Your Licensees Report Their Own Numbers. In 87% of Audited Licenses the Numbers Were Wrong.
ProofSnap is a Chrome and Edge extension. On the Company plan you assign one seat per licensee, and each captures their own analytics dashboard as a package that carries a SHA-256 hash, an RSA signature and a Bitcoin blockchain timestamp. You bill on the figure their dashboard showed, and any later edit to it is detectable. Updated September 2026.
The 87% above comes from InvotexIP's own royalty audit practice, with no sample size disclosed. When you charge a royalty on usage you can't see, you're billing on whatever the licensee chooses to tell you. Give each licensee a ProofSnap seat: they capture their own analytics page with a SHA-256 hash and a blockchain timestamp, then send you a tamper-evident package. The numbers you bill on become the numbers they actually saw on screen, not a figure typed into an email.
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By Radim Motycka, Founder and Lead Engineer at ProofSnap, who built the per-seat capture and timestamping pipeline licensors use to verify what a licensee reports · · Independently verifiable via Trust Verifier
87%
of audited licenses showed royalty misreporting
InvotexIP, from its own royalty audit practice, sample size not disclosed
60%
of the licensing agreements examined showed underreported sales
$11M+
in unpaid royalties and interest identified across a series of audits at one music licensing firm
Self-Reported Royalties Are Built on Trust You Can't Verify
A forensic royalty audit can establish what's owed, but only after the fact, at high cost, and usually once the relationship has already soured. The cheaper fix is to make the report verifiable at the moment it's taken.
The structure of a self-reporting agreement is the problem, not the licensee. The licensee calculates net sales, applies the agreed rate, files a royalty statement on the reporting schedule, and no independent party ever looks at the numbers underneath unless the licensor exercises its audit rights. That works while the relationship is good and fails quietly when it is not, because the figure that arrives is a figure, not a record. By the time a licensor suspects something, the reporting periods in question are closed, the dashboard now shows different numbers, and the only route left is the expensive one. All four failures below come from the same place: nobody tied the report to a date while it still reflected the period.
You can't see their dashboard
The usage analytics live in the licensee's account. You have no direct visibility, so you bill on a figure they hand you.
A screenshot proves nothing
A pasted screenshot can be cropped, edited, or recreated. There's no proof of when it was taken or whether a number was changed.
Underreporting is the norm, not the exception
InvotexIP's 20-year study, reported by IPWatchdog in November 2022, found underreported sales in 60% of the licensing agreements it examined, often through "interpretation" rather than outright fraud. Either way, you are underpaid.
Audits are slow and adversarial
Forensic royalty audits establish how much you were underpaid, but they are expensive, retrospective, and hard on the relationship. Verification at capture avoids all three.
The Seat Workflow
You pay for the seat. The licensee captures their own analytics. You bill on numbers that can't be quietly edited.
Assign a licensee seat
From your Company dashboard, add the licensee by email. No shared email domain required; any address works.
They capture their analytics page
The licensee opens their own dashboard in Chrome or Edge and clicks ProofSnap: full page, SHA-256 hash, blockchain timestamp, one click.
They send you the package
The licensee shares the tamper-evident ZIP. You never need access to their analytics account.
You bill on verified numbers
Confirm integrity in seconds with the free Trust Verifier. Any later edit breaks the signed manifest, so the figure is the one they saw.
A Company seat is $190 per licensee per year with unlimited captures, so a licensor collecting quarterly statements pays $47.50 per verified royalty report. Need a seat back? Remove a licensee from your dashboard at any time and the seat is free for the next one. Minimum 2 licenses on the Company plan.
Any Fee You Bill on Self-Reported Usage
If your revenue depends on a number that lives inside someone else's dashboard, ProofSnap turns that number into verifiable evidence.
Game & Digital Asset Royalties
License an engine, asset, character, or SDK and charge on impressions, installs, or active users? The licensee captures their analytics page, and you bill on what they actually saw, not a rounded-down figure.
Brand, IP & Franchise Licensing
Royalties on a brand, trademark, design, or franchise tied to sales or traffic dashboards. Each licensee submits a timestamped, tamper-evident capture of their reporting page every reporting period.
Ad-Tech, Affiliate & SaaS Reseller Usage
Revenue-share on impressions, conversions, or user licenses consumed by a partner or reseller. The partner captures the usage dashboard you can't access; you settle on numbers you can verify.
Verified at Capture, Not Reconstructed in an Audit
Integrity is built into the report itself, so billing disputes start from evidence instead of one side's word against the other's.
