A stamp beats a dashboard.

Software that runs itself produces a new problem: nobody watched it happen. An agent ran for six hours, touched forty files and spent real money, and the only record is a log written by the thing being asked about. Ask it what it did and it will tell you. That is the whole difficulty.

The usual answer is a dashboard. Green ticks, an uptime figure, a percentage rolled up from numbers you cannot see. It reassures the person who already trusts the vendor and does nothing for anyone else.

Signet takes the older approach. Press a mark into wax, and anyone holding the document can check the mark against the die. They do not need the sealer to be honest at the moment they check. They do not need the sealer to still exist.

So the product is a stamp. Content gets hashed where it already is. A key signs the hash. The result is one line of text, and checking it is arithmetic your own machine can do, with nothing asked of ours. That is the only design that means anything once you stop trusting the vendor, and a vendor you have to trust is not offering proof.

Everything follows from refusing to see your content. No storage means no breach, no retention policy to audit, no subpoena to answer. Privacy stops being a promise once there is nothing written down to break it.

It also means the claims stay small. A receipt says this existed, in this shape, at this moment, and one key vouched for it. It does not say the work was correct. It does not say the agent was good. We publish facts and refuse to publish endorsements, because an endorsement is the part that gets sold later.

Most of this industry inflates before it ships. A network page for a network with one machine. A marketplace with no sellers. An uptime figure sampled from nothing. Each one buys a little attention and spends credibility that takes years to earn back.

Our version of ambition is a shorter list of things that work. Today it is four moves long — stamp, sign, chain, check — and the trust page names everything missing from it. When the list grows, it will grow because something started running, not because someone rewrote the copy.

Check the stamp. If it does not hold, nothing else on this site should convince you.