EARNED TRUST R E C O R D ETR

The AIast Disclosure Standard

Earned Trust

Show how AI helped create your work — with records readers can check.

Make a shareable disclosure showing which AI tools you used, what they did, and how you checked the result. Free · no account · the Reader runs in your browser.

Record the assistance → attack and verify the work → publish a checkable disclosure.

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1Choose your AIAny one you already use.
2Work as you normally doYour AI keeps the record with you.
3Publish your disclosureA mark, a record card, a sealed archive.
4Anyone can verify itThe Reader checks it in a browser.

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I’m making something

Tap your AI’s button, or paste the protocol in. Your AI keeps the record with you as you work — phone, tablet, or computer, no download.

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I’m checking something

Handed a work with a mark, a link, or a QR? Open the Reader. It runs in your browser, keeps your files on your device, and works offline.

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I’m evaluating the standard

The full specification, openly licensed and permanently archived — and the founder’s own records to check it against.

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What a disclosure looks like

J. Author — Independent Researcher
AI-use disclosure: AIast — 3 entries · Earned Trust Record enclosed
AIast3 — Claude (i/d/c) · ChatGPT (c) · Perplexity (s)

The name signs the work; the mark signs the disclosure. Five role letters — i ideation · d drafting · c critique · v verification · s source retrieval — and a count of the services used. Not a score; a credit roll. The whole idea, in plain words →

Self-declared · evidence-backed · reader-checkable — not certification, not peer review, not a quality score. A proposed standard: self-published and versioned, not yet reviewed or adopted by any external body — the About page tracks that honestly. No Earned Trust account exists and the Reader runs locally; your AI provider’s own privacy terms still apply to your AI conversations.

Where a credential buys trust in advance,
transparency can earn it afterward.

Correspondence with the Author: William@earnedtrust.org
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Earned Trust (AIast) · created by William Stafford, Independent Researcher · standard CC BY 4.0 · tools AGPL-3.0 · concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20719927
This site is itself disclosed under the standard: built in working sessions with Claude (Anthropic) as drafting instrument, directed and approved by the author, records retained — sealed manifests: 2026-07-30 · 2026-07-31. Seals chain; published manifests are never withdrawn. The site’s working record continues in the work record; seals are periodic, not real-time — the latest site seal runs through 2026-08-05, and the next follows the author’s ritual. Current versions: Standard v1.13 (2026-08-14, the consolidation edition) · protocol revised 2026-09-08 · Field Kit v0.9.19 · what’s new · version.json. The complete working files live in the Record Vault — public record, held receipts, both checkable.
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