A capture carries a Bitcoin anchor on every plan except Essential, and a qualified EU timestamp on the Enterprise and Company plans, or with eIDAS SnapPack credits. The difference matters when a licensee is in the European Union, because a qualified timestamp is the one the regulation actually names. Article 41(2) of the eIDAS Regulation puts it in one sentence: "A qualified electronic time stamp shall enjoy the presumption of the accuracy of the date and the time it indicates and the integrity of the data to which the date and time are bound." That presumption covers the date and the integrity of the bound data. It says nothing about whether the figure on the dashboard was true, which is why the workflow below is about the capture and not about the number.
Assign the seat
Provision a licensee from your Company dashboard in minutes, by email, with no IT integration on either side.
- Any email, no shared domain required
- Add and remove seats as your roster changes
- Central team management dashboard
Certify the numbers
The licensee captures their own analytics page as a full-page screenshot, with a SHA-256 hash and a blockchain timestamp.
- Full-page screenshot + page HTML + DOM text
- Blockchain anchor proves the report existed no later than that date
- C2PA Content Credentials record who produced the screenshot
Settle with confidence
Verify the package yourself in seconds: the hash, the signature and the blockchain anchor can all be checked with standard tools, so nothing rests on taking our word for it, or the licensee's. Then invoice on the confirmed figure.
- Independently verifiable by any third party
- Chain-of-custody log in every package
- Any later edit breaks the signed manifest, so the package fails verification
What the Licensee Sends You
Each capture produces a single ZIP archive of 11 to 15 files, depending on the plan. Among them: the full-page screenshot of the dashboard, the page source, the extracted on-screen text, the capture metadata, a human-readable evidence PDF, a forensic log, a chain of custody record, and the manifest that binds them together. Every file is hashed at the moment of capture, the hashes go into that manifest, the manifest is signed on the spot with an RSA-4096 key and then anchored to the blockchain by a timestamp, so nothing can be swapped or edited afterwards without detection. What you receive is one attachment. Open it, run the verification script inside it, and the figure either checks out or it does not, without a call to us and without taking the licensee's word for anything.
Plans and pricing
For licensee reporting you want the Company plan: one seat per licensee, a minimum of 2 licenses, and full control of the roster. Annual Company billing is $190 a seat per year against $227.88 a year if you pay monthly, a savings of 17%; the 26% below is the best savings across all plans. Activate the Company plan directly in the app. Every plan includes a 7-day free trial, and the trial requires a credit card.
Essential (Annual)
per month
Monthly Snapshots: 100
- 7-day free trial included
- Export individual files
- Export ZIP archive
- Legal-grade metadata (timestamp, hash, source)
- 5-min video proof (Auto + Manual + Session)
- Provenance CertificateProves your evidence is an unaltered original, not AI-generated or manipulated. 6 integrity checks including deepfake indicators. Courts increasingly reject unverified digital content. Aligned with the transparency and content-marking approach of the EU AI Act.
- File Certification (5/mo)Certify any file with SHA-256 hash, RSA-4096 signature, and blockchain timestamp. The file never leaves your device; only the 32-byte hash is sent to timestamp servers.
- Blockchain (OpenTimestamps)Your evidence hash is anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain, proving it existed at capture time. Decentralized, immutable, and independently verifiable by anyone.
- White-label branding on evidence PDFsReplace ProofSnap branding on evidence PDFs with your own logo, organization name, and brand color. Ideal for law firms, agencies, and compliance teams delivering branded evidence to clients.
- EU Court-Ready Timestamp (eIDAS)Date and time are presumed accurate unless the contrary is proved. Issued by a qualified trust service provider under the eIDAS Regulation.
- Forensic mode (WARC + HAR + resources + TLS)Captures the page's entire network layer: every HTTP request and response (network.har), a WARC copy of the page, every loaded resource, and the full TLS certificate chain. The deepest level of web evidence, for disputes where the transport itself is contested.
Regular use, archiving
Professional (Annual)
per month
Monthly Snapshots: 200
- 7-day free trial included
- Export individual files
- Export ZIP archive
- Legal-grade metadata (timestamp, hash, source)
- 5-min video proof (Auto + Manual + Session)
- Provenance CertificateProves your evidence is an unaltered original, not AI-generated or manipulated. 6 integrity checks including deepfake indicators. Courts increasingly reject unverified digital content. Aligned with the transparency and content-marking approach of the EU AI Act.
- Blockchain (OpenTimestamps)Your evidence hash is anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain, proving it existed at capture time. Decentralized, immutable, and independently verifiable by anyone.
