An open mark for content made with AI. It says two things at once: this was made with AI, and its provenance is cryptographically signed and verifiable offline. Interoperable with C2PA, hardened to the robustness bar regulators are now setting.
Most disclosure today answers only the first question. The Sovereign AI Provenance Mark answers both.
The content was generated or materially assisted by an AI system, disclosed plainly to a human reader by a visible mark.
The disclosure is bound to the content by a cryptographic signature that anyone can verify offline, without trusting the publisher or any vendor.
The dominant provenance standard, C2PA Content Credentials, attaches signed metadata to a file. It is a real advance and the right foundation. Its known limit is that the metadata can be removed: strip the credential, and the disclosure goes with it. Regulators are responding by requiring marking that is not just present but robust and reliable.
The Sovereign AI Provenance Mark closes that gap. The disclosure is carried in two layers: a visible badge for people, and a signature for machines that survives the journey the content actually takes, including re-encoding, upscaling, and re-recording. The mark is designed to interoperate with C2PA, not to replace it. It is the robust tier that sits on top.
C2PA proves a claim was attached. The Sovereign Mark proves the claim still holds, on the content in front of you, with nothing to trust but a public key.
A clear mark placed with the content. A reader sees at a glance that AI was involved and that the provenance can be checked. The badge family is below.
An entry in the Open Inter-Vendor Audit Record: what produced the content, when, under whose key, and the chain of any subsequent edits, each signed under a post-quantum signature.
Verification needs no account, no internet connection, and no trust in the publisher. A regulator, a journalist, an auditor, or a reader does three things:
This is the same offline, browser-verifiable model Mickai uses for every action inside the Sovereign Intelligence Operating System. The provenance mark applies it to published content.
The Sovereign AI Provenance Mark is the visible seal placed with AI-made content. The same emblem scales to a compact glyph and a favicon for small placements.
From August 2026, AI-generated output must be marked in a machine-readable, robust, and reliable way. The Sovereign Mark is designed to meet the robustness criterion, not just the presence of a label.
The mark interoperates with C2PA and treats it as the foundation. It adds the offline, signature-bound robustness layer on top, so a stripped or re-encoded file can still be checked.
The mark is not a logo with a promise behind it. The mechanisms it certifies are set out in patent applications filed at the UK Intellectual Property Office, named inventor Micky Irons, on the public register.
The same provenance layer runs inside Mickai, the British Sovereign Intelligence Operating System, where every action is signed and verifiable offline. The provenance mark brings that discipline to published content.