Colophon Record

An instrument of the
Objects of Affection Collection

For ateliers & craft houses

Where marketing asserts, the Record shows the working.

Colophon is the independent evidence layer for luxury: one instrument, two rooms. Collectors use it to see through the spectacle before they buy. You use the same instrument turned around, to stand inside the record before the law requires everyone to. It reads your object against public government ledgers, measured material and raw-material provenance, and shows that reading to the shopper at the moment of sale. You make and own the claim. We supply the record it stands on.

27 Sept 2026 Empowering Consumers Directive · EU 2024/825

On this date EU Directive 2024/825 applies across the Union, with no transition period. National transposition laws have been in force since 27 March 2026. Generic environmental claims such as sustainable, eco-friendly, and climate neutral by offset are prohibited without recognised, verifiable evidence, and self-declared eco-labels are banned. Source: EU 2024/825, Articles 1 and 4.

The instrument

Proof, where the marketing used to be.

A single embeddable badge on your product page. A shopper taps it and sees the object read against public trade records: what its material actually is, where the raw material came from, and the distance between its making and its price. Not a logo you paid for. A record anyone can follow.

Material Integrity Record

Vegetable-tanned satchel, house atelier

  • Material & labour, measured$284
  • Retail$1,180
  • Raw-material originTuscany, IT · HS 4104
  • Artisan attributionNamed, on file

Drawn from CITES and UN Comtrade public ledgers and the OAC Colophon methodology. Every figure is timestamped and traceable.

You own the claim · we supply the record

Why it holds up

Evidence, not a verdict.

Public records, not our opinion

The provenance comes from CITES and UN Comtrade, the same government ledgers a regulator reads. We are a conduit to verifiable facts, not a label handing out approval.

You own the claim

Your house decides what it represents to its customers and stands behind it. We supply the underlying record and its working. That line is deliberate, and it keeps the proof yours.

It shows its working

Every figure is versioned, timestamped, and auditable back to its source. If a claim is ever questioned, the evidence is already assembled and dated.

The interoperability layer

One identity. Both attestations.

Every object you register is given one resolvable identity that the wider world can point at. Your authenticity attaches to it. Our accountability record and its public anchor attach to the same identity. A shopper, a regulator, or the EU Digital Product Passport resolves both in a single scan. Real and honest, side by side.

One resolvable identity

Each object receives a persistent identifier, a did:web and a GS1 Digital Link, a stable name the whole ecosystem can reference. Not a row in our database that only we can read.

Authenticity, from the brand

A brand or its Aura record attaches its own authenticity attestation to that identity. We link to it and resolve it beside our record. We never read, hold, or touch the brand's private chain.

Accountability, from us

Our Material Integrity Record is signed as a portable credential and, once anchored, committed to a public blockchain, bound to the same identity. Independently verifiable, never a certificate of authenticity.

Resolve the object once and you see both attestations at their source. That is what makes the record Digital Product Passport ready and composable with a brand's authenticity chain, without either side reaching into the other.

What you put to work

From a badge to the whole backbone.

Start with proof on one product page. Grow into the physical anchor and the data backbone a compliance team runs on.

  1. Storefront Badge · StandardFor independent designers
    $99/mo

    The embeddable badge on your product pages. Per-object material-density reading and raw-material provenance from public ledgers, with the timestamped audit trail behind every figure.

  2. Most chosen
    Storefront Badge · ProFor growing houses
    $299/mo

    Everything in Standard across unlimited products, plus named artisan-labour attribution, the badge styled to your house, priority provenance refresh, and the API to drive it from your own store.

  3. Aura TagsThe physical anchor
    from $22/tag

    A tamper-evident NFC or laser-etched tag on the object itself. A tap opens its verified record on any phone, binding the physical piece to its provenance in the real world.

    Arriving · reserve interest below

  4. Compliance APIFor brand & audit teams
    from $1,250/mo

    Programmatic access to material provenance and the $MMR record across your catalogue, with the audit trail and exports your team builds its own reporting on. Shares the engine behind the research tiers.

Before September

Be ready when the words change.

The record is strongest assembled before it is asked for, not after. Leave your address and we will send an early-access link for the Storefront Badge and tell you the moment Aura Tags open.