Creator-rights evidence platform
Sentinel helps creators register their work, seal a private evidence record, surface possible reuse, and carry every technical match through human review to a decision only the rights holder makes.
Technical signalsTemporal consistency met
Record ladderSeparate records, separate people
Built around four refusals
Accuse on a score.
A similarity score opens a review. Only a named reviewer can turn it into a validated lead.Pay on a score.
Every award needs a human-sourced qualifying record and a separate payout approval.Call a seal a registration.
A seal documents file identity and time. It is not a U.S. Copyright Office registration.Decide who is liable.
The owner states what was authorized. Only a court or authoritative process decides infringement.How a case moves
Seven stages. Three are gates held by people that no score can skip. Most leads are expected to stop early. That is the design, not a failure.
Upload the original and group it into catalogs. Declare the accounts and licences already allowed to use it.
Registered work · version 1File hash, timestamps and provenance are sealed. The database refuses any edit; a new file becomes a new version.
Evidence seal · SHA-256Discovery runs under a fail-closed source policy. Scouts submit public URLs. Duplicate, conflict and fraud checks run first.
Lead · public URL onlyPicture, motion and sound are scored separately. Video needs three consecutive aligned frames, never one similar still.
AI-detected matchA reviewer works a 13-point checklist and advances, rejects, or asks for more evidence. Reward amounts are hidden.
Human-validated lead Human gateA neutral private notice. The owner says whether this use was authorized, licensed, unknown or unauthorized.
Owner decision Owner gateIf a funded campaign covers the case, the first valid scout may be rewarded once a separate person approves.
Award · approved separately Payout gateA case can stop at any stage, and that is recorded too. A reviewer can reject a lead, an owner can say the use was licensed, and a scout can be ineligible because someone reported it first. Each is a correct outcome, with the name of whoever made the call.
The product, as built
Each panel is drawn from the running prototype: its real constants, its real records, and the screen they come from. In this demonstration the records are synthetic.
Images, video, audio, text or source files. Catalogs, licences, authorized accounts and per-work monitoring.
In the prototype: the creator registryThis record documents file identity, timestamps, provenance, and ownership claims. It is not a U.S. Copyright Office registration or a legal determination of ownership.
An exportable record of file identity, timestamps and ownership claims, with a self-reported registration status and a copyright.gov checklist.
In the prototype: a work's certificateSigned-in scouts submit a public URL and notes. Private, loopback and cloud-metadata addresses are refused before any fetch.
In the prototype: scout reportsAdvance, reject or request evidence. Every finding is audited, and a second approval is needed before any owner notice.
In the prototype: the review queueConfirm or deny ownership and classify the use. Saying a use was authorized is an accurate outcome, not a failed case.
In the prototype: the owner portalComputing an award is arithmetic; approving it is a person. Holds, clawbacks and appeals each need a named human.
In the prototype: the bounty consoleFour records, never blurred
Sentinel keeps four kinds of evidence in separate records, made by different parties. Public language follows the record that actually exists for that case, and nothing higher.
A similarity signal and a candidate transformation. It opens a review. It is not a conclusion.
A named reviewer completed all 13 checks and advanced the case.
The verified owner said this specific use was not authorized. It is the standard bounty trigger.
Exists only when a court or other authoritative process has ruled on that case. Rare, and never assumed.
Legal determinations on file in this instance: 0.
Signals, not verdicts
The matcher is the evidence engine inside the workflow, not the product. It is built to show its work and to prefer a missed copy over a false accusation.
Scout bounties
A creator can fund a campaign for one work or a catalog, or a case can draw on the public-interest pool. A platform fee is disclosed before anyone funds. Most reports are expected to end without a payment.
A reviewer validated the scout's lead. Smaller, and only when the campaign offers it.
RequiresA reviewer's advance decision on that case
The verified owner confirmed that this specific use was not authorized.
RequiresThe owner's own confirmation
The owner recorded an outcome such as attribution, a licence, or a removal request.
RequiresA standard award plus an owner-confirmed resolution
Computing an award is arithmetic. Approving it is a person. A bounty administrator who is not the scout approves each payout once, with an idempotency key. Holds, clawbacks and appeals are built in. In this demonstration every payment is simulated.
Plain language
Rights work goes wrong when a tool sounds more certain than it is. These three statements appear in the product wherever they apply.
It documents file identity, timestamps, provenance and ownership claims. Sentinel never files with the U.S. Copyright Office and never collects the government fee. Its registration checklist points creators to copyright.gov.
Similar media can come from a licence, shared stock footage, commentary or coincidence. That is why a person reviews every match and the rights holder states what was authorized.
It records evidence and decisions. It is not a law firm and gives no legal advice. Only a court or other authoritative process can decide infringement.
Start with the record
Follow one case through both sides of the workflow, from a sealed original to an owner's decision.