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Your life's work deserves more than becoming training data.

Art Vault stops AI from scraping your art. Invisible, multi-layered protection plus a timestamped proof-of-ownership certificate: independent evidence the work is yours, free with every image. Visually identical to your original. Done in under two minutes.

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Protect your first image free, no card, with a free proof-of-ownership certificate. After that, £19 for one more, or plans from £8/month. The evidence that registries charge £30/yr for is included.

The scale of the problem
5.8B Images scraped without consent
$52B AI image market by 2030
£0 Paid to artists whose work built it
94% Of artists report unauthorised use

The creative economy is being strip-mined. And the tools meant to protect you aren't keeping up.

Every image you post online is a potential training sample. AI companies have built billion-dollar products on the aesthetic output of artists, photographers, and designers, without consent, without credit, without compensation.

Consumer tools like Glaze were a breakthrough in 2022. Within months, a single research paper bypassed them at 99.98% accuracy. The threat evolves quarterly. The protection needs to as well.

For galleries and estates, the problem compounds. Collector confidence is eroding as AI-generated forgeries become indistinguishable from authenticated works. Provenance that lives on paper and trust is no longer sufficient.

What changes when you're protected

Without Art Vault
  • Every post is a potential training sample
  • Your aesthetic can be replicated for £30/month
  • Consumer tools get bypassed in months
  • No proof of authenticity for your collectors
  • Galleries carry reputational risk from AI forgeries
  • You wait for courts or platforms to act
With Art Vault
  • Every upload is protected with three independent layers
  • AI training on your work produces unusable, degraded output
  • If one layer is bypassed, the others still hold
  • Every work carries a cryptographic certificate of ownership
  • Galleries offer verified provenance as a premium service
  • Protection updates quarterly to stay ahead of new threats

This is v1, and you're early.

Art Vault is shaped by the artists who join early. We ship updates most months, driven by what people ask for, and the changelog is public and dated so you can check that against reality rather than take our word for it.

We will be straight with you about what this is. The protection is layered on purpose: adversarial perturbation, C2PA provenance and an invisible watermark, precisely because no single technique holds forever. The certificate side is the part that does not degrade: a timestamped record of what you made and when, independent of us. Everything else gets better with you in the room.

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Three steps. 30 seconds per image. Proof that outlasts the protection.

01

Upload

Upload your finished artwork through Art Vault before you post it anywhere. JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and WebP supported up to 50MB.

02

Protect

Three layers are applied simultaneously: adversarial poisoning that corrupts AI style extraction, a C2PA provenance certificate that proves ownership, and an invisible watermark that survives compression and resizing.

03

Post

Download your protected image and share it anywhere. It looks identical to the original. If it's scraped, the poisoning degrades what an AI learns, the certificate proves it's yours, and the watermark persists.

Daniel Abram
Founder, Expression Labs
Bachelor of Arts
Zero to £5M founder
Imperial College London
Cambridge & Google UK

"I was impressed by AI. Then I understood what it was taking from artists."

I'm a Blender artist working across 3D, music, and film. When I first tested the image generation tools, I was genuinely impressed, particularly the ability to generate Studio Ghibli-style images from a handful of words. The warmth, the light, the feeling of decades of artistic craft, reproduced on demand.

That curiosity led me down a rabbit hole. I discovered how scraping works at scale, how artists' styles are being emulated without consent, and how livelihoods are being quietly displaced. As an artist, these things are sacred to me.

I tried Glaze and Nightshade, the most serious technical responses available. They were promising. Then their underlying algorithm was broken. That's when I decided to build something more resilient: multi-layered protection that doesn't rely on a single approach holding forever.

Start free. Pay for one more, or for all of them.

Protect your first image free, no card, and keep its timestamped proof-of-ownership certificate. After that you have a choice: buy one more image and its certificate for £19, or subscribe if you're protecting work regularly.

⚡ First image free, no card · free ownership certificate included
No subscription
One image, one certificate: £19

One payment. A protected file and a timestamped certificate with a public verification link. Nothing renews, nothing to cancel.

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Studio
£12
per month
  • 50 images per month
  • All protection levels
  • Invisible watermark
  • C2PA provenance signing
  • Proof-of-ownership certificates
  • Priority support
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Professional
£49
per month
  • 500 images per month
  • API access + batch processing
  • Invisible watermark
  • C2PA provenance signing
  • Proof-of-ownership certificates
  • Dedicated support
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Estate Vault
£1,200 per year

For represented artists, estates and foundations with a catalogue rather than a folder. We protect and certify the whole body of work with you, re-check it every 90 days, and give you a named person to call. Most people start with a conversation.

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Things people ask before they register

No. The adversarial perturbations are embedded at the sub-pixel level, mathematically structured noise that is invisible to human perception but disrupts the feature extraction that AI models rely on. Your images look identical on screen, in print, and in client previews.
This is why quarterly updates matter. Consumer tools update rarely and get bypassed permanently. Art Vault's protection evolves on a 90-day cycle, tracking published bypass research and adapting the adversarial approach accordingly. It's an ongoing commitment to staying ahead, not a one-time fix.
Work already scraped cannot be retroactively removed from existing datasets. But you can protect and re-upload key portfolio pieces, replacing unprotected versions with protected ones. This ensures future scraping passes find poison instead of signal. It won't undo what's already happened, but it stops the extraction from continuing.
No. Create a free account and protect your first image immediately, with no credit card, no contract and no obligation, then download its proof-of-ownership certificate. You only choose a plan if you want to keep protecting work after that. Plans start at £8/month and you can cancel any time.
Glaze and Nightshade were pioneering. They proved that adversarial protection works. Art Vault builds on that foundation rather than replacing it. The key difference is redundancy: where Glaze and Nightshade each relied on a single layer of protection, Art Vault combines adversarial poisoning, C2PA provenance certificates, and persistent watermarking. If a future bypass defeats one layer, the others remain intact. Art Vault also updates quarterly in direct response to published bypass research, rather than relying on infrequent academic releases.
Yes. Art Vault is live and you can protect an image right now, no account needed for your first watermarked preview. Create a free account to download the clean file and your proof-of-ownership certificate for your first image, no card required.
Every image you protect comes with a free, timestamped PDF certificate: the cryptographic fingerprint (SHA-256) of your original and protected files, countersigned by an independent timestamping authority, with a public verification link. It's independent evidence that the work existed in your hands on that date, the kind of proof timestamping registries charge around £30/year for. One honest note: copyright itself is automatic the moment you create a work (Berne Convention, 180+ countries). Our certificate is evidence to support your claim. It is not a government registration, and if you ever need US statutory damages you'd still register with the US Copyright Office. We tell you this because most services in this space won't.
If you represent artists whose work appears online, Gallery Shield covers your entire catalogue under one subscription, no individual artist accounts required. It also includes a white-label provenance registry for your collectors. View the full Gallery Shield pricing and details, or email hello@expressionlabs.co to discuss your specific situation.

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