FAQ

Workings directly addresses the shortfalls with current Blockchain IP evidence, AI detection and Point of Creation Tools while supporting the modern user with:

• generation of shareable content,
• differentiation of their work online,
• private process optimisation.

Blockchain IP evidence tools are used to support IP claims - but fail to capture high fidelity data in order to satisfy the evidentiary challenges that have come to the fore with the wide adoption of AI tools.

AI detection tools 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.

Workings uses the same proven approach as password managers. Your password unlocks your key with Argon2id, and your data is sealed with AES-256, the same building blocks reputable password managers rely on. In one respect it is stronger. A password manager keeps your encrypted vault on its servers and syncs it across your devices, so copies travel and sit in more places. Workings keeps your records on your own machine. Your key and your records never live in the same place, so there is less to attack and even your encrypted work is never sitting on our servers.

You stay in control of every screenshot. You can redact anything the moment it appears, or search your history later, find it, and redact it then. A redaction persists across your whole database, and once something is redacted it will never appear in a report or a time-lapse.

Your records are encrypted end-to-end with a key that is created and stored only on your device. We store the encrypted data, never the key, so we cannot read your records. You can change your password whenever you like. If you ever forget it, you regain access with the recovery phrase you saved at setup. If you lose both your password and your recovery phrase, no one can recover your data, including us. That is the point: only you hold the key.

The app locks behind biometrics automatically when you step away, and multifactor authentication for main login is on the roadmap.

Each screenshot is around 50 KB. How much you store depends on how much you capture.

One year of heavy use is about half the size of a typical AAA game file or two 4K movie downloads. Optional cloud backup is coming in the next six months. Any cloud storage will be encrypted with the same device-held key, so only private encrypted data would ever leave your machine.

We built Workings so that the integrity of your work rests on mathematics and a public record. Your records are encrypted with a key only you hold, and they stay on your device, so there is nothing for us to read.

So don't take our word for it. Check it. Download any tool that measures what leaves your machine and watch Workings run. Your screenshots add up to around 50 MB/day, so if they were leaving you would see a steady stream of them. You won't. The only things that ever leave are your sign-in, your encrypted key, and a small trickle of anonymous usage data you can switch off in settings (a few hundred KB/day). None of it is your work.

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.

That account is not a single file but a large, continuous body of process — the drafting, revisions and natural rhythm of real work, captured and anchored in time as you go. It stays on your device, and only fingerprints are ever anchored, so nothing identifiable leaves you. Because each moment is time-stamped as it happens, you cannot slip a fake in afterwards, or stage only the slice you mean to share. You would have to forge the whole consistent history, live, as you went, which is roughly the effort of simply doing the work. Honesty is the cheaper path.

You can always delete your own records — that is your control, not ours. But the moment you share one as evidence, that copy is permanent and tamper-evident. You cannot alter it or disown it later, and it stays open to better analysis indefinitely.

The point isn't to police for cheating. It's to make genuine process visible and worth showing.

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.

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.