The manufacturer. The co-founder. The licensee. The investor. Every one of them has to see it, and every one of them sees it before you have any protection at all. Seal the exact version first.
Nothing gets built, funded, or licensed without showing someone. That window is where inventions get taken, and where you have the least evidence of anything.
Ask most independent inventors where the proof of their idea lives. The honest answers are uncomfortable.
The poor man's patent. It has never worked, courts do not respect it, and inventors still do it, because the instinct behind it is exactly right.
Your Google Doc, your Notion page, your Word file. Every one of them can be altered, and its timestamp changed, by you. Which is why it proves nothing.
It is a promise backed by litigation. Litigation costs more than most independent inventions will ever earn. They know that. So do the people signing it.
It costs money and gives you twelve months to file properly. Sometimes you are not ready to start that countdown. You just want the idea fixed while you keep working.
The invention is not published anywhere. What exists publicly is proof that a specific, unaltered document existed on a specific date, and only you can open it.
Write the full description, the drawings in words, the claims as you understand them. It is encrypted before it leaves your browser, written into Bitcoin, and opened only with a phrase we never receive.
One line, public. A dated declaration that you are working on something, without saying what.
Long, but public. For work you intend to publish anyway, and simply want fixed to a date.
You are about to hand your invention to a website. Here is exactly why that is safe, and how you check it rather than trust it.
The text is sealed on your own machine. What reaches Bitcoin is ciphertext. There is no version of it on our servers to leak, subpoena, or sell.
The reader is open source. With your phrase and the transaction id, you recover the document on your own machine. If we vanish, nothing is lost.
Anyone can confirm a sealed record existed on a given date, in a given block. Nobody can read a word of it. That asymmetry is the entire point.
PermaWord is supplementary documentation. It is not a patent filing and it does not establish patent priority. The United States awards patents to the first inventor to file, and no timestamp, on Bitcoin or anywhere else, changes that. Seal your work, then file properly. This is evidence of what you had and when. It is not protection, and we will never pretend otherwise.
Write the description. Choose a phrase only you know. Pay once by card. The record is dated on Bitcoin and unreadable to everyone, including us.