Understand
The journey of proof
Six stages, from the first file to a dispute. What happens at each one, what you can do, and what it changes the day the question comes up.
You create
Copyright is born with the file
A page of art, a commit, a manuscript, a workshop formula. The moment the file exists, you already hold rights over it: no formality is required, no deposit is needed for them to come into being.
What's missing isn't the right — it's the date. A file carries a modification date that any system can rewrite, and that no opposing party is obliged to believe.
You certify
Thirty seconds, without transmitting anything
You drop the file into the browser. Its SHA-256 fingerprint is computed locally: a string of 64 characters that can't be used to reconstruct the content, but that a single modified byte is enough to change entirely.
Only this fingerprint is transmitted. It's timestamped by an independent time authority, then recorded in a tamper-proof registry. Your file itself never leaves your machine.
You share
The moment risk appears
A publisher, a manufacturer, an investor, an agency, an intern who leaves. The risk never appears during creation: it appears when you send the work out, when it leaves your hands.
Certifying before sharing costs nothing and changes your position. Many stop right there — signaling that a creation is on record deters most copying before it happens.
You accumulate
A timeline is worth more than a single piece of evidence
Version after version, the certificates form a trajectory: the sketch, the iteration, the delivery, the correction. Each one linked to its author and its date.
This is what sets a solid case apart from a single, isolated piece of evidence. A continuous timeline shows a creative process; a single file only shows a result, which anyone could claim.
Something happens
Copying, revocation, due diligence
Your pattern resurfaces at a competitor. A fund finances a company with an identical positioning. A buyer asks for the chain of title on the code. A third party files to revoke your trademark.
In each of these cases, the same question comes up: what did you have, and since when? Without a record, the answer has to be reconstructed from emails and testimony. With a certificate, it's already answered.
You respond
Proof, insurance, lawyers
You produce the certificate: fingerprint, date, timestamping authority, public verification link. Anyone can check it — no account, no software, no need to go through us.
An intellectual property lawyer quickly assesses the infringement, and IP insurance covers what cash flow can't cover alone: the expert assessment, the procedure, the legal action — with an account and, under certain conditions, a subscription.
The concept
The creative process
A certificate fixes a state in time. The creative process documents a continuity — and it's that continuity which carries conviction.
A result doesn't prove a creation
A single file shows what you produced, not that you designed it. Anyone can hold a finished image. What can't be manufactured after the fact is the path that led there.
Intermediate states
Sketches, drafts, abandoned versions, failed attempts: certified as you go, they form a coherent, dated trajectory. Someone who copies only has the result.
Who did what, and when
Each step is linked to its author. On a work involving several hands — studio, agency, lab, contractors — this is what settles ownership before it's disputed.
Including with AI
When part of the work is AI-assisted, the question becomes: what did you contribute? Documenting the steps shows the human input — the intent, the choices, the revisions — where the final file shows nothing.