For engineers and leads buried in AI-written memos, pull requests and proposals
Make them read it before you have to.
Before they hit Send, the sender answers three questions about their own message, on their phone. It arrives with the score. No score? One click asks for one. One minute for them. None for you.
Gmail today. GitHub pull requests next, then Slack.
A prompt takes ten seconds. Reading the output takes ten minutes. Avow puts the minute back where it belongs.
What you get
A badge that means a person read this. Or a one-click way to ask for one.
Dorin read this exact text on their phone and answered three questions about it before sending.
Hi Maria, following up on last week's review, I'd like to propose moving our document pipeline from vendor A to vendor B…
Badge present
The sender read this text and answered three questions about it. The numbers in it are theirs to defend.
Badge missing
One click sends: "Could you avow this before I read it? It takes a minute." If nobody read it, nobody will spend the minute on it.
Text changed
Edited after it was avowed? The badge turns into a warning.
How it works, for the sender
One minute on your phone. Nobody else can spend it for you.
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Finish the draft
However you wrote it. Click Avow next to Send.
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Your phone shows the exact text
Read it there. The questions never touch your laptop.
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Answer what your reader would ask
Three questions generated from this text: the ask, the deadline, the reasoning. Easy if you read it.
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Face ID puts your name on it
Face ID or fingerprint signs it. Your reader sees the score, never your answers. Edit a word afterwards and the badge becomes a warning.
Questions
What exactly does the badge prove?
The sender, on their own paired phone, read this exact text, answered three questions about it inside sixty seconds, and signed it with Face ID or fingerprint. You see the score, the attempts and the time taken. It never says who or what wrote the words.
Can't they paste the questions into another AI?
The questions appear only on the phone, reference specifics of the text, and the clock is sixty seconds. A wrong answer brings a fresh set, and you see the attempts. Gaming it costs about what reading costs, every time. Generating a hundred messages is free. Avowing a hundred is a hundred minutes of someone's life. And yes, the questions are generated too. The answers aren't.
What does the sender need?
The Avow phone app and the Gmail extension. Two minutes to set up, no admin, no IT ticket. Nothing else changes about how they write.
What do I need?
Nothing, to check an avowal: every avowed message carries a link that shows who avowed it and how, and lets you verify the text in your browser. The Gmail extension adds the badge above the message and the one-click ask.