Dylan Reed launches VellumProof, a GitHub-style authorship trail for novelists
VellumProof founder Dylan Reed built a manuscript vault that records drafts and revisions while acknowledging it cannot prove that every word was human-written.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Dylan's blog
Why it matters
VellumProof shows how AI anxiety is pushing creator-software founders toward process records that document how creative work developed instead of guessing from the finished text.
Dylan Reed launched VellumProof on August 3rd to give novelists a dated record of how their manuscripts developed, turning his fear of being falsely accused of using AI into a version-control product for writers. The service stores successive drafts, measures additions and deletions, and produces a shareable timeline intended for publishers, agents and contest judges.…
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