer enough. North Keeper makes research integrity verifiable.

What North Keeper checks

North Keeper proves the research process itself through deterministic checks, run the same way every time and producing a verifiable result, not an opinion:

  • Ethical consent: every approval is checked against the governing policy, not just stored.
  • Reproducibility: results are sealed so an independent party can confirm they reproduce.
  • Responsible spending: costs are tested against the funder's own allowability rules.

Proof, not assurance

Every check that passes is issued as a True North Certificate, signed with post-quantum cryptography so it stays verifiable for decades, and recorded in the append-only True North Registry that funders, journals and institutions can verify against directly.

Built for institutions, on Azure

North Keeper is built by North Star Tech Oy in the Helsinki capital region as an ISV product for the Microsoft Azure Marketplace (transactable listing PENDING), designed to run within Microsoft's EU Data Boundary, holding verifiable evidence about the research record rather than the raw research data.

For universities, funders and publishers

Built for the people who carry the obligation to prove their research is sound. Start with a free evaluation or a design-partner pilot.

Talk to us about a verifiable research record

Frequently asked questions

What is research integrity software?
Software that verifies the research process, not just checks text for similarity or AI authorship.
How is North Keeper different from plagiarism tools?
Plagiarism tools check the text; North Keeper proves the process (consent, reproducibility, spending) and issues a verifiable certificate.
Who is it for?
Universities and research offices, research funders, and publishers and journals.