Proof of your creative process.
MadeMark runs quietly on your Mac, watching the folders you choose and creating a verifiable timeline for your files, invention notes, AI collaboration, approvals, shares, and final exports.
- 1dProject enrolledNorthern Lights · 4 folders watched
- 12mExport capturedfinal_cut_v12.mov · 4.2 GB
- 8mApproval receivedFrom: producer@auralfilms.co
- 2mWitnessed checkpointTimeline anchor · 312 events
- nowProof bundle readynorthern-lights-v12.mademark
Made by a human. Marked as proof.
In a world where anything can be generated in seconds, MadeMark is a quiet record that a real person was at the keyboard. The takes, the tweaks, the second-guesses, the prompt rejections, the invention notes, the late-night exports — the human fingerprints of creative work.
A mark is small, deliberate, and hard to fake. Yours sits quietly behind every file you make — so when someone asks "did a person actually make this?", the answer isn't a promise. It's a timeline.
In the AI era, your patent story needs evidence of human invention.
US patent claims can turn on whether a real person contributed the inventive concept. MadeMark gives founders, researchers, and creative teams a dated, verifiable record of the human work around an idea: what you tried, what you changed, what AI suggested, and what a person actually selected.
MadeMark is not legal advice and does not guarantee patentability, inventorship, or ownership. It creates provenance evidence that can support review by attorneys, collaborators, investors, and future you.
Capture the choices a person made: problem framing, rejected paths, selected constraints, edits, approvals, and final calls.
Log prompts, answers, model details, transcript hashes, and the human decisions that shaped or overruled the AI output.
Mark dated conception notes, diagrams, prototypes, CAD exports, code snapshots, lab files, and disclosure drafts.
Export a proof bundle your attorney or business partner can inspect without trusting screenshots or memory.
Your work changes constantly. MadeMark keeps the timeline without forcing you to change how you work.
- Demos
- Stems
- Masters
- Session files
- Cuts
- Footage
- Scripts
- Production assets
- Source files
- Exports
- Selects
- Brand assets
- Invention notes
- Prototype exports
- Disclosure drafts
- AI logs
Finder-first. Calm by default.
MadeMark works alongside Finder and the creative apps you already use. It quietly captures meaningful moments — a new cut, an approved master, a sent deliverable — and keeps them in order.
- 01Choose a folder or projectPoint MadeMark at the folders that matter — a film cut, a record, a client deliverable.
- 02Keep working in your toolsLogic, Final Cut, Premiere, Resolve, Pro Tools, Ableton, Photoshop — MadeMark stays out of the way.
- 03MadeMark notices what changesMeaningful edits, exports, shares, approvals, and marked versions are added to a private local timeline.
- 04Export a proof bundleWhen you need it — for a label, client, collaborator, lawyer, patent attorney, investor, archive, or a clean handoff of a known version.
Versions for real folders, without making creatives learn Git.
MadeMark gives creative projects a version history that matches how people actually work: folders, milestones, handoffs, approvals, and restores.
A mark captures a signed revision for the folder: the snapshot fingerprint, parent revisions, changed paths, time, and device signature.
Refs like main, client-review, or final-delivery point to important revisions through signed, append-only updates.
MadeMark can compare your live folder with a marked revision and show added, modified, and removed files.
Roll a folder or selected paths back from MadeMark's local object storage, with optional cleanup for files that were not in that revision.
If local work and an incoming version touch the same path from a common base, MadeMark records a conflict instead of hiding the problem. The conflict becomes part of the timeline so the decision is visible later.
Git still works alongside MadeMark for source code, remotes, CI, and developer branches. MadeMark's native revisions are for creative folders and proof-bearing handoffs.
Sessions, docs, contracts, deliverables — all on one quiet timeline.
MadeMark watches the files your tools produce. Here's what its timeline looks like next to four of the apps creative teams live in every day.
Quiet evidence, ready when you need it.
MadeMark doesn't claim to prove artistic truth, patentability, or whether a file was made by AI. It proves the things that actually settle disputes and support review — order, timing, receipt, integrity, and documented human contribution.
"I had this file on this date."
"This version existed before the deadline."
"This export matches the original project history."
"This person received or claimed the shared file."
"This approval happened before delivery."
"This file has not changed since the proof was created."
"This human decision shaped the invention after AI input."
"These notes and prototype exports existed before filing."
"This disclosure draft came from this project history."
Your work doesn't leave your Mac unless you say so.
MadeMark was built for people who care about their work. Privacy isn't a feature — it's the default.
- Files stay on your MacMadeMark does not need to upload your creative files to record their history.
