Why we built Signet Academic.

Students are being asked to explain how they used AI, while instructors are being asked to judge work from increasingly uncertain signals. We think both deserve something better than suspicion.

Signet Academic gives students a way to document how their work took shape and gives instructors evidence they can evaluate for themselves. Some evidence is witnessed, some can be reconstructed from document history, and some can only be declared by the student. Signet keeps those distinctions visible.

Signet Academic documents process evidence. It is designed to support institutional adoption without turning the Writing Record into an institution-owned monitoring system.

We don’t score authorship, decide whether AI use was appropriate, or try to catch every student who wants to cheat. We built a tool for the students doing the work.