Proof of human authorship
A permanent record of the creation process of human-made art.
Chronicled records the sessions behind a creative work — the process files, recordings, and notes each one produced — locks them into a tamper-evident timeline, and timestamps it on Bitcoin. What remains is a public certificate of human authorship that anyone can verify: an admissions office, a gallery, a buyer.
For admissions offices
Ask applicants to submit a certificate link with each portfolio piece. Open it — or drop any copy of the image — and see in seconds whether the work was recorded as it was made, over real time. Nothing to install; no student data held by you.
How it fits admissions →For applicants and artists
Record each session as you work — photos in progress, recordings, notes. Your drafts stay private; the certificate is what you share. Building a piece over weeks makes its certificate stronger, not weaker.
How it works →How a work is chronicled
The full method →Chronicle the session
Work as you always do, then upload what each session produced — photos of the piece in progress, a recording, project files, notes. Add sessions over days or months; each is dated the moment it happens and locked to the ones before it, so the story of the work can never be rearranged.
Seal, anchor, watermark
When you finish, the whole history is sealed into one permanent record and stamped on the Bitcoin blockchain — a public clock nobody can wind back. The finished image is invisibly watermarked for you. Your files stay private; only the certificate is public.
Verify & resolve
Anyone you share the certificate with can watch the piece take shape, see when each session happened, and check the record for themselves — no need to take our word for it. And if a copy of your art turns up anywhere, the verify page traces it back to your certificate.
For admissions offices
Request a briefing →Applicants certify how each portfolio piece was made — session by session, timestamped on a public blockchain — so your reviewers can trust what they are looking at. Nothing to install; no student data held by you.
- Applicants certify as they work. A free account; they record each session and certify the finished piece. Their drafts stay private — the certificate is what they share.
- They submit a certificate link. One link per piece, alongside the portfolio in whatever you already use — SlideRoom, Slate, a form, an email. No integration on your side.
- Reviewers verify in seconds. Open the link, or drop any copy of the image on the verify page: a status strip, plain-English checks, and the creation timelapse.
At a glance
- Nothing to install, nothing to integrate
- No applicant data held by the institution
- Private by default — drafts are never public
- Independently verifiable against Bitcoin
- No resale, no AI training — written into the Terms
- Free for applicants today
Evidence, not adjudication: a certificate is one strong signal within a human review. The scoring rubric and its limits are published in the Methodology.
Questions institutions ask
Can an applicant fake it?
Faking a certificate means fabricating a believable multi-session, multi-week process on an attested device with matching input telemetry, then passing checks that all succeed or fail in the open. Possible in theory, expensive in practice — and every certificate states exactly what was and wasn't captured.
What if an applicant doesn't use Chronicled?
Nothing changes. Certification is opt-in evidence an applicant can add to a portfolio. Its absence is not a finding, and it never replaces your own review.
What does it cost?
A Basic account is free — during launch, with 5 GB of storage to keep. Verified Creator is $5/month after identity review (fee waived during launch) and adds 25× the storage. Verifying a certificate never costs anything. See plans; program arrangements are agreed in conversation — request a briefing.
How mature is the service?
Chronicled is an early-access service. The certification and verification flow described here is complete and in use; a few additional features are labelled as previews where they appear. The data commitments in the Terms apply from day one.
From the registry
All verified works →An honest note
On "impossible to fake."
No system can make forgery literally impossible — a timeline of a session proves a progression happened over time, not by itself that a human made it. Chronicled's security comes from binding that timeline to real process evidence (live input, a partner-tool attestation, or the uploaded source files), then making any later tampering cryptographically detectable and any backdating impossible.
The goal is to make faking prohibitively expensive and easy to detect — and to give honest creators a public, durable receipt.