- File Certification (15/mo)Certify any file with SHA-256 hash, RSA-4096 signature, and blockchain timestamp. The file never leaves your device; only the 32-byte hash is sent to timestamp servers.
- White-label branding on evidence PDFsReplace ProofSnap branding on evidence PDFs with your own logo, organization name, and brand color. Ideal for law firms, agencies, and compliance teams delivering branded evidence to clients.
- EU Court-Ready Timestamp (eIDAS)Date and time are presumed accurate unless the contrary is proved. Issued by a qualified trust service provider under the eIDAS Regulation.
- Forensic mode (WARC + HAR + resources + TLS)Captures the page's entire network layer: every HTTP request and response (network.har), a WARC copy of the page, every loaded resource, and the full TLS certificate chain. The deepest level of web evidence, for disputes where the transport itself is contested.
Blockchain timestamping, audit-grade documentation
Premium
Enterprise (Annual)
per month
Monthly Snapshots: Unlimited
- 7-day free trial included
- Export individual files
- Export ZIP archive
- Legal-grade metadata (timestamp, hash, source)
- 10-min video proof (Auto + Manual + Session)
- Provenance CertificateProves your evidence is an unaltered original, not AI-generated or manipulated. 6 integrity checks including deepfake indicators. Courts increasingly reject unverified digital content. Aligned with the transparency and content-marking approach of the EU AI Act.
- File Certification (50/mo)Certify any file with SHA-256 hash, RSA-4096 signature, and blockchain timestamp. The file never leaves your device; only the 32-byte hash is sent to timestamp servers.
- Blockchain (OpenTimestamps)Your evidence hash is anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain, proving it existed at capture time. Decentralized, immutable, and independently verifiable by anyone.
- White-label branding on evidence PDFsReplace ProofSnap branding on evidence PDFs with your own logo, organization name, and brand color. Ideal for law firms, agencies, and compliance teams delivering branded evidence to clients.
- EU Court-Ready Timestamp (eIDAS), 10/moDate and time are presumed accurate unless the contrary is proved. Issued by a qualified trust service provider under the eIDAS Regulation.
- Forensic mode (WARC + HAR + resources + TLS)Captures the page's entire network layer: every HTTP request and response (network.har), a WARC copy of the page, every loaded resource, and the full TLS certificate chain. The deepest level of web evidence, for disputes where the transport itself is contested.
1 stamp during trial
High-volume teams, compliance-driven workflows
Company Plans
Flexible team licensing for organizations. Unlimited snapshots for all team members.
Annual
Minimum 2 licenses
- 7-day free trial included
- Unlimited snapshots per user
- Team management dashboard
- Admin controls & user management
- Email support · response within 1 business day
- 10-min video proof (Auto + Manual + Session)
- Provenance CertificateProves your evidence is an unaltered original, not AI-generated or manipulated. 6 integrity checks including deepfake indicators. Courts increasingly reject unverified digital content. Aligned with the transparency and content-marking approach of the EU AI Act.
- Blockchain (OpenTimestamps)Your evidence hash is anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain, proving it existed at capture time. Decentralized, immutable, and independently verifiable by anyone.
- File Certification (Unlimited)Certify any file with SHA-256 hash, RSA-4096 signature, and blockchain timestamp. The file never leaves your device; only the 32-byte hash is sent to timestamp servers.
- White-label branding on evidence PDFsReplace ProofSnap branding on evidence PDFs with your own logo, organization name, and brand color. Ideal for law firms, agencies, and compliance teams delivering branded evidence to clients.
- EU Court-Ready Timestamp (eIDAS), 5/moDate and time are presumed accurate unless the contrary is proved. Issued by a qualified trust service provider under the eIDAS Regulation.
- Forensic mode (WARC + HAR + resources + TLS)Captures the page's entire network layer: every HTTP request and response (network.har), a WARC copy of the page, every loaded resource, and the full TLS certificate chain. The deepest level of web evidence, for disputes where the transport itself is contested.
1 stamp during trial
Perfect for legal teams, compliance departments, and enterprises
Monthly
Minimum 2 licenses
- 7-day free trial included
- Unlimited snapshots per user
- Team management dashboard
- Admin controls & user management
- Email support · response within 1 business day
- 10-min video proof (Auto + Manual + Session)
- Provenance CertificateProves your evidence is an unaltered original, not AI-generated or manipulated. 6 integrity checks including deepfake indicators. Courts increasingly reject unverified digital content. Aligned with the transparency and content-marking approach of the EU AI Act.
- Blockchain (OpenTimestamps)Your evidence hash is anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain, proving it existed at capture time. Decentralized, immutable, and independently verifiable by anyone.
