Verifiable proof of human origin.
Every registered recording carries cryptographic proof of who made it, tucked inside the audio itself. Copy it, compress it, re-upload it — the proof stays with the music.
Labels are claims. Genotone is evidence.
More and more recordings turn up with a label attached: “AI-generated”, “human-made”, “official”. Labels can be copied. Metadata can be stripped. Evidence can’t.
The proof travels inside the file.
The mark lives in the audio itself, not in metadata that any tool can strip out. Wherever the recording goes, and whatever gets done to it, the proof goes with it.
At every step, a check still resolves back to the original signed master. An identifier kept only in metadata, like an ISRC, would have been lost at the first re-upload.
Create. Sign. Verify.
Three things Genotone does to a recording, in a single mastering pass, inside the tools you already use. Your workflow stays exactly as it is.
Create
Record and master the way you always do. Registration happens inside the tools you already use, so nothing about your process changes.
Sign
At the master stage, Genotone embeds an inaudible mark, fingerprints the audio, and binds both to a signed record in your verified name. The mark lives inside the audio and stays there for the life of the file.
Verify
Anyone with the file can check it and get one plain answer, using open methods, against a registry no label or platform owns.
Four clear answers. Nothing dressed up.
Anyone with the file gets exactly one of these. Genotone tells you what it can prove, and says so plainly when it can’t.
A missing mark is never proof of synthetic origin. Plenty of legitimate recordings carry no mark, simply because they were never registered.
Claims versus evidence.
An identifier carried only in metadata can be separated from the audio. A signed, fingerprinted record cannot be quietly rewritten.
You don’t have to take our word for it.
A check happens in three layers, and only one of them asks you to trust anyone at all. The result rests on evidence that anyone can re-run for themselves.
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In plain terms. Genotone is the neutral registrar and identity checker, not the final judge. Because the record format, the signature method and the verification process are all open, a broadcaster's compliance team, a collecting society or a court-appointed expert can build their own checker and confirm the answer without asking us for anything.
The verifier is open, so anyone can re-run a check from the command line against the public registry, with no Genotone account. Here’s the whole thing:
Built on the open C2PA ecosystem.
Genotone owns the audio soft-binding layer: the inaudible mark, the recovery engine and the registry. It doesn’t replace the signing infrastructure underneath it. It extends an open standard governed by the Linux Foundation.
Four parts, one open system.
The building blocks of the Genotone platform. Names and scope are indicative and on the roadmap toward pilot service.
The same open system, meeting you where you work.
One call to verify.
Verification runs inside your own apps and ingest pipelines, using open methods with nothing to lock you in. The right to check is free, and anyone can build their own.
Checking is free. Registration seeds the system.
You never pay a toll to check whether a mark and its claim are valid. Any charge sits on registration, scaled to who you are. These figures show the intended shape, being tested with early partners.
Indicative pricing in GBP, exclusive of any applicable tax. EUR, USD and NOK available on request.
Institutional licences cover managed APIs, bulk processing, service levels and support — not the underlying right to check a claim, because that right is open to everyone.
Aligned with open standards.
Each of these bodies governs a piece of the trust chain provenance depends on: C2PA for content credentials, OpenID for verifiable identity, DDEX for the metadata standards the music industry exchanges, eIDAS for EU-recognised digital signatures and trust services, GSMA for the mobile identity and device-attestation frameworks that let provenance be checked on a phone, and the Linux Foundation for the open-source infrastructure it all runs on.
Genotone aligns to these open standards and industry bodies; alignment does not imply endorsement. Genotone technology is patent pending. All logos are the property of their respective owners.
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We would rather be exact than impressive.
A working internal prototype already performs the complete chain — registration, marking, fingerprinting, signing and the four verification responses — tested against real catalogue including awkward edge cases.
Subject to the current funding round, the public registry and partner integrations will be built through a focused seven-month programme.
Genotone asks to be checked, not simply believed.
The obvious questions.
Founded because audio deserves the same verifiable provenance that photography is beginning to receive.
Every recording tells a story. It should be able to prove where it began.
Join the mailing list for progress on the registry, pilots and open specification — or get in touch about a walkthrough, pilot or verification demonstration.
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Request a technical walkthrough, a pilot discussion, or a verification demonstration. We would rather be checked than believed.
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Genotone is at an early stage. Registration and verification are designed and prototyped; the public registry follows a focused build programme, subject to funding.