Every document you upload receives a SHA-256 hash and a cryptographic timestamp. This proves the document existed in its exact form at the recorded date and time. Mathematically verifiable.
🇺🇸 Sovereign Storage
Your files are stored on Michigan-based hardware owned by Kavanagh Industries. No third-party cloud. No foreign jurisdiction. No data broker access. Sovereign by design.
📄 Verifiable Certificate
Each upload generates a downloadable certificate with the hash, timestamp, and verification instructions. Suitable for patent filings, legal proceedings, and IP disputes.
👁 Document Privacy
We timestamp the hash of your document, not the document itself. Your files remain private and encrypted. We can prove when it existed without ever revealing what it contains.
When It Matters
Three moments where a timestamp changes everything.
📜 Patent Priority Disputes
When two parties claim the same invention, priority often depends on who can prove earliest conception. A RigidIP timestamp provides cryptographic evidence of when your documentation existed.
🛡 Trade Secret Protection
If a former employee or partner claims your process as their own, a timestamped record of your original documentation establishes prior existence. Evidence, not argument.
🎨 Design & IP Ownership
For designers, engineers, and creative professionals — timestamp your work as you create it. If ownership is ever disputed, you have a cryptographic record that predates the dispute.
RigidIP is not a patent service and we are not attorneys. A timestamp proves existence, not ownership or novelty. Consult a patent attorney for formal IP protection. RigidIP gives you evidence to bring to that conversation.
What to Upload
Anything you might need to prove you created.
📄 Invention Disclosures
Written descriptions of your invention, including purpose, method, and any test results. The foundational document for any patent filing.
📐 CAD Files
SOLIDWORKS, STEP, STL, or any native CAD format. Timestamp your 3D models as you design them. Versioned proof of your engineering work.
📖 Lab Notebooks
Scanned or digital lab notebooks, experiment logs, and research notes. The traditional evidence of invention, now cryptographically anchored.
💻 Software
Source code, algorithms, configuration files. Prove your software existed before a competitor's release or before an employee departure.
📝 Process Documentation
Manufacturing processes, recipes, SOPs, and proprietary methods. Timestamp the trade secrets that define your competitive advantage.
🎨 Creative Work
Designs, illustrations, music, writing, photography. Any creative work where proving the date of creation could matter in a copyright dispute.
Common Questions
RigidIP — answered.
A provisional patent establishes a filing date with the USPTO and gives you 12 months to file a full patent. RigidIP establishes proof of existence — it proves your document existed at a specific time. Use RigidIP to build your evidence trail, then file a provisional when you are ready. They are complementary, not competing.
Yes. Email timestamps can be spoofed, backdated, or disputed. A SHA-256 cryptographic hash with a sovereign timestamp is mathematically verifiable and stored on infrastructure you can audit. Courts increasingly favor cryptographic evidence over email timestamps.
Your documents are encrypted at rest and in transit. We generate and store the cryptographic hash for verification purposes. Access to file contents is restricted to your account. We cannot read, share, or monetize your documents.
Your timestamps are permanent. They do not expire when your subscription ends. If you cancel, you retain all certificates and the cryptographic proofs remain valid and verifiable indefinitely. You lose the ability to upload new documents.
No. Your $99/year subscription includes unlimited uploads. There is no per-document fee, no storage cap for the first year, and no throttling. Upload everything you want to protect.
Your idea exists. Prove it.
$99/year. Unlimited uploads. Cryptographic timestamps. Sovereign Michigan hardware.