Why I Built Lyricsmit

I can't remember a time when creativity wasn't part of my life.

As a child, I'd watch my mum fill notepads with beautiful fashion sketches that seemed to come alive on the page. She later worked in the commercial and film industry, where I grew up surrounded by stylists, photographers and other creative people. Around our dinner table, ideas were shared, refined and brought to life.

My dad, Roscoe, represented New Zealand as an Olympic alpine skier. His world was built on trusted records. Every race had a date, place, official time and result. Years later, nobody questioned what happened because the record already existed.

Those two worlds stayed with me. One taught me how creativity grows. The other taught me the importance of trusted records.

My sister, Jazi, would find scraps of paper covered in unfinished rhymes and ideas. Instead of letting them get thrown out, she'd fold them up, put them back in my room and say, “Don't throw these away. You never know what they'll become.”

Growing up, I spent countless hours skateboarding and snowboarding with friends. I was fortunate to be surrounded by musicians, producers, designers, photographers, filmmakers, clothing designers, chefs and people building their own skate and snowboard brands. Everywhere I looked, people were creating something that hadn't existed the day before.

When I was 21, I survived a serious car accident that left me with an acquired brain injury (ABI). During recovery, writing music helped me rebuild my life and rewire my brain.

Over time, one truth became impossible to ignore. Ideas move quickly. They evolve through conversations, collaboration and countless revisions, yet some of the world's greatest creations began as a single idea scribbled on a napkin.

So I kept coming back to one question:

Why shouldn't every creator have an easy way to document their work the moment it's created, before it leaves their hands?

That question became Lyricsmit.

Lyricsmit creates a cryptographic fingerprint and an RFC 3161 Trusted Timestamp, giving creators an independent proof-of-existence record while keeping their original work private.

It isn't built on fear. It's built on respect for creativity. It's built on trust, confidence and helping great ideas move forward.

Every original creation deserves a trusted record of where it began.

That's why I built Lyricsmit: to help creators preserve the beginning of their ideas and build a trusted Creative Record Archive.