- Local timeline by defaultYour project history lives next to your work, on the disk you already trust.
- Witness without exposingAn outside witness can confirm a checkpoint existed without ever seeing your files.
- You decide what's in the bundleChoose exactly which events and metadata leave your machine, and to whom.
When it matters, you'll have the receipts — without keeping a journal.
Keep dated evidence of conception notes, AI-assisted work, human decisions, and prototype exports for counsel to review.
When a co-writer questions who brought what — your session timeline shows when each idea entered the project.
Prove a master existed, untouched, on a specific date — before a sync or release window.
Show the cut a client signed off on — and that the delivered version matches it.
Confirm the editor's locked picture left the studio at the agreed time, in the agreed state.
Hand over masters with a proof bundle attached, not just a Dropbox link.
Years later, prove a piece of work existed in a specific form, without re-finding old emails.
A simple chain of small, honest facts.
MadeMark fingerprints your files, links events together in order, signs the timeline from your Mac, and can have an outside witness confirm that the timeline existed. Later, anyone can inspect the proof — without trusting a screenshot.
Each file gets a unique fingerprint. The file itself never has to leave your Mac.
Events are linked in sequence so they can't be silently rearranged after the fact.
Your Mac signs the timeline. Tampering breaks the signature.
An outside witness anchors the timeline, proving it existed at that moment.
For technical reviewers›
MadeMark maintains a local hash-linked event log. File integrity uses content-addressed digests; the log is signed by a per-device key and periodically anchored via an independent witness service. Version management is native: signed revisions record folder snapshots, signed refs name important milestones, diffs classify added, modified, and removed files, and restores are recorded back into the timeline. Proof bundles are self-verifiable with an open inspector and require no central authority — and no blockchain.
MadeMark is designed around the way creatives already use Finder.
A native utility tuned for the way Mac creatives think and work.
If you organize work in folders, you're already organized for MadeMark.
Designed around the way creatives already use Finder: folders, versions, exports, shares, archives.
Quiet capture. No pop-ups in the middle of a take or a render.
Your project history stays on your machine by default.
Hand off a single bundle anyone can verify — no account required to inspect it.
Tighter Finder workflows are on the roadmap as the product matures.
Quiet proof, in the moments that count.
"Our patent counsel asked how we separated AI suggestions from the actual inventive choices. MadeMark gave us the dated record instead of a pile of screenshots."
"When a producer questioned which cut we delivered for festival submission, I exported a proof bundle in a click. It matched the file they had — conversation over."
"I work with a dozen artists a month. MadeMark quietly tracks every master I send out. I never think about it until someone asks 'when did you send this?'"
"A split discussion got tense. I didn't have to argue — the timeline showed when each part of the song entered the session."
Plain answers.
Does MadeMark upload my files?+
No. MadeMark records a local timeline on your Mac. It can fingerprint files without uploading them. You decide what, if anything, leaves your machine in a proof bundle.
Do I have to change creative tools?+
No. MadeMark works alongside Finder and the apps you already use — Logic, Final Cut, Premiere, Resolve, Pro Tools, Ableton, Photoshop, and others.
Is this only for legal disputes?+
No. Most users rely on MadeMark for everyday handoffs, approvals, archive integrity, and peace of mind. Disputes are just the worst-case it covers.
Does it prove I made the art?+
No tool can prove artistic authorship. MadeMark proves the practical things — that a file existed, when it changed, who received it, and what was approved.
Does it prove no AI was used?+
No. MadeMark does not certify that no AI was used. It can record AI collaboration, transcript hashes, and the human choices around that work, so the history is reviewable instead of anecdotal.
Can this help with patents?+
It can help create organized provenance evidence for patent counsel: dated invention notes, prototype files, AI collaboration records, human contribution notes, and marked disclosure drafts. It is not legal advice and does not guarantee patentability or inventorship.
What happens when I share a file?+
MadeMark can record the share event in your timeline and, with the recipient's confirmation, log receipt — so you have a record of who got what, and when.
Is this replacing Git?+
For creative folders, MadeMark has native signed revisions, named refs, status, diffs, restores, and conflict records. Git remains optional interop for developer source code, remotes, CI, and branch-heavy collaboration.
Can someone else verify my proof?+
Yes. A proof bundle is self-verifiable with an open inspector. They don't need a MadeMark account, and they don't need to trust you.
Is this blockchain?+
No. MadeMark does not require a blockchain. It uses signed, hash-linked timelines anchored by an independent witness.
Keep making. Let MadeMark keep the proof.
A quiet macOS utility for the work you take seriously.