Machine readable asset intelligence

Understand the asset. Follow the evidence.

RUTHVEN is an asset intelligence OS for organisations, institutions and the people and AI systems that rely on what they hold. For any document, record or digital asset: what it is, where it came from, whether it can be trusted, and the evidence behind the answer.

People read it as a document. Machines read it as data.

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For organisations

Can your people, and your AI systems, trust this document?

RUTHVEN sits beside the systems you already have and replaces none of them. It answers, for any record, whether it is current, approved, unchanged and safe to rely on, and says why.

Request a conversation → For collections, archives and institutions

A permanent record of what you hold, independent of any system.

Identity, provenance and integrity for every asset, recorded at creation or added to what already exists, readable by people and by machines. Live today on a collection of 4,000 works.

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RUTHVEN ORIGIN

For new works, recorded at creation.

The record is made at the moment a work is made: what it is, what it was made from, the fingerprints of its files and the evidence behind every statement, then published to permanent storage and anchored on a public ledger.

PAPER TRAIL #1140, by Miss AL Simpson — Example · Origin PassportIssued · anchored

**PAPER TRAIL #1140**

Creator
Miss AL Simpson, 2026Copyright: MISS AL SIMPSON LIMITED

Made from
16 pieces: 12 cut from 11 of her earlier works, 4 from material made for this collectionArchive span 2020–2026, across 9 bodies of work

Evidence
16 claims, each with its source5 checked against bytes or chain · 8 from the studio's own record · 3 calculated

Recorded
At creation, 1 Oct 2026Files in permanent storage · anchored on the public ledger 2 Oct 2026

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RUTHVEN LEGACY

For works that already exist.

A record written afterwards for a work that already exists, from what can still be proved: the public ledger, the work's own record, the files and the preservation done since. What cannot be proved is shown as missing.

Lodia Readthoughts, Soulbrd 1, by Miss AL Simpson — Example · Legacy PassportDraft · not yet issued

**Lodia Readthoughts · Soulbrds, 2022**

Provenance
Issued to the artist on 14 December 2022, in the transaction that created the collectionWork 1 of 600 · still held by the artist · the collection's contract gives no one the power to recall, freeze or destroy it

The files
Artwork and its record read back from permanent storage, 2 Oct 2026The artwork's fingerprint equals the artist's original, byte for byte

Preservation
In permanent storage since 19 March 2023, moved there by the artist on 21 March 2023Where the records pointed before that day is not yet recorded

Licence
None written into the contractFor the artist to record, as her own statement, before issue

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First live deployment

PAPER TRAIL

4,000 artworks by Miss AL Simpson. Each with a RUTHVEN Origin Passport.

Every Passport is published to permanent storage with a cryptographic summary of its evidence. The whole collection is anchored on a public ledger, so any work can be checked independently.

PAPER TRAIL brings RUTHVEN’s asset intelligence into a live collection, connecting each artwork with its origins and supporting evidence, for people and AI agents to explore. Digital art is our starting point; RUTHVEN’s ambition extends across digital assets.

The machine reassembling PAPER TRAIL #0677 from its sources. From the artist’s film.

Published to permanent storageEvery Passport, with its evidence files, is pinned as a provenance package. Its address is a fingerprint of its contents: change a byte and the address changes.
Summarised cryptographicallyEach Passport carries an evidence root over its own claims and files. The 4,000 Passports, each by its own hash, are combined into one collection root, 0x16770c75…00b7f9, set on the public ledger (Ethereum) in the RUTHVEN registry at block 26,102,679.
Checked against the public ledgerAny single Passport can be proved to belong to the anchored set from its cryptographic proof and the root on the public ledger. Verify a work · the roots and block numbers.

Explore PAPER TRAIL →

4,000Origin Passports issuedCompleted 1 Oct 2026The collection →
4,000Provenance packages published to permanent storageCompleted 1 Oct 2026One package, #1140 →
1Collection root anchored on the public ledgerCompleted 2 Oct 2026 · block 26,102,679The transaction →
4,000Works issued, collection completeCompleted 11 Oct 2026The contract →
4,000Passports revealed and open, every work pointing to its recordCompleted 11 Oct 2026 · block 26,169,183The reveal →

PAPER TRAIL deployment record. Each figure is a completed step, linked to its evidence.

How it works

A record, its evidence, and checks anyone can run.

Every Origin Passport is built in three layers. The technical detail is on the developer page.

01
The asset record

What the work is, who made it, what it was made from and how. Each statement is kept with who made it, when, and what kind of evidence it rests on. Corrections are added beside the old entry, never over it.
02
Its supporting evidence

The files, hashes and source records behind each statement, published with the work so a person or an agent can follow any claim back to what supports it.
03
Independent checks

The files are in permanent storage and the issued Passports are anchored on a public ledger, so anyone can confirm that a record is the one issued, and unchanged, without asking RUTHVEN.

What a check proves. It shows that a claim appears in the record as issued. It does not, by itself, make the claim true; each claim says what it rests on, so you can judge it.

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The Origin Passport today

What it covers now.

The Origin Passport is made for works recorded at creation. Its scope is deliberate, and it is marked on every page.

What the work is, and its number in the collection
Who made it, and who holds the copyright
The earlier works it was cut from, piece by piece, in the order laid down
The hashes of its files, and where to fetch them
The evidence behind every statement, and what kind of evidence it is

Missing information is shown

It shows its gaps.

Anything a reader is not shown is counted on the face of the Passport. A record with quiet gaps looks complete and is not; this one says what it does not hold.

Present boundaries. A Passport does not price a work or advise on it. Custody: RUTHVEN takes custody of no asset; the PAPER TRAIL anchor was set by the artist herself.

For people and AI agents

The same record, for a machine reader.

Every Passport is also served as data. An agent can read a work's record, follow each claim to its evidence, and take away a proof it can check itself. Every door is read-only.

About

Built from an archive of twelve thousand records.

RUTHVEN AI LIMITED is an asset intelligence company in Edinburgh, founded in 2026 by Anna Louise Simpson, a former corporate lawyer, entrepreneur and cryptoartist.

RUTHVEN grew out of her own archive: more than twelve thousand works published on public blockchains since 2019 as Miss AL Simpson, with work sold at Sotheby’s New York in 2025.

But the larger the archive became, the harder a simple question became to answer: what, exactly, is this asset? Where did it come from? Which files belong to it? What is its provenance? What can still be independently proved? And can a machine understand all of that reliably?

RUTHVEN was built to answer those questions.

PAPER TRAIL is its first live collection recorded from creation: 4,000 works, each with its own RUTHVEN Origin Passport and machine-readable record.

In 2026, the Digital Assets (Scotland) Act confirmed the status of qualifying digital assets as property in Scots law. RUTHVEN is being built in Edinburgh at precisely this moment, as ownership of digital assets gains greater legal clarity.

RUTHVEN takes no custody of any asset or data, prices nothing and tells no one what to buy.

It reads. It records. It proves.

Beyond PAPER TRAIL

PAPER TRAIL is one artist's collection. The OS is for many.

We are looking for partners who make, hold or look after digital assets and want them understood accurately, by people and by agents.

Talk to us about a deployment info@ruthven.ai · artists, studios, galleries, collections, platforms and archives · enterprises: request a conversation →

Who

RUTHVEN AI LIMITED is an asset intelligence company in Edinburgh, founded by Anna Louise Simpson, the cryptoartist Miss AL Simpson.

Contact

info@ruthven.ai

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