Getting started

Registering takes a few minutes and is free. You end up with a dated, private record stating that a real person, you, stands behind an AI avatar, voice clone or agent. It becomes public when it is verified, and until then the proof is yours alone. This guide walks the whole flow, from account to finished record, and points to the deeper reference pages as it goes.

There is very little to prepare. You need:

• An email address you can access, to create and manage the account. Nothing else identifies you at this level.
• The public name of the avatar you want to register (for example “Nova”).
• Where it operates, if you have it: the profile, site or channel where the avatar is active. This is optional but recommended, it makes the record more useful to anyone who finds it.

You do not need an ID document, a company, a payment method or any technical setup. The free level asks for none of that.

Go to platform.thehumanbehind.com/account/create and sign up with your email address and a password. You will receive a confirmation email; click the link to activate the account. Until you confirm, you can sign in but you cannot publish a record.

If the confirmation email does not arrive within a few minutes, check spam, then use the “resend confirmation” option on the sign-in screen. The link is single-use and expires, so always click the most recent one.

From your dashboard, create a new record. The form asks for a handful of fields. Here is each one and what to put in it:

Field	What to enter	Required
Avatar name	The public name of what you are registering (e.g. “Nova”). This name also seeds the record’s slug (its URL identifier); if the slug is already taken, a numeric suffix is added automatically.	Yes
Type	One of: avatar, voice_clone, agent, image, video, music.	Yes
Scope	general, or a sensitive scope if it operates in health, finance or legal. A sensitive scope signals higher stakes to whoever reads the record; you declare it and the registry shows it.	Yes
Where it operates	The profile, site or channel where the avatar is active (a full URL is best). If you leave it blank it is stored as an empty value, and the hash treats it as the empty string.	No
Responsible person	Your name, the human who answers for the avatar.	Yes
Declaration	A checkbox stating that the avatar is yours and that you take responsibility for it. It is required: the declaration is the core of the registry.	Yes

The form is protected against automated submissions, so an ordinary, human-paced fill-in goes through and scripted spam does not. See Records for the precise meaning and allowed values of every field.

The moment you submit, the registry does three things atomically:

• Assigns your THB number (e.g. THB-2026-00117), sequential within the year and never reused.
• Stamps the registration date and time (UTC), protected by a database rule that rejects any change, including from administrators.
• Computes the content hash: a SHA-256 fingerprint of your registration data that anyone can recheck. See Records for the exact recipe.

Your record is a private record of standing: you get your THB number, a receipt, and a private page you can see from your account. At the free Registered level it is not listed in the public directory and has no public URL. The point of the free tier is a private, dated proof that you registered, not a public profile.

Making it public is a separate, deliberate step: verification (not open yet). A verified record gets a public page at its own URL, https://platform.thehumanbehind.com/r/your-avatar, the gold Verified seal, and an entry in the public API you can link from a bio or a video description.

A free Registered record is private. If you verify it, this is exactly what does and does not become public:

Public (once verified)	Never public
Avatar name, type, scope, where it operates, the responsible person’s name, the THB number, the registration date and the content hash.	Your email address, your password and any account data. At the free level the registry stores no ID document, so there is nothing else to expose.

You can edit the descriptive fields of your record (name, type, scope, where it operates, responsible person) at any time. Three things are immutable for everyone, including administrators: the THB number, the registration date and the record’s URL slug.

The content hash follows your current content: edit a field and it is recomputed. Nothing is lost, because every previous version stays archived forever, with its own hash and timestamp, in a ledger that can only be added to.

Unpublishing is possible too. The record stops being listed and disappears from the API, but its page keeps a dated notice (served as HTTP 410 Gone) so the registry never silently rewrites history, and its THB number is never reused. Full details in Records.

Situation	What to do
The confirmation email never arrives	Check spam, then resend it from the sign-in screen. Add the sender to your contacts so the new one lands in the inbox.
“That name is not available”	Some names are reserved (for example, names that impersonate a public institution). Pick another, or add a distinguishing word.
The URL ended in -2 or -3	The base slug was already taken, so a numeric suffix was added. The slug is fixed once assigned, so choose the avatar name deliberately.