Trubato is independent, non-profit infrastructure for music provenance - a transparent way to know whether a track was made by humans, generated by AI, or both. Free for the public. Forensic for the industry.
These are not aspirations. They are written into our articles of incorporation, posted publicly and reviewed annually by an independent board.
Our evaluation harness, benchmark dataset, and method paper are published openly. Anyone can audit our work.
Public verdicts are about recordings. We will never label a named artist as "AI" in any public verdict, anywhere.
We report probabilities with confidence bands. Not binary judgments dressed up as technology.
No platform pays us to ignore their content. No label pays us for special treatment. Ever.
Earned revenue and donations beyond costs are reinvested in music education and artist-support programs. Audited annually, published publicly.
Every verdict carries a way to challenge it. Disputed verdicts are reviewed by humans and feed continuous retraining.
No single detector is reliable on its own. Trubato runs four independent analysis pipelines and combines them into one calibrated assessment. The reasoning is shown.
Spectral fingerprints, formants, micro-timing. The traces generators leave behind and the human imperfections AI tends to smooth away.
Vocals, drums, bass, melody - separated and scored independently. Hybrids are read as hybrids, not falsely flagged or falsely cleared.
Where words are present, we transcribe and run text-provenance analysis. Lyric authorship is its own question, with its own answer.
C2PA Content Credentials, watermarks, encoder traces. When a tool signs its work, we read the signature; when it doesn't, we still look.
We believe human creativity is worth knowing about, naming, and protecting - not because AI is dangerous, but because what humans make is precious, finite, and the people who make it deserve to be recognized.
We believe AI is a tool. Like every tool, the world deserves to know when it is used and how much.
We believe the technology to answer this question should be independent, free, and accountable - not a feature of any platform, label, or distributor whose interests might bend it.
We are building Trubato to that standard. The infrastructure is non-profit. The verdict is public. The methodology is open. The data of the people we serve, never sold.
We're inviting artists, producers, lyricists, performers, managers, advocates, policy-makers, journalists, listeners and funders to a closed beta before the public launch. Tell us who you are; we'll match access and updates to your role.
If your question isn't here, write to hello@trubato.org. We answer in public when we can.