DecentraSec security guarantee
Why your papers are bulletproof on ScholarMark
Legacy tools and “AI wrappers” often route manuscripts through third‑party APIs—turning years of research into someone else’s training signal. ScholarMark is built the opposite way: zero‑trust, self‑hosted, and provably contained.
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Every serious user should understand our infrastructure. Traditional platforms—and many modern products bolted onto generic LLMs—send unpublished manuscripts to third‑party APIs (for example OpenAI or Anthropic). In those flows, a researcher’s life’s work can become training data for external corporations, with limited visibility and weak guarantees.
ScholarMark is fundamentally different
We operate a true zero‑trust architecture. Privacy isn’t a marketing line—it’s enforced by where code runs and what is allowed to leave the boundary.
Our AI Integrity Layer runs exclusively on isolated, self‑hosted servers. Your research data stays inside our ecosystem: no external inference APIs, no third‑party scraping, and no hand‑off of full manuscripts to commodity model providers for analysis.
When a paper is uploaded, it is examined in an encrypted, sandboxed environment, then anchored to the blockchain where that fits your workflow—so integrity claims rest on localized infrastructure and verifiable anchors, not blind trust.
We don’t only promise privacy—we guarantee the boundary in architecture: self‑hosted execution, explicit egress controls, and integrity you can trace.
What that means in practice
Isolated, self-hosted stack
Our AI Integrity Layer runs only on our own servers—never on a vendor’s shared inference mesh.
No external model APIs
We do not ship your unpublished work to OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar endpoints. Nothing leaves our ecosystem for ad‑hoc cloud inference.
Encrypted, sandboxed analysis
Each upload is processed inside a hardened, sandboxed environment so checks stay contained and auditable.
Mathematical on-chain anchor
Integrity outcomes can be anchored to the blockchain—proof tied to infrastructure you can reason about, not a black-box promise.
Questions for your IRB, lab, or legal team? We’re happy to walk through architecture and data flows.