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Earned Trust Reader

Verify that the file in your hands is the file that was published — and read a work's session record. Files you drop here are hashed in your browser and never leave your computer. (That promise covers your files; the page itself carries the site's usual privacy-friendly analytics.)

Scan a QR code

Handed a work with an Earned Trust QR code on it? You don’t need this page to scan it — your phone’s own camera is the scanner:

  1. Open the Camera app on your phone (no special app needed).
  2. Point it at the QR code on the page or screen.
  3. Tap the link that pops up — the work’s record card opens right here in the Reader.

The record travels inside the code itself — no account, no download, nothing sent anywhere. On a computer with a printed page? Scan with your phone, or drop the work’s file below instead.

New here? See how this works before you try your own file.

Try a sample record → Verify my own file

No download, nothing needed — the sample record rides inside the link itself.

Session record

A record card is the author's account of the work — dates, services, and what each session did. It describes; it does not prove. Proof is the fingerprints: verify the published file below, and the sealed evidence if the author published a seal manifest.

Share link — the record travels inside the link itself, no server involved

Verify a file against this record  ·  Are you an author? Create your own record’s link and QR

1 · Drop the file

Fingerprinting…

2 · Compare against the published fingerprint

Paste the checksum from the work's Zenodo record (Files section — an md5:… value) or from its published seal manifest (a SHA-256 value). The reader detects which kind it is.

MD5 appears here only because Zenodo publishes MD5 checksums; Earned Trust’s own seal manifests use SHA-256.

Where fingerprints live

On any Zenodo record page, the Files table shows each file's md5: checksum — for example, the Earned Trust standard itself: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20719927 (always resolves to the newest version). A work sealed with the Earned Trust Field Kit also publishes a manifest of SHA-256 fingerprints for its retained evidence.

A match proves the file is byte-for-byte the one that was published — not altered, not trimmed, not swapped. A mismatch doesn't prove bad faith; it proves this copy is not that file. Get the original from the record and check again.

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The exit form — one form, one send

This page saves a draft in your browser as you type, so you can come back. Nothing is sent until you press Send in your email.

Answer the fixed choices in one sitting. Nothing is uploaded by this page. Before you send, the page shows you back everything that will be used.

When you press Submit, the exit form makes two lines from your answers. Your public line holds everything that prints — it goes in the report’s appendix word for word, and it is the only thing in the QR image. Your private line holds the seven report-private answers; the study keeps it, counts it into totals, and never prints it. Both lines go in the same exit email. Your private line is held by the study and never printed; it is not encrypted, and email is a postcard.

An exit form you already sent is already the study’s raw data and still prints; withdrawal cannot pull it back. Compression is not encryption: anyone with the Reader can decode either line. Keep your own copy. Never enter a passphrase here.

The form will not write the email without it. The page can’t check the code; the study can.

Your DOI

Copy the DOI from your Zenodo page — don’t type it. It must be the version DOI (the one shown on the record page for that version, not the “all versions” DOI). Before the checks, the study confirms the record holds your Earned Trust deposit and that the author name on the record is the name on this form. If any of these fails — your DOI did not open · you gave the “all versions” DOI instead of the version DOI · the record does not hold your Earned Trust deposit · the author name on the record does not match the name on your exit line — you get one email saying which; the correction form takes your name and DOI together, and a correction is accepted until your window closes, or 14 days after that email, whichever is later. If your form says you made no deposit and this box is blank, your record is counted at once as “no deposit found” within completed or stopped, as your form says. You get the confirmation of your exit and nothing else — no correction email, no note, no letter.

Section 2 — the seven report-private items (your private line)

When you press Submit, the exit form makes two lines from your answers. Your public line holds everything that prints — it goes in the report’s appendix word for word, and it is the only thing in the QR image. Your private line holds the seven report-private answers; the study keeps it, counts it into totals, and never prints it. Both lines go in the same exit email. Your private line is held by the study and never printed; it is not encrypted, and email is a postcard.

Check this before you send. This is how you will appear in the report. Please make sure your name and your DOI are correct.

This must be the author name on your Zenodo record. If they differ, you will get one email saying so, and the correction form takes your name and DOI together.


      

If anything is wrong, change it above and press Submit again. This recheck is the last word — there is no later change window; your documented-participant letter and the report will carry this line generated from what you send, never retyped. When it is right:

Your two lines

Open the exit email — then press Send

One form, one send. Both lines go in the same exit email. Your exit is complete when that email arrives. Keep both lines with your own records.

If your email program doesn’t open

If your email program doesn’t open, copy the three pieces and paste them into a new email.

beta@earnedtrust.org

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Decode a Beta exit line

Paste a complete ETB1 line (a public line) or ETB1P line (a private line). Decoding happens in this browser; nothing is uploaded. A public line shows no report-private items; a private line shows only the seven (five on a line made before 12 September 2026).

Decoded public answers

The words, in plain English — a small glossary
Earned Trust
The disclosure standard and its free toolset, together.
AIast
The AI-use disclosure mark: AI-assisted, with the receipts.
AIast3
Three disclosed entries — a count of services, never a score or quality level.
LI-
Optional, self-applied Lost Innovator prefix: working outside the field’s credentialing system. Not a qualification.
Earned Trust Record (ETR)
The readable account of the work’s sessions — dates, services, roles, what was checked.
Field Kit
Tools and templates for building, logging, and sealing a record.
Reader
The browser tool that reads record cards and checks file fingerprints — locally, no account.
Seal / fingerprint
A cryptographic hash: proves a file is byte-for-byte the published one. Proves identity, not quality.
Locked box
Your private working files (drafts, notes, AI chat logs) bundled into one file and locked with a password, using a free program called 7-Zip. Nobody can open it without that password — not another person, not an AI, not Earned Trust itself. Only you have it.
Record Vault
Not something every writer gets automatically — it’s the founder’s own personal page of his published works, each shown with its own locked box, as real proof the process works.
Disclaimer · Earned Trust Reader · part of the Earned Trust Field Kit · standard: Earned Trust (AIast) · free, openly licensed, and it runs offline — no account, no server, nothing to pay: trust you must pay to verify is not earned trust. Tools AGPL-3.0 · This page runs entirely offline once loaded. · About · FAQ
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