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What this is

A signed record of how a piece of writing was written, not a verdict about who wrote it.

You wrote something, and you’d like to show that you wrote it. Not hand over the words and ask to be believed, just show the work: the shape of how it actually happened, the typing and the backtracking and the long pause where you got up for coffee.

Why bother? Because it is maddening that this is even necessary, that you can write your own sentences and still have to prove they are yours, because somewhere a detector or a skeptic decided they looked too tidy for a human. It is infuriating. It is also real, and a lot of people genuinely need a way to show their work. So we made one.

Here is what we do. While you write, we capture the shape of your editing, never the text itself, and sign it with a hash chain into a short URL anyone can open. If you like, you can bind the finished text to the record too. Not by storing it (we never do that), but by keeping a content-blind fingerprint, computed on your own machine and then thrown away, so a reader can later check that the copy in front of them is the one you signed.

A reader gets something concrete instead of taking you on faith. They can watch the writing grow letter by letter over twenty minutes, or land in one four-thousand-character paste. They can recompute the signature in their own browser and confirm nothing was touched after you signed it.

Here is what it cannot do. It cannot prove a human wrote it. Nobody can, and anything that claimed to would be bluffing. It will not score you, stamp you human-or-machine, or hand you a certificate. What it offers is the shape of the process, with your name on it.

And here is how you would fake it: write a program that types the way a person does, with its hesitations, typos, second thoughts, the occasional pause, and let it drive the record. Nothing stops that. But the record is the timing, so the forgery has to run in real time. Faking a twenty-minute essay costs your program twenty patient minutes of pretending to think. Faking a week of work takes a week. It does not make cheating impossible. It makes it as slow as just writing the thing, which is the whole bargain.

Your text stays yours. It is never uploaded, stored, or reconstructed from a record, only the shape of the process and, if you choose, a fingerprint that points back to your words without giving them away.