Why screen before you sell
AI-assisted design has created a class of work that is genuinely a designer's, yet cannot easily be vouched for on originality, because no one looked before it shipped. Buyers, retailers and investors hesitate to credit AI-assisted work with originality, not because copying occurred, but because nobody checked. Design Check moves that check upstream, to the moment before a design leaves your hands. This is pre-publication design governance.
What Design Check does
- Screens one uploaded design (a sketch, an AI render, a flat or a garment photograph) for resemblance to an identifiable house signature.
- Weighs heritage context before escalating resemblance, so culturally rooted work is not mistaken for copying merely for drawing on a shared tradition.
- Reads the design with more than one independent automated assessor and reports how many agreed. Agreement carries weight, disagreement carries information, and where they disagree the result is held for a person.
- Returns No Triggers Detected, Triggers Detected or Hold for Review, with a plain description of what surfaced.
Private by design
Your uploaded design is processed for the screen and then deleted, along with any description of it. Akwa retains only a minimal record of the result and a cryptographic fingerprint of the file, not the design itself. The record exists so Akwa can stand behind what was assessed if a question later arises; it contains nothing that reproduces your design.
What it is not
Design Check is a screening and review layer, not a legal clearance and not a guarantee of originality. A similarity signal does not prove copying, and a resemblance is described as a design language, never as an accusation about a named brand. Whether to proceed rests with you. The purpose is not to prove a design is original; it is to make uncertainty visible before someone relies on it.
Read more on the Design Trust page, and in why we built pre-publication design governance.