What is Proof of Effort (PoE)? PoE proves a document was genuinely written by a person. As you write, it records the effort inside your document, where it travels with the file. It watches how you write, not what you write, and never stores your text. Made by Khepri Humetric Solutions; available at SeekingProof.com. What is PoET? PoET (Proof of Effort for Text) is the first PoE product — an add-on for LibreOffice Writer on Windows and macOS and soon MS Word. It records your writing effort, stores it in your document, and lets you score or seal it for sharing. PoE and PoET are used interchangeably. A music counterpart, PoEM, is in development. Is PoE an AI detector? No — and it's built to make AI detectors unnecessary. Detectors guess whether a machine wrote your finished text. PoE never guesses or judges content; it records what actually happened as you wrote and lets that speak for itself. What makes PoE different? Ai detectors work backward from finished words and produce an unexplainable probability that often flags honest writing. PoE works forward from the act of composing, recording real effort as it happens. Instead of a guess about your text, you get positive, attested proof of your effort. It's built to replace AI detection, not supplement it. How does PoE work, in plain terms? As you write, PoE reads the rhythm, edits, and flow of composition — the cognitive signals of genuine human writing — without your words and without the precise keystroke timing that could identify you. When you score, it produces a Total Effort Score out of 100, plus a typed-vs-pasted reading and a section-by-section transcription check. What is a .poe artifact, and when would I use one? Usually you won't need one — your PoE data already lives in your document, so you just share the document. An artifact is optional: it pulls your effort record into a separate sealed .poe file, linked to your document, so you can prove authorship without sending an editable embedded record.