Research & Development
Research focused on one simple thing: protecting important documents better
Our research starts from a concrete need: helping employees, public staff and organisations deliver, find and trust sensitive documents more easily. We move forward with academic partners and field teams so the work stays connected to real use, not abstract distance.
What we explore
Four problems worth solving well
Each line of work exists because a real gap remains between what current tools offer and what people genuinely need from their documents.
Prove it without showing it
Today, proving that a document is authentic usually means sharing more of it than necessary. We work on methods that let a third party confirm what they need to know - whether that is the authenticity of a payslip under décret 2016-1762, the integrity of a maintenance record submitted to ANSM, or the provenance of a satellite dataset under the INSPIRE directive - without seeing salary figures, device identifiers or other unrelated content. The goal: verification that is both rigorous and minimal.
Trust that survives time
A payslip from 2019 should still be findable and trustworthy in 2035. A maintenance record for an ANSM-regulated Class II device must hold up under inspection three years after the intervention. Satellite provenance chains must remain verifiable long after the mission has ended. Cryptographic methods and formats decay - we look for protection schemes that remain meaningful years after a document was first delivered, not only at the moment of signing.
Research that works in the hands of real teams
A finding that cannot be shipped into a product without adding complexity is not useful. We treat deployability as a design constraint from the start. The measure of good research is whether a home care coordinator, a hospital biomedical engineer or a GIS analyst can rely on it every day without knowing it is there.
Hold up where the stakes are higher
ANSM-regulated medical devices require maintenance records that survive an inspection years later. HDS-certified platforms process home care beneficiary health data under CNIL oversight. INSPIRE-compliant geospatial datasets must remain attributable to their source. We use these concrete constraints to stress-test our assumptions early - not to discover their limits when it is too late.
Where the work stands
What is in the product, what is still being built
We try to keep a clear line between what is already working, what is being improved, and what is still open research. No ambiguity.
Already in production
Document delivery is structured, traceable and encrypted end-to-end. Each user's space is isolated - no one else can access documents, including the operator. The fundamentals of sovereign hosting and zero-knowledge architecture are already in production in our products.
Continuously improved
Integration speed, delivery reliability and ease of use for HR teams are areas of ongoing work. We measure against real deployment feedback, not against theoretical benchmarks.
Active research topics
Long-term document verifiability remains an open challenge - whether that is a payslip issued years ago, a maintenance record for an ANSM-regulated device, or a satellite dataset whose provenance chain must outlast the mission. So does selective disclosure: letting an employee or beneficiary share part of a document without exposing the rest. These are the problems we are currently working on with academic and institutional partners.
Where we want to go
The long-term goal is a service where document trust is clear enough and robust enough to be relied on in the most demanding contexts - hospitals, large public bodies, sensitive legal situations - without adding friction for the people using it every day.
How we work
Linking research, product and field reality
Start from a lived problem
We begin with concrete questions: what is missing today for employees, public staff and the teams managing their documents? Research has to answer that.
Test early
We would rather confront an idea with reality early than let it stay elegant but abstract for too long.
Document what works
We keep a clear record of assumptions, limits and results. That helps the product team as much as academic or institutional partners.
Connect science to use
The ambition is not only to find. It is also to turn a good research result into a service people can genuinely rely on in everyday work.
Collaborations
Research work open to the right partners
CIFRE doctoral projects
We are open to doctoral work that connects demanding research with concrete document trust problems.
Laboratories and schools
We look for collaborations with teams that care as much about scientific quality as about real impact on use.
Collaborative projects
We can contribute to shared projects when they keep a clear link with the needs of organisations and the people affected by them.
Demanding contexts
Some research matters even more where mistakes cost more
Public institutions and sensitive services
ANSM-regulated hospital maintenance, HDS-certified home care platforms and INSPIRE-compliant satellite data services each impose non-negotiable verification constraints - tamper-evident records for Class I, II and III medical devices, cryptographically isolated beneficiary health data, and geospatial provenance chains auditable by public authorities.
Those constraints push us to stay rigorous while remaining focused on the real day-to-day use for staff and teams.
Cybersecurity and defence ecosystems
Part of our work can also matter in environments where discretion, continuity and document trust are critical. We move on those topics carefully and with the right people.
If you work on those challenges and are looking for a research or demonstration partner, talk to us.
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What makes us distinct
We protect what genuinely defines the uniqueness of our work and what deserves to remain a durable advantage for the company.
What benefits from discussion
We also want to share what benefits scientific discussion, third-party scrutiny and clearer understanding for our partners.
To talk about research, publications or partnership opportunities: contact@domselardi.com
Collaborate with us
Are you a researcher, laboratory, funding body or industrial partner who wants to explore these topics with us? Contact the team.
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