Jura Trace
Know What's Real
In a world of synthetic media, verification matters. Protect your content from unauthorised AI extraction. Verify authenticity. Everything happens locally on your machine.
In Development | Pilot Launch: June 2026
Register InterestThe Problem
In the last five years, AI companies have scraped billions of images, articles, audio recordings, and archived documents from the internet. Photographs taken by photojournalists. Paintings created by living artists. Research published by institutions. Community archives built over decades.
Most of that happened without consent. Much of it continues now.
The results are visible everywhere: AI systems that reproduce an artist's style without credit, archive photographs appearing in generated images with no provenance, and deepfake videos of real people doing and saying things they never did.
The legal frameworks are catching up slowly. The tools to protect yourself have, until now, required a cloud subscription, an engineering degree, or both, which means the organisations with the least resource have had the least protection.
Jura Trace changes that.
Three Things Jura Trace Does
Protect
Defend your content before it reaches the open web. Embed provenance using C2PA Content Credentials, the open standard that says "this is mine, and here is the evidence." Apply invisible watermarks that survive compression and sharing. Fingerprint every asset so you can prove ownership later, even if visible markings are stripped. Handles bulk processing: thousands of files overnight.
Verify
Check whether an image has been manipulated. Detect whether a video is a deepfake. Establish whether a claim circulating online is supported by evidence. Jura Trace uses 21 forensic detectors, error level analysis, metadata forensics, AI-generated content detection and returns a clear, sourced verdict.
Monitor
Track where your content appears online. Receive alerts when your fingerprinted assets appear in unexpected places. Build evidence packages for legal proceedings with full audit trails and documentation that meets EU AI Act transparency requirements.
Local-First by Design
Like ROOTED, Jura Trace follows the Jura Labs principle: your data never leaves your device.
No Cloud
All processing happens on your machine. No uploads, no remote servers, no third-party access to your content.
No Accounts
No registration, no login, no telemetry. Install and use. Your content, your rules.
No Compromise
Built with Rust for performance and security. Open standards (C2PA, WCAG 2.2 AA). Free for non-commercial use.
Who It's For
Jura Trace is built for any organisation that creates, holds, or relies on digital content and needs to know it is authentic. It is free for non-commercial use.
Charities & Non-Profits
Verify campaign imagery, protect fundraising materials, and ensure communications are not misrepresented by synthetic media.
Museums, Archives & Universities
Catalogue, sign, and watermark digitised collections at scale. Prove provenance for research, exhibitions, and legal proceedings.
Journalists & Fact-Checkers
Verify images, video, and claims without exposing sources to the cloud. Build evidence packages for publication.
Human Rights & Legal Organisations
Protect evidence chains for investigations and legal proceedings. Verify documentation. All processing local, no data leaves your device.
Artists & Creators
Protect your work before it goes online. Prove ownership. Detect style theft. Embed provenance that travels with your content.
Community & Public-Sector Organisations
Local history projects. Oral history collections. Public records. Any organisation that needs to protect and verify digital content without relying on cloud services.
Standards & Compliance
- C2PA Content Credentials: the emerging standard for content provenance, backed by Adobe, Microsoft, the BBC, and others
- Content Authenticity Initiative: part of the global movement for content transparency
- EU AI Act Transparency: compliance-ready reporting for European regulatory requirements
- WCAG 2.2 AA: fully accessible to all users
Technology
Cross-platform (macOS, Windows, Linux) built with Tauri and Rust.
Images, documents, video, audio, and 3D models including JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PDF, MP4, WAV, GLTF, and more.
Tiered: metadata extraction (always), CLIP tagging (optional), local LLM descriptions (optional via Ollama).
PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0. Free for charities, non-profits, education, government, and community organisations.
Project Status
Jura Trace is in active development, with a pilot launching in June 2026. We are looking for charities, museums, newsrooms, universities, human rights organisations, and public-sector bodies who work with digital content that needs protecting.
You can register your interest or learn more about Jura Labs and the principles behind what we build.