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Content Provenance & Authenticity · Licensable IP

Prove what's real —
and trace it after it travels.

Fortress binds crop-hardened provenance and per-session watermarks into content, attributes it back to its origin, and guards against false attribution. Sovereign, on-device, no cloud round-trip. Available for licensing or acquisition.

Crop-hardened tiled embedding Per-session leak tracing False-attribution guard · 0/49 null-control On-device · C2PA-adjacent
The differentiator

Provenance that survives the real world

Core capability — measured on 44 real images, real codecs

A tiled, crop-hardened embed carries the proof in every region, so attribution survives the transforms that destroy a naive single-region watermark: JPEG q40–q85, noise, recolor and 50–75% downscale at 100%, off-center crops 10–50% at 96%. Origin is bound at the moment of capture, on-device; an adaptive profile self-verifies at embed time and stays fully invisible where the content allows.

Crop-hardened

off-center crops 10–50%: 96% recovery — blind centered-crop recovery is a disclosed open gap

Per-session

per-viewer mark for leak tracing; video attribution uses an evidence floor (≥3 frames, ≥60% share)

Guarded

null-control measured: 0/49 false attributions on unmarked assets, 0 hits in 200 unmarked video frames

How we prove it

Measured on the attacks that matter

Fortress is evaluated the way our LLM-trust work is — demonstrated, not asserted. Robustness is evaluated per attack (compression, crop, resize, recapture), imperceptibility measured (PSNR), and — critically — false / phantom attribution is measured against a null control, not assumed away.

  • Recovery reported per attack, including the ones that fail
  • False-attribution rate measured with and without the guard
  • Imperceptibility quantified, not claimed
Honest status — the failures are published with the wins.

The numbers above come from a real, founder-supplied 44-image corpus with real codecs. What does not work, in the same breath: blind centered-crop recovery in the shipped SDK is an open gap — an earlier "crop solved" figure came from a harness that was given the crop factor and key, and we retracted it; a full generative AI redraw destroys any blind watermark (information theory — that boundary is why the fragile tamper layer exists, which detects AI edits and screenshots at 100% in real Gemini img2img tests); collusion (averaging two copies) defeats per-session tracing — no traitor-tracing codes yet; audio marks survive MP3/AAC/Opus but are audible-ish (SNR 14–17 dB). The reproducible harness ships under NDA. We do not claim "military-grade" or "unbreakable."

Where it fits

Use cases the IP addresses

Creator content protection

Per-session watermarks let a platform trace a leaked stream or image back to the exact session — evidence, not vigilantism.

▶ The creator story (90 sec) →

Newsroom & media provenance

Bind provenance at capture; prove a photo or clip is unaltered and correctly attributed.

C2PA / content credentials

A robust, sovereign embed + attribution layer where crop-survival and false-attribution resistance matter.

AI-content labelling

Durable origin marking as provenance/labelling obligations tighten across the EU and beyond.

Marketplace / DAM integrity

Verify asset origin and licensing lineage across a digital-asset pipeline.

Capture-to-proof (ProofCam)

Provenance established at the source, sovereign and on-device — not reconstructed after the fact.

All 12 business cases →▶  The 90-second story

All 12 business cases are public at /fortress/partner/ — no login required. Each case is scoped honestly to what is measured — core capabilities and frontier work clearly marked.

For licensees & acquirers

This IP is available to license or acquire

For camera & capture vendors, DAM and media platforms, creator platforms, and content-authenticity providers who need robust, sovereign provenance with attribution integrity.

ModelWhat it isFit
License + royaltyEmbed Fortress provenance/attribution as an SDK; per-device or per-asset royalty.Capture / media / creator / DAM platforms
Exclusive field licenseUpfront + royalty, exclusive in your field of use.A strategic content-authenticity partner
AcquisitionOne-time asset sale — the provenance IP, SDK, and evaluation harness.Strategic acquirer / corp-dev

Data room under NDA: technical method, patent status, reproducible robustness & attribution benchmarks.

Let's talk

Partner with us on provable authenticity

Licensing, royalty, or acquisition — start with a 20-minute conversation and the evidence pack.

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