Mirror Protocol is a governance architecture for AI-assisted creation: creation-time provenance, portable attribution, and exportable audit trails. It is patent-pending: the non-provisional application was filed September 28, 2026.
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No projections, no traction claims, no invented numbers. Here is the actual position as of this page's last update.
Stating the second column is the point. A governance proposal that overstates its own position has already failed its own test.
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The non-provisional application was filed on September 28, 2026, ahead of the October 3 deadline. The next costs are prosecution: disclosing relevant prior art and responding to the USPTO during examination.
This is a contribution, not an investment. It buys no equity, no share of revenue, and no claim on the patent. It supports the application through examination.
The fastest way to prove the protocol is to run it against real work: a newsroom's story workflow, a label's release, or an institution's AI-assisted output — producing an actual disclosure pack, attribution ledger, and audit export.
Pilot sponsorship funds the build and the documentation. The sponsoring organization gets the outputs, the findings, and named involvement in what the pilot establishes.
A managed governance service is the durable business: disclosure pipelines, attribution ledgers, verification services, and audit exports deployable across music, media, publishing, education, and enterprise knowledge systems.
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| Priority | Item | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Non-provisional filing — USPTO fees | Completed September 28, 2026 (USPTO 19/821,957), before the October 3 deadline. |
| 2 | Prior-art disclosure and prosecution support | Relevant prior art must be disclosed to the USPTO. Doing this properly protects the application's validity. |
| 3 | Reference implementation of the three output artifacts | Turns a documented architecture into something a partner can run against real work. |
| 4 | Pilot delivery with a first institutional partner | Produces evidence rather than argument — the thing every subsequent conversation needs. |
| 5 | Policy and newsroom outreach | Briefings, staffer materials, and the evidence base that supports both. |
A provisional holds a priority date for twelve months. The non-provisional was filed within that window, on September 28, 2026, claiming the October 3, 2025 date.
Provenance standards are being written now. Whoever is in the room when they harden determines whether creators and newsrooms are participants or subjects.
After-the-fact fact-checking produces single-digit reductions in the spread of what it corrects. The case for governance at the creation layer gets stronger every month it is not built.
See the evidence and sourcing →This page is not an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security. Nothing here constitutes an offering of equity, debt, or any other investment instrument. Any partnership or investment discussion takes place privately and directly, subject to applicable law and appropriate documentation.
Contributions are not investments. Amounts contributed through the GoFundMe campaign are voluntary contributions toward patent filing and prosecution costs. They convey no ownership interest, no share of revenue, no claim on intellectual property, and no expectation of financial return. They are not tax-deductible charitable donations; Sagacious Sounds LLC is a for-profit entity, not a 501(c)(3).
Patent status. "Patent pending" refers to USPTO non-provisional application 19/821,957, filed September 28, 2026, claiming priority to provisional application 63/893,332 (filed October 3, 2025). A pending application is not an issued patent, confers no enforceable rights on its own, and does not guarantee that a patent will ultimately be granted.
No forward-looking guarantees. Statements on this site about future development, adoption, or application describe intent, not commitments or predictions of outcome.