Built for Freelance Designers
Protect Your Creative Work Before It Leaves Your Screen
You share designs with clients every day. Spec work, pitches, and concept presentations all risk your creative IP being used without credit or payment. immut timestamps your work before you share it, giving you proof of ownership that holds up in court.
The Challenge
What Keeps Freelance Designers Up at Night
IP protection challenges that freelance designers face every day.
Clients Use Your Work Without Paying
You present a concept, the client ghosts you, and six months later you see your design on their website. Without proof of creation date, your options are limited and expensive.
Spec Work Is Unprotected by Default
Pitches and spec work mean sharing your best ideas before any agreement is signed. The client can take your concept to a cheaper designer or execute it internally.
Copyright Registration Is Slow and Costly
Formal copyright registration costs money and takes time. For the volume of work freelancers produce, registering every design is impractical.
Proving You Created It First Is Difficult
File metadata can be edited. Email timestamps can be disputed. When a client or competitor claims they created the design independently, you need stronger evidence.
The Solution
How immut Fits Your Workflow
Blockchain-verified IP protection designed for how freelance designers actually work.
Timestamp Before Every Client Presentation
Upload your designs to immut before sending to clients. If they use your work without permission, you have blockchain-verified proof that you created it first.
Protect Your Entire Portfolio
Timestamp finished work, concepts, sketches, and mood boards. Build a verifiable body of work that proves your creative history and originality.
Evidence for Disputes and Takedowns
Blockchain certificates support DMCA takedown requests, copyright claims, and legal disputes. Show platforms and courts exactly when you created the work.
Protect Across All Design Disciplines
Graphic design, UI/UX, product design, illustration, branding — immut timestamps any file type. One tool for all your creative output.
Real-World Scenario
A Day in the Life: Freelance Designer Protecting a Brand Identity Project
Priya is a freelance brand designer. She has been asked to pitch a brand identity concept for a startup. The potential client wants to see full concepts before committing to a contract.
Before the pitch meeting, Priya uploads her logo concepts, colour palette, typography selections, and brand guidelines document to immut. She gets blockchain certificates for everything in 3 minutes.
She presents the concepts to the startup founder. They seem enthusiastic but say they need time to decide and will be in touch next week.
Three weeks of silence later, the startup launches with a brand identity that is clearly derived from Priya's concepts. Different enough to argue, similar enough to be obvious.
Priya's lawyer sends a cease and desist with the blockchain certificates attached, proving she created the designs before the startup's launch. The startup settles with full payment for the work plus damages.
A freelance designer enforced her IP rights and recovered payment using blockchain evidence that took 3 minutes to create.
Benefits
Why Freelance Designers Choose immut
Affordable for Freelancers
Start free or upgrade to $29/month for unlimited timestamps. Less than the cost of a single hour of legal advice.
60-Second Workflow
Upload your file, get your certificate. No forms, no waiting, no disruption to your creative process.
Stronger Than Watermarks
Watermarks can be removed. Blockchain timestamps cannot be altered, deleted, or disputed. They are mathematical proof stored on a public ledger.
Global Protection
Blockchain evidence is recognised in courts across the UK, EU, US, and beyond. One timestamp protects your work internationally.
Professional Credibility
Sharing timestamped certificates with clients demonstrates professionalism and signals that you take your IP seriously.
Complete Confidentiality
Your design files are never uploaded to the blockchain. Only a cryptographic fingerprint is stored. Your creative work stays private.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from copyright?
Copyright protects your work automatically upon creation, but proving when you created it can be difficult in a dispute. Blockchain timestamps provide verifiable proof of your creation date, making it much easier to enforce your existing copyright.
Can I use blockchain certificates for DMCA takedowns?
Yes. Blockchain certificates showing your creation date pre-dating the infringing use strengthen DMCA takedown requests. Platforms are more likely to act quickly when you can provide verifiable proof of prior creation.
What file types can I protect?
Any file type: PSD, AI, Figma exports, PDFs, PNG, SVG, video files, 3D files, and more. If it is a file on your computer, immut can timestamp it.
Should I timestamp drafts or just final versions?
Both. Timestamping drafts and iterations builds a development timeline that proves the work evolved from your original concept. This is particularly valuable when someone claims the design was their idea that you merely executed.
Is this worth it for a freelancer on a tight budget?
Consider the cost of one stolen design versus $29/month. A single dispute recovery typically covers years of immut subscription costs. The free Starter plan also lets you protect your most important work at no cost.
Ready to Protect Your IP?
Book a call to see how immut gives freelance designers instant, blockchain-verified proof of their innovations. Get protected on the call.