Proof of Effort
Proof of Effort
Proof of Effort for Text - Secure Your Authorship
As AI-generated text becomes harder to tell apart from human work, honest writers are asked to prove they did the work. Proof of Effort gives you a way to do that, not with denials, but with a verifiable record of your effort. It documents how you write, never what you write, and the proof belongs to you.
Your Digital Receipt
A Tool for Honest Writers to Truly Own Your Words
I've been accused of using AI. How do I prove I didn't?
If you wrote the work with PoE running, score the document or share it, and the record of your effort speaks for itself. If you wrote it without PoE, the honest truth is that it can't produce a record that was never made; retyping the work now would read as transcription, not original composition, and we won't pretend otherwise. What PoE does is make sure this can't happen to your work again.
Can I protect myself before anyone questions my work?
Yes — and that's the better way to use it. PoE runs quietly from the moment you open a document, so you don't decide in advance which work might be challenged. You just write, and the record builds itself. Freelancers proving original work to clients, students keeping evidence of their own effort, authors protecting a manuscript — the value is the same: a verifiable account of your process, ready before you ever need it.
Does PoE identify me or read what I wrote?
No to both. Your words can't be reconstructed from anything PoE keeps, and the proof reveals nothing about who you are, only that genuine human effort took place. You identity and data is yours to disclose.
What do I need, and what does it cost?
You need LibreOffice Writer, which is free, and a PoET license to record and create proofs of your work ($9.99 a month). Anyone you share a proof with pays nothing. Scoring is always free and needs no license. So the cost falls on the writer who wants to be able to prove their effort, while everyone who checks your work does so for free.
What if I pasted text or used dictation?
PoE records what happened and lets you explain the rest. Text that arrives without real typing — outside content you pasted in, pre-existing text such as from a template, or heavy autocomplete — shows up as unverified rather than as composed, because PoE can only attest to what it measured. Use the tools you want to use, disclose what you used, and let the record show the genuine effort behind everything you actually wrote.