The Problem We Set Out to Solve.

The Problem

The platform that hosts your professional profile owns your professional history. LinkedIn can delete your account. Your employer email expires. The portfolio you built over a decade on one platform evaporates when that platform shuts down, pivots, or decides you violated a policy you didn't fully understand.

This is not a UI problem. This is a data ownership problem. Your professional reputation — the connections you've built, the credentials you've earned, the experience you've accumulated — lives on infrastructure that was never yours.

And it turns out that matters enormously when the platform changes its terms, gets acquired, or simply decides it's done.

The Opportunity

The AT Protocol changes the equation. It's an open, decentralised social networking standard — not a product. At its core, AT Protocol separates identity from application. Your handle, your connections, your data — all anchored to a Decentralized Identifier (DID) that you control. Not a company's database. Not a product team's roadmap.

When Bluesky, Gander, and EuroSky emerged as mature AT Protocol networks with growing professional user bases, the possibility became real: what if we built a professional identity layer at the intersection of open standards and decentralised identifiers?

Not another LinkedIn. Not a résumé builder. Attestation infrastructure — the first portable, cryptographic alternative to a professional ecosystem built entirely on self-reporting.

What We Built

Verak is a Portable Professional Trust Portfolio on AT Protocol. It's live today in beta across Bluesky, Gander (Canada), and EuroSky (Europe). Your career history, education, projects, skills, and professional connections are all stored as AT Protocol records on your Personal Data Server — not on Verak's infrastructure.

Verak runs a self-hosted Ozone verification labeler. When a member passes our verification review, we issue a cryptographically signed label — tied to their DID — via our labeler at labeler.verak.app. That label cannot be self-issued, purchased, or transferred. It is readable by any AT Protocol client. It is the closest thing to a portable verified identity that the professional web has seen.

We're building for Canada and Europe first — the professional ecosystems that have the most to gain from a sovereignty-first approach. But the architecture is global by design. The DID doesn't care where you live.

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