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Create
Proof begins while media is being created.
Live media-resident provenance
Live provenance for digital media.
bothX adds a media-resident acoustic proof layer for live, recorded, reposted, and forensic media.
Live media provenance routeSignal active
The problem/01
Digital media loses context as it moves.
Files are edited, compressed, reposted, recorded, clipped, streamed, and stripped.
File context can become separated during distribution.
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Edited
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Compressed
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Reposted
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Recorded
The bothX layer/02
Proof inside the sound.
An inaudible acoustic signature can carry identity, time, date, and location.
Proof begins while media is being created.
Signed record
Media-resident signal
Manifest
✓
Origin, edits, tools, and provenance history.
Identity, time, date, and location inside the sound path.
Record
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Signal
How it works/03
A proof path that begins at creation and remains available for review.
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Carry
The signature rolls with time. The media carries a proof path as it happens.
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Verify
Review the signal, recovered context, and available provenance record together.
Built for real-world media/04
The record needs the signal.
Provenance should survive the journey from file to platform to speaker to recording.
The journey can extend beyond the manifest’s immediate container.
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Created
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Edited
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Compressed
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Reposted
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Streamed
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Recorded
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Verified
01CreatedSignal present
02EditedSignal present
03CompressedSignal present
04RepostedSignal present
05StreamedSignal present
06RecordedSignal present
07VerifiedSignal present
Persistent proof path
Live states advance without becoming a decorative after-the-fact label.
Audio becomes a live provenance rail for video, calls, broadcasts, recordings, and replays.
Applications/05
Where proof matters.
Video has sound. Sound can carry proof.
Live and recorded media
Music, podcasts, video, AI media, broadcast, recordings, and replays.
Verification and forensic review
Newsrooms, courts, public safety, government communications, and platform verification.
Programmatic advertising
Programmatic ads need proof that paid media was actually rendered, heard, and attributable.
Distribution pathways
Files are edited, compressed, reposted, recorded, clipped, streamed, and stripped.
Standards and ecosystem/06
Record + signal. One proof stack.
C2PA records provenance in a signed manifest. bothX adds a media-resident acoustic proof layer that can travel inside the sound path.
Together, they form a fuller provenance architecture for live, recorded, reposted, and forensic media.
C2PA
A signed record.
A manifest can describe origin, edits, tools, and provenance history.
bothX
A proof path inside sound.
An inaudible acoustic signature can carry identity, time, date, and location.
both Works Inc. is a C2PA Contributor Member.
Technical foundation/07
Built on protected acoustic authentication IP.
US Patent
No. 12,626,708 B1
Hybrid Spectro-Morse Acoustic Authentication System and Method
Transactional proof
Proof at the moment of action.
The signature rolls with time. The media carries a proof path as it happens.
Verification outcomes
Pass/01
Fail/02
Unreadable/03
Company/08
People and accountability.
Built by people across audit, cyber, media, and strategy.
Contact/09
The future of provenance is live.
C2PA gives media a signed record. bothX gives the sound itself a proof path.