// why_we_built_this
The paper form was failing the people it was meant to protect.
Across humanitarian and development work, media consent is still collected on paper. A form is signed in the field, carried back, filed in a drawer — and hoped for when it's needed.
But paper gets lost. Ink fades. A form signed in one language is filed by someone who reads another. And when a photograph or testimony is questioned years later, the one document that proves consent was given often can't be found.
For the subject, that failure is not administrative. It's a loss of the dignity and control they were promised when they agreed to be recorded.
Agency Consent was built to close that gap — a consent record that is captured properly, stored securely, and provable for as long as it matters.