- File Certification (Unlimited)Certify any file with SHA-256 hash, RSA-4096 signature, and blockchain timestamp. The file never leaves your device; only the 32-byte hash is sent to timestamp servers.
- White-label branding on evidence PDFsReplace ProofSnap branding on evidence PDFs with your own logo, organization name, and brand color. Ideal for law firms, agencies, and compliance teams delivering branded evidence to clients.
- EU Court-Ready Timestamp (eIDAS), 5/moDate and time are presumed accurate unless the contrary is proved. Issued by a qualified trust service provider under the eIDAS Regulation.
- Forensic mode (WARC + HAR + resources + TLS)Captures the page's entire network layer: every HTTP request and response (network.har), a WARC copy of the page, every loaded resource, and the full TLS certificate chain. The deepest level of web evidence, for disputes where the transport itself is contested.
1 stamp during trial
Flexible monthly billing for teams
No subscription? Pay-as-you-go SnapPacks.
One-time purchase, no auto-renewal. Credits valid 12 months (Standard SnapPack never expires).
Standard SnapPack
10 captures · no expiration
All features: export, metadata, 5-min video proof, Provenance Certificate, blockchain timestamp.
eIDAS SnapPack
EU qualified timestamps (Disig a.s.)
$5.00 / stamp · save 28% · also 1× $6.99 or 10× $49.99
EU qualified timestamp per capture, carrying the Article 41(2) eIDAS presumption of the accuracy of the date and time. Includes white-label branding on evidence PDF.
Video SnapPack
75-min recording with audio + bundled credits
$19.99 / video · save 20% · also 1× $24.99 or 10× $169.99
Includes 3 regular captures + 3 eIDAS stamps bundled. White-label branding included.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Company plan seats are assigned by email address, with no shared-domain requirement. The licensee creates a free ProofSnap account using any email they like, and you add that email from your Company dashboard. That seat stays occupied for as long as they are on your roster.
No. The licensee uses a seat under your Company plan: you pay, they capture. You control the roster from your dashboard: add a seat when a licensee needs to report, then remove it afterward to free the license for the next one. Note that each ProofSnap account can belong to only one company at a time.
No. The licensee captures their own screen, so you never need a login to their analytics account. You receive only the resulting evidence package and confirm its integrity yourself with the free Trust Verifier, so you never need a login to their account and the figure cannot be altered after capture.
No. Every file is hashed the moment the capture is taken, the hashes go into a manifest signed on the spot, and that manifest is submitted for anchoring to the Bitcoin blockchain, where it is confirmed in a later block. Any later change to the screenshot, the page HTML or a reported figure breaks the manifest and fails verification. What lands in your inbox is the licensee's dashboard exactly as it rendered on their screen, on a date neither side can move afterwards.
One seat per licensee reporting in a given period. The Company plan starts at 2 licenses, and you add or remove seats as your roster changes. If licensees report in cycles, you can reuse a seat by removing one licensee and adding the next.
Yes, in the sense that matters. Each evidence package includes a SHA-256 hash of every file, a signed manifest, a blockchain timestamp, C2PA Content Credentials and a chain-of-custody log, all independently verifiable by anyone, without trusting ProofSnap or the licensee. It is substantially stronger than a plain screenshot pasted into an email, and it gives both sides a shared, tamper-evident record to settle on.
An audit clause is a right you can exercise, not a control that runs by itself. Exercising it costs money, takes months, reaches back into closed reporting periods and tells the licensee you no longer trust them, which is why most licensors use it once a relationship is already in trouble rather than as routine practice. A seat costs a fraction of an audit and works every reporting period without anyone being accused of anything. The two are not alternatives: keep the audit clause for the cases that need it, and use the seat so the routine numbers arrive in a form that does not need auditing. If you do end up auditing, a series of dated captures gives the auditor a baseline to tie the accounting data back to.
Royalty management platforms are accounting systems. They take the royalty statement the licensee uploads, apply the contract terms, calculate what is owed and keep the audit trail of that calculation. They are good at it, but none of them verifies the number the licensee typed in, because the underlying dashboard sits in the licensee's own account, which no platform can reach. That is the gap ProofSnap fills. The seat produces a tamper-evident capture of the screen the figure came from, which you then feed into whatever system you already run. Use both: the platform for the accounting, the capture for the evidence that the input was real.
Stop billing on numbers you can't verify.
Give each licensee a seat, collect tamper-evident analytics, and invoice on figures that hold up. Start with a 7-day free trial on the Company plan.
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