Independent Writers & Newsletter Publishers

1. Which best describes your work? (Select all that apply.)

2. How long have you been regularly publishing original written work?

3. Where do you primarily publish your work? (Select all that apply.)

4. Approximately how often do you publish original long-form work?

5. When was the last time someone questioned whether your work was human-created, substantially human-authored, or original?

6. Who questioned it? (Select all that apply.)

7. What prompted the question, and what commercial or reputational issue, if any, was involved?

8. What happened as a result? (Select all that apply.)

9. What evidence did you actually have available to demonstrate how the work was created? (Select all that apply.)

10. Which of that evidence would you be comfortable providing to an independent verification service?

11. What information or evidence would you refuse to provide, even if it were requested for verification? Why?

12. If you used a verification service, what would you want the verification to apply to?

13. If you selected a defined period, what period would be most useful?

14. What would be the most important thing for the verification to establish? (Select up to 3.)

15. Which tools do you currently use as part of your writing workflow? (Select all that apply.)

16. If you use AI, which uses would you consider acceptable to disclose publicly as part of a verified human-led work?

17. Would you be comfortable having your permitted or disclosed AI use listed on the public verification page?

18. If a trusted independent verification existed, what real decision would it most likely change for you? (Select all that apply.)

19. Who, if anyone, do you believe would benefit financially from your work being independently verified? (Select all that apply.)

20. What would make a verified Human Mark badge valuable enough for you to display publicly?

21. What would make you distrust True Human Mark or another certifying organization? (Select all that apply.)

22. Which safeguards would make you more likely to trust the certification? (Select up to 5.)

23. What information would you be comfortable having displayed publicly on a verification page?

24. What information should never be displayed publicly?

25. What turnaround time would be acceptable for an independent verification of a single work?

26. How much effort would you realistically be willing to spend preparing evidence for one verification?

27. Which verification format would fit your workflow best?

28. Realistically, what would you personally or your business be willing to pay to independently verify one work?

29. If verification covered multiple works during a defined period, what would you realistically consider paying?

30. What would need to be true for you to pay for verification rather than simply disclose your own AI use for free?

31. If True Human Mark denied verification, what should happen before the decision becomes final? (Select all that apply.)

32. Who should handle an appeal?

33. What would make an appeals process feel fair and credible to you?

34. If a verified work later appeared to violate the certification standard, what should True Human Mark be able to do?

35. Based on your actual experience, not simply your opinion of the concept, how useful would independent verification of your written work be?*

36. What is the single biggest problem True Human Mark would need to solve for you to use it?

37. What is the single biggest reason you would NOT use it?

38. Is there anything else about authorship, AI use, verification, privacy, cost, or appeals that you think True Human Mark should understand before building the service?