Cryptographic Provenance for Science

A trust layer for the science of tomorrow.

The reproducibility crisis is a provenance crisis. Parable Research gives every experiment a verifiable chain of custody — from instrument calibration and raw data capture, through analysis and peer review, to publication and replication. Quantum-resistant by default. Mathematical certainty, not voluntary trust.

0 Researchers can't reproduce work
0 Wasted on irreproducible research
<1ms Verification latency
0 Post-quantum architecture
The Replication Crisis

Science runs on trust it can no longer verify.

More than 70% of researchers have failed to reproduce another scientist's results. In cancer biology, replicated effect sizes were 85% smaller than originally reported. An estimated $85 billion a year is wasted globally on research that cannot be reproduced — and fraudulent science is now growing faster than legitimate science.

The root cause is structural: there is no verifiable chain of custody from instrument to publication. Today's safeguards are voluntary, fragmented, and trust-based. Parable builds integrity in from the first byte — so deviations become visible the moment they happen, not years later in a retraction.

P-hacking & HARKing

Analysis plans bent after the fact to manufacture significance.

Data Fabrication

2% of scientists admit fabricating; raw data is rarely signed at source.

No Chain of Custody

The exact transformations applied to data are undocumented and unverifiable.

The Quantum Horizon

Genomic & clinical data with 50-year lifespans face harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks.

Core Capabilities

Mathematical certainty, not organisational trust.

Every claim backed by cryptographic proof. A new standard above “peer-reviewed”: provenance-verified.

Sovereign Provenance

Every hypothesis, dataset, transformation, and result carries its own verifiable chain of custody. Know what was done, by whom, when, and with which parameters — end to end.

Post-Quantum Security

NIST FIPS 203/204 (ML-KEM, ML-DSA) signatures protect datasets for 50+ years. The only integrity layer built to outlive the cryptographically-relevant quantum computer.

Regulatory-Native Evidence

Maps directly to ALCOA+, 21 CFR Part 11, GLP/GMP and ISO 17025. Forensic-grade chain of custody per RFC 3227 and ISO/IEC 27037 — designed for compliance, never retrofitted.

Research Integrity Lifecycle

Provenance at every step — instrument to replication.

A cryptographic proof at each stage of the research lifecycle. The protocol doesn't care what the data describes — it proves where it came from, what happened to it, and that nothing has changed.

△ Hypothesis & Pre-registration
01 Pre-registration — plan locked & signed
02 Ethics & Protocol — IRB approval anchored
03 Data Capture — signed at the instrument
04 Processing — every transform recorded
05 Analysis — code + data + env hashed
06 Peer Review — reviewer actions anchored
07 Publication — bound to full chain
08 Replication — divergence detectable
▽ Ma'atara Protocol Layer

Instrument Gateway

A lightweight agent signs raw data at the point of generation — mass spectrometers, sequencers, microscopes, analytical balances — binding instrument state, calibration, operator identity and environmental conditions to every reading.

MQTTAMQPLIMSEdge

Electronic Lab Notebook Anchor

Every notebook entry signed with researcher identity and timestamp. Each edit creates a new signed version linked to the last — a tamper-evident history of the science as it happened.

BenchlingLabArchivesRSpaceJupyter

Analysis Pipeline Prover

Containerised computation produces a Computation Proof Certificate — hashing input data, code, environment, dependencies and random seeds against outputs. Verifiable evidence that these inputs produced these results.

DockerSingularityMLflowW&B

Replication Verifier

Replicators access the full provenance chain of the original study, compare conditions side by side, and pinpoint exactly where methods diverged — turning failed replications into precise, actionable findings.

OSFDataCiteJATSORCID
Works With Your Stack

An integrity overlay, not a rip-and-replace.

Parable runs alongside the platforms labs already trust — adding a cryptographic layer beneath the tools researchers use every day.

Electronic Lab Notebooks

Sign every entry at the notebook layer, with versioned chains per edit.

Benchling · LabArchives · RSpace · Signals · Jupyter

Clinical Data Platforms

21 CFR Part 11 integrity for trial data and regulatory submissions.

Medidata · Veeva Vault · Oracle Health · REDCap

Genomics & Biobanking

Quantum-resistant provenance for data with 50-year lifespans.

Illumina BaseSpace · DNAnexus · Seven Bridges

AI / ML Experiment Tracking

Dataset and model-card provenance for reproducible ML & EU AI Act readiness.

MLflow · Weights & Biases · Hugging Face · Neptune

Open Science Infrastructure

A provenance layer beneath the identifiers research already relies on.

OSF · ORCID · Crossref · DataCite · Zenodo · arXiv

Publishers & Peer Review

JATS-compatible API and a “provenance-verified” badge for journals.

JATS · Springer Nature · Elsevier · PLOS · eLife
Technology Foundation

Seven layers of cryptographic integrity.

Parable Research is powered by the Ma'atara Protocol — a patent-pending, 7-layer post-quantum architecture delivering sub-millisecond verification from the laboratory edge to the institutional core.

Edge-first and federated: no central point of failure, no single-vendor dependency, and privacy-preserving verification so labs can prove integrity without exposing proprietary datasets.

Ma'atara Protocol · ma-atara.io
ML-DSA / ML-KEM (FIPS 203 & 204)
SHA3-384 Integrity Proofs
Veritas Chain — Deterministic Anchoring
Aegis Fabric — Cross-Institution Provenance
CAAL — Context-Aware Access Logic
FHE / MPC — Verify Without Exposing Data
Edge-First — Works Offline, Syncs Later
Built In The Open, With You

Let's build the trust layer for science together.

We're open-by-default and collegial by design. Whether you run a lab, build research software, publish journals, fund science, or invest in deep-tech — we want to co-develop this with you.

Researchers & Labs

Pilot the instrument gateway and ELN anchor on a live study. We'll work hands-on with your team and shape the SDK around real bench workflows.

Software & Platform Partners

An open plugin SDK for ELN, LIMS, and ML-tracking vendors. Add cryptographic provenance to your product without re-architecting it.

Publishers & Funders

Offer a “provenance-verified” tier and turn funder data-management mandates into something measurable and enforceable.

Standards Bodies

We actively engage NISO, RDA, FORCE11 and CODATA to advance FAIR with a cryptographic enforcement layer — contributions welcome.

Investors & Partners

A multi-billion-dollar market with regulatory tailwinds (FDA, EMA, NIH, UKRI) and a worsening crisis as the wedge. Ask for the strategic brief.

National Integrity Bodies

Systematic, preventive monitoring for ORI, UKRIO and ARIC — pre-crime provenance instead of post-hoc retraction.

Standards & Compliance

Built for the rules that govern good science.

Every layer maps to internationally recognised data-integrity and evidence standards.

ALCOA+ 21 CFR Part 11 GLP GMP ICH E6(R3) ISO 17025 FAIR NIST FIPS 203 NIST FIPS 204 RFC 3227 ISO/IEC 27037 GDPR
Get In Touch

Ready to make your research provably true?

We work with universities, pharma, CROs, publishers, funders and research-software teams to deploy quantum-resistant integrity infrastructure. Tell us about your work — we'd love to collaborate.