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Creative Control · prepared for counsel · Ap1

A contemporaneous record of human authorship in an AI collaboration.

The questions your field is arguing from first principles — what did the human contribute, when, and can it be shown? — this record answers for one book, not by assertion but by receipt: dated decisions, versioned manuscripts, the author’s rulings preserved verbatim, and a register of what is claimed, marked and gated.
It is offered as a present-day artefact: one practitioner’s complete, self-documenting instance of the thing the doctrine is trying to describe. Made from 10 May 2026, kept as it happened.
What the record can show — five doors, chosen for you
authorship, dated
The journey
The human’s directing hand, day by day — rulings, reversals, and the lines he would not let move.
contribution, seat by seat
The workers
Who (or what) did which work, in which versions, under whose direction — the division of labour, on the record.
the evidence itself
The drawers
86 manuscript versions, graded and dated; what is held, what is gated, and the chain that connects them.
the marks & the gates
Access & marks
SHaDS™, SHaDSy™, Additional Intelligence™ — what is asserted, what is held as trade secret, and the consent gate at Ap1a.
against interest
The perimeter
The record’s own statement of its weaknesses — self-assembly, self-grading — kept sharp. Weigh it first.
STATED PLAINLY: this record makes no legal claim and offers no legal theory. It is a documented instance — contemporaneous, versioned, self-critical — of a human–AI making. What it proves is a matter for the people who weigh such things.
THE GATE: the defensible-evidence subset (Ap1a) exists for exactly this audience — full passes, full filings, by explicit consent. Request path: hello@paulroebuck.co.uk
SHaDS™ · SHaDSy™ · Additional Intelligence™ · Paul Roebuck IP, 2026.
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