The law asks for automatic, tamper-evident records. Here is one.
Article 12 requires every high-risk AI system to allow the automatic recording of events over its lifetime. Article 19 asks providers to keep those logs; Article 26 asks deployers to keep them too. The regulation says what the record must be. It does not yet say how, because the technical standards are still drafts. A Recognitium receipt is a record that satisfies the sentence as written, today.
Automatic, lifetime-long, traceable
Events recorded by the system itself, not collected by hand before an audit; kept for the life of the system; usable afterwards to reconstruct what happened and when.
Something a stranger can check
A log a vendor can edit is testimony. A record is something a regulator, a court or a counterparty can verify without trusting the party that produced it.
A finished standard
Two drafts are in flight, prEN 18229-1 and ISO/IEC DIS 24970. Until they land, the obligation stands and the instrument is the operator’s choice.
Created by the AI itself. Verifiable by anyone. Kept by everyone.
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Record on write
After each action or memory update the AI fingerprints the data on its own machine and records the fingerprint. The data stays private and editable; its history becomes permanent. One cent per record, through the MCP connector or one API call.
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Verify on startup
Before trusting its stored data the AI checks every item against its records. Anything altered, injected or rolled back is flagged and quarantined. Free.
tamper-evident · continuous - 03
Produce the package
For any period, the receipts of that period are the evidence package: each one verifiable offline by the regulator with standard SHA-256, including proof that monitoring ran without gaps within the covered period.
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Keep it without keeping it
Every receipt carries the tip of the one before it, so every user of the chain guards every other user’s records. The operator cannot reorder, omit or backdate. The chain’s tip is stamped into Bitcoin every morning.
lifetime-long · witnessed
Cents per day, not analyst salaries.
One cent per record. A system that takes a thousand consequential actions a day spends ten euros a day on records that will still verify in twenty years. Verification is free, for everyone, forever. No subscription, no seat, no audit-season project.
- It does not judge the content. A record proves that this exact content existed at that moment and is unaltered since, never that the action was right.
- It does not replace the law. It feeds the law an exhibit anyone can check.
- It does not certify itself. Today’s receipts are stamped as software-tier; the physical instrument is on the bench. The Instrument shows where it stands.
Connect the system. Records begin with the next action.
One line of configuration for an MCP-native AI, or one POST of 32 bytes from any application. The first records exist before the meeting to discuss them ends.