Libreon Human-Crafted™
Certification
Libreon isn’t trying to determine whether a manuscript “looks like AI.” We’re trying to establish whether a human wrote it.
That means reviewing author documents and how they changed over time, and any other artifacts of the creative process that can be shared, along with an attestation of AI usage in that process.
No single draft, document, answer, or detection score decides the result. We look at the totality of all evidence.
Requesting an Assessment
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Two Certifications
VERIFIED (the work is reviewed)
LIBREON VERIFIED Human-Crafted is a retrospective assessment of an author and a manuscript. To earn it, the author provides evidence that allows Libreon to determine whether the work meets the Human-Crafted Standard. The assessment includes:
- Verification that the author is human.
- A review of the manuscript’s development history and supporting artifacts.
- Author and contributor attestations.
- Disclosure(s) of relevant acceptably used AI use by the author and contributors.
- A recorded author interview.
- A human assessor’s evaluation of the evidence.
PROVEN (the work has earned this certification)
Libreon Journeys are a guided manuscript-development system. Authors work through the manuscript with mentors, mentor others, and complete milestones along the way. By the time a manuscript reaches its final milestone, the process has proven its provenance.
What Does “Human-Crafted” Mean?
Human-Crafted does not mean authors have to avoid modern writing tools simply because those tools incorporate AI. Authors may use tools in their process, so long as that use remains within the Libreon Human-Crafted Standard and it adheres to our Generative AI Policy, which states:
Every word in your writing should come from your own hands—and similarly, every brushstroke in your artwork.
The important distinction is authorship: did the tool help the author, or did the tool do the work? Helping can be permissible. Supplying manuscript language isn’t.
- Uses that may be compatible with the Human-Crafted Standard include:
- Checking spelling and grammar.
- Transcribing the author’s own dictated words with speech-to-text.
- Asking AI to critique a chapter, then deciding independently what should change.
- Receiving editorial feedback from AI and rewriting the affected passage yourself.
- Using AI to brainstorm, suggest names, or explore worldbuilding outside the manuscript.
- Treating AI feedback the way you might treat feedback from an editor or reviewer: as guidance rather than source text.
What isn’t compatible is generated language being presented as the author’s own writing, such as:
- Having AI rewrite your prose and adopting that version, even if you make a few changes.
- Beginning with an AI-generated draft and editing it into the finished manuscript.
- Incorporating AI-generated dialogue, description, transitions, arguments, examples, or other manuscript language.
- Accepting generative autocomplete that supplies wording for the manuscript.
How Libreon Verification Works
A VERIFIED assessment begins with the author submitting evidence from the manuscript’s development and other required information such as attestations from contributors.
A Libreon assessor reviews those materials and then meets with the author for a confidential, recorded video interview. They’ll talk about the book, how it developed, and the author’s creative process.
This isn’t a literary exam. There are no standard questions and no “correct” answers. We are not looking for polished work—we actually want to see messy early drafts and how the manuscript changed along the way.
Possible Outcomes
A verification assessment has three possible states:
- Verified — the available evidence satisfies the standard.
- Inconclusive — the assessor is unable to determine if the work meets the standard.
- Revoked — an assessment that was previously published as verified has been withdrawn.
An inconclusive result does not mean that a work was generated by AI. It means Libreon could not establish sufficient provenance to issue its certification.
Libreon does not publish a list of works or works receiving inconclusive results. We do publicly identify works that successfully receive certification, as well as those that are revoked.
An inconclusive outcome comes with an explanation of why. The author may make one appeal. An appeal does not guarantee a different result.
The assessment fee is refunded only if Libreon does not return an outcome within 60 days. An inconclusive result is not grounds for a refund, nor is a certification that is later suspended or revoked.
The Certification Seal
Once certified, a work may display the appropriate Libreon certification seal according to Libreon’s seal-use guidelines. Each seal includes a QR code that readers, booksellers, publishers, agents, and others can use to confirm the work’s current certification status.
Certification remains conditional on compliance with the Libreon Human-Crafted Standard and certification agreement. Libreon may revoke a certification if material information was false, omitted, or later shown to undermine the basis on which certification was granted.
After a revocation, the author or rights holder must stop using the certification mark and, where reasonably possible, remove it from digital materials. Physical materials manufactured before the revocation do not have to be destroyed solely for that reason, but depending on the situation, Libreon may require the seal on existing physical materials be covered with a sticker, at the author or rights holder’s cost.
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