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Clients are starting to ask freelancers to prove their work wasn't generated. DrawDog sits in your menu bar and records how your file grew, what apps were in front of you, and whether an AI tool was ever open. It signs and timestamps that record, then gives you one link to send. The client drags your file onto the page to confirm it's the one you certified. It never looks inside your work: no screen recording, no keystrokes, no file names. Three certificates a month, free.
I spent 17 years in law enforcement. Most of that job comes down to one boring idea: chain of custody. If you can't show where a piece of evidence has been every second since you picked it up, it doesn't matter how true it is. It gets thrown out.
Creative work has no chain of custody at all. An illustrator finishes a piece, sends a JPEG, and the client either trusts them or doesn't. That was fine for twenty years. It isn't anymore. I kept seeing artists get accused of using AI, with nothing to point at except their own word and a folder of PSDs nobody wants to open.
So I built the thing I already knew how to build, aimed at a different problem.
DrawDog runs in your menu bar. It records the shape of your session: how the file grew, what was in front of you, whether an AI tool was ever open. Then it signs that record and timestamps it against an independent authority so I can't quietly change it later and neither can you. You get one link. The client drops your file on the page and sees green.
What it doesn't do matters just as much. No screen recording. No keystrokes. No file names, no thumbnails, no peeking at the work. Your unfinished art is nobody's business, mine included.
Let me get ahead of the obvious objection, because I'd raise it too: this is not proof. You could generate on another machine and trace it. What this does is what chain of custody has always done. It makes lying expensive and it gives the person on the other side something concrete to check instead of a vibe.
Certificate #001 on the homepage is real. It's from me sitting down and drawing a DrawDog logo (not the final one, because this one sucked 😂) by hand while the app watched.
Three certificates a month are free, forever. I'd love to hear from working artists and writers here: has a client ever asked you to prove it? What did you send them?
Love the idea, especially in the age of AI! Curious to learn if there will be a workaround for let's say photo editing/video editing? Since these can also be faked (and submitted to competitions!)
About DrawDog on Product Hunt
“Prove a Human Made It, Not a Prompt”
DrawDog was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #76 on the daily leaderboard. Clients are starting to ask freelancers to prove their work wasn't generated. DrawDog sits in your menu bar and records how your file grew, what apps were in front of you, and whether an AI tool was ever open. It signs and timestamps that record, then gives you one link to send. The client drags your file onto the page to confirm it's the one you certified. It never looks inside your work: no screen recording, no keystrokes, no file names. Three certificates a month, free.
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Who hunted DrawDog?
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Scott Wilder
Hey Hunters,
I spent 17 years in law enforcement. Most of that job comes down to one boring idea: chain of custody. If you can't show where a piece of evidence has been every second since you picked it up, it doesn't matter how true it is. It gets thrown out.
Creative work has no chain of custody at all. An illustrator finishes a piece, sends a JPEG, and the client either trusts them or doesn't. That was fine for twenty years. It isn't anymore. I kept seeing artists get accused of using AI, with nothing to point at except their own word and a folder of PSDs nobody wants to open.
So I built the thing I already knew how to build, aimed at a different problem.
DrawDog runs in your menu bar. It records the shape of your session: how the file grew, what was in front of you, whether an AI tool was ever open. Then it signs that record and timestamps it against an independent authority so I can't quietly change it later and neither can you. You get one link. The client drops your file on the page and sees green.
What it doesn't do matters just as much. No screen recording. No keystrokes. No file names, no thumbnails, no peeking at the work. Your unfinished art is nobody's business, mine included.
Let me get ahead of the obvious objection, because I'd raise it too: this is not proof. You could generate on another machine and trace it. What this does is what chain of custody has always done. It makes lying expensive and it gives the person on the other side something concrete to check instead of a vibe.
Certificate #001 on the homepage is real. It's from me sitting down and drawing a DrawDog logo (not the final one, because this one sucked 😂) by hand while the app watched.
Three certificates a month are free, forever. I'd love to hear from working artists and writers here: has a client ever asked you to prove it? What did you send them?