Erik Svilich. Founder and CEO of Encypher.
Erik wrote the C2PAC2PA: The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity: the group that publishes the open standard for content labels. standard that lets text carry a label. Now anyone can check who signed a piece of writing and whether it changed.
His public record.
Each fact links to a source you can check.
- Wrote the text standard
- He wrote Section A.7C2PA text-provenance standard: The part of the C2PA standard that puts a signed label inside plain text, using invisible Unicode characters. of C2PA 2.3C2PA 2.3: The version of the C2PA specification, published January 8, 2026, that added the standard for unstructured text., the part for text. It came out on January 8, 2026. Source: C2PA 2.3, Section A.7.
- Task force co-chair
- He co-chairs the C2PA Text Provenance Task Force. This group looks after the standard for text provenanceText provenance: A signed label for text: who signed it, when, and whether the words changed.. Source: Beeler.Tech, August 27, 2026.
- Works with the industry
- The C2PA's members include Google, the BBC, OpenAI, Adobe and Microsoft. Source: C2PA members.
- Founder and CEO
- He started Encypher and runs it. Our signing tool is on the C2PA's public list of tested products. See the record.
- Patent pending
- He filed patent application ENC0100 on January 7, 2026. It has 83 claims on tracing where each part of a text came from. Patent applications at this stage are not published, so there is no public copy.
What his standard does.
- It puts a signed label inside the words of unstructured textUnstructured text: Text with no file around it, such as an article body, a post or a chat reply, so there is no container to hold a label., like an article or a chat reply. The text looks the same.
- The label holds a hashHash: A short fingerprint of exact bytes. Any change, even one character, gives a completely different hash., a short fingerprint of the words. If anyone edits them, a check shows it.
- Any tool that follows the standard can read the label, for free.
- Some apps strip hidden characters, and a rewrite removes the label. A check then finds no label.