Authorship provenance for the AI era
Inkstain captures a tamper-evident record of how your manuscript was made — silently, invisibly, always on your side — so you can prove what's yours when it matters.
"The written word will prevail."
The Inkstain Manifesto
The problem
AI detection tools produce verdicts. Publishers act on them. Authors have no floor to stand on and no way to prove their own process — even when they have nothing to hide. The system isn't broken. It was never built. Inkstain builds it.
Sample Trail certificate
How it works
Your publisher sends a link or you download from inkstain.ai. One click. Inkstain installs silently and starts recording. You go back to writing. That's the entire setup.
Every session is witnessed. Every AI interaction logged by event, not content. No keystrokes captured. No screen recording. No document reading. The Trail is yours and lives on your machine.
When you're ready — at submission, at publication, or when someone makes an accusation — you generate your certificate. You choose what to share, when, and with whom.
What Inkstain will never do
Who it's for
Authors
From debut novelists to established authors. Whether you use AI or not, your Trail proves how your book was made before anyone else gets to define it.
Journalists
The stakes in journalism are higher. A false accusation doesn't just end a book deal — it ends a career. Your Trail shows the story was built, not generated.
Artists & musicians
Illustrators, producers, screenwriters. The same provenance standard applies to every creative medium. The Trail adapts. The certificate is the same.
Free for authors. Always. Join the waitlist and be the first to know when Inkstain is ready.
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For publishers: contact us about deploying Inkstain to your authors →