Case study — research security
A research-security consultancy hired KVEC to build a platform that maps researchers' publications, funding, and affiliations into a knowledge graph and generates AI-driven risk reports. It's in active use for government research-security work today.
The challenge
Research-security analysts assess whether federally funded researchers have undisclosed foreign affiliations, funding, or conflicts. The raw material is public — publications, grants, institutional records — but it's scattered across dozens of sources, and reviewing one researcher by hand can take hours.
The client needed that review to happen across an entire federally funded research portfolio — consistently, defensibly, and fast enough to be useful to government clients.
What we built
DATA
Automated pipelines pulling researchers' publications, funding records, and institutional affiliations from public and licensed sources into one consistent model.
GRAPH
Researchers, institutions, funders, and co-authorship networks connected as a graph — so an analyst can see relationships that never surface in a spreadsheet.
AI
Structured risk reports generated per researcher, grounded in the graph — turning hours of manual open-source review into minutes of reading.
SEC
Role-based access, audit-friendly logging, and the security posture government research-security work demands — including client security questionnaires.
How we worked
KVEC exceeded all my expectations. Eugene has implemented every feature I requested and added features I did not know I'd want until I saw them. If I ever found a bug, he almost always fixed it within hours of discovery. He has never told me that a feature I wanted was impossible — he always finds a way to make his customer's vision come to life. I've already made the tool available to roughly 60 individuals, and their reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. I'm very glad I hired KVEC, and hope to hire them for future projects.
Founder & CEO
Research-security consulting firm
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