Provenance for the AI era

Notary is provenance you can prove.

In a world where multiple collaborators and AI systems can touch the same work, “trust me” and screenshots stop scaling. Notary gives creators verifiable proof receipts for milestones, handoffs, and outputs, while collaborators can create their own proofs around the work they contribute.

Provenance becomes insurance
When your work is challenged, you can show verifiable proof records and milestone receipts — not screenshots.
Built for collaborators
Authors can create milestone proofs, while collaborators can independently create proofs for their own handoffs, deliverables, and revisions.
How Notary works
Local Proofs → Cloud Attest receipts → Public Anchors
Verify with .bkclp + bytes
Local Proofs
Free with your Bookcicle account (via Desktop). Device-local proofs + signatures.
Anchors
Optional public timestamps (e.g., OpenTimestamps/Bitcoin) for stronger immutability.
Proofs, not promises

Notary produces cryptographic receipts that bind content bytes to timestamps and signers. This creates verifiable provenance for milestones, outputs, AI transforms, and contributor handoffs.

Collaboration-safe

Multiple humans and AI systems can touch the same artifact. Notary helps create verifiable checkpoints around authorship, handoffs, and revisions without relying on screenshots or informal history.

Portable proof capsules

Every service can export a .bkclp proof capsule. Anyone can verify later using the capsule plus the content bytes (embedded or provided).

Example scenarios

Where Notary fits into real creator workflows

Notary is built for more than one-off proof generation. It works as an evidence layer across daily drafting, collaboration, milestone delivery, and public timestamping.

Andrew Bonar
Creator subscriber · novel workflow
Auto evidence chain

Andrew sets up the Bookcicle file watcher agent to monitor his local writing as he creates The Fragment Murder. From there, Notary works quietly in the background: as Andrew writes, the agent automatically generates proofs, cryptographically signs them locally, and builds a durable evidence chain around the work as it evolves.

Auto-checkpointing creates milestone receipts over time, and up to twice per month Andrew adds public anchors for stronger timestamping. If a copyright dispute ever occurs, he can export one or many .bkclp proof capsules and share them with third parties for independent verification.

Input
Local draft files under active creation
Notary action
Auto proofs, local signatures, milestone attestations, optional public anchors
Outcome
Portable proof capsules that others can verify independently
Author + freelancer handoff
Collaboration-safe delivery
Contributor proofing

An author sends a manuscript section to a freelance editor for revisions. Before and after the handoff, each party creates their own proof records. The author can prove what was delivered, while the editor can prove what was received, changed, and returned.

This creates clean provenance around revisions without depending on screenshots, email timestamps alone, or disputed version histories. Each side has independently verifiable receipts for their role in the workflow.

Input
Draft handoff between creator and collaborator
Notary action
Separate proofs around send, receive, revise, and return
Outcome
Stronger authorship and contribution records across teams
AI-assisted production
Human + model workflow
Process accountability

A creator drafts source material locally, then runs AI-based transforms such as restructuring, language cleanup, or guided expansion. Notary can create proof points around the original source, the transformed output, and the delivery milestone.

When later asked how the work was produced, the creator has a more defensible provenance trail: what existed first, what was transformed, and what was ultimately delivered or published.

Input
Human-created source plus AI-assisted outputs
Notary action
Proof checkpoints across source, transform, and delivery
Outcome
A clearer provenance trail for audits, disputes, or review
Verification model
Verify later with capsule + bytes (embedded or supplied). Designed for portability and longevity.
*.bkclp
Proof capsule
Contains proof metadata and receipts. Optionally embeds bytes for offline verification.
Receipts
Local receipts are free. Cloud receipts can be metered and/or subscription-based.
Anchors
Optional public timestamping to strengthen immutability guarantees over time.

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AWS
Amazon
Anthropic
Anthropic
OpenAI
OpenAI
Mistral
Mistral
Google
Google

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