You received a family-issued transcript.

What "verified" means here

The family used Eformogi to compose a transcript and seal it with a SHA-256 cryptographic hash. The hash is a fingerprint of every byte in the document at the moment of issuance. When you load the verify page, your browser re-reads the receipt and confirms the bytes still match. If any field on the transcript had been altered after issuance (a course added, a grade changed, a name edited), the hash would not match and the verify page would not show ✓ Verified.

In plain language: verification proves the document you're reading is the document the family issued, byte for byte.

What "verified" does not mean

We are deliberate about this. Verification does not mean the underlying claims on the transcript were evaluated by a third party. A family-issued transcript is, by definition, self-attested: the family is the records office of record. The cryptographic hash protects against tampering after issuance. It does not, by itself, prove the courses were taught, the evidence was collected, or the grades were assigned by an independent evaluator.

If your workflow requires third-party-evaluated records (for example, a registrar's official transcript from an accredited institution), you should ask the family for the linked evidence behind specific claims. Common forms of evidence include:

• Portfolios of student work (essays, projects, lab notebooks)
• Standardized exam scores (AP, SAT subject, CLEP, IB)
• Evaluator signatures or letters from independent assessors
• Dual-enrollment registrar records from accredited colleges
• State homeschool office acknowledgments where applicable

How to evaluate this transcript for your workflow

Three honest questions that may help:

1. What is your tolerance for self-attested records? That is your office's call, and not one we make for you. What you can do with this one: verify the link free, with no login; read who declared each row and who signed it; and run the offline verifier against the bytes yourself. Where a receiver has published a policy on family-issued transcripts and we have read it, the policy directory maps it, with the receiver's own page as the source of truth. Knowing your own threshold before you call the family will save everyone time.
2. Does the transcript include the evidence you need? The "evidence" column on the printed transcript names what backs each course. If you need to inspect the underlying evidence, ask the family: they own it and can share it directly.
3. Is the cryptographic seal sufficient for your records-keeping? The hash and verify URL give you an audit trail: you can prove, months later, that the transcript you received hadn't been altered after issuance. Whether that is enough is your call. We don't pretend it is the whole answer.

Who stands behind each course row

Every course row carries one of four signer kinds, shown as a chip on the printed transcript and in the per-course breakdown on the verify page. The chips are the issuing family's own description of each row's source; the chip names who put their name on the row, not an endorsement from Eformogi:

• Family-stated: the family wrote the course and grade down. The hash protects it against after-the-fact edits; no outside signature.
• Family-graded: the family graded the course against a written rubric they kept.
• Co-signed: a named outside adult who was there (co-op teacher, tutor, coach, mentor, supervisor) put their name on the row. The signer's name, role, and organization render on the verify page, and each co-signature is its own verifiable receipt.
• Source-verified: the family states the claim came directly from the issuing source (a dual-enrollment registrar, an exam board, an accredited school). Where the ledger holds a signature from that source's own domain, the verify page shows it; a source row with no such signature on file renders marked issuer-declared.

Most real transcripts are a mix. The chips answer the question a receiver actually has (who besides the parent vouches for this row), and where signers disagree with a family-stated grade, the verify page shows both openly.

You will never need an Eformogi account

Verification is free and login-free, by design. We believe the receiver side of a records office should never require a sign-up to do its core job. If a family forwards you a verify URL, you click it. You read the result. You decide what to do. That's it.

The record is free for the learner, forever. Schools, microschools, and counselors who issue on it pay per learner per year. An office that wants a hosted verification service at volume can ask us. A receiver opening a single transcript pays nothing, forever. That's the contract, and it's in our founding documents.

Help shape the receiver side

We're looking for a small number of admissions officers, scholarship reviewers, and employers to act as design partners on the receiver side of this product. There is no cost, no contract, and no platform to sign up for. Just an ongoing conversation about what would make verifiable family-issued records actually useful inside your workflow.

If something looks wrong

If the verify page returned "Not a valid Eformogi receipt", the most likely explanation is a typo in the URL or an old receipt id. Ask the family for a fresh URL. They can re-issue at any time, and the new receipt will have its own hash.

If you suspect the transcript or any other part of this flow is being misused, please contact us at hello@eformogi.com. We take abuse seriously. We will investigate and, when warranted, revoke the issuer's ability to use the platform.