Questions & answers

FAQ

Everything you need to know about Workings - how it works, who it's for, and how we handle your data.

About Workings

What is Workings?+
Workings is a software tool you install on your Mac or PC which allows you to collect and store a high-fidelity, tamper-evident record of your workflows locally. This record can be used to prove when and how your work was made, via verifiable reports and timelapses generated by Workings.
What makes Workings different from other tools on the market?+

Workings is not an AI detection tool. AI detectors look at the finished output and guess whether a human or a machine wrote it. They are statistically unreliable and disproportionately flag non-native speakers and certain writing styles.

The only way to avoid guessing is to collect evidence of workflows at the point of creation.

Workings collects high-fidelity, searchable data as you work - including screenshots, across every app - safe, private, local, and tamper-evident. You control who sees it, and anyone you share with can verify it for themselves. Every one of these features is vital, and Workings is the only point-of-creation tool that provides them all.

Who is Workings for?+
Workings is for wherever authorship matters - students can demonstrate the thinking and effort behind their work, universities can uphold academic integrity and understand how their students actually work, inventors can show when and how their inventions were made, writers can share how they developed their creations. For businesses, Workings provides the core technology to collect a database of high-fidelity evidence of workflows - ready to develop for additional use cases.
Who created Workings?+
Founded by seasoned product leaders from fintech, cyber, cryptography, consulting and games. Workings combines expertise in privacy, product design, crypto and AI, with patent-filed technology advancing the protection of authorship.

Privacy & data

Does Workings see my work?+
No. Workings is built on zero-knowledge architecture. All recording and processing happens on your device. The content of your work only ever leaves your machine if you send it. We literally cannot read it.
What gets recorded?+
Two things, both stored locally on your device: periodic screenshots of your screen, and your typing rhythm - the timing of how you work, not a log of your keystrokes. See the Privacy Policy for more details.
Can I delete my data?+
Yes. Everything lives on your device, you can delete your record any time. We hold no central database of your sessions. See the Privacy Policy for more detail.

Reports & verification

What's in a Workings report?+
A cryptographically signed summary of your session: duration, tool usage, AI use, behavioural metrics, a timeline visualisation, and a hash for verification. The amount of detail is your choice - you control what level of summary you share.
When a Workings user provides me with their work and a Workings report, how do I know that I can trust them?+
Drop their Workings report into our verifier (no account needed). It confirms the report is genuine and unaltered, and that it's genuinely tied to the document they gave you - so now you're checking real, tamper-evident evidence, not taking their word for it. What that evidence tells you about their work is then yours to judge.
What does the AI / human monitoring in a report mean?+
Workings monitors your session continuously and records which applications were active, including all known AI tools - how long you spent in each, and the order you moved between them (research, AI, editing, and so on). The report attests when it was monitoring and any gaps and shows this activity transparently. It doesn't read your content or measure how much of your work came from any tool - it shows how you worked, and proves it covered the whole process.
Will my recordings become more useful over time?+
Yes. As you work, Workings lays down a genuine record of your process, locally - layer by layer, in sequence, yours alone. As Workings grows, new tools will draw richer authorship and productivity insight from work you capture today - and you decide if and when to dig in.
What if I use AI on another device?+
Workings only captures the process on the device it's running on. Anything made elsewhere isn't part of that record - so it tends to show up as a break in the progression rather than continuous process. A large paste with no drafting behind it, for example. Workings reflects the process it can see; it doesn't try to police everything you do.
Can't someone just fake it?+
No system is airtight, and Workings doesn't pretend to be. What it does is move the bar. Today's baseline is no record at all - Workings replaces that with a high-fidelity account of how the work was made, where shortcuts tend to surface as discontinuities. Faking a convincing process - real drafting, revision, the natural rhythm of work - is usually more effort than simply doing the work. The point isn't to police for cheating; it's to make genuine process visible and worth showing.
What types of media does Workings work with?+

Workings captures whatever you put in scope. That can be art, code, written word, video - any digital work you're producing on screen. Everything captured becomes evidence, and any of it can be turned into a time-lapse of how the work came together.

The Deliverable Specific Report is narrower. It currently works with English-language text only, supplied as a PDF, Markdown (.md), Word (.doc), or text (.txt) file. A few things fall outside its scope:

  • Other languages - the report supports English only for now.
  • Image-based PDFs - if the text isn't selectable (e.g. a scanned page), the report can't read it.
  • Short documents - anything under 200 words.

Platform & access

What platforms is Workings available on?+

Workings runs as a desktop app on both Windows and Mac.

Windows - Any PC running Windows 11 or higher with at least 8GB of RAM. This covers the vast majority of laptops and desktops sold in recent years.

Mac - Macs with Apple Silicon (the M1, M2, M3 and later chips). If you bought your Mac from late 2020 onwards, you're almost certainly covered.

Is Workings available in my country?+
Workings is initially available to residents of the UK, Europe, Australia, and the United States.
What languages does Workings support?+
English only at launch.
How do I access the free beta?+
The beta was released in May 2026 by invite only to an initial set of individual users, with more users being added over time. Join our waitlist and we will send you an invite when you reach the front of the queue.

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