How it works

A quote is stronger when the story travels with it.

A line travels faster than its credit. This is where you put your wording on the record before it leaves the room, so the date and the receipt travel with it.

01

Check the line

We hash it, normalize it, and put it next to every line we already know about. If it's been said, you'll see it.

02

Tell the story

Tell us where you said it, when, and why. A line without its story is floating text; the story is what ties it to you.

03

Review the claim

Original-claim records get a human pass before they go canonical. We keep the registry honest by reading every one.

04

Share the page

You get a permanent link to cite wherever the line travels. If someone challenges you later, the receipt is already there.

Collision policy

Two people sometimes register the same line within minutes of each other — neither knows about the other's submission. We don't pick a winner.

  • Hash-equal within 60 minutes: the later record is flagged as a possible prior source and links to the earlier one. Both records remain public.
  • Near-match (≥ 0.97 similarity):blocked during scanning before checkout. The user sees the existing record and can't register an original claim on a near-duplicate.
  • Older-source reports:any reader can file one on any record. We don't silently delete; corrections happen in public.

What we don't claim

No copyright. No trademark. No legal ownership of any phrase. A registered record is proof of when you put your wording on the record— not proof of who said it first across all of human history. The collision policy and older-source reports exist precisely because we know we can't see everything.