Witness

Every photo you take is a claim. Witness makes it provable.

A proof-of-state documentation app. Photos are cryptographically hashed and timestamped at the instant of capture, geotagged, and carried forward in an append-only chain of custody, so what you photographed and when you photographed it can be verified by somebody who was not there.

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Overview

The problem.

A photograph used to be evidence on its own. It is not anymore. Metadata is trivially editable, timestamps come from a clock the photographer controls, and the question of whether an image was generated rather than captured is now a reasonable one to ask about any picture.

That matters most in the least glamorous places: an insurance adjuster documenting hail damage, a contractor recording the state of a site before work starts, a tenant photographing a unit on move-in day. All of them are making a claim about what something looked like at a particular moment, and none of them currently have a way to prove it.

Witness closes that gap at the moment of capture rather than after the fact, which is the only point where it can be closed honestly.

How

What it records.

Hashed at capture
A cryptographic hash is computed the moment the shutter fires, before the image can be edited or re-encoded. Any later change to a single pixel breaks the hash.
Verified timestamp
The time comes from a source the photographer does not control, so "when" is an assertion somebody else can check rather than a field you typed.
Append-only custody record
Every transfer, view, and export is written to a record that can be added to but never rewritten, so the history of the file travels with the file.
Verifiable sharing
Send an image to somebody and they can check the hash, the timestamp, and the chain themselves, without taking your word for any part of it.
Status

In development, not publicly available.

Witness is an internal Locke Werks product still being built. The source is private, there is no public release, and it is not on an app store.

Handling of evidence data is covered in the Locke Werks Privacy Policy. For access, a pilot, or a conversation about a specific documentation workflow, write to archon@lockewerks.com.