Research security screening that shows its work.
Nobris checks proposals for foreign influence risks—talent programs, undisclosed affiliations, sanctions list matches—and tells you exactly what it found and why it matters.
Screening lists, publication history, and the decision matrix—run in a single pass. Findings cite the policy. The report is ready for audit.
Technical Compliance. Strategic Awareness.
Illustrative output. Fictional entities.
The Work Today
Research security officers already know what to check. The problem is how long it takes—and how hard it is to document.
- Pull up a publication tool to check co-author networks
- Run names through the screening list
- Work through the decision matrix manually
- Write up findings in a format that holds up under audit
Each proposal means repeating this process. Each tool lives in a different tab. The audit trail lives in your head.
How Nobris Helps
Nobris runs the screening workflow for you—publication checks, entity lists, decision matrix—and gives you a defensible answer faster.
- Upload a proposal or CV
- Nobris checks everything you would check, all at once
- Clean proposals clear quickly. Flagged ones come with the context you need to escalate.
- You make the call. The documentation is already done.
Same process every time. When leadership asks why you approved—or why you didn’t—the report speaks for itself.
Built For
Teams who review proposals, vet collaborators, and answer to auditors.
- Research security offices at national labs
- University export control and compliance teams
- Sponsored programs administrators
- Federal program managers who need consistent documentation
What Changes
- One workflow instead of five — screening, publication review, and decision matrix in a single pass
- Same process every time — consistent standards across reviewers, proposals, and program offices
- The report writes itself — findings documented with policy citations, ready for audit
What Gets Checked
Every proposal runs through the same screening process. Every finding cites the policy behind it.
Entity & Sanctions Lists
Names checked against federal screening lists—the same ones you’d check manually, but all at once.
Restricted Institutions
Affiliations matched against National Defense Authorization Act Section 1286 and 1260h lists.
Department of Defense Mitigation Framework
Detects when the DoD decision matrix for fundamental research proposals applies and flags the relevant factors automatically.
Talent Programs
CVs and disclosures scanned for foreign talent program participation requiring disclosure.
Publication History
Co-author networks reviewed to surface collaborations and affiliation changes over time.
Disclosure Gaps
What’s declared compared against what’s findable. Inconsistencies flagged for follow-up.
How It Works
Upload
Drop in a proposal, CV, or disclosure. Nobris extracts names, institutions, and funding sources.
Screen
The full screening workflow runs automatically—entity lists, publication review, decision matrix. Findings cite the relevant policy.
Review
You get a report with specific findings. You make the call. The audit trail is already documented.
How the AI Works
Technical compliance meets strategic awareness. Nobris uses AI to do what you already do—faster, more consistently, and with a paper trail.
Reads Like a Reviewer
The system extracts names, institutions, funding sources, and research domains from proposals and CVs using natural language processing—the same information a human reviewer would pull out manually.
Cross-References Everything
Extracted entities are checked against federal screening lists, NDAA institution lists, publication databases, and known talent programs in a single pass. Entity resolution handles name variants, transliterations, and institutional aliases.
Applies the Decision Framework
Findings are mapped to the DoD decision matrix and scored against specific policy criteria. The system determines which factors apply and why—not just a risk number, but a structured rationale.
AI Does the Legwork. You Make the Call.
Nobris doesn’t approve or reject proposals. It gives you the evidence, the policy citations, and a structured recommendation—then you decide. The AI handles the hours of manual lookups and documentation. The judgment stays with your team.
Not a Black Box
Every finding links to the database it came from and the policy it triggers. When an auditor asks “how did you screen this?”—you have an answer.
Policy Citations
Every flag references a specific regulation—NSPM-33, NDAA §1286, CHIPS Act §4012, ITAR categories. No vague risk scores.
Source-Linked Evidence
Screening list matches link to the source record. Publication findings link to OpenAlex. Institutional data links to ROR. You can verify every claim.
Audit-Ready Reports
Timestamped findings, versioned decision matrices, and a full audit log. When leadership asks how you screened a proposal six months ago, the report is already written.
See what Nobris finds in your proposals.
We’ll run a sample through the system and walk you through the output.
