Question 1

What is ValidDraft?

Accepted Answer

ValidDraft is a writing verification platform that captures your writing process to prove human authorship through how-it-was-written analysis. It analyzes typing patterns, pauses, edits, and the other signals of real composition to generate a verifiable, content-bound certificate of authenticity.

Question 2

How can I prove my content was written by a human and not AI?

Accepted Answer

The most reliable way to prove human authorship is to capture the writing process itself, not just the final text. ValidDraft records the behavioral signals of writing as it happens: keystroke dynamics, pause patterns, editing behavior, and typing rhythm. These signals are unique to humans and cannot be faked by AI. After writing, ValidDraft issues an independently verifiable certificate of human authorship backed by this process data.

Question 3

How does ValidDraft verify human authorship?

Accepted Answer

ValidDraft analyzes your text together with the behavioral signals captured while you write: keystroke dynamics, pause patterns, editing behavior, and focus metrics. AI then determines whether the writing patterns are genuinely human. Verification itself never uses your camera and involves no video and no biometric identity data. The Author desktop app will additionally offer an optional, off-by-default presence check (coming soon) that can confirm someone is at the keyboard; it analyzes the camera feed entirely on your device, never transmits or stores video, and never identifies who you are.

Question 4

Why do AI detectors falsely flag human writing as AI-generated?

Accepted Answer

AI detectors analyze the finished text for statistical patterns. Human writing, especially polished, formal, or heavily edited work, naturally shares some of these patterns. Documented false positive rates range from 10–30% across major tools. Non-native English speakers and technical writers are disproportionately flagged. This is why process-based proof (capturing how content was written) is more reliable than output-based detection alone.

Question 5

What should I do if my professor or editor thinks my writing is AI-generated?

Accepted Answer

First, request which specific AI detector was used and its confidence score, many institutions have policies against using detection as sole evidence. Gather process evidence: revision history, research notes, timestamped drafts. Reference published research on AI detector false positive rates. For future work, write inside ValidDraft to generate a writing-process certificate in advance. You cannot prove a process that was not recorded, but you can prevent this from happening again.

Question 6

What is keystroke dynamics analysis for writing?

Accepted Answer

Keystroke dynamics analysis looks at the physical and cognitive patterns a person exhibits while typing: keystroke timing (milliseconds between keystrokes), dwell time (how long each key is held), pause patterns (where a writer stops to think), editing behavior (backspacing, rewording), and typing rhythm. These patterns vary naturally from writer to writer and cannot be replicated by AI-generated text.

Question 7

Can I get a certificate proving my essay was not written by AI?

Accepted Answer

Yes. ValidDraft issues verifiable, content-bound digital certificates of human authorship backed by writing-process data. Each certificate includes a unique verification ID, a human authorship confidence score with methodology, behavioral metrics summary, and a shareable link anyone can use to verify authenticity. The free plan includes 5 verified articles per month, up to 1,000 words each.

Question 8

How is ValidDraft different from Turnitin or GPTZero?

Accepted Answer

Turnitin AI and GPTZero are output analyzers, they examine your finished text for AI-like statistical patterns. ValidDraft is a process capture tool, it records how your content was created, capturing the typing rhythm and revision behavior that AI cannot fake. ValidDraft produces verifiable proof of human authorship; traditional detectors produce a probability score that can be wrong.

Question 9

Who uses ValidDraft?

Accepted Answer

ValidDraft is built for three groups: authors sealing a manuscript chapter by chapter in the desktop app and finishing with one signed master certificate, journalists who want a record of how a piece was written, and freelancers who hand a client proof alongside the draft that anyone can verify by link without an account.

Question 10

How much does ValidDraft cost?

Accepted Answer

ValidDraft offers two plans. Free includes 5 verified articles per month, up to 1,000 words each, and a shareable public certificate. Author adds unlimited verified articles (up to 10,000 words each), the desktop app for Mac & Windows, long-form manuscript verification chapter by chapter, up to 500,000 manuscript words per year, and a signed master certificate with a Merkle root — $69 per year under the Founding Author Rate, capped at the first 50 members. Founding members keep that rate for as long as they stay subscribed; any standard pricing change comes with at least 30 days' notice by email. No credit card required to start.

Question 11

What is the difference between an article and a manuscript on ValidDraft?

Accepted Answer

An article is short-form work verified in the browser and issued a shareable public certificate — up to 1,000 words on Free, up to 10,000 on Author. A manuscript is long-form work verified chapter by chapter in the ValidDraft desktop app on the Author plan, up to 500,000 words per year, and sealed with a signed master certificate whose Merkle root covers every chapter. Both use the same verification method: your text plus the keystroke and behavioral signals captured while you write.

Question 12

Is it possible to fake typing behavior to appear human?

Accepted Answer

Practically, no. Faking a writing session's behavioral signals requires reproducing thousands of microsecond-level timing patterns that vary unconsciously with cognitive state, fatigue, and thought complexity. Unlike text, which can be paraphrased, behavioral patterns cannot be meaningfully forged without physically simulating the entire writing process, which would require actually writing the content yourself.

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